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Missing war medallions find their way home
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
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A Melbourne police officer will give the two medals to the World War One soldier's niece, Marlene Guy in Hobart tomorrow. The two large bronze medallions were handed in to police at Ascot Vale in Melbourne's north after a member of the public found them...
Tags: Melbourne, Australia, Medal, Hobart, Bangor Maine, Penobscot County Maine, The Medallions, Waste container, Bangor, Medallions, Order of the British Empire, Exonumia, Tasmania, War Conflict
Years after Vietnam, vet replaces medals lost in fire
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 6 days ago
Credibility Black didn't think he'd ever again see the seven medals he'd earned in the jungles of Vietnam. The 66-year-old Army veteran's awards, including a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, were destroyed long ago in a house fire, and for years he struggled through...
Tags: Purple Heart on Black, Karima Black, C.B. Black, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Vietnam, Houston Public Library, Ho Chi Minh City, Purple Heart, Military decorations, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Medal
The "High Price" of Valour
The Canadian War Museum paid $240,000 for a WWI VICTORIA CROSS decoration at an auction in Toronto, Ontario today. They feared the rare medal for Valour would be lost to a private collector. The medal for bravery was awarded to Lt.Col Robert Shankland...
Tags: Victoria Cross, Bravery, Medal, Auction, Canada
Olympic champion Plushenko aims for Vancouver
Manchester :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Evgeni Plushenko is planning a comeback to defend his Olympic figure skating title at the Vancouver Games.Plushenko's agent, Ari Zakarian, says the three-time world champion is back training with longtime coach Alexei Mishin and already has mastered two...
Tags: olympic, vancouver, usain bolt, world, 200 meter, gold, jamaican, medal, race
Jamaican flavour at Olympic Park
Melbourne :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility THE Jamaican sprint factory will relocate to Melbourne in March when Asafa Powell and two other members of the Beijing gold medal-winning 4 x 100 metres relay team hit Olympic Park to take on Australia's fastest men. Powell the fastest man in the world...
Tags: olympic, race, jamaican, jamaica, record, world, olympics, medal, gold, men
Canadians slide to skeleton medals
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility Canadian sliders Melissa Hollingsworth and Michelle Kelly finished second and third in a World Cup women's skeleton race in St...Hollingsworth, the 2006 Olympic bronze medallist from Eckville, Alta., posted a two-run time of two minutes 20.59 seconds...
Bolt 'just beginning' warns coach
Kingston :: Jamaica | 10 months ago
Credibility Bolt, 22, set world records in winning the 100m and 200m in Beijing and also helped Jamaica take 4x100m gold in a new world mark. Mills said: "We have identified three major things with his starting that we feel we can correct this coming season. "We...
S'pore captures maiden win in Pro-Tour GrandFinals
Singapore :: Singapore | 11 months ago
Credibility The Singapore table tennis team brought an already memorable year to an end in style yesterday by winning both the men and women's doubles competitions in the Volkswagen Pro-Tour Grand Finals in Macau. It was the first time the Republic struck gold in...
Tags: olympic, beijing olympic, strong, olympics, silver, win, games, medal, gold, ian
Dobriskey slams 'Russian seven'
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility British 1500m star Lisa Dobriskey has backed her sport's move to give longer bans to the seven Russians caught cheating before the Beijing Games. World athletics' governing body has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the bans handed...
UAE win their first medal
Mena :: Ukraine | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kholood Zayed Al Shehhi won silver in badminton to give her country its first medal on the first day of the competition following two days of classification matches. In handball, the UAE were classified with Iran and Tunisia as the top teams and they...
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