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Chapters: Olympic Museum, National Sports Museum, Bowling Museum of Asturias, Norwegian Olympic Museum, Tenniseum, Legends Surf Museum,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 pieces, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year. The Olympic Museum is surrounded by a park containing numerous works of art on a sporting theme. Among the most notable works of art in the museum's permanent collection are the French sculptors Auguste Rodin's The American Athlete and Niki de Saint Phalle's Les Footballeurs, the Luxembourgish sculptor Lucien Wercollier's tribute to the pole vault Altius, the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero's Jeune Fille a la Balle and a kinetic art sculpture by the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely which combines a hockey stick, a boar's head and a motorbike wheel. The museum was founded on 23 June 1993, on the initiative of Juan Antonio Samaranch. The museum was named the European Museum of the Year in 1995. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=856061 ... Read more

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Title: Bowling. (Official Sports) (The 1991 ISSOG: Special Olympics International)
Author: Glenda Cloutier
Publication: Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1992
Publisher: Challenge Publications Limited
Volume: v8Issue: n2Page: p21(2)

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This digital document is an article from Palaestra, published by Challenge Publications Limited on January 1, 1992. The length of the article is 483 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bocce. (Demonstration Sports) (The 1991 ISSOG: Special Olympics International)
Author: Michael Paciorek
Publication: Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1992
Publisher: Challenge Publications Limited
Volume: v8Issue: n2Page: p28(2)

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296-page book featuring the pins given out during the 1996 Olympic Games ... Read more