Bibliograph

Ralph Doubell, do not worry, it is only pain, Michael Sharp

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Ralph Doubell, do not worry, it is only pain, Michael Sharp

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ralph Doubell

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Michael Sharp

Sub title

do not worry, it is only pain

Summary

Ralph Doubell should be one of Australia's best known Olympic heroes. In the 800 metres at Mexico City in 1968, he produced arguably the finest run in Australian Olympic history, but his achievement never received the plaudits it deserved. Finally, author Michael Sharp has written a compelling biography of the last of the three Australian male track athletes - after Edwin Flack and Herb Elliott - to win Olympic gold. Doubell's role models were athletics legends such as Vladimir Kuts, Herb Elliott and John Landy. His phenomenal inner-drive inspired him as an athlete, a student at the University of Melbourne and Harvard, and later as an investment banker in New York. His coach, the legendary Franz Stampfl, mentor to Sir Roger Bannister, was a man of strong opinions. Doubell's similarly robust views on the decline of Australian middle-distance running will cause controversy

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