Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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c1980., Holt, Rinehart and Winston Call No: 796.4 G476n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., General, Collins Call No: QWF Bio D674b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Filming the reality documentary television series Boundless, Simon Donato has raced thousands human-powered kilometres across the globe - from the frigid tundra of Iceland to the searing heat of the Sahara, journeys that strip away the regular trappings of life and pit us against ourselves and the natural world. There are no modern conveniences to lean on as crutches, and every metre gained is earned through both physical and mental effort. Donato details the quest for adventure and the opportunities to test ourselves in ways that we aren't able to in our lives very much anymore. He takes you on an adventure-filled journey around the globe and shows how you can apply his lessons and experience to your everyday life. Donato, who has a PhD in geology, has travelled extensively to race and explore the planet. He also runs his oatmeal company, Stoked Oats. He splits his time between Canmore, Alberta, and his Long Trek Ranch in Sheenboro, Quebec.
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-- Boys in the boat :2014., Penguin Books Call No: 797.123 B877b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. ... Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man's personal quest"--Back cover.
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By Clark, Ettac1986., Pomegranate Calendars & Books Call No: 613.711 C592g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- On the court and inside the heads of basketball's best playersBy Ravin, Idan2014., Adult, Gotham Call No: 796.32 R256h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sharing his unorthodox drills and improvisational techniques in action, professional basketball's hottest trainer, recounting his own inspirational journey, reveals how faith, effort, dedication and passion can transform any player into a superstar--and anyone into a success.
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2009., Fenn Pub. Call No: Bio M517l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the world of sports, Ralph Mellanby has seen it all. He has worked with every major North American television network and played an integral role in bringing sporting events to the world. In his five decades of broadcasting, he has witnessed firsthand some of the most magical and defining moments in athletic history. In Let the Games Begin, he offers a candid look at the wild world of sports and the athletes who make competition so compelling. Drawing from his time at Hockey Night in Canada, his many Olympic games, the Pan-American Games, major league baseball, Canadian football, and his years in and around the National Hockey League, Mellanby dishes the dirt on dealing with sportsœ greatest celebrities. He also takes fans behind the scenes for a revealing look at the business of sports and just what happens when the camera is off. --Amazon.com.
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2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Race Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
![Race [DVD] (1990). Directed by Stephen Hopkins.](/Library/images/~imageCT82400.JPG "Race [DVD] (1990). Directed by Stephen Hopkins.")
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2017., Greystone Books Call No: 362.43 H249r Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On March 21, 1985, world-class wheelchair marathoner and multiple Paralympic medalist Rick Hansen set out from Vancouver, B.C., on his Man In Motion World Tour. The twenty-six-month trek took him and a small but determined crew almost 25,000 miles through thirty-four countries on four continents before crossing Canada. In the process, they raised $26 million for spinal cord research and for initiatives to improve the quality of life and accessibility for people with disabilities. Thirty years after the journey ended, Rick Hansen's Man In Motion World Tour celebrates that ground-breaking accomplishment and, with a Foreword from Rick himself, highlights the legacy of the Man In Motion World Tour and the amazing progress it has spurred up to the present day. Illustrated with 75 exclusive photographs from the Rick Hansen Foundation archives, it is a universal story of courage and adversity, human strength and personal suffering, and, above all, the power of community to effect lasting social change."--.
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c2014., Random House of Canada Call No: Bio K87g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Olga Kotelko is most certainly a genetic outlier, one of those rare, blessed people whose bodies resist the degradations of age. More remarkably, she's not alone; there are men and women all over the world competing at ages at which most of us will be lucky even to be alive. But her secret, and theirs, isn't just the luck of the gene pool. It's in the stories of how they exploit their genetic good fortune where the lessons for the rest of us may be found. Author Bruce Grierson, whose much-read 2010 New York Times Magazine piece first brought attention to Olga's remarkable story, accompanies the nonagenarian Canadian to track meets to see her in action, and to research facilities around North America where he and medical researchers hope to learn the secrets of her thriving tissues and age-resistant DNA. And perhaps most importantly, she welcomes him and us into her world, where we learn that your life might benefit most of all from how you live it.
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c2005., Fitzhenry & Whiteside Call No: REF Lifestyle Sports Edition: 4th ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With an alphabetical listing of almost 5000 individual biographies, this 4th edition of Who's Who in Canadian Sport is a sports fan's dream - an encyclopedic record of Canada's sporting heritage from the 1800s to the present day.
