Clearing Hurdles: The Quest to be The World

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For all the worlds great athletes, only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the Worlds Greatest Athlete.

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For all the worlds great athletes, only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the Worlds Greatest Athlete.

Eleven Americans have held this near mythical title since Jim Thorpes victory at the 1912 Stockholm Games, and not a single one, from the precocious Bob Mathias to the proud Bruce Jenner, has done it with as much flair or with a more gripping tale than Dan O’Brien. As an orphan who has never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous Dan & Dave advertising campaign, as the athlete of perhaps the most publicized and shocking failure in the history of sports, and as a man who persevered through it all to dominate his sport like few athletes ever have, its no wonder Track & Field News calls Dans life the stuff movies are made of.

Additional information

Weight 1.36 lbs
Date-Published

06/01/2012

ISBN-13

9781935628088

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

1935628089

Media

Book

Pages

318

Publisher

Blue River Press

Size

6.25 x 9.25

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