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Product of the week ... This week AW Basics recommends the ultimate Olympic guide IT might be a little hefty to carry in your luggage, but The Complete Book of the Olympics by David Wallechinsky is one of the most highly recommended books an athletics fan can take to an international meeting. Having good reading material on your lap as a meeting unfolds unquestionably adds to the quality of the experience, especially if you enjoy statistics. Biographical details of athletes and simple details such as PBs and stadium or championship records are vital. But beyond this, there are a wealth of athletics books that can provide varying amounts of information. Top of the list is a book that is often simply known as “Wallechinsky”. His guide to the Olympics is a statistical work of art, listing in detail results from every Olympic event from all sports, not just athletics. Best of all, Wallechinsky has painstakingly researched every Olympic final to produce short, snappy and informative reviews of the action. This is the key – they aren’t long, but bite-sized and readable – as they have to be when there are so many finals to get through. In addition to this, there are chapters on issues such as corruption, drugs and Olympic politics. There are medals tables and information on the history of the Games. There are lists of records – youngest medallists, oldest medallists, that kind of thing. The book is also available as a guide to the Summer Games, or the Winter Games, or as a simple guide to the Olympics in general – all of which are mammoth pieces of work by Wallechinsky, a former NBC television commentator turned author.
All in all, it is a tremendous resource.
It’s far from pocket-sized, but certainly worth having by your side
if you ►The Complete Book of the Olympics, by David Wallechinsky (note, a new edition will come out before the Beijing Olympics).
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