Are Olympic athletes born stronger and faster than the rest of us? Why do tennis rackets have strings? How do gymnasts balance on their hands? Why do hurdlers do the splits when they jump?
Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green? , answers these and lots of other brilliant questions in Olympic Sport: The Whole Muscle-Flexing Story , a fascinating book about the science of sport.
From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball or being the bendiest gymnast around, find out everything you ever wanted to know about sports and games and what it is that makes athletes the best at what they do.
Discover more funny science with Does Farting Make You Faster?.
This is Book 8 in the Science Sorted Series. See all Science Sorted books here.
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Glenn Murphy received his masters in science communication from London's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He wrote his first popular science book, Why Is Snot Green?, while managing the Explainer team at the Science Museum in London. In 2007 he moved to the United States. He now lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife,
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