The Other Olympians Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters, Jennifer Pickens

eAudio - 2024

"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality." —Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life"This riveting audiobook brings all the facts and showcases why we need to acknowledge true history in today's social climate."—Book Riot"Narrator Jennifer Pickens brings the stories in this superbly researched audiobook to life."—AudioFile The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man.... Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the... more