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Four years of a relentless, pain-staking pursuit of theoretical perfection that I want to capture for you in well constructed sentences on the road to Rio 2016. We are spending our summer on the ice, training in New Jersey, USA, getting our Olympic programs choreographed, and working off the ice with specialist dancers and acrobats
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BBC - Primary History - Ancient Greeks - The Olympic Games
The fighters wore leather gloves and a boxer was allowed to go on hitting his opponent even after he'd knocked him to the ground! However, cheating was punished. He won." One mother was so keen to see her son compete that she broke the no-women rule, and got in disguised as a man! The running track was 183 m (200 yards) long
The FIFA Weekly Latest News The extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee meeting to set the date for the extraordinary elective Congress took place on Monday 20 July 2015 at the Home of FIFA in Zurich
Athletes spill details on dirty secrets in the Olympic Village - ESPN The Magazine
Amanda Beard, with two golds, four silvers and one bronze medal to her name, was in a relationship with another swimmer during the 2000 Games but says, "People would walk around for miles to try to sneak somewhere."Many on-the-prowl athletes maintain that they're driven by a simple human need: intimacy, if only for a moment or three. "Even if their face is a 7, their body is a 20." In Beijing, even the adolescent female gymnasts got sassy with the water polo and judo boys who shared their training room
The Ancient Olympics
Ancient and Modern Olympic Sports A Tour of Ancient Olympia The Context of the Games and the Olympic Spirit Athletes' Stories Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Olympics Offical website of the Olympic Movement Further Reading This exhibit is a subset of materials from the Perseus database and is copyrighted. In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times
This is of particular importance, as from now on all Olympic medals will reflect the Greek character of the Games as regards both their origin and their revival. Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, reaching a total of six Olympic medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games
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