The Bumper Book of Slightly Forgotten but Nevertheless Still Great British Olympians and Other Sporting Heroes
By Simon Bullivant.
Description
"The Bumper Book of Slightly Forgotten British Olympians and Other Sporting Heroes" is just that: a collection of stirring tales of pluck, grit, triumph, disaster and on occasion, ineptitude, featuring a host of former sportspeople who've been utterly forgotten by history: from Maude Waveney, the plucky servant girl who bravely took half a day off work scrubbing kitchen floors to win a gold medal folding bedsheets in the first London games, to Tom Drake, Dressage's first punk, who shocked the sport with his slashed jacket and swear words on his hat. There's the tale...
ISBN(s)
1780332300, 9781780332307
