Igniting the Games - Miller, David
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The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title, but decades later as IOC president he has made it his mission to protect athletes' independent rights. Igniting the Games reveals how Bach transformed the Olympics and saved a ponderous ancient institution from itself.

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The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title, but decades later as IOC president he has made it his mission to protect athletes' independent rights. Igniting the Games reveals how Bach transformed the Olympics and saved a ponderous ancient institution from itself.
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A Fleet Street doyen, David Miller was chief sports correspondent for the Daily Express and then The Times. He has attended 24 Olympic Games, 14 FIFA World Cups, 63 FA Cup finals, 53 Wimbledons and numerous boxing, rowing, golf, rugby, snooker, skiing, cricket and athletics championships. He has penned biographies of Matt Busby, Stanley Matthews, Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch, plus the official history of the Olympic Games and the IOC.