Tag: olympics
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November 25, 2009 06:09 PM EST --
Before he was an Olympian, much less a gold medalist, Ted Ligety was making precision turns and effortless cutbacks in front of an admiring audience.
Phil Mahre was watching and marveled at the kid's . . .
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August 10, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
I haven't had my TV on so it took me awhile to realize the man who was stabbed to death in China was THAT Bachman, of the Minneapolis nursery/flower shop. I didn't know him like a "friend" . . .
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November 25, 2009 04:10 PM EST --
USA Luge veteran Tony Benshoof says his back pain is under control for now, and he expects to resume his quest for a third Olympic berth at this weekend's World Cup stop in Igls, Austria.
Benshoof re-herniated . . .
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August 10, 2008 01:38 AM EDT --
American killed at Olympic Beijing Games . . .
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A Chinese man wielding a knife stabbed an American couple in central Beijing on Saturday, killing the man and . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:11 AM EDT --
I just read a very interesting article by Chinese actress and director, Joan Chen in The Washington Post. The thrust of the article is that the current clamor for boycotting the Beijing Olympics . . .
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March 20, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
Barack Obama appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno , and the big story isn't about his thoughts on the economy, as one would expect. Instead, it's about a comment that Obama made concerning . . .
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August 13, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
The Female Chinese Gymnast squad at the olympics is on the average 30 pounds lighter than the USA squad. Their average height is several inches under 5 feet. The Chinese government assures the IOC that . . .
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August 07, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
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Will you be watching the Olympics?
Will you watch all of it or just certain events?
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August 12, 2008 04:00 PM EDT --
This is just ridiculous!!!
http://sports.aol.com/olympics/story/_a/bbdp/controversy-brews-over-lip-synching/128948?icid=100214839x1207365370x1200397334
Apparently, the little 7 YEAR . . .
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February 18, 2009 12:25 PM EST --
Eight Olympic golds,
A puff of cannabis
Spoiled the bliss
This work by Ratan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States . . .
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March 04, 2009 08:53 PM EST --
- I was born in Modesto, CA on February 10, 1950.
- After we moved to Hawaii, I swam in Waikiki Bay everyday.
- In the Mexico, City Olympics in 1968 I won two gold medals.
- In the Munich . . .
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November 25, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
BERLIN (AP) — Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein lost her appeal against a two-year ban for blood doping Wednesday and will miss the Vancouver Games.
According to Pechstein's . . .
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August 25, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
The final results are in: the United States came out on top with a total of 110 medals, China followed with 100, then Russia with 72. But wait a minute, is that a fair assessment of those . . .
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October 02, 2009 07:53 PM EDT --
Despite having one of the strongest bids by a North American city since the games were in Atlanta in 1996, despite the efforts of President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and a certain talk show host . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:10 PM EST --
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Evan Lysacek and Kim Yu-na have discovered that the spoils of being a world champion are matched by the obligations. They're learning that their own high expectations might . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the reigning Olympic and world silver medalists in ice dance, have withdrawn from next week's Grand Prix final.
Belbin had surgery . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:26 AM EDT --
Girl Not Cute Enough For TV
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I wasn't watching the evening news, but listening from the other room. I stopped what I was doing, though, when I heard that the girl . . .
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August 16, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
Yes, today I have seen history being made! Usain Bolt (from now on refered to by me as Mr. Lightning) has acheived the unthinkable. Not only did he win the 100m mens finals and set a new world record, . . .
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June 13, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
The Summer Olympics in Beijing are right around the corner! For this game, list as many Olympic events, athletes or anything associated with the Olympics in general. Can be about any Olmypics, . . .
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July 08, 2008 02:37 AM EDT --
The Chinese can't speak their minds.
Well...
They can do it once but that'll be the last you hear of them.
Understandably, the overwhelming majority of Chinese have other plans . . .
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