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Olympic swimming hero Michael Phelps supports keeping the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, saying he's never attended the annual event and would like the opportunity. Phelps was in Annapolis on Thursday to take a victory lap through the Maryland...
Tags: Michael Phelps, Baltimore, House of Delegates, Maryland House, gold medals
Lawrence, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in 1952, died Tuesday at her home in Mammoth Lakes, Calif...She won two gold medals, in giant slalom and slalom, at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympic Games in Norway. To this day, her feat remains the only time an...
Tags: Andrea Mead Lawrence, Quentin Lawrence, Andrea Lawrence, Mary Lawrence, gold medals, winter olympic
Ziaullah Khan of Post Graduate Department University of Peshawar (UoP) claimed three gold medals on the opening day of the two-day Inter-College Men Athletic Meet, which got under way here at Campus track on Wednesday. Ziaullah grabbed gold medal in 800m,...
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ET The Canadian Press Christine Nesbitt of London, Ont., skates to a first-place finish in the women's 1000m event at the ISU World Single Distance Speedskating Championships in Richmond, B.C., on Saturday. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press) Christine Nesbitt...
Tags: Christine Nesbitt, speedskating championships, world single, gold medals, Richmond, distance speedskating, B.C., single distance, London, Ont
So often were viewers treated to cameras trained on athletes rinsing off under the shower (to keep their muscles warm after getting out of the pool, we’re told), I was left with the impression it was an Olympic event itself...I’d have given the gold medals...
Tags: Michael Phelps, gold medals
Steamboat Springs Oh, how sweet redemption can be...Ski Team member Bill Demong wrapped up the 2009 Nordic FIS World Championships today by slipping past Germany’s Bjoern Kircheisen in a thrilling race to the finish of the individual Gundersen competition.
Tags: Bill Demong, nordic combined, nordic skiing, world champion, gold medals, skiing jumping, world title, Jason Lamy Chappuis, skiing world, world championship
Austr-alia’s Olympic diving champion Matthew Mitcham scored six 10s in a best-ever performance to win the 10-metre platform at the Australian Diving Championships here on Saturday. Mitcham, who turns 21 on Monday, had a personal best score of 543 points,...
Tags: Matthew Mitcham, gold medals, metre platform, olympic dive, Beijing
Harbin 24th Winter Universiade The latest news from the Winter Universiade, where China overwhelmed Russia to book a place in the women's curling semi-finals. And there was further success in the freestyle skiing aerials on Tuesday morning, when they...
Tags: Harbin Winter Universiade, Harbin Universiade, China, 24th winter, harbin 24th, Russian, short track, Chinese, euro cup, gold medals
December according to RP Chef de Mission Mario Tanchangco. If we win 80 gold medals, more or less we're already assured of the overall crown," said Tanchangco. Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Jose Cojuangco Jr. earlier predicted that the...
Tags: gold medals
New Zealand has collected two gold medals and three silver at the winter World Special Olympics in Idaho in the United States. Auckland snowboarder Robin Matthews kicked off the Kiwi haul at the Boise ski resort area with a gold medal in the intermediate...
Tags: special olympics, Idaho, Ireland, gold medals, Boise