Dispatches from Vancouver: A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America's View of the XXI Winter Olympiad

Author:   Zach Bigalke
Publisher:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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9781475014617


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   25 March 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Opening with the tragedy of Nomar Kumaritashvili's death in Whistler and concluding with one final gold for the hockey-mad home country, the fortnight of the Vancouver Olympics brought out the range of human emotion -- from gilded joy to funereal gloom. In this volume, Zach Bigalke utilizes both his daily dispatches from February 2010 and the benefit of hindsight to tell the multifaceted stories of those seventeen days...

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Author:   Zach Bigalke
Publisher:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781475014617


ISBN 10:   1475014619
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   25 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Raised in the winter wonderland of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Zach Bigalke quickly developed a love of sports involving snow and ice as a youth that survived and flourished into adulthood. As a freelance writer, his coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics appeared originally at FanNation and in his weekly column, A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America , has been syndicated at several websites. Formerly the managing editor of Informative Sports, Bigalke now runs Global Turnstile and lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon.

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