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SwimOutHistoric swim storiesVicki delves into History in this edition and also finds swimmers who are making history today. She meets Sarah Thomas who made history most notably with her 4-way English Channel crossing. Anna Maria Mullally shines a light on Irish swimmers at the turn of the last century. Todd Balf, whose book Three Kings explores the lives of 3 unlikely Olympic heroes, tells us the stories he has uncovered. George Townsend looks at the history of river bathing in Oxford. Vicki and Kathryn Ferry discuss how Billy Butlin got involved in Channel relay races in the 1950’s. We also find out ab...
2024-08-2350 min
The SwimSwam PodcastThree Kings: Race, Class And The Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched The Modern Olympic AgeToday's guest on the SwimSwam Podcast is the author of "Three Kings: Race, Class And The Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched The Modern Olympic Age", Todd Balf. The acclaimed author discusses his inspiration behind this new swim story and the impact it has on the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
2024-07-0941 min
Begin The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Powerful!Three Kings by Todd BalfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/63578to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Three Kings
Author: Todd Balf
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 07-02-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Sports History
Publisher's Summary:
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s r...
2024-07-028h 37Don’t Miss The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Sensational!Three Kings by Todd BalfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/62004to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Three Kings
Author: Todd Balf
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 07-02-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Olympics & Paralympics
Publisher's Summary:
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s r...
2024-07-028h 37
franks audioThe Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas - Todd BalfThe Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world's most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rival warships and explorers from England and France days behind, the 27-member U.S. Darién Exploring Expedition landed on the Atlantic shore at Caledonia Bay in eastern Panama to begin their mad dash up the coast-hugging mountains of the Darién wilderness. The whole world watched as this party attempted to be the fir...
2022-06-039h 19
Care and Feeding | Amazon (DNU)Mom And Dad Are Fighting: Don't Be So Bossy EditionSlate's Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois talk about new changes with the SAT with author Todd Balf, and discuss Sheryl Sandberg's "Ban Bossy" campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2014-03-1336 min
Escape To A Immersive Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Last River by Todd BalfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70985to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Last River
Author: Todd Balf
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 07-09-12
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 12 ratings
Genres: Asia
Publisher's Summary:
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers, best friends, and trip leaders, the...
2012-07-095h 44