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Awaken the Olympian Within
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SOLVED. Non-Fiction anthology about Olympic athletes, possibly middle school level, read 2005-2007. [s]
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Jun 02, 2021 10:19AM
This is a book about Olympic athletes I read in middle school, probably around 2005-2007. It contained autobiographical essays by several Olympic athletes explaining their Olympic journey or their most famous contribution to Olympic history. I don't remember who all the athletes were, but I know Dick Fosbury was for sure one of them. His essay was all about how he accidentally created the Fosbury Flop, which has now become the standard technique for the high jump. He mentioned that the first time he did it in competition the coaches from other countries were desperately searching the rulebooks to see if his technique was illegal, but found nothing, and so he won gold. Another essay (I don't remember which athlete) kept repeating the phrase "How bad do you want it?" (the book is NOT How Bad Do You Want It? by Matt Fitzgerald, I checked). This athlete wrote that phrase on his bedroom ceiling so that he would see it every time he woke up and remember to keep training hard. Also, I have the strong feeling that beach volleyball champion Karch Kiraly was one of the featured athletes, but I don't remember the specifics of his essay.
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Maybe Awaken the Olympian Within: Stories from America's Greatest Olympic Motivators by John Naber? It came up searching both names (of the athletes that you mentioned) in WorldCat.I did a "search inside" on Google Books and there is also a chapter called "How bad do you want it?"
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
Yes! This looks right! Thank you!
