Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Livingston, Bill
Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Livingston, Bill

Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One...
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Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Livingston, Bill

Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

BD$40.71
Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Livingston, Bill

Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

BD$40.71
Author: Bill Livingston
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James, the "Chosen One" of the NBA. He had a bronze medal from the Athens games that summer. The other was a Cleveland homeboy too, a gold medalist who had flown higher than anyone before on the Olympic stage. Hardly anyone knew his name. He was Tim Mack.

His high school coach did not see anything particularly promising in the young pole-vaulter. Mack never made it to the state meet, and he was the first to admit he had a fear of heights. But thanks to his unflinching determination and confidence, Mack went on to prove that he was anything but mediocre. In 2004 the young athlete won the Olympic gold medal for pole vaulting. His jump of 19 feet 6-1/4 inches was not only Mack's personal best but the highest in Olympic history.

Award-winning sports columnist Bill Livingston follows Mack as he practices one of the world's most dangerous and demanding sports. Livingston reveals the fascinating subculture of pole vaulting--from Bob Richards, the only man to win Olympic gold twice in pole vaulting; to Sergey Bubka, the most controversial pole vaulter ever; to Don Bragg, a rowdy Tarzan-like character who swung on ropes in his backyard to build upper-body strength; to the stirring duel between Mack and Toby Stevenson as they battled for gold in Athens.

Readers will discover how Mack struggled and endured, while working in a factory, as a mascot in a bumblebee costume, and as a janitor, and how Mack changed his training and revamped his body and mind in a three-year program that made his AOL username, Goldnathens, a self-fulfilling prophecy.



Author: Bill Livingston
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 09/24/2007
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.28w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780873389747


Award: IndieFab awards - Second Place

About the Author
Bill Livingston has been a sports columnist at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer since 1984. Before that he worked at the Dallas Morning News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Livingston has won over 25 journalism awards, including five awards for either best column or game story in Ohio, and a top 10 finish for features in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest. Livingston is the author of Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold (The Kent State University Press, 2008), which won three national awards. He attended Vanderbilt University on the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice national sportswriting scholarship.


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