Ethiopian long-distance runner, Abebe Bikila was a late addition in the Olympic marathon event at the 1960 Games in Rome. His team-issued shoes were uncomfortable so he decided to run the 26-mile race barefoot–and he won it, making him the first East African to win an Olympic medal. Bikila went on to repeat as the […]
Sheila Taormina, 39, from Livonia, Michigan is the first female athlete to qualify for three Olympic sports, but her choices have required her to perfect nine different sports activities. Amazing!
Taormina won Gold in 1996 as part of the women’s 4×200m freestyle relay. She then competed in the 2000 and 2004 Games as a tri-athlete (cycling, […]
Paul Hamm, my own personal favorite male gymnast, has had to withdraw from the Olympics after suffering a setback. I am positively devastated by this news. Despite enjoying an almost miraculous recovery after breaking a bone in his right hand in May (click here to read my interview with him and his surgeon), he […]
Francisco Javier Fernandez, of Spain, set a record at the Spanish Championships earlier today. He completed the 10km Race Walk in 37 minutes, 53.09 seconds! That’s an incredible time!
“After this race, it is obvious that I am in form and going to aim for a medal in Beijing,although I will find some very […]
John Carlos and Tommie Smith were honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2008 Espy Awards. The pair received recognition for their gloved-fist salute showing “Black Power” at Mexico’s 1968 Olympic Games. That definitely took some courage!
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U.S. Olympic runner, Tyson Gay, took home of the prize for “Best Track and Field” star at the 2008 ESPY Awards at the Kodak Center in California. The record-holding athlete was injured earlier this month but, so far, it appears he will be able to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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Oscar Pistorius may have been allowed to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games but the South African, double amputee runner’s time was not fast enough to earn him a spot at men’s 400m race at the Games. It’s unfortunate because he completed the race at the trials in Lucerne, Switzerland with a career best […]
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British sprinter Dwain Chambers was unable to convince the High Court to overturn his lifetime ban from the Olympics. Although he won the 100m race at the 2008 British Olympic Athletics trials with a time of 10 seconds, the two-year world […]
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After being warned for a doping violation, U.S. male gymnast, Morgan Hamm, is getting ready to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic Committee have announced that, despite testing positive for a banned anti-inflammatory, Hamm will be permitted […]
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Canadian track star, Perdita Felicien, has reportedly given up her efforts to make it to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The hurdler had been fighting to recovery from a stress fracture in her left foot but in the time since it happened this past February, she has […]
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