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1) Fencing
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to the sport of fencing and its three events: foil, saber, and épée. Includes biographical facts about French gold-medalist Romain Cannone"--
2) Wrestling
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to the combat sport of wrestling, both freestyle and Greco-Roman events. Includes biographical facts about American freestyle medalist Jordan Burroughs"--
3) Triathlon
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to triathlon, the sporting event that includes swimming, biking, and running all in one. Includes biographical facts about Flora Duffy, Bermuda's first ever Olympic gold medalist"--
4) Rowing
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to the sport of rowing. Includes biographical facts about English rower and gold medalist Steven Redgrave, whom many consider the best rower of all time"--
5) Athletics
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to the sport of athletics and its many track and field events. Includes biographical facts about middle-distance runner and gold medalist Faith Kipyegon"--
6) Aquatics
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to aquatic sports, including swimming, diving, and water polo. Includes biographical facts about the most decorated female Olympic swimmer, Katie Ledecky."--
7) Gymnastics
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to the sport of gymnastics and its floor and apparatus events. Includes biographical facts about Hmong-American artistic gymnast Suni Lee"--
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Learn about Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics who wanted to give everyone the opportunity to play the sports they love. This nonfiction book explores how she created places for athletes with disabilities to shine. Ideal for young readers, this book includes a fiction story related to the topic, discussion questions, an additional project, and other meaningful features. This 24-page full-color book describes the life and legacy...
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In the Olympic Games, a fraction of a second can make all the difference between winning and losing. New technology has helped athletes improve their skills, and the use of computers to record accurate times makes every split second count! With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they learn...
11) Cycling
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"Celebrate the Summer Olympic Games with this elementary-level introduction to cycling, the sport known for speed and endurance on bikes. Includes biographical facts about BMX cyclist and gold medalist Charlotte Worthington"--
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In Surfacing, Siri Lindley opens up about her unique celebrity-dappled early life. When and NFL superstar notices her beautiful mother, her idyllic childhood is upended. Glitzy dinner parties and world travel pull her mother away, and Lindley grows up feeling alone and out of place. As her intense loneliness grows into anger, she lashes out against her New England life of privilege. Shy and painfully self-aware, Lindley finds solace in sports, playing...
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In this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi's Open and Megan Rapinoe's One Life , the winningest snowboardcross rider of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame crushing early failure to win Olympic gold. On February 16, 2006, twenty-year old American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis was poised to win the first gold medal in women's snowboardcross, a sport making...
14) Gold in the water: the true story of ordinary men and their extraordinary dream of Olympic glory
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Gold in the Water is a nonfiction sports narrative that chronicles the journey of a group of America's finest swimmers and coaches as they vied to compete in the 2000 Olympic Games.
In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best friends (a mentor and his protégé) reach the top of the world rankings and unexpectedly find themselves direct...
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