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Who will light Vancouver’s Olympic flame?
Nagano :: Japan | 22 days ago
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Dressed all in white, Muhammad Ali clutches the Olympic torch in front of tens of thousands of people at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games. His free hand shakes continuously, revealing the battle he is fighting with Parkinson’s disease, but the hand holding...
Tags: Canada, Vancouver Canucks, gold medallist, Nancy Greene Raine, Kerrin Lee-Gartner, silver medallist, olympic flame, Terry Fox, Karen Diane Magnussen, vancouver olympic, Japan, Nagano, Olympic Games, Nancy Greene, Summer Olympics, Torch, Human Interest, Fire, Winter Olympics, allnews
Isle of Wight braced for yachting carnival
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility But taking a day off 40-foot catamarans, which she races in the iShares Cup, double Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson will be skippering one of two boats entered by the Ellen MacArthur Trust and including a total of nine children fighting cancer...
Tags: olympic gold, gold medallist
Germ Sleuths Stalk Origin of Killer Flu
Mexico City :: Mexico | 7 months ago
Credibility When we thought it was avian flu, we went on alert," said Gerardo Pérez Lescas, head of intensive care at the Oaxaca hospital...She died April 13, leaving her doctors "completely in the dark," says Alejandro López Ruiz, chief of epidemiology. The next...
Tags: Mexico City, swine flu, Barack Obama, Matthew Mitcham, flu outbreak, flu symptoms, Mr. Obama, U.S, gold medallist, Sydney International Airport
Olympic hammer throw gold medallist dead at 26
Warsaw :: Poland | 9 months ago
Credibility Sydney 2000 Olympic hammer throw gold medallist Kamila Skolimowska died suddenly on Tuesday in Portugal. The 26-year-old Pole who also competed in the Beijing Olympic Games felt unwell during a training session and was transported by ambulance to hospital...
Tags: Kamila Skolimowska, olympic hammer, hammer throw, Portugal, skolimowska died, gold medallist
Rowing: Golden girl ties the knot
Wellington :: New Zealand | 11 months ago
Credibility The 30-year-old, who joined with twin sister Caroline in winning a gold medal in the rowing double sculls in Beijing last August, married Sam Earl in front of about 100 friends and family at a church in the small settlement of Pukehou, a Sunday newspaper...
Tags: Sam Earl, olympic gold, gold medallist, twin sisters, Georgina Evers-Swindell, marrying sam, Beijing
Olympians dominate Halberg lineup
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility Olympians figure strongly among the finalists announced today for the 2008 Halberg sports awards. The sportsman, sportswoman and coach of the year categories each feature three Olympians, while two teams from Beijing are also among the sports team finalists.
Tags: gold medallist, Beijing, Halbergs
Thousands pay tribute to McCann
Wollongong :: Australia | 12 months ago
Credibility Athletes, officials and a crowd of about 3,000 spectators stopped for a minute's silence before the 10,000 metres race. The dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist died from cancer overnight at her home near Wollongong, aged 41. The chief executive of...
Tags: marathon runner, Kerryn McCann, Wollongong, Athletics Australia, dual commonwealth, Greg McCann, Figtree, gold medallist, breast cancer
McCann loses a brave race for survival
Melbourne :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility SIX months ago Kerryn McCann thought she had faced down the worst life had to throw at her. Pregnant with her third child, the dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist had discovered a cancerous lump growing in her breast. She had surgery last year while...
Tags: australian, Kerryn McCann, marathon runner, mccann dies, Kerry McCann, breast cancerous, commonwealth games, Australia, gold medallist, dual commonwealth
DeGale makes move into pro ranks
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Olympic boxing champion James DeGale has turned professional and signed up with promoter Frank Warren. The 22-year-old Londoner won Great Britain's 19th gold in Beijing with a 16-14 win over Cuba's Emilio Correa in a bad-tempered middleweight final. Warren...
Tags: Frank Warren • Boxer, James DeGale, turning professional, Frankie Gavin, Billy Joe Saunders, Beijing, gold medallist, promoter frank, Londoner
Hungarian canoeing gold medallist dies during practice
Budapest :: Hungary | about 1 year ago
Credibility Hungary's two-time Olympic canoe champion Gyorgy Kolonics died on Tuesday, most likely due to heart failure, during a practice session for the Beijing Games, the Hungarian Kayak-Canoe Federation said. Kolonics, 36, who won Olympic gold medals in 1996...
Tags: Gyorgy Kolonics, Associated Press Gyoergy Kolonics, olympic canoe, canoe gold, lost consciousness, gold medallist, canoe champion, passed away, beijing games
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