Resultados para "Laura" en Deportes y aire libre

Un relato humano imprescindible de esfuerzo, sacrificio y gloria de la denominada "gran generación del ciclismo español".

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed.

This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaechter’s 35th birthday. She sold her successful outdoor adventure business, upsetting her partner and boyfriend of 12 years and getting them both fired in the process. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey were often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for 25 days straight, barely surviving a dynamite-filled canyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plant.

Christina O'Connor is the main prosecution witness from the Huddersfield Grooming scandal. In 2017, 11 men were convicted of a staggering 43 offences against her. In this memoir, Christina will describe how, from being a happy child with a loving family, she fell into the clutches of a grooming gang whose abuse of children earned them a total of 221 years in prison.

18 luglio 1976, Olimpiadi di Montréal: una giovane ginnasta rumena esegue l’esercizio alle parallele asimmetriche. La votazione tarda ad arrivare, poi sullo schermo appare un misterioso 1.00, che lascia tutti confusi e interdetti; infine giunge la rivelazione: i computer sono programmati per segnalare un massimo di 9.99 punti. A soli quattordici anni, Nadia Comaneci entra nella storia dello sport con un esercizio da 10, una perfezione che il tabellone non è neanche in grado di registrare, diventando istantaneamente un modello per generazioni intere di ginnaste e atlete.