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Ice hockey fans will pull on their skates and gear up for this Who HQ title about the Stanley Cup Finals--the National Hockey League's championship games.
Out of the thirty-two pro hockey teams that compete, only one can call itself the champion and proudly hoist up the Stanley Cup--the oldest sports trophy in the world! From the formation of the leagues and the crowning of the first championship-winning team, to the Rangers' Stanley Cup curse and the uncertain fate of the teams during the Spanish flu epidemic, this book recounts the highs and lows of this exciting ice hockey series.
The wildly dramatic story of the Vitality Hockey Women's World Cup
London 2018 - the biggest women's team sport event ever to take
place on British soil. Under an Orange Sky was written and
photographed by the team that brought you The History Makers: How
Team GB Stormed to a First Ever Gold in Women's Hockey, winner of
the Thompson Reuters Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2018. At
this crazy, anything-goes, ultimately tear-inducing competition
there was no such thing as a certainty. High-ranked teams fell by
the wayside, reputations were ignored and accepted practices turned
on their heads as the form book was torn up in front of the huge
crowds that flocked daily to the Lee Valley. Working together with
world-class hockey photographers Frank Uijlenbroek and Koen Suyk -
joined this time by Argentina's Rodrigo Jaramillo - authors Sarah
Juggins and Richard Stainthorpe captured all the twists, shocks and
surprises, and even a fabulous Irish fairy-tale, as east London's
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park welcomed the world's best.
Seoul Glow tells the story of the Great Britain men's hockey team
who won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Little to the team's
knowledge, the final caught the British public's imagination as
they beat rivals West Germany in the gold-medal match. After Sean
Kerly's semi-final heroics and Imran Sherwani's double in the
final, BBC commentator Barry Davies uttered the now infamous line:
'Where were the Germans? But, frankly, who cares?' Victory, for a
team of amateurs, who had either quit their jobs or taken holiday
to play in Seoul, propelled the team to celebratory heights on
their return to British shores; it was GB's first hockey gold in
the post-war era and followed an eight-year plan for a major title.
The story also reveals how the team was inspirationally led by the
late Roger Self, the manager who gelled his players into Olympic
title holders.
For sports fans everywhere. The untold story of a team cobbled
together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an
exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to
the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial
support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely
ridiculed -- until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history. A
never-before-told story.Rare interviews with some of the original
players and key people behind the scenes are skilfully woven into a
breathtaking story of scorn, triumph and redemption. This is sports
writing at its finest. Macadam breathes life into his characters
and keeps our heart rates soaring as he skillfully helps us relive
hockey history and masterfully builds tension to the breaking
point.
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