encouragement. “Avoid bent knees‚ split legs‚ bent feet‚ land firmly and you can win gold‚” reads one message. “Starting from nothing‚ we can forge gold‚ and the gold will shine‚” reads another. The Chinese men’s gymnastic team did just that last week at the Olympics‚ ahead of Japan‚ Great Britain and the US. Those slogans could probably be seen as old-style Maoist indoctrination‚ especially when taken with the subtext‚ implicit in much Western sports commentary before and during London 2012‚ that all Chinese
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The Dream Team Era During the summer of 1992‚ the NBA took center stage as the world watched the greatest team in sports ever assembled joke‚ pose‚ and finally play its way to the gold medal at the summer Olympic games. The team was named the "Dream Team" and it featured eleven of the NBA’s best players. Names like Michael Jordan‚ Earvin "Magic" Johnson‚ and Larry Bird headlined the games and the play of Scottie Pippen and "Sir" Charles Barkley stole the show. After only eight games‚ the world
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23 March 1983) is a Somali-born British international track and field athlete. He is the current 10‚000 metres Olympic champion and 5000 metres Olympic‚ World and European champion. On the track‚ he generally competes over 5000 m and 10‚000 m‚ but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres. He has expressed a desire to move up to the marathon after the 2012 Summer Olympics[3] ==>Show Farah winning 10000? Farah is of Somali parentage‚ but his father grew up in Britain‚ and Farah
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The Olympics The Olympic games are among the worlds major events in which athletes from all over the world take part in different competitions which they train for night and ad to win a gold medal or even a place in the competition. The games are divided into two; the summer and winter Olympics where the host cities manage both of the Olympics and Paralympics games. The games are held every four years in different cites chosen by the International Olympic committee. These games have a history dating
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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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performance in sports has certainly occurred since the time of the original Olympic Games [from 776 to 393 BC]. The origin of the word ’doping’ is attributed to the Dutch word ’doop‚’ which is a viscous opium juice‚ the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks." Larry D. Bowers‚ PhD "Athletic Drug Testing‚" Clinics in Sports Medicine‚ Apr. 1‚ 1998 1904-1920 Performance Enhancing Drugs Used in the Modern Olympic Games "In 1904 Olympics marathon runner‚ Thomas Hicks‚ was using a mixture of brandy and strychnine
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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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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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