Syracuse

Turning the tide / Michelle Ford with Craig Lord

Ford-Eriksson, Michelle | Lord, Craig

Edited by Fairplay Publ. - 2024

In “Turning the tide”, 800 metres swimming gold medal winner, Michelle Ford, charts the highs and lows from the beaches of Sydney as a young girl with a dream, to the dizzy heights of Olympic swimming gold against the odds of Cold-War politics spilling into sport like poison. Olympic boycotts, death threats, willful blindness and misogyny coincided with the first and most ferocious, systematic, state-sponsored doping the world has ever witnessed.

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