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From the multi-million selling author of The Book of Lists and The Complete Book of the Olympics comes an entirely new take on the Games. Wallechinsky has a uniquely vast knowledge of the Olympics and an unrivalled head forarcane - now the two are combined in this collection of 150 unexpected Olympic lists, including:- The eight slowest Olympic competitors- The twelve strangest sports ever contested- The six most spectacular collisions and falls- The top ten shaven-headed OlympiansPublished for the 2012 Games, The Book of Olympic Lists is a quirky compendium of the unusual, the unknown and the downright bizzare. More than simply a book of lists, Wallechinsky elaborates and expands on the reason for an athlete or incident's inclusion, to create a winning - and highly addictive - alternative history of the Olympics.