Great Olympians
Sources
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the MADmen Database
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The excellent 'Complete book of the Summer Olympics' by David Wallechinsky,
Sydney 2000 Edition
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Bill Mallon & Ture Widlund - The 1896 Olympic Games, Results for All
Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
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Bill Mallon - The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All
Events, with Commentary
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sporting facts and some anecdotes from 'Die Olympische Spiele von 1896 bis
1980', Volker Kluge, Berlin - in dutch translation
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A CD-rom by the same authors, based on that same source
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Olympic Games 1896-1972, Endre Kahlich, László Papp, Zoltán
Subert
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Olympic Facts & Feats, Stan Greenberg, London 1996, and an earlier dutch
translation of the same.
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An excellent Web-site on the Winter
Olympics
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some biographies from 'The Olympic Games' edited by Lord Killanin & John
Rodda, Rainbird Reference Books, London 1976
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other biographies from 'the Oxford companion to sports and games', Oxford
1975
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Many birthdates and other data from Quid, 1995
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Athletics stories from 'The Olympians, a quest for gold : triumphs, heroes
and legends', Sebastian Coe and Nicholas Mason, London, 1984
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An excellent web-site devoted to the
Athina Olympic Games
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Many a fact about recent great Olympians have been contributed by Udo Seyfarth
of Dresden. Thanks and Auf Wiederschreiben Udo.
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Stepas Misiunas went through the site with a minute comb and found many small
and some big errors.
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Keszthelyi Andras went through the list of Hungarian names and corrected
some spelling mistakes.
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Jim Tracy also caught a lot of errors (well, just a dozen, but I'm a
perfectionist)
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Dimitri Tyskens (also from Flanders) caught even more omissions. Bedankt,
Dimitri.
Written July 1996 - May 1997 - last modified 2012-05-21
This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here
for a full Introduction.