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Gatecrashing the Olympics

Gatecrashing the Olympics

Gatecrashing the Olympics

Mark L. Williams

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Page Publishing, Inc.
Año de edición:
2018
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781640829565

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An American businessman abroad learns of a small nation’s only Olympic gymnastics team. Proud citizens recount how six girls and one woman became “The Little Team That Could.” Taking advantage of a Soviet led boycott, a Russian defector coaches an eclectic and unlikely septet to a birth in the ’84 Games. 3

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