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Munich, 1972. In the mens 400-metre freestyle race, Americas Rick DeMont beats Australias Brad Cooper by a hundredth of a second. Its the first electronic timing to deliver a win by such a close margin. The following day, DeMont is stripped of his medal in the worlds first swim doping disqualification. Three days later, as the Black September terrorist attack is unfolding on the other side of the Village, Brad is presented with gold in a farce of firsts. Neither Brad nor the Olympics will ever be the same. This is a story about a global sporting competition its glory, ignominy, and industry but mostly it is the intimate account of the making of an athlete. In poetic, whip-smart prose, we journey from Brads childhood in 1960s Rockhampton, where his acid-tongued mother feeds a pining for her glamorous ex-pat days by holding Latin nights and smoking Craven A, via his parents vicious split, to an itinerant adolescence with his amnesiac, portent-driven father, where the only constant is the relentless search for training lanes as the pair pinball up and down Australias east coast, from boarding house to sleep-out. At fifteen, with the Munich Olympics looming, Brad teams up with the le

Who reads The Finest Gold : The Making of an Olympic Swimmer?

Author

Brad Cooper [Cooper, Brad]

Publisher

Scribe Publications Pty Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925693232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Management