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Legally blind torchbearer plans savour the moment
Charlottetown :: Canada | 1 day ago
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P.E.I. — Prince Edward Island's Robbie Burt has spent months training to swim, bike and run better and faster. But on Sunday, the Olympic torchbearer was hoping to take his time and savour every moment of the 300 metres he would carry the flame in Summerside,...
Tags: olympic torch, Robbie Burt, Canada, Charlottetown, Winter Olympic Games, Torch, Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Hospitality Recreation, Fire, Olympic Flame, Yang Yang, allnews, Route 2, Canadian Confederation, Entertainment Culture, Prince Edward Island, Olympic symbols
Give sport a chance - II
Athens :: Greece | 1 day ago
Credibility It shouldn't be conscripted for national service. O UT on the waves at the back beach, the kid was having trouble. He was 13 or 14, in a new wetsuit, trying to stand up for the first time. The waves were too big and he couldn't move through them, or...
Tags: crawford report, Crawford, Greece, Athens, Sport, Olympic Games, Competition, allnews
Athletes to jump ship
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility THE Rudd Government may ignore the contentious Crawford report Olympic bosses fear will rip money away from already under-funded athletes and force future Australian stars to compete for rival nations. Sports Minister Kate Ellis has moved to distance...
Tags: Kate Ellis, Australia, Sydney, Raelene Boyle, Australian Institute of Sport, Malcolm Fraser, Olympic Games, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Prime Ministers of Australia, Australian Olympic Committee, allnews, Summer Olympics, Human Interest
Brits' turn to scale Olympic heights
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility Australia's sporting psyche lies a dented, neglected medal that once denoted our nation's Olympic dominance. Or so it would seem rifling through the reactions and rhetoric following the release of the Crawford report, the independent review of Australian...
Tags: Australian Sports Commission, Australian Institute of Sport, London, Britain, Crawford, crawford report, UK Sport, uk sporting, Australia, Melbourne, Sport in Australia, Olympic Games, Sport in the United Kingdom, Sport in London, Summer Olympics, allnews
VANOC has no power to include women's ski jumping in Olympics, ruling says
Vancouver :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 4:23PM EST V ancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, says British Columbia's highest court. So they can't be found to be violating the athletes' rights because...
Tags: Canada, Vancouver, Olympic Games, Olympic sports, Winter sports, Winter Olympics, Ski jumping, Law Crime, Summer Olympics, CoSport, Tickets, Ticket, allnews
I will go to the Olympics: Bush
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility Bush has said he will not use the Olympics as an opportunity to criticize China, nor will he change his plan to attend the Games in Beijing this summer. In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, Bush said: "I'm going to the Olympics...On Wednesday, movie...
Tags: George W. Bush, Renmin University of China, Darfur, Beijing, IOC, Steven Spielberg, Chinese Foreign Ministry, China, Summer Olympics, Boycott, allnews, Olympic Games, Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee, Politics
Tears of joy
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 3 days ago
Credibility Lavenia Dickinson of Nadi expressed how she felt after winning the first gold medal of the 2009 FMF Chow Games yesterday. She took out the U12 girl's 1500m with a time of 5.11.99 minutes. Lavenia is the younger sister of Natabua High School long distance...
Tags: gold medals, chow games, fmf chow, Kadavu, Delaimoala, Fiji Islands, Suva, Qamea, allnews, Cakaudrove, Bete, Languages of Fiji, Oceanic languages, Namosi, Ro, Olympic Games, Koni, Vladimir Putin, Chow Chow
Danyon Loader testing waters again
Dunedin :: New Zealand | 3 days ago
Credibility Danyon Loader still ranks as New Zealand's most successful swimmer. Danyon Loader, who will mark his return to competitive swimming tomorrow, still finds himself immersed in elite sport as an Olympic ambassador and mentor. The shy Wellingtonian, who...
Tags: Danyon Loader, New Zealand Asthma, Capital Swim Club, 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly, olympic games, New Zealand, Dunedin, Moss Burmester, New Zealand at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Duncan Laing, Malcolm Champion, allnews
Special children Olympics -letter
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Special children need welfare not Olympics -letter These days Olympics for special children is being held in Garam Chashma for which a team of four to five officials has come from Karachi to witness.. I feel it would be more appropriate to do something...
Tags: special children, Pakistan, Islamabad, Olympic Games, Afzal, Chitral District, Chitral, Chashma Pakistan, allnews
$1M youth anti-violence program in Chicago
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The University of Chicago opened a $1 million anti-violence program for Chicago's public schools that it will methodically assess to see if it's cost effective. The Becoming a Man-Sports Edition program seeks to help 550 teenage boys curb their impulse...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, World Sports Chicago, University of Chicago, Jens Ludwig, Chicago, Olympic Games, Cook County Illinois, DuPage County Illinois, allnews
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