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The Last Heroes: 100 Moments of Olympics Legend

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Winner of the 2024 Sport Book Prize Renaud de LarborderieThe Last Heroes: 100 Moments of Olympics Legend traces the century of extraordinary human stories that have defined the Summer Olympic Games. Authored by French journalists Olivier Margot and Étienne Bonamy, the book moves through a hundred...
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Olivier Margot served as the editor in chief at L’Équipe and L’Équipe Magazine for twenty-five years. He is the winner of twenty-three national and international journalism awards, from the Antoine Blondin Prize to the Olympic Media Award, and is also the author of over twenty books, including (2004), Time of Legends (2017), The Man Who Never Died (2020), and Louis Vuitton: Trophy Trunks (2022).


Étienne Bonamy is a journalist who specializes in sport. He has contributed to Le Sport and Le Figaro, in addition to writing for L’Équipe since 1992, with a focus on Olympic sports. He has covered the Games since 1992. And in 2005, he became editor in chief of L’Équipe. Since then, he founded the CEBO Média press agency, specializing in the production of written and video content on sport and its environment.

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The Classics Collection

The Last Heroes: 100 Moments of Olympics Legend

$120

Anything is possible. I don’t think of limits.

— Usain Bolt
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Page count

204 pages

Number of illustrations

over 100

Language

English

Released on

June 2024

Dimensions

W 10 x L 13 x D 1.5 in

Cover materials

Hardcover

ISBN

9781649803597

Weight

5.0 lb

Author

Olivier Margot and Étienne Bonamy

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