Olympics

• 26 January 2012 at 06 : 41 AM

  Why Does It Take The Olympic Games to Put Track & Field in the Spotlight?

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  Written By: Red Shannon I think I'm having an out-of-body experience. As a hard-core Track and Field fan who seriously follows the sport all year, every year, I'm having to get out of my own skin in order to gain the perspective of the general sports fan who eats, sleeps and breathes for such sporting commodities as say...football, basketball or ...

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• 30 March 2011 at 13 : 08 PM

  Tyson Gay & Jeremy Wariner to Team Up in Texas Relays 4×400 Relay

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  Written By: Rojo Grande The American 100-meter record-holder (9.69) Tyson Gay is looking to expand his repertoire across the entire spectrum of competitive sprints.  He already is one of sprinting's most versatile runners, being the only person ever to have accomplished sprinting's hat trick: a sub-10 100m, a sub-20 200m and a sub-45 400m (44.89). Gay ...

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• 15 February 2011 at 10 : 35 AM

  Black Power Salute Olympian Tommie Smith, Puts His Gold Medal Up For Auction For $250k???

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  Former Olympian Tommie Smith is selling the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where his Black Power salute on the podium shocked the sports world.  The former San Jose State runner has put his gold medal for the 200 meters and spikes up for auction at New York-based M.I.T. Memorabilia. The bid starts at $250,000, and the ...

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• 1 March 2010 at 19 : 02 PM

  Winter Olympics 2010: USA versus Canada Hockey a Great way to End the Olympics

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  The Winter Olympics ended with a bang yesterday, but not before perhaps the biggest event of the Olympics ended in a thriller.  Before the day began, USA was in pursuit of breaking the medals record for any one country in the Winter Olympics. However, that wasn’t the only record in pursuit of that day. The Canadians, in their backyard, were trying ...

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• 26 February 2010 at 13 : 12 PM

  Bode Miller WAG’s, is he Going for Another Gold Medal?

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  Bode Miller is one of the best Alpine Skiers in the world, he has rebounded from his poor performance in Torino to win three medals at the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver. It seems Bode is unattached at the moment, which may be a reason for his success. Discovering the women in Miller's life was not as easy as with mainstream athletes, ...

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• 24 February 2010 at 10 : 06 AM

  Hall of Fail: Sven Kramer’s Speed Skating 10,000 Meter Blunder Costs Him a Gold Medal

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  Sven Kramer, the speed skating skating sensation from the Netherlands who earlier had won the 5,000 meters at the Richmond Oval, did the unthinkable: skate the last eight laps of the 10,000 meters in the same lane as Russia's: Ivan Skobrev. Sven, how could you? How could you have thrown away the gold medal by failing to change lanes and skate on the ...

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