The opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France will be held tomorrow, Friday, July 26. Held every four years in a different city around the globe, the two-week Olympic competitions represent the best of the best in all kinds of sports. I love watching the Olympics, not only to cheer for athletes in popular sports like swimming, gymnastics, and track but to discover different sports that I didn’t even know existed. The Olympics is definitely my happy time and I’m likely to have coverage on whenever I’m home throughout the two weeks.
If you love Olympics like I do or if you just want to pick up a related read as the world turns toward Paris for the next two weeks, check out one of these books!
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything by Aly Raisman. 2017.
Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team by Andrew Maraniss
Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad. 2018.
The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile by Neal Bascomb. 2022.
Victory. Stand! : Raising my Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith. 2022.
