Books to Read by Olympians for The Paris 2024 Olympics
By Kyle Colley, Aug 9, 2024
As the 2024 Paris Olympics draws to a close this weekend, here’s a list of books written by current and past olympians:
1) Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith by Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone
2) Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky
3) No Limits by Michael Phelps
4) I Got This by Laurie Hernandez
5) Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
6) The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
7) Misty: My Journey Through Volleyball and Life by Misty May-Treanor
8) By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen
9) Courage to Soar by Simone Biles and Michelle Burford
10) Dear Black Girls by A'Ja Wilson