\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the culture, scores, winners, losers and the rules of every Olympic sport in time for the Rio de Janeiro 2016\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale and variety of its sporting contests. Yet many of the games are unfamiliar to even the most avid sports fan. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes in. \u003ci\u003eHow to Watch the Olympics\u003c/i\u003e offers each sport's backstory and culture, and explains the finer points of strategy, skulduggery and skill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce you've read this book, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danes triumph at handball, what the Italian fencers are up to and why Greco-Roman wrestling is so crucial to Kazakhstan. You'll know who invented the butterfly stroke, where water polo serves as the closest expression of warfare and how shuttlecocks travel faster than tennis balls. This edition has been freshly updated for the 2016 Games in Rio, including fresh material from London 2012 and chapters on the new Olympic sports of rugby sevens and golf. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen days, 10,500 athletes, 28 sports, 302 gold medals up for grabs: the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will soon be upon us. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Watch the Olympics \u003c/i\u003eis your invaluable personal trainer.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 2012 edition was \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Independent on Sunday\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c/i\u003eSports Book of the Year\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e
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