Igniting the Flame

America's First Olympic Team

• Author(s): Jim Reisler,
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Pages: 296
• ISBN_10: 0762786604
  ISBN_13: 9780762786602
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / Olympics & Paralympics , History / United States / 19th Century ,

Description:... The story of the fourteen men – largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book – who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London.