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Cousineau, Phil

The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games

Quest books/Theosophical Publishing House, 2003

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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
0835608336
Place of printing
Wheaton IL
Author
Cousineau, Phil
Publishers
Quest books/Theosophical Publishing House
Edition
First Thus
Keyword
OLYMPIA MODER OLYMPIC GAMES SPORT ATHLETICS
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

"The Olympic Odyssey takes the reader on a mythic journey from the ancient to the modern Games, telling tales of gods, athletes, and coaches in all their splendid pageantry. But their fabled gold medals are only half the story. Author and life-long athlete Phil Cousineau's real fascination is for what Olympian Jesse Owens called the athlete's "inner life," the mysterious source of the drive, deeper than the one to win, to excel for an ideal beyond the self - transcending gender, race, nationality, and perhaps even the line between the human and the divine. 257p. illus bibliography. index.