God, If You Are Real.: An Olympic Dream, Cancer Nightmare, and the creation of Finger Football
Language: English
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (edition 1), 2014
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- Title
- God, If You Are Real.: An Olympic Dream, Cancer Nightmare, and the creation of Finger Football
- Author
- Alford, Spud
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (edition 1)
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1494210193
- ISBN 13
- 9781494210199
- Edition
- 1.
★★★★★ "Captivating journey!" - Reader Review
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By the time Spud Alford was twenty-one, he had strengthened his athletic skills enough to become a serious contender for the American team at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Fate, however, had a different idea of how the young track and field star should outpace his competition.
Four years later, it looked like Alford might finally get his shot. Again, fate intervened, and this time, young Alford confronted a cancer diagnosis.
This is the heartbreaking, hilarious account of one man who time and again passes the wrong end of the torch, only to rally and rise above his seemingly limitless lot of bad luck!
With hope, heart, and humor, this frank and funny account of one man’s journey from Olympic hopeful to company leader is certain to inspire readers who are seeking a refreshing perspective!
Anyone who is ready to blaze a trail as an athlete, a businessperson, or as an individual seeking deeper meaning in their days will find plenty to laugh and think about!
What are you waiting for? Click the BUY NOW button at the top and join this rollicking, fast-paced memoir of one life on the skids, with only the help of one lost soul!
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About the Author
Spud Alford is the founder and CEO of Zelosport, where he has created and marketed a series of sports board games based on the paper football concept. He is also a track and field athlete who twice missed the chance of representing the US team in the Olympics. In 1976, at the age of twenty-one, he began training for the most grueling competition in the track and field category, the ten-event decathlon. In 1980, only a few months prior to the selection of the American team, the United States boycotted the Moscow Games. In June of that year, a knee injury sidelined him, only to be diagnosed during his convalescence with testicular cancer. Alford has been interviewed on major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, among others. The author grew up on air force bases around the world before his father retired and settled in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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