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Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After listening to Les Woodland's The Olympics' 50 Craziest Reviews the listener might speculate if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier. There is the gentle rower who was simply winning his race when he stopped his scull to avoid scattering a mother duck and her ducklings - we'll let you pay attention to the book to learn how he does - and the North american socialites who showed up for a golf game in Paris and unintentionally ended up in the Olympic golfing contest. There was so much misunderstandings that season they never learned one of them got become Olympic champ. Oh, and the men's Olympic golfing champion got actually journeyed to Paris to experiment with tennis. Capturing live pigeons was an event in the 1900 Olympics, but there is no mention today of your competition out of embarrassment within the 300 inactive and maimed parrots that revulsed the spectators. We can not your investment Jamaican bobsled team nor the Russian KGB colonel who rigged the credit scoring in fencing and managed to create an international incident. All of them are in The Olympics' 50 Craziest Reviews, along with dozens more athletes who managed to attain fame they would rather not have earned. As well as the 50 testimonies of opponents behaving terribly, or at least oddly, Les Woodland has sprinkled selections of interesting and sometimes improbable Olympics facts throughout, making The Olympics' 50 Craziest Reviews fun from cover to hide. As the author of 26 literature, Les Woodland is aware of how to notify a tale and here he's in fine form. Become a member of him in his trip to the crazy side of sports.
