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Counterpoint
November 2013
On Sale: November 12, 2013
192 pages
ISBN: 1619021773
EAN: 9781619021778
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Women's Fiction
Running so hard you think youโll choke on your next breath. Peripheral vision blurred by the same adrenaline that drowns out the cheers coming from the full stadium. And of course, the reporters. The men scribbling furiously on their notepads so they can publish every stumble, sprain, and sniffle in these historic games. This was the world of the female athletes in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first games in which women were allowed to compete in track and field (and on a trial basis, at that). Nicknamed โthe Peerless Four,โ the Canadian track team included some of the strongest and most diversely talented women on the scene. Narrated by the teamโs chaperoneโa former runner herselfโthe women embark on their journey with the same golden goals as every other Olympian, male or female. But as the Olympic tension begins to rise with unexpected injuries, heartbreaking disqualifications, and the pressure of supreme athletic performance, each woman discovers new fears and new priorities, all while the weight of womenโs future in the Olympics rests on their performance poise.
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