Description:Ten years of research has provided a monumental record of one of the most dangerous, exhilarating and amazing sports ever undertaken! Harold "Cork" Anson has given ski jumping its first comprehensive record of over a century of the sport. Taking the reader from European and US beginnings in the 1880s through 125 years, he follows the top echelon from east to west coasts, and into Canada. The evolution of jumping hills, style and technology, charts of tournament results, and historic photographs are woven around skiers' personal moments of agony and ecstasy, triumph and tragedy, Olympic prowess and failures. The advent of women jumpers, and the prospects for the future of the sport bring the book to the brink of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jumping Through Time - A History of Ski Jumping in the United States and Southwest Canada. To get started finding Jumping Through Time - A History of Ski Jumping in the United States and Southwest Canada, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
282
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Port Hole Publications
Release
2010
ISBN
0976810778
Jumping Through Time - A History of Ski Jumping in the United States and Southwest Canada
Description: Ten years of research has provided a monumental record of one of the most dangerous, exhilarating and amazing sports ever undertaken! Harold "Cork" Anson has given ski jumping its first comprehensive record of over a century of the sport. Taking the reader from European and US beginnings in the 1880s through 125 years, he follows the top echelon from east to west coasts, and into Canada. The evolution of jumping hills, style and technology, charts of tournament results, and historic photographs are woven around skiers' personal moments of agony and ecstasy, triumph and tragedy, Olympic prowess and failures. The advent of women jumpers, and the prospects for the future of the sport bring the book to the brink of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jumping Through Time - A History of Ski Jumping in the United States and Southwest Canada. To get started finding Jumping Through Time - A History of Ski Jumping in the United States and Southwest Canada, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.