As Good As Gold--#41 finished

The rest of the title is: 1 Woman, 9 Sports, 10 Countries and a 2 Year Quest to Make the Summer Olympics.  The author Kathryn Bertine was a pro tri-athlete who was also a writer but took several part-time jobs as well to fund her triathlon career.  ESPN approached her about making an attempt to get to the Olympics in whatever sport she could accomplish it.  They would pay her for articles and cover a lot of the expenses for this.  She was not Olympic qualifier stuff for the triathlon so she tried out for the team handball sport, pentathlon, track cycling, rowing, open water swimming, race walking and then road cycling.  She didn't earn any spots on US teams so she reached out to other nations for road cycling and eventually was given dual citizenship with St Kitts and Nevis to try to earn a cycling spot there but was unable to accumulate enough points to qualify for the Olympics--she traveled to several countries and rode races there trying to earn the points but as a single racer vs teams of racers it was low odds to start and her attempts while valiant didn't get her there.  It is a good story about determination and desire and also exposes the reader to some little known sports and how Olympic teams for formed.  

This is a book that I got from ThriftBooks, so not a PBS book.  It is also a book autographed by author.  I read up on Wikipedia about author and she has a few other books but has also been an important person for establishing professional cycling leagues.  This book will be a keeper for me.  There are 2 WL for book on PBS but have enough credits & plenty of other books I can mail if ever need more.