"God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure."
The Treasures of the Olympic Games 2016
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London, Carlton, 2016
This is the ultimate Olympic coffee table book. It contains two pages of text photos on each summer Olympics in the modern period, recalling the highlights and the strange occurrences in each of them. There is a profile of one Olympian from each games. A unique feature of the book is what are called Heritage Bags, containing reproductions of posters, tickets, flyers and other memorabilia of past games. Anyone with a love of history and an interest in the Olympic movement will love this book.