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French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, the volumepresents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century. Cycling as Leisure is considered through reference to the adoption of the bicycle as an instrument of tourism and emancipation by women in the 1880s, forexample, or by study of the development in the 1990s of long-distance tourist cycle routes. Cycling as Sport and i...
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
I decided to write this book during the Covid pandemic, a period during which teaching tennis was made impossible due to severe restrictions especially in Hong Kong China where I have lived for 13 years. The book was fi rst published in French during French Open 2023, a year celebrating the 40th anniversary of our last Grand Slam Champion: Yannick Noah. On June 5th, 1983, Yannick beat Swedish player and defending champion Mats Wilander, while I was celebrating my 12th birthday. An amazing gift for me, who had started tennis one year earlier ! I have interviewed more than 100 former players, coaches, tennis consultants, agents and journalists and I have analyzed the French Tennis Federation a...
This Teacher Support Pack supports the Advanced PE & Sport AS and A2 Level (3e) textbook, and offers student worksheets and activities directly related to the AQA specifications.
PE is one of the fastest-growing A level subjects. Members of the Edexcl PE examining team have now written a student book which follows this specification, unit by unit.
The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup. It is set within the sporting context of the history and organization of French football and the French tradition of using major sporting events to focus world attention.
Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win. Many athletes are professionals, with careers managed by teams of specialist staff working towards the ultimate goal of world-class, medal-winning performances. This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, covering the key issues and talking points including: the history and tradition of sporting excellence comparisons of elite high-performance sport programmes in Australia, the USA, East Germany and France the historical, social, political and economic impacts of sporting excellence in the UK current issues and debates, including drugs in sport the future for high-performance sport. With a clear framework for understanding and exploring key issues, questions for discussion, websites and suggestions for further reading, In Pursuit of Excellence is an ideal introduction for AS, A Level and undergradute students.