How To Use Olympic In A Sentence
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Taiwan grabbed two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Athens Olympics.
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The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.
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The former Olympic champion may now have been overtaken, but a debt of gratitude is owed to her by the vibrant new star of her sport.
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The marathon race is the big test of endurance in the Olympics.
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That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.
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The 27-year-old, who is in training for next summer's Olympic Games, began his swimming career at the Longsight baths by competing in galas there as a schoolboy.
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The Olympic venues have won praise and admiration from around the world.
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We will actively support Britain's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester.
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On top of that, they could have a taller Olympic cauldron.
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Eastman Kodak is a major sponsor of the Olympics.
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We instead identified sport as a great power for good and how the Olympic rings could be a driver to help to reconnect young people with sport.
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At an emotional news conference, members of the women's eight apologised for breaking national Olympic rules and expressed regret at condemning their team mate.
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There is a great sense of team spirit among the British Olympic squad.
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Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
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The Olympic village ran like clockwork.
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He reminds them too much of the Olympic mascots.
The Sun
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Just as the Olympic flame is about to reach Hong Kong and mainland China, the Guangdong province police have recently uncovered a case in which a cheap-rate factory in Guangdong was filling out orders by overseas Tibet splittist organizations to manufacture the snow-mountain-lion flags of Free Tibet.
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He had spoken of being inspired by Sheffield's John and Sheila Sherwood winning medals in the Mexico Olympics, of joining their club and of being given his first pair of spikes by Sheila.
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Ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
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And despite his numerous awards, trophies and honors, one still eludes him: a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team.
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Peter is a contender for a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Who will play host to the next Olympic Games?
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There is a shortage of Olympic-size pools and most of these are run on commercial lines, so British swimming cannot afford priority access.
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One of the greatest female athletes in history, she won a silver medal in the heptathlon in the 1984 Olympics and gold medals in the 1988 and 1992 Games.
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Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell.
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The day also saw Tamana felicitating those who had successfully won medals at the recently held Delhi Special Olympics.
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He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
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Congrats on being Olympic rowing champion!
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The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games after this year's Beijing Games.
Baseball gets strong pitch, hopes to remain in Olympics
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The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
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He had won 18 fights in a row since turning professional after winning Olympic light-heavyweight gold in Rome.
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It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," he wrote.
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This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
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Another veteran of the 1960 Rome Olympics taking part is the Rev Basil Pratt, who was an Army padre in the Falklands and the first Gulf War.
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They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
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She qualified for a spot on the U.S. Olympic speed skating team.
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The Santa Monica iteration of this summer staple is one of the most budget-conscious ones at $40 (proceeds benefit the Special Olympics), but if you want to go even lower there's the $5 Thrillist food truck rally in Hollywood (proceeds benefit Meals on Wheels).
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Vancouver - Weather conditions were improving ahead of the men's downhill at Whistler Creekside Monday in good news for organizers who have had to rejuggle their Olympics alpine ski programme.
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Much more will be expected of the Olympic bronze medallists in the final today.
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In order to be in tip-top shape for the upcoming Olympics, athletes must train vigorously and sacrifice time that they would normally spend with their families or their loved ones.
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A delegation of Chinese Olympic gold medallists are to visit Hong Kong on Monday at the start of a three-day visit.
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The Olympic Games organizers are trying to prepare for every conceivable emergency.
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To get there, the Beaverton, Ore., sportswear giant plans to open more stores, put a renewed focused on recreational sports such as running and snowboarding, and emphasize its stable of local endorsers such as Chinese Olympic track-and-field star Liu Xiang and Chinese tennis player Li Na.
In China, Nike Sets Out to Alter Sports Mindset
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Prinz's goal haul was also a record for most goals scored by one player in a women's match at the Olympics.
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Now I have a realistic chance of being an Olympic champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yu Zaiqing, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, was elected vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 120th IOC session Thursday.
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But that meeting was not something Atlanta will paste in its book of cherished Olympic memories.
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The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
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Olympic said it will use the additional line of credit to finance the daily purchase of auto receivables prior to securitization.
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Web: udo. jp/artist/JamesBlunt Seoul: Olympic Park, 88-2 Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu; April 26, 7 p.m.
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WALES will benefit from the London Olympics if it uses the Games as a "bridgehead" to bring sport into education, Sebastian Coe insisted today.
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Lesotho bid to be first black team in Olympic showjumping
Horsemen's Group draws line in the sand over prize money levels
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Tom is a speed demon . He qualifies for the Olympics.
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While Powell provided the drama, Lewis simply made history on the fifth day of the Olympic Trials.
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The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
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WHISTLER In his fourth Olympics, U.S. biathlon veteran Jay Hakkinen was determined not to let his team go out meekly from a disappointing Games.
After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward
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She got a hero's welcome on her return from the Olympics.
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He competed in four Olympic Games and did not retire from professional athletics until 1995.
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When an Olympic event incorporates brawling with the paparazzi into its most compelling moments, something has gone horribly wrong.
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The sport of curling is a big deal here - Scotland won a gold medal at the last Olympics.
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Now China expects him to come up with something suitably spectacular for the Olympics ceremonies.
Times, Sunday Times
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She started as a gymnast after finding motivation from watching the Olympic Games as a child.
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London Olympics with gusto, Meadows is candid about her fear of the Games and the countdown to what she calls "doomsday".
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To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.
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1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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The entry "More fine Olympics values -- Spanish team poses as slant-eyed Chinee
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The first Modern Olympic games in 1896 featured competitive gymnastic events for men, which have been included in every Olympics since.
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During the Olympic Games, accommodation will be at a premium.
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The masterplan for 2012, headed by Jason Prior, landscape architect and managing director of Edaw, clearly started with the proposition that this landscape is the context within which the huge variety of Olympic developments will take shape - the transport infrastructure, stadiums, housing.
Prunings XXI
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Brazil's men have won the World Cup a record five times but their women have missed out on the medals at the last two Olympics.
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The Olympics receive extensive television coverage.
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He placed fifth in the decathlon at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials
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And now with news from the Games, over to our Olympic correspondent.
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The Afghan middle-distance runner nonetheless trekked on and was on the verge of realizing her Olympic dream.
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But the case would be a lot stronger with a certain credential — an Olympic championship, which would also be his country's first in men's water polo.
USATODAY.com - Young American having a ball in the pool
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The swimmer was sent home from the Olympics in disgrace.
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His moment of glory came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.
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Olympic success equals international profile and prestige.
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Taking the visual image promotion of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as the breakthrough point, it analyzed the visual image promotion and the propagation path of our country during the Olympic Games.
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Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt.
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To qualify for the Olympics, each country must have two shooters who have won first place in World Cup competition.
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Cities have their own, distinctly unharmonious giving league, which recently featured an exchange of insults between rival bidders for the Olympics.
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One strike against him: the losing battle to get major leaguers into Olympic baseball.
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Among the Olympic gold medallists taking part are Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and English triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.
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As the nation goes doolally about the Olympics, shouldn't it be asked: what happens next?
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A pre-Olympic performance became crucial for McDonald and Brentina this month in Aachen, Germany, at the World Equestrian Festival, the sport's biggest annual event.
USATODAY.com - Historic ride upcoming?
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She's a definite for the Olympic team.
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First questions came from former Olympic champion and defeated finalist - US swimmer Janet Evans.
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It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour.
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There are more armed police than normal but it isn't as much as when the Olympic torch was here.
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For example - why, time after time, does Britain bid to host the Olympics in Manchester?
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We train elite athletes in hopes that they will make it to the Olympics.
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He came to popular attention with the new London bus and the Olympic flame.
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His experience as a medal-winning Olympic swimmer has made him the go-to guy at J.P. Morgan for things natatorial.
A former Olympian swims amid distressed debt
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Verbascum olympicum is grander and branched, but perhaps too grand for this border.
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What broadcasters might not want are external events, such as the Sydney Olympics, Presidential election and World Series, clouding their fall lineups.
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She won the individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
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One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with.
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Roma captain Francesco Totti will miss Tuesday's Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Manchester United at the Olympic stadium with a thigh injury.
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Hence the Beijing Olympics starting time of 8 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2008.
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She wears skin tight leathers and performs gymnastic twirls, capable of an Olympic gold.
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He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites.
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For nearly two decades we thought he was the answer to those who believed that international athletics, if not Olympic sport as a whole, survived only because of dope.
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We actively support Manchester's bid to bring the Olympic Games to Britain.
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When we competed as amateurs in the Olympics we would practise all year for three or four events.
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These criteria are very important in evaluating the qualifications of any international federation for becoming an Olympic sport.
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We will actively support Britain's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester.
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A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
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This drugs scandal is another blot on the Olympics.
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Indeed, the heats of the 10,000 metres were his Olympic debut.
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The Olympic testing programme has been unfurling with a quiet precision and understated efficiency since May, such that the number of events that have already taken place, from modern pentathlon to mountain biking, would probably surprise you apparently there was even a trial of Wimbledon as the Olympic tennis venue – it was called the All England Championships and won by a Novak Djokovic.
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She was given the VIP treatment after winning gold for her country at the Sydney Olympics.
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The first modern Olympic Games opened in Greek capital Athens.
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Kwak Yoon-Gy, left, and Lee Jung-Su, center, won a silver medal in the men's 5,000-meter relay in short track speed skating at the Vancouver Olympics.
Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
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After the Olympics, I hope to attend graduate school and complete a master's in education.
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Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation.
Rumors of a coup
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She qualified for a spot on the U.S. Olympic speed skating team.
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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And softball is slated for elimination from play after these Olympics.
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He would like to start a union for non-unionized Olympic athletes.
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They became the first British female rowers to win Olympic gold.
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At half-time, the march past by many of Scotland's medallists from the Olympics and Paralympics showed that our strength lies in individual sports such as cycling.
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Parker to try to "bedevil" Cape Town's Olympic bid chances with his threats, NP sport spokesman Nick Koornhof said on Wednesday.
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Canoe slalom is one of the most spectacular Olympic watersports, demanding skill, stamina and courage.
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His desire to win an Olympic medal is evidenced by his performances throughout this season.
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Peters and Daley Thompson, the 1980 and 1984 Olympic decathlon champion, were there to cheer her on.
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The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
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He plans to defend his Olympic crown.
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He held various ministerial posts, and from 1983 supervised the organization of the 1988 Olympic Games.
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In the women's race, Beijing Olympic finalist Jeanette Kwakye took the title ahead of world and European junior champion Jodie Williams, with Asha Philip, the top-ranked Briton before this weekend, disqualified from the semi-finals for a false start.
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On Saturday, the chanteuse received a gift sculpture from Zhao Dongming, director of the cultural activities department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG).
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The team look set to win Olympic gold.
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The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run in Park City, Utah.
Sarah Burke Dead: Skier Dies After Accident During Training At Park City, Utah
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A series of events are being staged in Beijing as the city counts down the days to July 13, when the International Olympic Committee will vote on who gets to host the 2008 Summer Games.
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He faces a four-year ban after failing a drugs test at the Barcelona Olympics.
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Transport includes canal boats from Village to Olympic centre.
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A coach who trained Olympic divers has died suddenly less then a week before his 70th birthday.
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He became a U.S. citizen in 1995 and in 2000 won three Olympic golds, in the 100 and 200 meter back and 400 medley relay.
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This is probably the most tenuous link yet to the 2012 Olympics.
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The swimming team's in training for the Olympics.
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The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is coming.
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In fact, the tourists are flocking to Greece in even bigger numbers than ever for this time of the year, trying to miss the Olympic crush in August.
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With braillewriters ready, laptops open, and pencils sharpened, more than 45 students with visual impairments will participate in the Tenth Annual Technology Olympics.
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She proved that at last year's Sydney Olympics, winning a gold medal in the heptathlon, the gruelling seven-discipline event that requires athletes to be experts in everything from hurdles to the shot put.
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Listening to Scott's deep pride and simple joy as she described her Olympic experience was a thrill.
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In the evening of Aug. 6, 2008, the first-run of the group match was under way. As the amphitryon, the women's football teem met the old competitor Sweden at Tianjing Shuidi Olympic center.
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By then it was time for Memphis in May, which was followed by the Saint Louis Senior Olympics and, finally, the duathlon in Sylvania, Ohio.
The Grace to Race
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This month's Athens Olympics will become the first to be broadcast live over the Net.
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The temporary stadium in the Olympic Park will host the preliminary matches.
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The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use.
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In a place dominated by Olympic-sized egos, he was always one of the quiet ones, a guy without much sizzle, the kind of guy most of us in the news media usually ignored.
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Last among the rowers was my category: sliding-seat racing singles - skinny, tippy fiberglass shells nearly as long and light as those rowed in the Olympics.
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Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history .
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They are all glued to the Olympic Games.
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An astonishing five billion TV viewers tuned in to see the dazzling display set on a vast artificial lake in Athens' Olympic Stadium.
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Graf was having the year of her career and was on the way to four Grand Slam victories and Olympic gold.
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The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
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USA Bobsled also had to clear the Night Train decals with the International Olympic Committee, which does not allow anything resembling sponsorship logos in the Olympics.
Can Steven Holcomb and 'Night Train' reach victory lane?
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He was stripped of his Olympic Hundred Metres gold medal after testing positive for steroids.
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The Olympics ticket resale website was down for a second day yesterday as organisers admitted they did not know when it would be working again.
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Davis won the 400m. hurdles in a new Olympic time of 49.3 sec.
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One of Brazil's top equestrians, he was a member of the Brazilian showjumping team that won a bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and another in 2000 in Sydney.
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The Olympics were not the only games in the ancient world.
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After the crushing blow on Monday, a medal would have been fitting reward for the two-times Olympic veteran, who is to retire at the end of this season.
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Shame 2000 is hosted at unolympics.com and will be updated throughout the three weeks of the quadrennial sports event.
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Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
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We have got to sweep away the system that has failed and devise a totally new one - designed and directed towards achieving Olympic targets.
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He then regained the 200m record that Pieter van den Hoogenband had claimed along with the Olympic title five months ago.
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Why are the custodians so detached from the true meaning of the Olympics?
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Q: What do they call the baddest dude on the Winter Olympic ski slopes?
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To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics.
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Scientists for the Cassini mission called their flyby of Saturn's small moon Enceladus on August 11 a "skeet shoot" - partially in honor of the current Olympic games un ...
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In addition, Edgington's remarkable performance makes him an almost certain Olympic choice.
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The Olympic Stadium will hold up to 80,[Sentencedict]000 spectators.
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All is dwarfed at the end, though, by a chilling report and follow-up on the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
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The Olympic committee said the bobsled association and ‘entrepreneurs or elites in our society’ were supposed to fund the sport and provide a bobsled, uniform and equipment for its Winter Games teams.
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The multinational energy and oil giant made the essence of the term literal by turning its exhibition hall on the Olympic Green into a monstrous Chia pet.
Courtney Woo: The Corporate "Green Olympics": Sponsors Use Green Messaging in Their Pavilions
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The workout: the slide rule jockeys at the Olympic Training Center love to inflict this VO2 test on racewalkers.
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The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists 'equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway in August 2008 and prominently featured the voices and views of scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears.
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This week I heard Olympic Gold medallist, Steven Bradbury speak about how he came to win his Gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
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But he has bounced back to his best in 2004, regaining his world crown and now becoming Olympic champion.
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We have been used to Britain crews going to the Olympic Games as favourites.
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Also racing in today's finals will be Scotland's Olympic silver medallist Katherine Grainger, who along with her Marlow and Leander crewmates, won the women's quadruple sculls yesterday.
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Although China has laws and rules for government procurement and bidding, foreign executives said that much Olympic contracting is governed by neither.
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Her trainer said yesterday that she would be a strong contender for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
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David was a Scottish hero, the world champion cyclist who looked to be a certainty for an Olympic gold medal.
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The main content of servile athletics includes inchoate athletics sports, physical education in Athen, warrior education in Spartan, and ancientry Olympic games.
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The time is 10 seconds slower than her world record set at the Olympics two years ago.
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But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.
'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture
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As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce.
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Practice and preparation is well underway for the Easter events - basketball, Olympic handball and soccer.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Olympic champion distance runner Kenenisa Bekele has left his actress wife at home to avoid any distractions as he seeks double gold in Beijing.
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Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake.
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In all, 14 shuttlers will be included in the country's 39-member Olympic contingent.
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His moment of glory came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.
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The media tribune was overflowing with hundreds of reporters, all drawn to an event that has been hyped incessantly since Phelps entered and qualified for the 200 free at the U.S. Olympic trials last month.
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The team will continue its quest for Olympic gold this afternoon.
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Marano was a junior world bronze medalist in judo when, three months before the Olympic trials for the 1996 Summer Games, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.
Marano trying to pin down an Olympic dream
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In fact at the Sydney Olympics they were out after the repêchage.
