All Olympic Games athletes have to get there prepared, but spectators can also get there prepared. News is lived day by day, the history of the games can be discovered in the many books published on the eve of Tokyo 2020. There are fictionalized stories of the editions of the Olympics from Athens 1896 to today, there are feminine looks and books that are also suitable for teens and children.
GAMES OF GLORY by Gianmario Bonzi, LiBroco Editions, pp, 970, 28 euros
This volume of over 900 pages, the result of almost 4 years of work by Gianmario Bonzi, sports journalist and commentator of Eurosport Italia, is a real novel of the Olympics.
There is the historical context for each single edition, but also the statistics, the unpublished photos and all the Italian medals. It is history that counts here: society and the economy enter the games without forgetting the great champions who have marked each era. Introduction by Gianni Merlo, historical correspondent of the Gazzetta della Sport at the Games, preface by Coni president Giovanni Malagò and afterword by Tania Cagnotto.
OLYMPIC LEGENDS by Giampiero Vigorito, Iacobelli Editore, pp. 288.28 euros
“World records are made to be beaten, an Olympic gold remains forever”. Word of Usain Bolt, one of the protagonists of Olympic Legends, The 100 crucial moments that inflamed the Olympic Games by Giampiero Vigorito with a preface by Rai journalist Sandro Fioravanti, historic voice of swimming. The volume stems from a series of programs aired on Radio3 Rai in two cycles of 36 episodes broadcast on the eve of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics. This book recalls the moments that made the history of games: by Jesse Owens to Cassius Clay, from Mark Spitz to Carl Lewis, from Pietro Mennea to the Abbagnale brothers, from Novella Calligaris to Jury Chechi.
THE PROTAGONISTS by Eva Cantarella, Ettore Miraglia, Feltrinelli, pp. 208, 16 euros
Ancient and modern history in the new book by Eva Cantarella and Ettore Miraglia that tells about women’s emancipation through sport. This book leads to discover how, even in ancient times, there was room for women in sport.
FROM TOKYO TO TOKYO by Fabrizio Fidecaro, Absolutely Free, pp. 426, 16 euros
It was updated after the postponement of the games this volume tells the Tokyo Olympics starting from the previous one in the Japanese capital. From 1964 to 2021 with a look at the past and a lot of attention to the present in what is a real guide: facilities, competitions, cards, timetables and television coverage, but also a look at the city, the country and its traditions.
MOMENTS OF GLORY by Valentina Clemente, Marco Mazzoni, One Hundred Authors, pp. 224, 14 euros
Also in this case there is a story of the Olympics made through the unforgettable moments of the various editions from Rome 1960 with Cassius Clay to Nadia Comaneci in Montreal 1976. In the text the contributions are various and by different authors.
INCREDIBLE OLYMPICS STORIES by Luciano Wernicke, De Agostini, pp. 384, 16.90 euros
The most curious facts, the strangest records, the men and women who have made history because in addition to the medals and the golden books there is a rich heritage of stories, emotions, rivalries, unexpected events, surprises and atrocious mockery. From lost suitcases to love stories, from delays for the negotiation to athletes who got lost. There are also those who won by expecting a child and those who helped their colleagues.
THE ATLAS OF OLYMPIC DREAMS by Antonio Padilla, Bur, pp. 144, 19 euros
The Catalan historian and journalist tells Dorando Pietri, the champion without a medal, the controversial story of Ben Johnson, the story of the first Olympic champion in history, the Swiss sailor Hélène de Pourtalès, the bare feet of Abebe Bikila, the hell of the most great of all time, Nadia Comaneci. The atlas of Olympic dreams is a journey through stories that seem like films, impossible adventures, immense goals, betrayals, revelations, falls, but above all enterprises at the limit of the human.
FIVE CIRCLES OF SEPARATION by Federico Greco, Paginauno, pp. 180, 18.50 euros
As in politics, in art, in customs and in any other sphere, it is men who have written history; women remain in the background, theirs is a noisy, almost obvious absence. First excluded, then let in through the back door, then you pay less to do the same things, and still a small minority in the places where decisions are made, to enter the world of sport women have to overcome all kinds of resistance.
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