Browsing Tag 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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• 24 February 2010 at 10 : 06 AM

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

  Posted by Sports Session in Front Page Features , Olympics , The Sports Session Hall of Fail 0

  

  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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