Book turning the tide It is outrageous and incomprehensible to me that in 2024 the record books have still not been corrected and new medals have not been distributed Kindle Edition
Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union s invasion of Afghanistan the 1980 Moscow Olympics was always going to be political Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wanted Australia s Olympic athletes to boycott the Games in line with the USA but many of the athletes had a different view and competed anyway Athletes were the victims and most of them female According to Ford who was Australia s first and founding member of the International Olympic Committee s Athletes Commission that struggle is far from over In Turning the Tide 800 metres Swimming Gold Medal winner Michelle Ford charts the highs and lows from the beaches of Sydney as a young girl with a dream to the dizzy heights of Olympic swimming gold against the odds of Cold War politics spilling into sport like poison Olympic boycotts death threats wilful blindness and misogyny coincided with the first and most ferocious systematic state sponsored doping the world has ever witnessed As Paris prepares to host the 2024 Olympics 100 years after the Modern Olympics founding father Pierre de Coubertin declared that Women have one task that of the role of crowning the winner with garlands an indifference to female athletes lives on In this roller coaster account of courage and resilience in the Olympic realm Turning the Tide is a manifesto for change Turning the Tide.,
| Turning the Tide By Michelle Ford |
| 1925914933 |
| 9781925914931 |
| English |
| 415 |
| Kindle Edition |
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