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Valerie: The autobiography
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"Valerie" changes the face of New Zealand sports books. Valerie Adams keeps no secrets as she tells her inspirational story of how a Tongan kid from Mangere, throwing the shot in bare feet, transformed herself into a double Olympic champion.
"Valerie" changes the face of New Zealand sports books. Valerie Adams keeps no secrets as she tells her inspirational story of how a Tongan kid from Mangere, throwing the shot in bare feet, transformed herself into a double Olympic champion.
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208 pages
Published
October 30th 2012
by Hachette New Zealand Ltd
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Mar 19, 2013
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I decided to read the book "Valerie : The autobiography" because I had received the book from my Athletics Coach as a token of appreciation of joining his team. The book interested me because the cover was shining at me as if it was saying "read me now" and also to learn more about Valerie Adams and how she became famous as the Worlds Best Shot-put Thrower.
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I was surprised. This book was actually really good. You see I don't do autobiographies. I guess the reason I liked it was because I'm a footballer and Valerie's an Athlete. We both train, both have physical and mental battles and both have family issues. But the only difference is Valerie's are more serious. The problems she faces and how much she trains is unbelievable. In the book Valerie takes us back to when she was a young girl and talks us through exactly what happened during the 2012 Lon
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name of text:Valerie the autobiography
author:phil giford
rating:4 stars
category is a book with a female main character
This book is about Valerie adams's journey to the 2012 London Olympics game with her coach. Valerie also included a lot of imformation about her personal and love life with her ex-husband and her relationship with her past coaches mostly about Kirstan Helleir and how Valeries and her relationship got a bit sour at the end and also about her career right at the start and about the ...more
author:phil giford
rating:4 stars
category is a book with a female main character
This book is about Valerie adams's journey to the 2012 London Olympics game with her coach. Valerie also included a lot of imformation about her personal and love life with her ex-husband and her relationship with her past coaches mostly about Kirstan Helleir and how Valeries and her relationship got a bit sour at the end and also about her career right at the start and about the ...more
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This book is about Valerie adams's journey to the 2012 London Olympics game with her coach. Valerie also included a lot of imformation about her personal and love life with her ex-husband and her relationship with her past coaches mostly about Kirstan Helleir and how Valeries and her relationship got a bit sour at the end and also about her career right at the start and about the comps she has won.
I actually really enjoyed this a lot because l respect and like Valerie because she puts in so much ...more
I actually really enjoyed this a lot because l respect and like Valerie because she puts in so much ...more
As an athlete myself I really liked this book. It shows people that as athletes is not all about the competitons. Its the hours behimd it all, training, physio and all that
I think Valerie Adams is one awesome lady. This book is interesting and written in a non-nonsense Valerie style.
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