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Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic News

Archive for the ‘Barcelona 1992’ Category

May 31st, 2007

Rechelle Hawkes, Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Field Hockey

This is just a quick look on who Rechelle Hawkes is and what her Olympic achievements are.
Hawkes is the captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team aka Hockeyroos for eight years. She is a midfield player.
Hawkes was able to compete in three Olympic Games: 1988 Seoul Games, 1996 Atlanta Games and 2000 Sydney Games, […]

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May 26th, 2007

Nelson Mandela Voices Support for Sport

Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, firmly believes that sport is a great tool that mankind can use to promote peace around the world. He sees sport as a big contributor to South Africa’s development and growth as a democratic nation. And the Olympic Games is one great example of a sporting event.
Mandela is […]

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April 13th, 2007

Young-Ah Gil, Marked the Debut of Badminton in the Olympics

I just told you guys about the short history of badminton, so, you all know that it all started in Barcelona and Young-Ah Gil was one of the athletes who saw it happened then.
As a demonstration sport back in Munich 1972, Badminton became an official sport that was included in the programme for the Barcelona […]

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April 9th, 2007

Short History on Badminton

Contemporary badminton first appeared in the mid-19th century, it evolved from the game battledore and shuttlecock,

played by two persons with small rackets, called battledores, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, like cork, with trimmed feathers fixed round the top.
[Wikipedia]
which […]

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May 26th, 2006

The Dream Team

Yes. The 1992 Barcelona Olympics was an event that’s memorable for the sport, Basketball. It was when the following athletes competed:

Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns
Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics
Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers
Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks
Magic Johnson, retired, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers
Michael Jordan of the Chicago […]

By Sasha Manuel -- 5 comments