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Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’


2012 Olympic Trials and Houston Marathon

This past weekend the Olympic Marathon Trials took place in Houston, Texas. A day later, there followed the Houston Marathon. This also happened to be my birthday weekend, so what better way to celebrate a birthday than to watch some amazing athletes and then run a marathon? It was a great weekend. I knew it [...]

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The Best Olympic 10,000m Finish » Billy Mills in 1964

Billy Mills was born in 1938 to the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Tribe and was the second Native American to win an Olympic gold medal. He’s also the only American to get a gold medal at 10,000 meters. The last lap of that race was tremendous. Billy Mills got to the Olympics after qualifying for both [...]

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The Best Olympic 800m Run in History » Dave Wottle in 1972

Dave Wottle was born in 1950 in Canton, Ohio and took up running in childhood on the advice of his family physician because he was so feeble. At Bowling Green State University, he finished in second place in the mile to Marty Liquori in 1970, and still holds the NCAA outdoor track 1 mile record [...]

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Olympic Trials to be Held in Houston on January 14, 2012

Both Boston and New York both bid for hosting the Olympic Marathon Trials as they did in 2007/2008, but fans will not have to travel to two separate races for the 2012 Trials as Houston has been chosen the location for both the men’s and women’s races. The city of Houston will be investing $1.7 [...]

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Cross Country Running to be Considered for 2014 Olympics

Last September, Bekele, Tergat, and Gebrselassie wrote an open letter to the International Olympic Committee to try to get cross country reinstated into the Olympic Games. Cross country was originally removed after the 1924 Paris Games when unseasonably hot weather combined with the course going by an industrial chimney spewing noxious fumes led to 23 [...]

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Olympic Medals Stripped From Belarusian Hammer Throwers

Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan had their silver and bronze medals in the hammer throw from the 2008 Olympics stripped from them after having tested for elevated levels of testosterone. Devyatovskiy now faces a lifetime ban for his second doping offense, while Tsikhan faces a 2 year ban. The silver will go to Krisztian Pars [...]

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Olympic Athletes Will Have Blood Samples Retested for Steroids

The IOC has announced that it is going to retest all of the samples collected from the Olympic games in the wake of the positive tests found by the Tour de France for the latest version of EPO, Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator. CERA is a stamina boosting drug which was not detectable until recently. It [...]

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Olympic Games are not threatened by the financial crisis

Here in the United States, everything is in an uproar over the collapse of the financial industries. Personally, I do not worry about it because it lets me buy into the market at a discount. I’m not the only person who isn’t worried, though. IOC president Jacques Rogge has expressed his lack of concern over [...]

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