The cavalcade of Olympians continues. Last night Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt sat down with David Letterman. The 22-year-old was extremely poised even in the midst of Letterman’s silly questions. Take a look:
Bolt won three Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympic Games this summer in the 100m, 200m, and 4×100m events.
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Season seven of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” debuts this evening at 8pm with the first night of the three-night premiere. This season’s contestants include two Olympians: Misty May-Treanor, who won her season beach volleyball Gold Medal in Beijing, and Maurice Greene (pictured above), a sprinter who won two Gold Medals […]
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Liu Xiang, China’s star 110m hurdler who had to withdraw from the Beijing event due to an Achille’s heel injury, stated yesterday that he will be traveling to the United States to seek treatment for his heel. Liu Xiang has previously preferred holistic medicine and massage rather than surgery, but says […]
I’ve been awed by the accomplishments of the Paralympic athletes this past week as they have overcome physical challenges to achieve athletic goals most people would never have set for them. There is Oscar Pretorius and his “blades,” Natalie du Toit winning her five Gold Medals, and Barbara Buchan, who survived two months in a […]
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa won the Paralympic Gold Medal in the mens 100m event on Monday. Pistorius, a double amputee who runs on specially-constructed blades, is best known for having won the right to compete with able-bodied athletes in the Olympic Games. He failed to qualify, but vows to try again for the 2012 […]
The track and field events of the XXIX Olympiad concluded on Saturday. Here are the results:
The American women took the Gold Medal in the women’s 4×400m relay, with anchor Sanya Richards passing Russian, Anastasia Kapachinskaya in the final meters. The Russian women took the Silver Medal and the Jamaican team earned the Bronze. In addition […]
Bryan Clay of the United States won the Olympic decathlon on Friday and earning him the title of the “World’s Greatest Athlete.” Clay is the first American to win the event since Dan O’Brien won the Gold in 1996.
Clay, the 2004 Silver Medalist, led the event from “wire to wire,” earning so many points that […]
The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:
In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of […]
Lyudmyla Blonska of Ukraine has been forced to relinquish the Silver Medal that she was awarded in the womens heptathlon event after testing positive for steroid use, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday. She had been temporarily suspended and removed from the long jump competition on Thursday pending verification of the test results. The […]
It was a crazy day at the Bird’s Nest on Thursday. Both the United States mens and womens 4×100m relay teams dropped their batons in the qualifying heats and were disqualified from the events. In addition, there were also a lot a positive things happening at the “Nest.” Here are the highlights:
Andrey Moiseev of […]
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Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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