Just a quick update on current tournament schedules:
Taekwondo
Asian Qualification Tournament for Beijing Olympic Games
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
November 1, 2007
Chess
World Youth Championship 2007
Antalya, Turkey
November 1, 2007
Tags: Announcements, Beijing 2008, Chess, Light the Torch, Olympic News, Taekwondo, World Championship
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Washington (dpa) - Former sprint star Marion Jones has reportedly finally ended years of doping denials and could be stripped of Olympic and world championship gold medals as a result.
The International Olympic Committee and the ruling athletics body IAAF said on Friday they were awaiting further details and will investigate if Jones formally admits to […]
Meet Shawn Johnson of the USA Gymnastics Team, who also happens to be an Olympic hopeful.
Tags: Beijing 2008, Gymnastics, Olympians, Olympic News, Olympics, Pan American Games, Trivia, World Championship
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I reckon this piece of news shows that it’s not true that Thais cannot be beaten at their own sport of Muay Thai. If you’ve been around Light the Torch long enough, you’d know about how the Philippines have been growing stronger in the field of Martial Arts (Philippines’ Best Hope for an Olympic Gold) […]
These are the results for some events in the World Athletic Championships. The events are as follows: women’s 5000m, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s triple jump, men’s 400m, women’s 400m, and men’s high jump.
Just follow the links below to get full listing of winners and rankings.
World Athletics Championships results - women’s 5000m
World Athletics Championships results - […]
Just a bit of update on the world of Badminton, since I’m fresh off a game of Badminton myself. My arm hurts. Gah.
Results from the quarter-finals of the world badminton championships here Friday (x denotes seed):
Men’s singles
Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA x9) def Peter Gade (DEN x5) 22-20, 21-18
Lin Dan (CHN x1) def Anup Sridhar (IND) […]
Just a quick overview of newsbits I found quite interesting, hence, why I’m sharing them to you.
Read up on the recent headlines:
Olympic stadium centre of UK Athletics’ fears
Proton World Championships: New selection method
Youth Olympic Games to become a reality
Taekwondo roundup: New threats to China at Olympics emerge from Universiade
Feel free to share your thoughts. I […]
LJ beats best in the world
National Junior Olympics meet coming to Mt. SAC
Up against the world; Local teens to compete in world youth games
EMAAR-MGF to build Commonwealth Games Village
Tags: Announcements, Commonwealth Games, Light the Torch, Olympic News, Olympics, World Championship, World Records
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American swimmer, Michael Phelps is a Baltimore native who has won seven gold medals and set five world records in his career, so far. Sheesh. He’s only 22 years old!
Phelps is also the current holder of four Olympic records and four individual and two team world long distance records. During 2004 Athens Games, he […]
Here are some of the things you can read:
Mountain biker has eye on 2008 Olympics
Capsules of contenders for 2014 Winter Olympics
Fiji Athletes for World Championship
I reckon these are the things people on the internet are talking about.
Have a good read!
Tags: Light the Torch, Olympic News, Olympics, World Championship
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Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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