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A team of their own : how an international sisterhood made Olympic history / Seth Berkman.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2019]Description: 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781335005533
  • 1335005536
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.962 23
LOC classification:
  • GV848.4.K6 B47 2019
Contents:
Atlas shrugs -- Not like Hannah -- Phishing for talent -- Seoul sisters -- The junger -- The hen crows -- The coach with the blue eyes -- Babos -- The boy crying wolf -- Boss-ass bitches -- Be who you are -- Under pressure -- Lost and found -- The slap shot heard round the world -- Suffering or in joy, to the love of country -- Family -- Comrades -- One step at a time -- A spotlight stolen -- Unified no more -- Make Korea proud -- Becca -- The miracle off ice -- A foggy road -- Evolution -- One body -- Nothing else matters.
Summary: "Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea's women's hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador, or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before ... In [this book], Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women as they became a team amid immense political pressure and personal turmoil, and ultimately gained worldwide acceptance on a journey that encapsulates the truest meanings of sport and family"--Publisher marketing.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-365) and index.

Atlas shrugs -- Not like Hannah -- Phishing for talent -- Seoul sisters -- The junger -- The hen crows -- The coach with the blue eyes -- Babos -- The boy crying wolf -- Boss-ass bitches -- Be who you are -- Under pressure -- Lost and found -- The slap shot heard round the world -- Suffering or in joy, to the love of country -- Family -- Comrades -- One step at a time -- A spotlight stolen -- Unified no more -- Make Korea proud -- Becca -- The miracle off ice -- A foggy road -- Evolution -- One body -- Nothing else matters.

"Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea's women's hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador, or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before ... In [this book], Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women as they became a team amid immense political pressure and personal turmoil, and ultimately gained worldwide acceptance on a journey that encapsulates the truest meanings of sport and family"--Publisher marketing.

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