Our final look at past Olympic opening ceremonies before the Beijing Games begin tomorrow: the Opening Ceremonies at Athens in 2004. Take a look:
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When he was 11 years old, Michael Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman already saw Phelps rising to the top of the swimming world. Here’s what he and Michael’s mother had to say about it:
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I actually tried pronouncing his name out loud. Yes, I hard a difficult time doing it. I can’t even do it fast enough or even in a casual way. Heh. But enough about that. I reckon it’s more important that we take a look at who he is and what his connection is to the […]
Nine months after his previous World Cup race, Tim Don returns to the circuit this weekend a relieved world champion. There is nothing so precious as that which is taken away and until last week the Briton was banned for life from future Olympics. But there was more than just the Games riding on Don’s […]
I’ve read in the news before on how Sally Robbins had wanted another shot at the Olympics after her somewhat-scandalous performance during the 2004 Athens Games. Now, after reading the latest on her quest, I’ve learned that it may be close to impossible to have that dream of hers realised.
To bring the rest of you […]
AUSTRIA - Athens Triathlon Olympic gold medalist Kate Allen of Austria has announced she has her sights set for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to try and defend her gold medal. Allen, who has been absent from the world cup circuit since early 2005 choosing to focus on long-distance events, confirmed she will race the […]
Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion, Anna Meares, today broke her own World Record for the 500m time trial in the morning session of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome today.
The 23 year-old Queenslander posted a time of 33.944 sec to take eight thousandths off the mark she set to win […]
Kenenisa Bekele is known for his ability to quickly accelerate at the end of a long distance race. Most of his wins were noted with him taking the final lap, from 100m to 400m, in record speed that can be synonymous to amazing raw showing of passion.
The Ethiopian distance runner have set a number of […]
Carlos Tevez, 22, alongside the 18 year-old Lionel Messi, scored the highest goals, 6-0, in one of the memorable matches of the current World Cup in Germany, Argentina vs Serbia and Montenegro.
After that game, the team quickly became the World Cup favourite. And with their last game against The Netherlands resulting to a draw, 0-0, […]
Sally Robbins is an Australian Rower. She was a member of Australia’s Women’s Eight Rowing crew during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Sadly, she’s more famous for being “lay down Sally” rather than being an Athens Olympian.
The team was in medal contention when Robbins apparently stopped rowing and laid down on her team mate’s lap […]
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