The Bumper Book of Slightly Forgotten British Olympians & Other Sporting Heroes" is just that: a collection of stirring tales of pluck grit triumph disaster & on occasion ineptitude featuring a host of former sports people whove been utterly forgotten by history. From Maude Waveney the plucky servant girl who bravely took half a day off work scrubbing kitchen floors to win a gold medal folding bedsheets in the first London games to Tom Drake Dressages first punk who shocked the sport with his slashed jacket & swear words on his hat. Theres the tale of the Lincolnshire javelin thrower who fell under the spell of a cult devoted to the eating of egg & chips; of the mascot of Bexhill-on-Seas ill fated bid to host the Olympics & " Ample" Arthur Cartwright whose football career was blighted by an obsession with archaeology. They & many others all have a story to tell."