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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. 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...
3. 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...
4. 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...
5. 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!
6. World Cookbook Collection A HUGE library of cookbooks from countries and regions around the world. Take a tour and start your collection today!
7. 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...
8. 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...
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. 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...
11. Olympic Swimmers Like most of the country we were fascinated by 2008 Summer Olympics from the opening fireworks right through the final swim. We watched with digital camera in hand and caught Phelps in this winning moment. Congratulations to Michael Phelps and all th...
12. Mascots, Medals & Emblems of the Olympic Games The first official mascot in the history of the Summer Olympics made its appearance at the 1972 Munich Games, and they have remained a main element ever since. A mascot was actually introduced during the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble after Schuss, a...
13. 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...
14. 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...
15. All About Olympic Trampoline - Flying high The keys to a good trampoline routine are to show consistency of height, staying in the centre of the trampoline bed when landing, and having fluid lines during the different elements. Athletes require strength in order to propel themselves up to si...
16. 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...
17. Majestic and Beautiful Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rockies are distinct from the American Rockies in that they are older mountains, they were primarily formed by overthrusting whereas the American Rockies were primarily formed by uplifting, and they are almost exclusively sedimentary roc...
18. Usain Bolt Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter and current world junior and Jamaican record holder over the 200 m. In the Peking Olympics, Usain Bolt has run the 100 meters in a nearly incredible time of 9.69 seconds. That is new world record and gained Usain Bo...
19. All About Olympic Softball - Kitten Ball or Mush Ball There are three major classifications for softball: fast-pitch, slow-pitch and modified pitch. But only fast-pitch is played at the Olympics, and only women compete in that event. Softball is similar to baseball. The primary equipment consists of ba...
20. 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.