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Foul Play: The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport

Autor Mike Rowbottom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2014
There is cheating. And then there ischeating. But where does one end and the other start? Doping. Fixing. Sledging. Intimidating. Time-wasting. Diving. Ever since sporting contests began there have been rules, and for many competitors those rules have been there to be broken. Or maybe just bent a little...Foul Playoffers an inside track on the dark arts employed in sport to gain an unfair advantage - on the football or rugby field, on the tennis or squash court, on the athletics track and the golf course, even on the bowling green or the Subbuteo table. Some cheating in sport is considered virtually par for the course, while other forms are completely unacceptable. But who, ultimately, makes that judgement? From ball-tampering and bribery in cricket to rugby union's 'Bloodgate' scandal; from Diego Maradona's Hand of God to Alex Ferguson's managerial mind games; from the dodgy dealing of the ancient Greeks and the wily cunning of W.G. Grace to the doping scandals engulfing Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong, it's all here.Foul Play -sometimes funny, sometimes shocking - provides all the evidence you'll ever need that the sporting world is often anything but.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408843444
ISBN-10: 1408843447
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Packed with peculiar stories and excuses from across a wide range of sporting activities and cultures

Notă biografică

Mike Rowbottom has written about sport forThe Times, theGuardian, theObserverand theIndependentfor more than two decades and is now chief features writer for insidethegames.biz. He has covered the last six summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, as well as many other sports. He co-wrote Olympic athlete Roger Black's autobiographyHow Long's The Course?and is the author ofUsain Bolt: Fast as Lightning.

Recenzii

The book contains so many tales of skulduggery that many are sure to be new to you. ****
A timely book ... This is an illuminating, entertaining excursion into sport's moral maze. Fair play to the author
His excursion into the grey areas of sport's moral maze is illuminating and entertaining