Three Kings: How Record-Smashing Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller, Duke Kahanamoku, and Katsuo Takaishi Changed Their Sport and Each Other Forever Audiobook by Todd Balf

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Title: Three Kings: How Record-Smashing Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller, Duke Kahanamoku, and Katsuo Takaishi Changed Their Sport and Each Other Forever
Genres: Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, Other, Social Science
Author: Todd Balf
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Release date: 07-02-2024
Length: 8:37:52
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Description:
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports 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 raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City.