Stories are told through success and medals, as well as failure and defeats, Bonamy tellsVogue.
The book also has a strong emotional undercurrent.
We picked 100 to preserve the memory, but thousands of men and women keep it alive.
American track and field athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner, known colloquially as “Flo-Jo” in 1988.
The Olympic Games constantly foreshadow a future.
It is the essence of sport to dream big.
Below, an exclusiveand powerful look insideThe Last Heroesand the athletes within.
The Last Heroes: 100 Moments of Olympic Legend will be published by Assouline this summer.
The 1992 U.S. mens Olympic basketball team, referred to as the Dream Team, is a national treasure.
Since 1936, Team USA has been defeated only once in mens basketball, by the USSR in 1972.
Rafer Johnson, the first Black American flag bearer, at the 1960 opening ceremony in Rome.
At the 1936 Berlin Games, Marjorie Gestring was then the youngest-ever Olympian, at just thirteen years old.
Close-up of a hand holding a discus.
