Getting paid to watch sport from the best seats in the house and to chew the fat with sportsmen every day of the week cant be called a real job can it? Ron Reed has spent more than 50 years as one of Australias leading sports journalists. He has a fascination for the games people play and the people who play them. In particular, the Olympic Games became a passion. After attending his first Olympics in person in 1984, Ron decided to attend the Games one last time, in Tokyo 2020, to fulfil what had become a consuming private and personal interest. He had planned to visit the memorial to the victims and survivors of the atomic bombing of the southern city of Nagasaki, the catalyst for ending the Second World War. His father, Private William Cecil Reed, was a prisoner of war in Nagasaki and survived that horrific event when tens of thousands of others did not. War Games was to bookend the experiences of father and son in the country that held an unlikely connection for them. Despite the postponed Tokyo Olympics, the book still combines the remarkable war-time experiences of a soldier in World War II with the memorable events, people and sports that have formed the fabric of Rons working life. These stories are part of the vast sporting history of a sports-mad nation and while they reach well back into the past that doesnt mean they are no longer interesting -- some are utterly unforgettable.

About the Author
Ron Reed is one of Australias most experienced and acclaimed sports journalists, whose work over more than 50 years has earned numerous awards, including Sport Australias Lifetime Achievement Award and Australian Sportswriter of the Year. Now a semi-retired freelance writer, he was twice Sports Editor of the Melbourne Herald evening paper, Editor of the old Sporting Globe, and Chief Sportswriter, columnist and feature writer for the Herald Sun, Australias biggest selling daily paper. He has worked in more than 30 countries on every continent covering most of the worlds major sports events multiple times, including nine Olympic Games, seven Commonwealth Games, several editions of cyclings Tour de France and the Giro dItalia, numerous cricket tours, major tennis and golf tournaments, world championships in athletics, swimming, road and track cycling, triathlon, hockey and rowing as well as Americas Cup sailing, horse racing and all of the football codes. He is the author of the bestselling Barty about Australian tennis champion and World No. 1 Ash Barty.


Book Information
ISBN 9781925927375
Author Ron Reed
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Wilkinson Publishing
Publisher Wilkinson Publishing