one of many Americans that participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Katie was born on March 17th‚ to David and Mary Ledecky. David was a lawyer‚ while Mary was a hospital administrator‚ and a former swimmer‚ which is where Katie got her passion for swimming. I choose Katie‚ because I’m a swimmer and she is my role model. I want to be as good as her someday. At the age of six‚ Katie began her swimming career‚ when she joined a local summer swim league. As Katie became a stronger swimmer‚ she joined
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leading up to the next summer olympics. 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens had arrived‚ and phelps had picked up 6 gold and 2 bronze. He had tied with the most olympic medals in a single games with Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin. At the next summer games‚ Phelps had set a world record fo most gold medals at a single games with 8 total‚ beating out swimmer Mark Spitz’s record of 7 gold medals. Every gold was a new world record except the 100m butterfly which set and olympic record. Phelps had planned
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suggested that Usain should take up track and field. Being the fastest runner at William Knibb Memorial High School (running a 200 meter race in 22.04 seconds) it didn’t take long for Bolt to become his school’s track star. One of his coaches was an Olympic sprinter‚ Pablo McNeil‚ who had worked with Usain until moving to Kingston at sixteen because former Jamaican prime minister P.J. Patterson‚ had Bolt move to Kingston to train with the Jamaican Ameteur Athletics Assocation (JAAA). Usain didn’t take
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Cited: "American Women in the Olympics." National Women ’s History Museum - NWHM. Web. 22 Jan. 2012. “Archived: Achieving Success Under Title IX." U.S. Department of Education. 10 July 1997. Web. 22 Jan. 2011. Bell‚ Richard C. "A History of Women in Sports Prior to Title IX." The Sport
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ROB VANSTONE Rob Vanstone‚ is a lifelong Reginan and a football follower ‚ he was selected as an Assistant Sports Editor in 1995 and was named as a sports writer one year later. He is now the Leader Post’s Sports Editor and daily columnist . Vanstone has spent most of his time in the Leader Post writing about the Saskatchewan Rougriders. Rob is one of the top sports editor in Saskatchewan. Rob Vanstone’s goal was to be a sports writer in Regina. He studied at Campbell Collegiate in his High
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Championships in Ann Arbor‚ Michigan. Although many historians consider Owens’s performance that day the greatest achievement by any track-and-field athlete in a single day‚ his participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games made him into a legend. After winning one team and three individual Olympic Gold Medals in an atmosphere charged with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s declarations of Aryan racial superiority‚ Owens became an American hero. Although his professional career endured several struggles
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ASL 101-06 Professor Anisa Guy 10/13/11 Journal: Deaflympics The Deaflympics is an event similar to the Olympics but geared towards the hearing impaired ("Disabled World"). This event first began in 1924‚ where it took place in Paris ("Disabled World"). The Deaflympics became the first international athletics even held for people with disabilities. This event was originally called the International Games for the Deaf‚ International Silent Games‚ World Games for the Deaf‚ and occasionally
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Therefore‚ celebrities can be good and bad role models. One bad role model is Micheal Phelps‚ and a good one is Barrack Obama. Now for the bad. If one has watched the 2008 Summer Olympics‚ he must have seen Micheal Phelps‚ the famous swimmer. Phelps is famous for breaking the record for receiving the most gold medals at a single Olympics. Many of his fellow fans and swimmers believe that he did this fairly. However‚ this all changed when a photo of Micheal Phelps smoking marijuana was released in early
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of athletics its roots in human prehistory. The first recorded organized athletics events at a sports festival are the Ancient Olympic Games. At the first Games in 776 BC in Olympia‚ Greece‚ only one event was contested: the stadion footrace and the first olympic winner was Koroibos. In later years further running competitions have been added. Also in the Ancient Olympic pentathlon‚ four of the events are part of the track and field we have even today. The long jump‚ the javelin throw‚ the discus
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The 2012 Summer Olympics‚ officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad[2] and commonly known as London 2012‚ was a major international multi-sport eventcelebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games‚ as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It took place in London‚ United Kingdom‚ from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The first event‚ the group stage in women’s football‚ began two days earlier‚ on 25 July.[3][4] More than 10‚000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated
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