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 enlarge | Authors: Michael Silver, Natalie Coughlin
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 117337
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594862540
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.32092
EAN: 9781594862540
ASIN: 1594862540
Publication Date: April 18, 2006
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 The Negative Book about Swimming December 8, 2006
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have read the book and I am shocked of the way
she talks about her coaches and some of her teammates. Negative, selfish!
It is sad how a champion of her caliber can write a book like this one.
I do not recommend this book to children or any person who might want
to get a view of swimming.
Do not waste your money on this book. Find other books who will
give you a positive inside of the sport of swimming like the Michael
Phelps' book or Summer Sanders' book.
I would like to give O starts to this book.
 For swimmers of ALL ages! November 10, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
What a great book! A great read for 12+ swimmers and a MUST READ for all swim parents! This book really helped me gain perspective on my children's swimming and my own!
 A motivational read about Natalie September 1, 2006
9 out of 18 found this review helpful
I found this book to be a great read about a swimmer who overcame issues to win 5 Olympic medals. As the mom of two swimmers on a less serious, more recreational, swim team, I can still understand all the pressures she felt.
It appears the negative reviews are from Terrapin families, because I did not find Natalie to be self-absorbed, whiny, or any of the other negative attributes given to her by the one star reviewers.
Natalie took time out of her busy schedule three years ago to spend an afternoon at our swim club to motivate our swimmers before their biggest meet. I plan to have my 14 year old and 11 year old read "Golden Girl" to learn how she became an Olympic star.
A unique insite into ultra-competitive swimming July 20, 2006
23 out of 37 found this review helpful
As a former collegiate All-American swimmer, I found Silver's book to be illuminating in many ways. While the writing style is a bit forced at times (for drama's sake), it is overall an interesting read and an honest look into the inner workings of competitive swimming.
I found the willingness to criticize established swimming tenets (and people) refreshingly honest, and to the Silver's and Coughlin's credit, they never try to pass of any of the asseratations as fact but always as opinion. Certainly, this has irked many online reviewers who are naturally protective of their coach and/or training style, but this is one of the few books which actually say publically what many of us in the sport have felt for decades -- we are overtraining and burning out our swimmers, particularly our sprinters.
Will this be an interesting book to a non-swimmer? Probably so, and mostly for the controversy mentioned above.
In particular, I find the Natalie-bashers' strategy confusing. If you disagree with her opinions, fine. If you feel it's so off-based, then why worry about it?
Glad I got my copy at the library July 18, 2006
18 out of 31 found this review helpful
As a former swimmer and a CAL grad who always admired Natalie, I looked forward to reading this book. It was a big disappointment: poorly researched, poorly written, and highly biased (what is even more biased, not to mention staggeringly arrogant, is to assume that everyone who dislikes this book has some affiliation with the Terrapins Swim Club. That is so pathetic I'm embarrassed for you). Natalie comes across as narcissistic and emotionally fragile; I'm not surprised she had a hard time getting along with her teammates. With the exception of Terry McKeever, the women's coach at CAL, who is painted in a saintly, long-suffering light, the profiled coaches were portrayed as insensitive and overbearing; hardly fair in terms of their records of success and the esteem in which their former charges hold them (especially true of Richard Quick at Stanford). I second another reader's recommendation of Gold In The Water as a considerably superior book on competitive swimming.
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