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1. Rhythmic Gymnastics: Grace and True Athleticism On the day of the opening of the 2008 Olympics, this lens is dedicated to the unsung heroes, the athletes who train, whose skill is unrivaled, yet are ignored or even ridiculed. The women of rhythmic gymnastics are amazing athletes. Their athleticis...
2. The Ultimate Olympics Games Group Headquarters The Ultimate Olympic Games Group This group brings together everything related to the Summer & Winter Olympics - including past, present & future games, the sports & the athletes. Re-live the greatest moments from Beijing 2008 and look ahead to Va...
3. 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics The Vancouver Olympics are on many winter sports fans' minds right now, but they are just the next set in a series of some great Olympic games. The Salt Lake City Olympics were the last games to come to the United States, and will be for the for...
4. Rio de Janeiro to host 2016 Summer Olympic Games COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee announced Friday. A large crowd in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, celebrates upon hearing the city will host the 2016 Games. A...
5. Shawn Johnson - Gymnast and Dancing Champion! Shawn Johnson is a talented gymnast, an Olympic medalist and has won Dancing with the Stars Season 8! And she's still only 17! Shawn was the youngest competitor ever on DWTS at 17 (Cody Linley was 18). Her partner was Mark Ballas Jr. Shawn also won...
6. Louie Vito - Snowboarder Louie Vito is a professional snowboarder dude. He appeared in Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars. His partner was Chelsie Hightower.  They were eliminated in week 6. Get the latest news and information on Louie. Follow DWTS Fan on Twitter!
7. Usain Bolt, World's Fastest Man, on Top Gear Michael Phelps, meet Usain Bolt. What you do in the water, he does on land. Usain Bolt (born August 21, 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. He holds world and Olympic records in both the 100 metres and 200 metres, with times of 9.69 seconds and 19.30 seco...
8. All About Inukshuks: An Aboriginal Symbol A few years ago, we took a road trip in Canada along Georgian Bay, the in Ontario, Canada. Highway 17 runs east and west along the north shore. That is where we saw our first Inukshuk. I was inspired. You would be too! Here's a picture of me and the...
9. Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulter. Yelena Isinbayeva holds the world record for female pole vault. Jelena Isinbayeva is pushing the world record higher nearly every time she participates in an athletics meeting. There has never been an fem...
10. Merlene Ottey Merlene Ottey is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides.
11. Natalie Du Toit Natalie Du Toit's story is truly inspiring. She first represented South Africa internationally at the age of 14. In 2001 she had to have her left leg amputated at the knee after a traffic accident, but far from letting this stop her, at the age of 24...
12. Allan Wells Allan Wipper Wells (born May 3, 1952) is a former Scottish athlete who became Olympic Champion in the 100 m at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
13. Dara Torres Dara Grace Torres was the first swimmer from the USA to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008. Dara has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone at Sydney in 2000. On August 1st, 2007 at the age o...
14. Sports: First Woman To ... Women have been making their mark on the playing field since well before the birth of Christ. The Spartans believed that athletic competition was a key part in developing strong mothers, but as time passed, the attitudes about women in sports changed...
15. The Best Olympics Statistics In the 2008 Beijing Olympics there are 302 events and about 906 medals that were awarded. Out of curiosity, we wanted to predict how many medals each country should receive based on their population and the number of athletes they send. We hypothesi...
16. Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games - February 12 to 28, 2010 Paralympic Winter Games - March 12 to 21, 2010 For the first time, the Winter Olympics will be held by the sea and some venues, such as the Richmond Olympic Oval, are at sea level. Also, for the first t...
17. Asafa Powell Asafa Powell is a Jamaican sprinter who held the world record in the 100 m sprint category from June 2005 to May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds, before he was overtaken by Usain Bolt.
18. Xavier Carter Xavier Carter is an American professional track and field athlete.
19. Athletes Who Made The Olympic Games History For those who love Olympics, sport and history - I suggest review about famous Olympic champions in Past and Present, greatest persons of their epoch. This is breif review of the athletes who won the most amount of gold, silver and bronze medals on...
20. All About Olympic Basketball - What is the Golden Box? The easiest way to score in the NBA is give the ball to big tall players and let them take a shot (or dunk) from up close. But not every team boasts a seven-foot-five centre like Yao Ming from China. And rare is the women's team with a six-foot-eight...