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008			120808s2012 nz ac 000 0 eng
020			_a9781869712624 (pbk.) : _c$44.99
035			_a(NLNZils)1565369
035			_a(OCoLC)809253859
035			_a(Nz)14312736
037			_bHachette New Zealand Ltd.
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082	0	4	_a796.435092 _223
100			_aAdams, Valerie, _d1984- _910791
245	1	0	_aValerie : _bthe autobiography / _c[Valerie Adams] ; with Phil Gifford.
260			_aAuckland, N.Z. : _bHodder Moa, _c2012.
300			_a208 p., [24] p. of plates : _bcol. ill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aForeword by Sir Murray Halberg.
505	0		_aGold -- The road to London -- Embracing the love -- The best feeling ever -- Breaking up -- When a house is not a home -- Tough choices -- To the mountain top -- You have gold here -- Reaching the stars -- The life -- What I learned from Valerie -- Walking in the rain and riding elephants -- The public face -- Giving everything a go -- Heavy implement chick -- Throw to the future.
520			_a"Valerie Adams is without question the greatest field athlete New Zealand has ever produced - and, if you're looking for confirmation of that fact, you need only scan the giant shot putter's astonishing list of achievements: reigning Olympic champion, reigning world champion and reigning Commonwealth Games champion. Valerie Adams' story, though, does not just revolve around all the success she has achieved over the past eight or ten years. Her story is one of struggle, dedication and an incredible single-mindedness - all life experiences which have seen her become one of the great sporting champions. On top of that, she has become one of New Zealand's great role models, most especially for young Pacific Islanders. In her book the traditionally media-shy Adams will talk about her humble upbringings - she was born in Rotorua to a Tongan mother and an English father - and raised mainly in south Auckland. She will talk about her incredibly successful partnership with coach Kirsten Hellier and, for the first time, shed light on the dramatic disintegration of that partnership in 2010. But perhaps most importantly, she will talk about what it's like to achieve at the very highest level...and to regularly look out from the centre of the sporting dais." --Bookdepository.co.uk.
600		0	_aAdams, Valerie, _d1984- _910791
650		0	_aShot-putters _zNew Zealand _vBiography. _910793
650		0	_aAthletes _zNew Zealand. _910794
650		0	_aOlympic athletes. _910795
700	1		_91865 _aGifford, Phil, _eauthor.
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