The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee.

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True or False: The 2012 Summer Olympics in London was the first olympics to include Female Boxing?

U-S-A! is a chant of the United States of America's initials that was first documented at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

"Who actually likes the Winter Olympics more than the Summer Olympics? Communists, that's who." ����

Jerry West co-captained the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics with fellow CBHOF member Oscar Robertson.

2000: Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney)

.was the first DJ to play live at an Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens.

Ill make it to the Summer Olympics and you make it to the Winter. 😊😘

It baffles me how wrestling, a sport first played in the Ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC, will be dropped from the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Definitely our Hard Kore. Used by Olympic Gold medalist Todd Rogers in the 2012 Summer Olympics:

BREAKING!: Middle Tennessee gets the 2024 Summer Olympics! Most events held in Nashville, but the Murphy Center...

We start with Miss Gabrielle Douglas, a member of the U.S.Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,

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How many people do you estimate there will be in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics?

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Beady Eye performing Wonderwall at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics on August 12th, 2012

Mar. 21, 1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces boycott of Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1980 Olympics were during the apex of the Cold War before we boycotted the Summer Olympics in USSR and plus TV and Al Michaels call.

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I really want the Olympics back and the sunshine and the royal wedding cause last summer was brill

I had to come to London this summer for the Olympics to see my friend Who competes :) !... — aww :D

Rio 2016 President backs wrestling to stay on Olympic programme

Wrestling will be in 2015 Euro Games after agreement

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practice all summer until we are good enough for the Olympics

I miss the summer olympics. They were so fun to watch.

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Will never forget the 1984 Summer Olympics giveaway. Ate free for weeks!!! (Kidding!)

1241 days until the next summer Olympics!! 🇺🇸

I wish the Olympics were every summer.

The best sponsorships showcase your brand making you integral to the success of the event. But beware the risk :

Pretty big bit of support-- Exclusive: Rio 2016 President backs wrestling to stay in Olympics

Muse played the Olympics last summer, because of course they did:

The people decide: “Vienna says no to 2028 Olympic Games bid

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Tsonga-Raonic meet for the second time following their record-setting/format-breaking 63 36 25-23(!) match at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

interesting question. I disabled VM during the summer (worked on Olympics needed real time answers) Now it's back on

Remember those brief few weeks in the summer when people actually cared about swimming because of the Olympics? GOOD TIMES LOL.

Voters reject Vienna's bid for Summer Olympics via

Vienna says no to 2028 Olympic Games bid

After studying tape all day the NFL announces that in fact NBC did not tape delay any of the summer olympics.

The quirky buildings of - the Modernist architecture of the 1976 Olympics is integral to the city today

If the summer olympics are in the summer for us, wouldn't they be during the winter for Australia? o.O

Hearing a song that reminds me of last summer at the Olympics:)

Last week's Gender & Sports conference made me want the 2014 Summer Olympics to come quicker!

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Ivanchuk is both my name and the demonstration sport I will be competing in at the next Summer Olympics.

Petitions for Wumpass Hunting to be accepted into the summer Olympics.

popular gold medal gymnast plans to compete in summer Maccabiah Games.

What is unveiled in technology with every edition of the Summer Olympics?

Spirit Bear says watch out 2016 Summer Olympics I'm coming for the tumbling gold

When Rio de Janeiro hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, it will actually be winter in Brazil.

I am now booked up on music, movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts. I will get back to you on recommendations after the 2016 Summer Olympics

Thays my secret. I was in the Olympics last summer!!!

This might help: let's take it to the summer olympics with this next illustration.

Wait.. Kerri Walsh is pregnant?! Wasn't she just kicking the world's butt in the summer Olympics??

I remember we did the Olympics in the summer, that was too fun.

The Olympics are only on for about 2.4% of your life. 1.2% if you only count Summer Olympics.

Pix of me in front at Summer Olympics/won Silver

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Here is pix of me in British Colours use in Summer Olympics + Silver Metal

no ;p there were people who were training to be in the 2016 summer Olympics though!

Hopefully the Junior Olympics will be fun this summer

Helping out with the special Olympics this summer will be great!😊

So can we just skip to the next Summer Olympics?

The history and the evolution of the Olympics. I loved the Olympics this summer, so I figured it would be a decent topic.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France,I won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team

I'm actually so raw in Ping Pong ..I'm gonna represent Somali at the next summer Olympics...

Well the last time I worked out was last summer... Cause the Olympics were on. I felt bad..

1944 Winter Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics are both olympicss.

So excited to be volunteering at the special Olympics with What a way to kick off to senior summer 😊☀

TOP 10 LARGEST FOOTBALL STADIUMS IN THE WORLD Salt Lake Stadium (Kolkata, India) Capacity: 120,000 Also known as the Yuva Bharati Krirangan and built in 1984, it is a multi-sports arena with football being the major sport. It is home to various Indian football clubs like East Bengal and Mohun Bagan and often hosts the national team’s fixtures. Recently, Argentina and Venezuela played a historical friendly match at this venue, which also boasts of being the stadium where the farewell match of German legend Oliver Kahn was played. Estadio Azteca (Mexico City, Mexico) Capacity: 105,000 The Estadio Azteca has witnessed some golden moments in football since it was opened in 1966. It has been the center of world football for 3 major tournaments including the 1968 Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cups in 1970 and 1986. In 1970, the ‘Game of the Century’ took place here, when Italy defeated West Germany in the semi-final. Maradona set the stage on fire in 1986 when he scored the historical ‘Hand of Godâ ...

Managed to catch you out with the unlikley swinger. Janette Hough was Wee Jimmy Krankie! 5 for Mothers Day Horrible History – Name the year in which each of the following took place 36. Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia; Harold Shipman found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients & George Bush beats Al Gore to the US Presidency 37. Rome becomes the capital of a unified Itay; Franco Prussian war breaks out and 1st international soccer match takes place between England and scotland. 38. John Logie Baird 1st demonstrates the television; AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh is 1st published and a general Strike takes place in the UK. 39. George Washington is elected 1st President of the USA; Fletcher Christian leads the Mutiny on the Bounty and King Louis XVI of France is overthrown 40. Denmark surprisingly win European Football Championships; Pakistan beat Engalnd in cricket’s World Cup Final & Summer Olympics take place in Barcelona.

Kobe will be breaking a lot of records in the next, maybe, 3 or 4 years he will still be playing. At 34 years and 104 days of age, Bryant became the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points. He is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. Since his second year in the league, Bryant has been selected to start every All-Star Game. He has won the All-Star MVP Award four times (2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011), tying him for the most All Star MVP Awards in NBA history. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals as a member of the USA national team. Sporting News and TNT named Bryant the top NBA player of the 2000s.

So how is it that I'm 100% ignorant of Oscar Pistorius (you know, the South African athlete who ran with prosthetic legs and was plastered all over the Summer Olympics?) being charged with shooting his girlfriend TO DEATH, only to stumble upon it today, almost a full month after the actual shooting? I really am a dumb, blind *** .. URGGGHHH

Los Angeles, CA has officially bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The LA Coliseum has hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984. The IOC should give LA the nod: Jobs, products and pfots for my favorite place, the sexiest, coolest and most beautiful city in the world near a major international airport! LA is the place!

Generation X (mid 1960-early 1980) Generation Xers have cultural perspectives and political experiences that were shaped by a series of events. These include post-Assassination of John F. Kennedy government and culture, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the election of Ronald Reagan, the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl disaster, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H.W. Bush, the launch of the Hubble Telescope, the savings and loan crisis,[16] the election of Bill Clinton and the 1990s economic boom, the longest recorded expansion of GDP in the history of the United States. Generation X experienced the introduction of the personal computer, the start of the video game era, cable television and the Internet. Other events include the AIDS epidemic, the War on Drugs, the Iran hostage crisis, the Persian Gulf War, the Dot-com bubble, the emergence of alternative rock, new wave music, electronic music, synthpop, glam ...

Subject: olympic bloopers Here are the top nine comments (forwarded to me by someone else) made by NBC sports commentators during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back: 1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her *** this morning during her warm up and it was amazing." 2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother." 3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." 4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious." 5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again." 6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces." 7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew." 8. Soccer com .. ...

Los Angeles wants to host 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games -

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is passing on the idea of making a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Looks like all the big guns will be in the QF of the Champions League although there could still be a couple of nobodies in the draw depending on what happens next week. Why can these clubs reach the latter stages whereas Scottish clubs cannot? Okay it is Scotland we are talking about - generally suck at all different sports - but you would think Celtic would have reached the quarter - finals by now ie a team from Cyprus accomplished it last season albeit they were annihliated in quarters by the very talented Real Madrid lol. But Britain in general *** at most sports whereas America is good at golf, athletics, tennis, swimming, boxing, basketball in addition to always finishing at the top of the Summer Olympics medals ables and either first second or third in the Winter Olympics medal table lol. And the English Premier League is miles behind La Liga, the Bundesliga and Serie as far as quality is concerned as European results have indicated in the past couple of seasons. Bayern Munich have reached two of . ...

Johannesburg, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius first gained international fame amid a raging debate over whether his prosthetic legs would give him a competitive advantage in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Today, the disabled track star finds himself in the middle of a more serious controversy: whether he intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, or whether he mistook her for an intruder. Pistorius has been charged with premeditated murder and his trial is sure to provoke worldwide news coverage (no date has been set yet). The South African athlete's spectacular fall from grace shocked many who were inspired by his remarkable story of overcoming adversity to become an Olympian and a national hero. But not everyone. "Here, I think, you had a troubled athlete," said South African sports journalist Graeme Joffe. "Not so much this incredible role model for the rest of the world -- no question about that -- but deep down, this was a troubled athlete." Pistorius case brings South Africa gun cultur ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on Wednesday turned down an invitation to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, citing "uncertainty" over the city's long-term financial stability. One of 35 U.S. cities to receive an invitation from the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Detroit i...

Freedom HS girls track &field are to Hillsborough County what Jamaica is to the Summer Olympics (via

Gold Medalist Olympic Athlete Among Esteemed Panelists at Vanguard Event   Calgary, CANADA (March 5, 2013): Canadian hero and Olympic Gold Medalist, Mark McKoy, will be presenting at Calgary’s first-ever Millionaire Business Bootcamp, presented by New York Times best-selling author Raymond Aaron.   A true legend and inspiration to millions, Mark McKoy has inspired thousands of people worldwide since winning his Gold medal in the Summer Olympics.   The Millionaire Business Bootcamp gives aspiring success stories an opportunity to interface directly with some of the world’s most prestigious educators assembled together for a two-day immersive event.   Mark McKoy is a most welcome addition to the Millionaire Business Bootcamp educator roster, which has included James Lafferty, a Former CEO of Coca-Cola, Dr. John Gray, Author of Men are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and the co-creator of Chicken Soup For The Soul and the greatest non-fiction author of all time, Mark Victor Hansen.   The Calgary Mil ...

TODAY'S QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you think Boston would be equipped to host the Summer Olympics in 2024?

Starwood Hotels and Resorts is looking to grow its Sheraton brand aggressively during 2013, with 30 planned openings, predominantly in the Asia Pacific region. — Sheraton will open 15 new hotels across China over the next 12 months, including the striking Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort (pictured below), moving Starwood closer to its target of 80 properties in China by the end of 2015. Expansion for the brand will also extend into Africa and The Middle East with the addition of four new hotels, including the Sheraton Medina Hotel in Saudi Arabia, Sheraton Dubai Mall of Emirates and the first in Tajikistan - Sheraton Dushanbe Hotel. Sheraton will also open two new hotels in Turkey, in the cities of Adana and Bursa. In Latin America Sheraton will open its ninth property in Argentina with the Sheraton Tucuman Hotel. There will also be two openings in Brazil as it ramps up preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, with the Sheraton da Bahia Hotel in Salvador and Sheraton Reserva d ...

Alexandra Rose "Aly" Raisman decided to stay at Villa La Estancia Riviera Nayarit on February 17. Gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Kurt Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and actor. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is also known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E), and for being the only Olympic Gold medalist in the history of professional wrestling. Angle was involved in amateur wrestling during both high school and college. In college at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, he won numerous accolades, including being a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion. After graduating, he won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. Angle then competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling. Kurt Angle is also one of only four people to complete a Grand Slam in amateur wrestling which is the junior nationals, the NCAAs, the World Championships and the Olympics. He was named the greatest ...

Following up Taylor Swift’s recent endorsement of ''the love of her life'' Diet Coke, Olympic star McKayla Maroney has signed a deal to endorse 7Up Ten, a new low-calorie beverage chock full of high fructose corn syrup and the artificial sweetener aspartame. Maroney won several gold medals in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she is most famous for the disappointed or ''not impressed'' face she made when receiving a silver medal in the vault competition, an expression that instantly launched her into Internet meme stardom.

International career Ronaldo playing against Brazil Ronaldo earned his first cap for Portugal in a 1–0 victory against Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003.[160] Euro 2004 Ronaldo was called up for Euro 2004,[161] scoring his first international goal in a 2–1 group stage loss to eventual champions Greece[162] and scoring again in a 2–1 semi-final win over the Netherlands.[163] He was featured in the UEFA Euro All-Star Team of this competition, despite finishing with only two goals.[164] He also represented Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[165][166] 2006 World Cup Ronaldo was the second-highest scorer in FIFA World Cup qualification in the European zone with seven goals,[164] and scored his first World Cup goal against Iran with a penalty kick.[167] During a quarter-final match against England on 1 July 2006, Ronaldo's United teammate Wayne Rooney was sent off for stamping on Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho. The English media speculated that Ronaldo had influenced referee Horacio Elizondo's decision ...

A 239 word sentence with no grammatical errors. Whats up! Knowing that millions of people around the world would be watching in person and on television and expecting great things from him — at least one more gold medal for America, if not another world record — during this, his fourth and surely his last appearance in the World Olympics, and realizing that his legs could no longer carry him down the runway with the same blazing speed and confidence in making a huge, eye-popping leap that they were capable of a few years ago when he set world records in the 100-meter dash and in the 400-meter relay and won a silver medal in the long jump, the renowned sprinter and track-and-field personality Carl Lewis, who had known pressure from fans and media before but never, even as a professional runner, this kind of pressure, made only a few appearances in races during the few months before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, partly because he was afraid of raising expectations even higher and he did not w ...

The outcry after wrestling was voted out of the Summer Olympics beginning with 2020 has taken many forms. The latest came Tuesday when another Olympic wrestler sent his gold medal back to the International

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Today's Black History moment celebrates James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913 – 1980) who was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936, Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany. He and other government officials had high hopes that German athletes would dominate the games with victories (the German athletes achieved a "top of the table" medal haul). Meanwhile, Nazi propaganda promoted concepts of "Aryan racial superiority" and depicted ethnic Africans as inferior. Owens surprised many by winning four gold medals. Owens was allowed to travel with and ...

Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne on 5 September 1997. Athens had lost its bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo. Under the direction of Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Athens pursued another bid, this time for the right to host the Summer Olympics in 2004. The success of Athens in securing the 2004 Games was based largely on Athens' appeal to Olympic history and the emphasis that it placed on the pivotal role that Greece and Athens could play in promoting Olympism and the Olympic Movement. Furthermore, unlike their bid for the 1996 Games which was largely criticized for its overall disorganization and arrogance – wherein the bid lacked specifics and relied largely upon sentiment and the notion that it was Athens' right to organize the Centennial Games;[6] the bid for the 2004 Games was lauded for its humility and earnestness, its focused message, and its deta ...

OmegaPharma-Quick Step: the team of the Champions competes for the 3rd time The team was created as Quick Step-Davitamon in 2003 and celebrated successful opening with Paolo Bettini when he reached the UCI Road World Cup both in 2003 and 2004 preceded Olympic Gold in 2004 Summer Olympics. Last year the team reached 51 victories and shared the winner place with Team Sky among 18 Protour teams. Team’s sponsors, a Belgian pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma and a manufacturer of laminate flooring Quick Step give the name to the team for one more year. In 2012, OmegaPharma - Quick Step had a most colorful combination of jerseys with the existence of several national champions and the rainbow jersey in its roster. In addition to the best time trialist of France, Germany, Slovakia, Belgium and Italy, National Champions of Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland in road race were all in the same squad. Among the several stage victories and overall wins of the last year, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix and Tour ...

Les stars font du lobby pour essayer d'être ré-intégrés aux JO de 2016 au Brésil. Voici le communiqué de presse reçu de Richard Hillgrove. Fine Art Sails success leads Brazil to consider reinstating Star class for 2016 Olympics No decision expected until summer but supporters are optimistic The rousing success of the Fine Art Sails regatta and exhibition at this year’s London Boat Show might have broader implications beyond raising the profile of sailing and fine art. Although a final decision isn’t expected until the summer, attention from the event has led to speculation that the Star class sailing event will be reinstated for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil. “This certainly is an encouraging development that should raise the profile of both world-class sailing and the Fine Art Sails event,� said Michael Ross, the real estate entrepreneur who organised the three-day regatta at last month’s Tullett Prebon London International Boat Show. The Star class’ governing body is stating ...

No One is Above Abuse In the aftermath of the events these past few weeks, it’s important to remember that no one is above abuse. Dating abuse happens across race, gender, wealth and background. No matter if someone is a famous athlete or a person in your class, there’s no way to predict if someone will or will not be an abuser or involved in an abusive relationship. That’s why it’s so important to learn the warning signs and what to do if you or someone you know find yourself in an unhealthy relationship. By now you’ve probably heard about what happened in South Africa at the home of paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius. If you’re unfamiliar with the name, here’s a quick overview: Pistorius rose to fame last summer in London as the first amputee to compete in the Summer Olympics. He’s now back in the headlines as the only suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, Reena Steenkamp, which happened early Valentine’s Day morning. Neighbors say they heard fighting for hours the night of the incid ...

1936 Berlin Olympic Indian Hockey Team The 1936 Summer Olympics was the fifth Field Hockey tournament at Olympics. All games took place either in the Hockey Stadion or on the Hockey Stadion Field No.2. Both hockey grounds were near by the Olympic Stadium located on the Reichssportfeld. The competition was held from Tuesday, August 4, 1936 to Saturday, August 15, 1936. Indian team scored 38 goals but only 1 goal was scored against them. India were the Gold medalists.India won the semi final by 10-0 against France and final by 8-1 against Germany. (Wikipedia)

A more in-depth view into Otl Aicher and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich

This week we have cooked up a plate celebrating local ingredients to honor two inspiring African Americans that spent their time in Cleveland! Jesse Owens, winner of four Olympic Gold medals, moved to Cleveland in 1913 with his family at age 9. He first gained national attention while attending East Technical High School; Owens tied the world record of 9.4 seconds in the 100-yard dash while competing at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago. Jesse earned the nickname the “Buckeye Bullet� while studying and competing at the Ohio State University. While traveling with the team he was unable to stay at the same hotels or eat at the same restaurants due to segregation. At the Summer Olympics of 1936, Owens embarrassed Adolph Hitler by earning four gold medals. Garrett Morgan was born to a former slave mother in Paris, Kentucky. Morgan relocated to Cincinnati and then Cleveland in 1895. While living in Cleveland Morgan would open many businesses, including a sewing machine and tailoring bu ...

Austin, Dallas and San Antonio on USOC's 2024 Summer Olympics short list ... if its in Austin, traffic would be *** on Earth.

Nashville was invited to bid on 2024 Summer Olympics. Probably not physically possible, but how badass would it be!

is asked to bid the 2024 Summer Olympics and is already in the running for ESPN X Games!

Today's Water Cooler Question: Would you want to see Baltimore host the Summer Olympics in 2024?

Olympics in Minnesota? Minneapolis is one of 35 U.S. cities interested in hosting the Summer Olympics in the future. What do you think? Good idea? Can we handle hosting duties? Post a comment and we'll read them on the air starting at 4:30.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte has been listed as one of 35 cities across the United States who were asked about their interest in hosting the 2024 summer Olympics. The U.S. Olympic Committee sent letters to the mayors of dozens of cities Tuesday to gauge interest in a potential bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to the country for the first time since 1996. "Our objective in this process is to identify a partner city that can work with us to present a compelling bid to the IOC and that has the right alignment of political, business and community leadership," USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said in the letter. Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who has always said he believed the city could host the games, said, "The requirements, as you might imagine, are incredible, but I think that it is an honor to even have it in the conversation." In uptown Wednesday night there was a real ripple of excitement at the prospect of the Olympic Games coming to the city. "I think that would be a big deal for Charlotte," said residen ...

While I would not say that it would be impossible for Pittsburgh to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, I don't think it's something that this city could afford to do. It would require major financial expenditures for facilities that if not designed and managed properly would sit around after the Games unused and moldering. Ask Beijing about what they are doing with the 'Birdnest'. Ask Athens about the facilities they built for sports they don't play and whose cost contributed to the current state of Greece. Atlanta had the right idea building an Olympic Stadium that could be converted into a baseball stadium for the Braves. Pittsburgh's sports stadiums aren't nowhere needing to be replaced. The Olympics would require major improvements to our transportation infrastructure that are needed, but how would we pay for them esp, with Hacksaw Tom in Harrisburg? While it's flattering that the USOC has flattered our fair burgh with an invitation to bid, I think we should try to compete for events that are much mo ...

From a fan of 2020 Olympic Games: Please Keep Wrestling: "I'm a wrestler and I'm an American, and I'm proud to be an American Wrestler, but the best story of the 2012 Summer Olympics to me was South Korean Kim Hyeon-Woo winning the gold medal with his eye completely swollen shut in the elimination rounds. I believe that the major media outlets also liked Kim Hyeon-Woo and his story because of the amazing pictures he provided for them. Less than one year on, not only has Kim Hyeon-Woo been forgotten about, but his entire sport is being elimiated from the Olympics. I always kind of thought that we were headed towards a world where all that mattered was advertising and what the big outlets could sell advertising through the easiest, but I never thought that the lead in this push would be spear-headed by the International Olympic Committee. Here for 10,000 years, gone tomorrow, in the name of the all mighty dollar. It's just such a pathetic choice by a group of people using the IOC as a step up whatever burea ...

Just heard that Jacksonville is trying to secure the 2024 Summer Olympics...what do you think? Any chance of that happening? Can we pull it off?

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It would take a huge financial commitment and a massive building program, but Pittsburgh will review whether to submit a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Father of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin won one gold medal in literature at the 1912 Summer Olympics for his poem Ode to Sport. Art competitions were part of the Olympics from 1912 to 1948, but were discontinued later on.

Cool! Imagine the Summer Olympics back in the USA- so much easier to cheer on our team! Which city should host?

Pele Tells Neymar to Join Barcelona: Why He's Both Right and Wrong (Poll) Pele has a message for his countryman Neymar: If you've got to leave Brazil, make sure it's for Barcelona. Pele does, of course, have a point, and Neymar would be wise to heed the wisdom and lean on the experience of Brazilian football's elder statesman. But at the same time, Neymar should keep in mind that Barcelona aren't an entirely perfect fit. Here's what Pele said, per the Daily Mail: The game is tougher in England, Italy and Germany because the referees usually let play go on. Barcelona would be ideal for him. Santos need him and for that reason I don't think he should leave but if he must go it should be to Barcelona. Neymar, 21, turned professional with Santos in 2009 at age 17. In four-plus seasons with the Brazilian club, he has scored 129 goals. At the international level, Neymar has made 28 senior appearances with Brazil, scoring 17 goals. He scored three goals for Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics, an Under-23 competi ...

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, one athlete rose above the rest and became an international sensation. Oscar Pistorius, Also known as “blade runner,� became the first double-amputee athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. He did not medal, but sprinted into the semi-finals of the 400-meter. Pistorius…

You asked for it, you wanted to be in it and now you're gonna get it! You've seen B2K Summer Olympics and my Winter Olympics, and now the co

DO YOU REMMEMBER NADIA COMANECI? Ro: Nadia Elena Comăneci (n. 12 noiembrie 1961, Onești, județul Bacău) este o gimnastă română, prima gimnastă din lume care a primit nota zece într-un concurs olimpic de gimnastică. Este câștigătoare a cinci medalii olimpice de aur. En: Nadia Elena Comăneci ( born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic Gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000 Comăneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports Academy.

August 1 A supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 and leaves over 100 missing. A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal. August 3 The Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements. NASA's MESSENGER is launched (it was captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011). August 9 – At the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, a pipe leaking hot water and steam kills 5 and injures 6 others, in the 2nd worst nuclear disaster in Japan. August 13–August 29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens. The Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens. August 22 – Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. August 24 – Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause

You don't know what the end result will be if you never try. Some people want to win the jackpot but you can't win if you don't play! Others want to travel the world but it's impossible if you are scared of a boat or plane. There are so many things in this life that can work out on your behalf but you have to take a chance. Three time gold medalist Wilma Rudolph was diagnosed with polio at the age of 7. She was 'cured' at the age of 12 and went on the become the fastest woman in the world, winning three gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Standards of respect Just saying.. The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This is sometimes misreported as a tradition that comes from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: American team flag bearer Ralph Rose did not follow this protocol, and teammate Martin Sheridan is often, though apocryphally, quoted as proclaiming that "this flag dips before no earthly king."[2] This tradition was codified as early as the 1911 U.S. Army drill regulations.[3] The flag should never be displayed with the union (the starred blue union) down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.[4] The flag should not be used as "wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery",[5] or for covering a speaker's desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins). Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is availab ...

So I'm look'n thru an old issue of Maximum given to me. Summer 2012 to be exact. Yes, 2012 was the Summer Olympics. Then it hits me... Oscar Pistorius was just killed earlier this week. It's heart breaking really. He's born without legs from the knees down. Worked and fought to compete in the Olympics. Ran against athletes with sound limbs. He didn't medal, but *** all the work he put into that. All the training. *** officials wouldn't even let him compete, but he kept at it. He did it! Now he's gone. Folks, friends, keep at it. We'er all go'n to die one day, so keep at it. Ok. Just don't quit...

Eton Dorney HalfDorney Lake in Buckinghamshire, which was known as Eton Dorney during the 2012 Summer Olympics, is a stunning venue. The length of the rowing course is 2.2 kilometres, and the path around it is mostly flat making it an ideal long-distance running venue too.I heard about the 2013 Race...

Dear Esteemed Friends & Family:   2012 seemed to be a melancholy year full of deaths (Whitney Houston, Etta James, Donna Summers, Trayvon Martin) and disasters (Sandy Hook Elementary & Hurricane Sandy).  Yet, there were also glimpses of hope (re-election of President Obama and the Summer Olympics).  If this past year has not taught us anything, 2012 taught us that it is time to get closer to God, our maker.   Last year during New Year’s Eve, I went to a house party with friends.  Five minutes before midnight, instead of the ritual champagne toast, I left and went to my car and spoke one-on-one with God almighty.  After experiencing a year and a half of unemployment, I knew that I had to take a different approach.  I had recently been introduced to Dr. Cindy Trimm, a scholar, theologian and preacher of immense power through a YouTube video entitled The Atomic Power of Prayer.   After listening to this small clip, I went to her website and purchased the entire series.  Her methodology is quite s ...

Early life Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian and his wife Kris Kardashian (née Houghton). Her father was a third-generation Armenian American. Her paternal great-great-grandparents, Sam and Harom Kardaschoff, were ethnic Armenian Molokan Jumpers from Karakale, Kars, Russian Empire (now Turkey). Their son Tatos anglicized his name to Tom, started a business in rubbish collection in Los Angeles, and married another Karakale Jumper immigrant, Hamas Shakarian. They migrated to the United States in 1913, just before the Armenian Genocide.[4] Her mother is of Dutch and Scottish descent.[5] Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloé, and one brother, Robert. Her step-father is Bruce Jenner, who won the gold medal for the decathalon at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[6] She has stepbrothers Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, and reality TV star Brody Jenner; step-sister Casey Jenner; and half-sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.[7] She graduated from Marymo ...

Yeah did y'all hear about this one? The Olympics decided there were too many events in the Summer Olympics competitions and they had to drop one. So they looked at them all: Golf, ribbon dance, horse dancing, ping pong, mountain biking... wrestling. Let's drop wrestling! 'Cuz it's only the one with the most competitors each time, the best ticket sales, and among the best TV ratings. Yeah let's drop wrestling! Since it's one of the events from y'know, THE ORIGINAL Olympic Games and stuff. *** !

Still can't believe, with all the really dumb events that take place in the Summer Olympics, that wrestling was even considered of being taken out. Golf and rugby? What a joke.

The IOC has stated it will boot wrestling from the Summer Olympics starting in 2020. It has a chance to stay on the list for 2020 if it can convince the IOC to reverse its decision. It joins seven other sports in applying for one opening on the 2020 program: a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and the martial art of wushu. SHOULD wrestling be eliminated from the Olympics?

We Have Seen the Present, and It Does Not Work: The International Olympic Committee announced it will drop the ancient sport of wrestling, saying it is not "relevant," from the Summer Olympics, which still include badminton and ping-pong.

Olympic wrestling elimination proposal 'like a death in the family' On Monday night, Greg Strobel thought the sport he's dedicated his life to seemed safely ensconced in the Olympic movement. On Tuesday morning, the former Lehigh University wrestling coach and second vice president of USA Wrestling, found out different. "We were just on a conference call (Monday) night and our executive director (Rich Bender) said that what he was hearing from the U.S. Olympic Committee was that wrestling seemed safe," Strobel said. Safe, that is, from being dropped from the 2020 Summer Olympics' 25 core sports at an International Olympic Committee meeting Tuesday in Lausanne, Switzerland. But when the vote was totaled, wrestling was out. "When I saw the press release in my email I couldn't believe it," Strobel said. "I checked the date to make sure it was right." It was right: A sport as old as the very idea of the Olympics, a sport rooted in the games of ancient Greece, was recommended to be dropped by the 14-member exe ...

My son's are wrestlers. I swear this, if the IOC doesn't reverse it's decision, then the Summer Olympics will not be on any media I watch.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: For more than a century, wrestling has been a mainstay at the Summer Olympics, but officials have voted to remove the sport for the 2020 Games. What is your reaction to wrestling being pulled from the Olympics?

(2nd LD) Korean martial art taekwondo to remain Olympic sport LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- The traditional Korean marital art of taekwondo will remain an Olympic sport for the foreseeable future after surviving the latest scrutiny by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), officials here said Tuesday. At the IOC Executive Board meeting, taekwondo was kept on as one of 25 "core sports" in the Summer Olympic program. Out of 26 sports competed at the London Games, the IOC board decided to drop wrestling. Mark Adams, the IOC spokesman, told reporters that the decision was reached through a secret ballot over multiple rounds, with 15 board members voting each round on which sport they felt should be eliminated from the core group. Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, didn't vote. For the 2020 Summer Olympics, the IOC will add a new sport, with baseball-softball, karate, roller sports, squash, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu competing for the single spot. Rogge has previously said there ...

But ping pong and badmitten stay in? Stupidest thing ever... "IOC votes to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympics"

So, this was at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. I mentioned here earlier that the Olympics are like nothing else in sports journalism. You become entirely and inexplicably consumed by the Games, especially at the Summer Olympics where there are always about twenty different things going on at once...

International Olympic Committee votes to cut wrestling from the 2020 Summer Olympics

Here is the article Aaron wrote to go with the link below: The sport of wrestling has given me so much, including the chance to move to Chanute, KS and pursue the dream of coaching after my battle with cancer sidetracked me from that original goal. Wrestling brought me here and I fell and love and have 2 beautiful kids to show for it. Wrestling has given me strength when I am weak and a place of refuge when all seems wrong in the world. Today I learned of the unfortunate decision of the International Olympic Committee to drop the sport of wrestling from the Olympics. This decision makes me not only confused, but deeply saddened. Here in Chanute at the local college where I came to start my dream, we have had 2 Olympians in wrestling represent their countries... Bogdan Ciufulescu (Romania in Freestyle) in the 1996 games and Randi Miller (USA) who took home Bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Women's division. I cannot help but to think what their lives would be like without the opportunity to represe ...

Wrestling is out of the Summer Olympics as of 2020. Don't worry though speed walking and ping-pong are still in.

Who's idea was it to get rid of WRESTLING as an Olympic sport? It's one of the bloody original Olympic sports! When the ancient friggin' Greeks did it, they had marathon/track, discus, and WRESTLING! So now we have Summer Olympics where tiny teenage girls twirling ribbons is a sport, but not wrestling. What the crap, IOC. What. the. crap.

In a stunning surprise, the International Olympic Committee dropped wrestling, which has been a part of the modern Games since they began in 1896, from the Summer Olympics starting in 2020.

I've never been very excited about the Olympics. Other then identifying the fastest man in the world, I really don't care who can throw a spear the furthest (Javelin), is the best Musketeer (fencing) or horse ballet trainer (dressage). And for that matter, who is the fastest swimmer using inefficient techniques. Track and field DOES NOT have races to find out who can run backwards the fastest… BUT to now hear, that in 2020 they are eliminating WRESTLING from the Summer Olympics! I'm not sure, just out of principle if I can even respect the Summer Olympics anymore. Wrestling is one of the original events not only in the Summer Olympics but also in the whole tradition of the Olympics going back to the Greeks… Greco-Roman wrestling anyone??? To ditch wrestling while still having Ping Pong and Synchronized swimming leaves me speechless, and I'm not even a wrestling fan!

So the Summer Olympics are cutting wrestling before the 2020 games. Real smart cut the worlds oldest sport and one of the sports the Games were founded on. REAL SMART!

I see that the Olympic committee have decided to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympics because of low ratings. But they keep Badminton & Ping Pong. Action Packed!!

Did you know? The first Olympic wrestling champion was also a gymnastics gold medalist. Carl Schumann of Germany won the vault, then closed out the 1896 Olympics with a gold in wrestling. Back then, there were no weight classes. All competitors competed for one gold medal in wrestling. In ancient Greece, the predecessor to the Olympics was a competition to honor Zeus and it was one event - a foot race. Other types of competitions were added and it expanded to 5 days. The competitions were held in Olympia, hence the reason they are now called the Olympics. The first Olympics were called the the Summer Olympics, but they were held from April 6-15 (1896).

15 Random Facts from Olympic History Official Olympic Flag was created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, with five interconnected rings while each ring symbolizing the five significant continents. Olympic Moto is “ Swifter, Higher, Stronger � used since 1921. Olympic Torch was used in ancient Greek Olympics and is still in use in modern Olympic Games, it was first used in modern Olympics in 1928. In Olympics opening ceremony the first team parade is that of Greece team, rest of the teams come in an alphabetical order. First modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, contestants competed in 43 events. Women Athletes were allowed in 1900 Summer Olympics to compete in event. Olympic Games of 1916. 1940 and 1944 were canceled due to World Wars. Unite States has is the highest number of Gold Medals in Olympic History, 1016 Gold medals in total. United States top the table in Olympics history medal list with a total of 2549 medals, where Soviet Union 1204 on second place and Germany 1099 on third place ...

No Wrestling by 2020 Summer Olympics? One of the Olympics oldest sports! Good thing ping pong is still around...

“IOC votes to drop from the Summer Olympics. // Because Ping Pong is way more athletic. Bring on Thumb Wars!

Wait let me get this straight, wrestling will no long be in the Summer Olympics in 2020 but modern pentathlon, ping pong, etc stay?!?!

Wrestling will vie against baseball and softball, among other sports, for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

On This Day In History: Feb 12, 1934: Basketball great Bill Russell born Bill Russell, the legendary center for the Boston Celtics during the 1960s, is born in Monroe, Louisiana. During his 13-year career with the Celtics, Russell helped the team to 11 NBA championships. As a child, Russell’s family moved from Louisiana to California to escape racism in the South. He played center for McClymonds High School in Oakland, California, and earned an athletic scholarship to the University of San Francisco. There, he became known for his strong defense and shot-blocking skills and helped lead the team to two NCAA championships, in 1955 and 1956. Despite his success, Russell experienced racial abuse from spectators and others during his playing career. After college, he captained the U.S. basketball team that won gold by defeating the Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Following the Olympics, the 6’9� Russell joined the Boston Celtics in December 1956. Before Russell’s arri ...

My Weekend was so productive. Have you ever watched RUGBY – WOW IT IS THE ULTIMATE GAME OF KEEP-AWAY. MORE ON THAT SHORTLY. Friday nights I put together my weekend to-do list. Have you ever had a to-do that just keeps showing up on your list. I have had clean house on my list for 4 weeks. I’m not a dirty person so I can always move it forward. BUT – YES ……. IT WAS DONE THIS WEEKEND. DUSTING, VACUUMING, AND MOPPING. What a great feeling to cross things off the list. BACK TO RUGBY - WOMEN & MEN -- you can bet there are no smokers on those teams –- a game only last 25 minutes usually – It’s fast – and it is fun to watch. When tackled players know to shove the ball down between their legs so their team mates can grab it a go. There are words like Scrum, On-line, Freeze play – But it is something to watch at least once. Besides it will be in the Summer Olympics in Rio. Best of all there isn’t enough time for commercials, replays, or long winded play by play with trivia facts ...

With the world's eye on London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the time is right to celebrate the artists that have made their home countries most proud by winning gold (records) and making a lasting, global impact on the music world.

I'm glad the Winter Olympics come in between the Summer Olympics. The wait isn't as long. GO USA!

I'm reading my professor/advisor's resume, and I'm SOO in awe of everything he's done. I knew he produced 5 Goo Goo Dolls albums (two of the songs are "Iris" and "Slide") and Sixpence None the Richer, but I didn't know he produced music for SO MANY TV shows too!! like Toddlers and Tiaras, Ace of Cakes, Access Hollywood, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the X-Files, and SO MUCH MORE!! I'm so excited to learn more about him and hopefully hear stories about any drama that happened in the music industry lol. This is gonna be a GREAT internship!!

So now that football is done, a nation turns its eyes to rugby. This Friday through Sunday is USA 7s in Las Vegas, the 5th leg of a 9 leg international rugby series. It will be broadcast on NBC for much of the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday so please tune in. I can promise you the lights won't go out at the stadium and you will see some amazing, easy to understand rugby that will knock your socks off. This 7s version of rugby is the type that'll be in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. Also, please be on the lookup for cheeseheads in the south tryzone when watching this weekend. That'll be Vultures and Parkside folks waving at the camera and cheering on the USA!

Munich (pron.: /ˈmju�nɪk/; German: München, pronounced [ˈm�nçən] ( listen),[2] Bavarian: Minga) is the capital and the largest city of the German state of Bavaria. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, behind Berlin and Hamburg. About 1.42 million people live within the city limits. Munich was the host city of the 1972 Summer Olympics. Its inhabitants are sometimes called Munichers in English. The city's motto is "München mag dich" (Munich likes you). Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Cosmopolitan city with a heart). Its native name, München, is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat of arms. Black and gold—the colours of the Holy Roman Empire—have been the city's official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian. Modern Munich is a financial and publi ...

April 22nd is the day in 1906 that the 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

Black history moment: Let's take the time out to wish former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver a happy birthday today! Donald Driver (born 02/02/1975) attended Alcorn State University in Mississippi, where he lettered in both football and track & field. He finished his college football career there with 88 receptions for 1993 yards (19.69 Yards Per Catch). Driver is one of the most decorated track athletes in the NFL (he is an Olympic class high jumper, being able to jump seven feet six inches and could have qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics team). He was a five-time "Athlete of the Year" in his conference for his track and football prowess. Driver is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Donald Driver was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 7th round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He spent his entire career with the Packers. Donald Driver on November 14, 2011. Known as one of the most consistent wide receivers in the game, Driver has been solid throughout his career, often posting 1,000 re ...

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Atheist 9/50: Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss [1864-1949] was a brilliant German composer who began writing music at the age of six and continued almost until his death. He was noted for his "tone poems" and operas such as Salome and Elektra, which made use of dissonance and generated much public outcry. During the Nazi period he was appointed president of the German State Music Bureau and composed the theme song for the infamous 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He produced the opera Friedenstag in 1938, a thinly veiled criticism of the Third Reich. He is said to have stretched his influence very thin in his efforts to protect his son and Jewish daughter-in-law and their children from the Nazis.

Maggie Gyllenhaal will be the first casualty of human teleportation technology prior to the 2032 Summer Olympics

flashback. Take a look at the Olympic Torch from the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Birthday wishes "Col Rajyavardan Singh Rathore. Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is the first Indian (post independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, a British origin born in India, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

Cricket Cricket A bowler bowling to a batsman. The paler strip is the cricket pitch. The two sets of three wooden stumps on the pitch are the wickets. The two white lines are the creases. Highest governing body International Cricket Council First played 18th century (modern) Characteristics Team members 11 players per side substitute fielders (only) are permitted in cases of injury or illness Mixed gender Single Categorization Team, Bat-and-ball Equipment Cricket ball, cricket bat, wicket: stumps, bails Venue Cricket field Olympic 1900 Summer Olympics only Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease th ...

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Top Ten World Football (aka Soccer) Cities give you the ten best soccer cities, where the game is part of the city's cultural DNA. 1. Barcelona, Spain Barcelona is one of the world's most atmospheric cities, and its soccer culture only serves to bolster this claim. Two teams, FC Barcelona and Espanyol, call the city home, though it's the former that truly elevates the Catalonian capital to the top of this list. A string of footballing greats have played for this famously socialist club, including Dutchman Johan Cruyff, Brazilian Ronaldo, and Argentinean Diego Maradona. Camp Nou, FC Barcelona's broad-shouldered, 98,787-capacity stadium, is Europe's largest stadium, not to mention being home to some of the continent's noisiest and most demanding fans. Smaller Espanyol plays at the newly opened 40,500-seater Estadi Cornellà-El Prat, following a disappointing spell out of the 55,926-capacity Olympic Stadium up at Montjuic (remember the scenic diving photos from the 1992 Summer Olympics, anyone?). 2. Milan, I ...

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James "Jimmy" William Carruthers (5 July 1929 – 15 August 1990) was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division. Amateur career Carruthers's boxing career started as an Australian representative at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In his first-round match of the bantamweight competition, he fought Fred Daigle of Canada and won on points. He defeated Arnoldo Parés of Argentina in his second match. However, he had sustained an eye injury during his bout with Parés, and had to withdraw from the quarter-final match with the up and coming gold medalist Tibor Csík of Hungary. Professional career Carruthers joined the professional ranks in 1950, and was an immediate success. By then, he was being managed by Dr. Jim McGirr, and trained by "Silent" Bill McConnell. He won the Australian Bantamweight title in 1951, the British Commonwealth title in 1952, and was regarded by the National Boxing Association as the World Bantamweight Champion. Carruthers became Australia's first ...

Just for fun, answer the questions and lets see how you do. I will post the answers later :) 1. Name three types of fish that start with S. - 3 points 2. What flavors the drink ouzo? - 1 point 3. What US state is Fort Knox in? - 1 point 4. Name three books by Ernest Hemingway - 3 points 5. What animal’s home is called a lodge? - 1 point 6. How many wives did King Henry VIII have? - 1 point 7. Name three dairy products besides milk - 2 points 8. How many cents are in a US quarter? - 1 point 9. Where were the last Summer Olympics held? - 1 point 10. Name three famous men with beards - 1 point

Evander Holyfield is an American professional boxer. He is a former Undisputed World Champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal." After winning the bronze medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics, he debuted as a professional at the a...

Over the course of 30 years, Buckwheat Zydeco has gigged with everyone from Eric Clapton (with whom Buckwheat also recorded) and U2 to The Boston Pops. The band performed at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics to a worldwide audience of three billion people. Buckwheat even performed f...

The 1904 World Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, where the Summer Olympics that year was held, put on exhibit Igorots and other tribes from the Philippines which gave visitors the impression that Filipinos were savages and semi-civilized people. However, when the Philippine Scouts (composed of Macabebes, Tagalogs and Ilocanos) started performing their military drills, everyone, from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of War William Taft, was so impressed that the Scouts soon became the Fair's main attraction. Visitors kept asking the entrance guards, "Where can we see the little brown men?" The Filipinos were "polite as Frenchmen, spoke Spanish as fluently as their native dialect and their camp was a model of cleanliness," wrote one US newspaper. American ladies sought them out for their "superior attractiveness" and went out on dates with them, which of course outraged and scandalized American civil society and prompted some US Marines to attack and maul them "to teach these Filipinos to leave the ...

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