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Title: Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory by P. H. Mullen Jr. ISBN: 0-312-26595-6 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 28 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll race to finish reading this book
Comment: P. H. Mullen writes in his book, "Gold in the Water," that due to the nature of the sport, most competitive swimmers dream of Olympic glory. Our 13-year-old son is no exception. When this book was advertised on the USA Swimming website I knew it would be a winner with him as a Christmas gift.
The book gets into the heads, minds, and hearts of the coaches and swimmers from the Santa Clara Swim Club as they prepared for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Mr. Mullen also is able to make the reader understand some of the complexities and paradoxes of competitive swimming--which made us nod in agreement as we read. Why, for example, is it that a swimmer who finishes first in a race can be disappointed while one who finishes sixth (or even dead last) may be ecstatic?
When the book arrived at my work, I glanced through it and was immediately drawn in.... so much so that I ended up reading the book before giving to our son. I carried it around in a plain manila envelope so he wouldn't see what I had. I couldn't for the life of me remember how these swimmers faired in Sydney so for me it was a race to the end of the book.
In addition to telling the story of the men of the Santa Clara Swim Club, "Gold in the Water" explores both the heartache and joy of the Olympic dream including the intense amount of training required before one can even begin to live that dream.
I've recommended this book to all the swim parents at our local Aquatic Center and also to friends who "just don't get it" when it comes to understanding what the world of competitive swimming is like.
As for our son, he, too, enjoyed the book, spent his free time during Christmas break reading it, and used it for the basis of his book report due when school resumed in January.
Rating: 5
Summary: dynamic human-interest story--Must read!
Comment: "Seabiscuit" is not about a horse. It is about the people around the horse and their competitive desires, ambitions, and very interesting lives. In exactly the same way, "Gold in the Water" is not just about the sport of swimming. It is about a handful of compelling people living the Olympic Dream and trying to learn the elusive secrets of being great.
Quite simply, I could not put this book down the first time I read it. After a second reading, I believe this is the best true-life sports drama I've ever read. The message is as strong as Lance Armstrong's "It's not about the Bike", and the writing is far better.
Personally, I think businesses could benefit from the motivation messages. Young people would do well to emulate the strong character of the books subjects, particularly two swimmers who don't even make the Olympics, Kurt Grote and Dod Wales. I thought the coach, Dick Jochums, is too hard and stubborn in places. But he got me to start working out again, so he can't be all bad. This is definitely a book to put on your list.
Rating: 3
Summary: Gold in the water.
Comment: This book was so inspiring to me.I have been a swimmer my whole life, and this book truely show the challenges and the hurttles that swimmer have to face. I think that they are true rolemodels, they had a dream of going to the Olympics and they chased that dream never giving up. They acheived the dream of olympic glory.This book beautifully showed the relasionship between the swimmers and there coach, and how together they achevied there dream.
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Title: Awaken the Olympian Within: Stories from America's Greatest Olympic Motivators by John Naber ISBN: 1882180984 Publisher: Griffin Pub Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: By a Fraction of a Second by Lois Ruskai Melina ISBN: 0964778238 Publisher: Sports Publications Inc. Pub. Date: 07 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: First to the Wall, 100 Years of Olympic Swimming by Kelly A. Gonsalves, Susan A. LA Mondia, Tim Morse, Susan Lamondia ISBN: 0967417104 Publisher: FreeStyle Publications, Inc. Pub. Date: 03 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Breakthrough Swimming by Cecil Colwin ISBN: 0736037772 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Fast Lane to Victory: The Story of Jenny Thompson (Anything You Can Do... New Sports Heroes for Girls) by Doreen Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Phil Velikan, Jenny Thompson, Doreen L. Greenberg ISBN: 1930546386 Publisher: Wish Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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