Boycott. Australia's Controversial Road To The 1980 Moscow Olympics

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 270 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. In 1980, In Reponse To The USSR'S Invasion Of Afghanistan, The Fraser Government Asked The Austraian Olympic Federation To Boycott The 1980 Olympicgames In Moscow. The AOF Refused.

Publishers Description: Swimming star Lisa Forrest was only sixteen years old when she found herself at the centre of one of Australia's most significant sporting and political moments, the controversial boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In this meticulously researched and compellingly written book, Lisa tells her story for the first time, taking us from her early strokes in the local pool of a Sydney beachside suburb, to death threats and public denunciation by both politicians and the media. through interviews with everyone from the Prime Minister of the day, Malcolm Fraser, to members of the AOC, sports administrators, journalists and the athletes themselves, she also takes us behind the scenes of an extraordinary and far-reaching chapter in Australian sporting history, as our amateur athletes struggled to compete in an increasingly professionalised international arena. But, most movingly, Boycott is the story of those athletes who defied the inducements and pressure coming from the highest levels, maintaining that the Olympics was about peace, not politics and chose to follow their dream.

ISBN: 9780733322952