Résultats pour "The Odyssey" dans Sports et loisirs

In the summer of 1972, the open road beckoned best friends, nineteen-year-old Barry Johnson and twenty-year-old Bobby Young. Carrying backpacks with the essentials, staples of Kraft Mac and Cheese, dressed in jeans, Frye boots, with $100 each, they set off from their homes in Massachusetts. And so their cross-country adventure began during a time when the bond of trust between driver and hitchhiker was rarely questioned. Little did they know that this journey would shape their lives in ways they could never imagine.

An seinem 43. Geburtstag stieg Dick Conant, ein Goldjunge, der nie ganz so erwachsen wurde, wie es seine Umgebung erwartete, in ein selbstgebautes Boot, um trotz eines aufziehenden Schneesturms eine Reise anzutreten. Der Beginn einer gewaltigen Odyssee eines unkonventionellen Mannes durch die flüssigen Arterien Amerikas, eine Reise zu den unbekannten Rändern der Gesellschaft. »Riverman« ist das bewegende Porträt eines komplexen und faszinierenden Mannes.

Z’s Odyssey is a personal story of the struggle to find relief for intractable pain in a medical, legal, and political climate that restricts opioid doses that were once the standard of care. Z’s Odyssey spans the watershed year of 2016 when the Centers for Disease Control invited the members of an anti-opioid lobby to develop the pain guideline for the first time in near secrecy and have since been opposed by professional organizations representing half a million doctors.

In 1887 a 21-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in 72 days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged 50 miles a day pedaling a 52-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle with a tubular steel frame and hard rubber tires, and he lost 23 pounds in the process.

I have my mother to thank for losing my mind. Her confession made me feel like I’d been released from her womb all over again. It answered all the questions about our family; but what about the mystery that was me? I thought I had everything, but the truth was missing. Her secret inspired a transatlantic voyage, followed by a nomadic lifestyle in Europe, in search of a home, and myself.

Homesteading Space is more than a story of technological and scientific success; it is also an absorbing, sometimes humorous, often inspiring account of the determined, hardworking individuals who shepherded the program through a near-disastrous launch, a heroic rescue, an exhausting study of Comet Kohoutek, and the lab's descent into the Indian Ocean. Featuring the unpublished in-flight diary of astronaut Alan Bean, it is replete with the personal recollections and experiences of the Skylab crew and those who worked with them in training, during the mission, and the return.

"Explore in-depth the world's most popular sports: origins, rules, evolution, and cultural significance of each sport, through authentic and detailed podcast episodes."

Beginning with the day Jordans father was murdered, & stretching through a 2-year odyssey across the American landscape, Rebound is the story of the worlds most famous athletes personal journey in search of himself. This is the story of a man who seemingly had everything the world could offer, &...

Grab your seat next to a super fan who stopped at nothing to enter his generation's premier Chicago sports events.

Beyond the garden wall lies a wealth of cultivated plants, each with a unique tale to tell. In The Grove, award-winning writer and head gardener Ben Dark reveals the remarkable secrets of 20 commonly found species—including the rose, wisteria, buddleja, box and the tulip—encountered in the front gardens of one London street over the course of year.

The Arctic Odyssey: A Quest for the North Pole is a mesmerizing and inspiring journey through the breathtaking beauty, rich history, and complex challenges of the Arctic region. From the frozen landscapes of the North Pole to the rich cultural traditions of the Inuit and other indigenous peoples of the Arctic, this book offers a unique and powerful perspective on one of the world's most captivating and mysterious places.

Join Dan and Rob on their mission to level up their golf game and qualify for The Rock — a legendary scratch competition at Charnwood Forest Golf Club. Each episode they share real rounds, lessons, gear tests, coaching insights, and the highs and lows of chasing better golf. Perfect for golfers who love progress, honesty, and a good laugh along the way.

This Cycling Odysseys Podcast is an attempt to go back to when Cycling was King, the most popular sport in Europe.  This was accomplished in the first half of the 20th Century by newspapers and journalists who created vivid narrative accounts of the epic races and transformed the sport's greatest champions into legends. This podcast will try to channel cycling's epic and romantic traditions which seem to have been marginalized or lost in recent decades.