Peter Farkas (pictured above at right), who won the Gold Medal at the 1992 Games in the 82kg class of Greco-Roman wrestling, fled a Hungarian courtroom on November 3 during a break in the proceedings after being sentenced to a five-year prison term for operating a marijuana growing facility. The 40-year-old was arrested in 2004 […]
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 […]
Well, here’s a lesson for all the medal winners who think they deserved better at the Olympic Games - don’t throw the prize on the floor! Ara Abrahamian of Sweden did just that a couple days ago and the International Olympic Committee was so unimpressed that they have chosen to punish the athlete by […]
Canadians can finally celebrate for the first time during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games since freestyle wrestler, Carol Huynh, won the women’s 48-kilogram while rowers, Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen, finished second in the men’s pair and another wrestler Tonya Verbeek claimed bronze in the 55-kilogram event. Here are some quotes from the winning […]
Swedish wrestler, Ara Abrahamian came to win Gold and didn’t want anything to do with the Bronze Medal he was awarded in the 84kg category of the Greco-Roman wrestling event. Although he grudgingly mounted the medal stand, he tossed his medal on the mat after the ceremony and walked away. Said Abrahamian, a two-time world […]
After beating Azerbaijan’s Rovshan Bayramov, Russia’s Nazyr Mankiev won a gold medal in the Greco-Roman 55kg weight class today at Beijing Olympics. Roman Amoyan of Armenia and Korea’s Park Eun-Chul shared the bronze medal.
His fellow countryman, Islam-Beka Albiev, also took home the top prize in the 60-kilogram final after defeating Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan. […]
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) […]
CBC News is reporting that a construction worker found three-time Olympian, Harry Geris, dead in London, Ontario Canada yesterday. He was 60 years old. An autopsy will be performed but the police do not suspect foul play. His body was discovered behind a high school where he was delivering wrestling mats for a tournament.
A “gentle […]
To what extent will you go to win? Will you stay at it till you beat your opponent? No matter what it takes and how long?
During the 1912 Summer Olympics held at Stockholm, Sweden, the Greco-Roman wrestling match between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won but […]
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