I was over on Yahoo Sports and spotted an article about a possible curse (I know, I giggled a bit too) associated with the miniseries “A Shot at Glory.” Of the eleven athletes profiled, six have had disastrous experiences at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Need examples? Here we go:
The biggest shock was when […]
Germany’s Matthias Steiner is rightly the “Strongest Man in the World,” having won the super-heavyweight (105kg) Olympic weightlifting competition on Tuesday for the Gold Medal. He heaved an incredible 461kg (1016.3 lbs) and lifted 258kg (568.8 lbs) in the clean and jerk, besting Russian Eugeni Chigishev, the Silver Medalist, and Latvia’s Viktors Scerbaiths, the current […]
A lot has been made of Dara Torres being the mother of two-year-old Tessa, but Torres is far from the only 2008 Olympian who is also a mom. No longer do Olympic dreams have to end with motherhood. Just ask these women:
American Melanie Roach is a 33-year-old mother of three. She’s also a world-class […]
Liu Chunhong of China earned the Gold Medal in the women’s 69kg weighlifting event, the 6th Gold for the Chinese weighlifters. Liu, the defending Olympic champion in this event, set a world record in the snatch, the clean and jerk, and in total points.
Oxana Silvenko of Russia earned the Silver Medal and Natalya Davydova of […]
Thailand’s Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon won the women’s 53kg weightlifting competition on Sunday. Her clean and jerk of 126kg set a new Olympic record. The Silver Medal went to Yoon Jinhee of South Korea and the Bronze was awarded to Natassia Novikava of Belarus. Melanie Roach of the United States finished sixth.
In the men’s 56kg weightlifting […]
Here are today’s scheduled events:
Archery
Women’s Team Archery - 1/4 Eliminations
Women’s Team Archery - Semifinals
Women’s Team Archery - Bronze medal match
Women’s Team Archery - Gold medal match
Men’s Team Archery - 1/8 Eliminations
Men’s Team Archery - Quarterfinal match 3
Badminton
Women’s Singles Badminton - Round of 16
Women’s Singles Badminton - Round of 32
Women’s Doubles Badminton - […]
Here are today’s scheduled events:
Archery
Women’s Team Archery - 1/8 Eliminations
Women’s Team Archery - Quarterfinal matches
Badminton
Women’s Singles - Round of 64 matches
Women’s Singles - Round of 32 matches
Men’s Singles - Round of 64 matches
Women’s Doubles - Round of 16 matches
Basketball
Women’s - Preliminary Group A game 3 (RUS vs LAT) […]
In addition to the opening ceremonies, sporting events will be taking place today at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. Here is the schedule:
Women’s Singles
Men’s Singles
Women’s - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (BLR vs AUS)
Women’s - Preliminary round Group B game 1 (MLI vs NZL)
Men’s - Preliminary round Group […]
Melanie Roach, the female weightlifter who, you may remember, suffered a serious back injury eight years ago, has qualified for the USA Olympic team. She attended the trials in Atlanta last weekend and ended up leading the American female team by lifting the greatest amount of weight in proportion to her own size (she […]
The United States chose its seven-person Olympic weightlifting team on Saturday at the Olympic qualifying meet at Georgia Tech. Bound for Beijing in August are:
Cheryl Haworth (pictured above)
Natalie Woolfolk
Carissa Gump
Melanie Roach
Kendrick Farris
Chad Vaugh
Casey Burgener
This will be the third Olympics for Haworth, the top women’s qualifyer. She won the bronze medal in Sydney in 2000 (the […]
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