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She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
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Beautiful on the Outside
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She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics
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Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
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Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold
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The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
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Coming Up for Air
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Michael Phelps: Beneath the Surface
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Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith
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Resilience
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
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Who Is Michael Phelps?
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Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
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Brave Enough
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In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir
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3.79 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
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One Life
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My Olympic Life: A Memoir
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Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles
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On the Line
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26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
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Rise: My Story
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On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
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4.28 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
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The First Lady of Olympic Track: The Life and Times of Betty Robinson
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Usain Bolt: My Story: 9.58: Being the World's Fastest Man
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The Secrets of My Life
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All In: An Autobiography
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Who Is Simone Biles? (Who HQ Now)
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From Crimea to Olympic Bronze: My Life, My Journey.
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My Greek Drama: Life, Love, and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country
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Never Stop Pushing: My Life from a Wyoming Farm to the Olympic Medals Stand
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No Limits: The Will to Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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Over the Boards: Lessons from the Ice
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Forward: A Memoir
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Gymnast Gabby Douglas: Life Lessons from the All American Gymnastics Gold Medalist (Gymnastics, Gymnast, Gabby Douglas, Olympic Gold Winner, going for gold Book 1)
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Chellsie's Challenges: Life Lessons Learned from an Olympic Gymnast
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4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
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4.40 avg rating — 9,043 ratings
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Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph
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My Fight / Your Fight
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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
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The Final Race: The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire
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Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
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4.13 avg rating — 7,651 ratings
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Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
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The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
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Hayley Wickenheiser: Born to Play
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Bravey
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Greater Than Gold: From Olympic Heartbreak to Ultimate Redemption
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The Role I Played: Canada's Greatest Olympic Hockey Team
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The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal-Winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
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Letters to a Young Athlete
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Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
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Unguarded
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Believe
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When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
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Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
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Hayley Wickenheiser
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Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step
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Off Balance
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I Know This to Be True: Simone Biles (I Know This to be True)
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
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The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
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Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith
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Undisputed: A Champion's Life
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Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was
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9 Lives by 35: An Olympic Gymnast's Inspiring Story of Reinvention
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Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory
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Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water
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Laura Trott and Jason Kenny: The Inside Track
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4.04 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Zero Tollerance : An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Revolutionized Figure Skating
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The Fencers
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team
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The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
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4.44 avg rating — 15,094 ratings
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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
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Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
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The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle
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The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State
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For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
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The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
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Today We Die a Little!: The Inimitable Emil Zátopek, the Greatest Olympic Runner of All Time
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Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner
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