5/12/13 BBC News - India’s Olympic performance INDIA 13 August 2012 Last updated at 06:48 ET India’s Olympic performance India’s haul of six medals‚ including two silver and four bronze‚ is the country’s best performance to date at the Olympic games. Sports writer V Krishnaswamy looks into the future for team India and how to build on this success. The world it seems has taken the escalator‚ but Indians are still using the staircase. From 1996 to 2004‚ it was one at a time‚ then it be
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very first Olympic Games... You’re also naked. Seems weird right? In light of the recent Winter Olympics I thought it would be fun to research how different it was from the first games. So today I thought I would share with you all the history‚ athletes‚ and events from the early Olympic Games. According to historical records‚ the first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 BC. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were held in ancient Olympia. The official Olympic website states
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giving you information about the early Olympics. The early Olympics started around 1896 in Ancient Greece where the first Olympics began. But the very first Olympics started around 776 bc where Greek mythology was alive. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and happened in the ancient plains of Olympia. In our current year 2017 you would have never thought that the Olympics mostly had the activities that we have now just different generations. In every Olympic that has occurred there was an oath
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The 2012 Olympics games were chosen to be held in London Stratford‚ Newham. The British Olympic Association had been trying to bring the Olympics to “London since 1997”. United Kingdom tried to bid the Olympics 3 times‚ each time failing. The bids were in 1992‚ in 1996 and 2000 for Manachester. The only reason why London made a bid is because the international Olympic Committee said that “London city” was the only city with a chance of winning it within England. Therefore the decision was made to
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The Olympics of 1936 The Olympics are a thrilling event for the whole world. The Olympics of 1936‚ one of the greatest sports events in history‚ brought great talent in the African American runner Jesse Owens. The Olympics of 1936 had many ups and downs. Many people believe that it was Hitler’s fame that brought the games to Berlin. The Olympics were assigned in Berlin in1930 before Hitler was the leader of Germany .Hitler gave all the German athletes their medals when they won. Hitler greeted
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BEIJING 2008: A DIGITAL OLYMPICS Known in China as “Superfish‚” Michael Phelps was on his way to achieving his goal of eight gold medals. His most difficult competition was the 100-meter butterfly. On PCs‚ cell phones‚ electronic billboards‚ and televisions‚ millions of viewers worldwide watched him win the event by .01 seconds. The results appeared on the screens almost in real time. If you did not see this exciting race‚ you can access it on YouTube. This was only one component in the “most wired
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Floyd “Money” Mayweather In the sport of boxing there is no name bigger than Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather one of the best boxers the world has yet to see. He is a five-division world champion‚ has won eight world titles in three different weigh classes. He is also a two time The Ring “Fighter of the Year”‚ and ESPY Awards Best Fighter in 2007‚2008‚2010‚ naming him undefeated as a professional boxer. Winning all 43 of his fights‚ 26 of them being KO’s he has never lost a fight. Rated at
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for the eccentric “Olimpick” games celebrated in the Cotswold village of Chipping Campden. The use of the term “Olimpicks” would appear to be a deliberate archaisms – as it seems highly unlikely the Cotswold games were actually ever thus known. The strap byline attributes the story to a Mail staff reporter: “John Carter visits the village with its own eccentric games”. Fact & Opinion: It is a fact that the second paragraph points to the origins of the Cotswold games in the early 17th Century –
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The Olympic Games have no predetermined influence on any nation’s economy. Throughout history there have been several examples of both prosperity and damage to a country’s economic system due to hosting the games. While damage to an economy is rare‚ cases such as Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976 demonstrate the negative impact that hosting the Olympics can bring. Though there are no directly quantifiable effects‚ studies by economist Jose Usera from Goldman Sachs (cite source) explain the historical
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Olympic Swimmers Opinion Piece Four Olympic swimmers walked into a gas station bathroom after a night of drinking. They then kicked the bathroom door‚ pulled down a sign and returned to their taxi. Then an armed guard approached them and asked that they pay reparations. Allegedly the athletes handed over about fifty US dollars. When the swimmers returned to the place where they were staying they explained that they were late because they had been held up at gunpoint and robbed. According to Fox News
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