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Golden Age Winter Sports

Speed Kings

by Andy Bull

Audiobook Narrated by Eric Meyers 13 hrs and 13 mins

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In the winter of 1928, the world's elite gathered at St Moritz for the second Winter Olympics, where a new and thrilling event captured imaginations: the Cresta Run. This is the extraordinary true story of an unlikely American crew who took on Europe's aristocratic bobsleigh teams in a dangerous race down a treacherous mountain track of solid ice.

Bull masterfully recreates the glamour and peril of 1920s winter sports, when speed-obsessed daredevils risked their lives hurtling down Alpine slopes at unprecedented velocities. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, he brings to life an era of Jazz Age excess, sporting heroism, and the characters who pushed themselves to the very edge. It's a gripping tale of courage, competition, and the relentless human drive to go faster than ever before.