Anyone who has followed me for the last two years knows that I’m a Kathryn Bertine fan boy. It started with All The Sundays Yet To Come, and continued through her ESPN Insider tales between 2006-2008. She’s taken those articles as a starting point and knit together her 2-year effort to compete in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Bertine is a wickedly funny writer, probably because she doesn’t take herself, sports, or the Olympic aura too seriously. It’s amazingly refreshing to read a sports story that does not end in a medal, championship, undesireable geography or bizarre love geometry. It’s just about competing, pushing yourself, and what it means to represent something bigger than yourself or the guy who signs your paychecks.
As Good As Gold, Bertine’s latest book, releases on April 28th, and the Kindle-only version is available on amazon.com now. Look for a book tour (coming soon to a bookstore near you, maybe) and get ready to laugh at a remarkably hamish Olympic effort.
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