Extractions: Sunday 9 May 2004 Modesto, California (USA) - American vaulter Toby Stevenson became the ninth man in athletics history to reach the six-metre level outdoors with a magnificent 6.00m jump which easily stood alone as the highlight of Saturdays 63rd Coca-Cola Modesto Relays (8 May). Ive been expecting a big one all year For the 27-year-old Texas native, the benchmark jump came during a most amazing competitive display which saw him raise his pre-meet outdoor personal best of 5.75 twice - to 5.85 and 5.91 - before entering pole vaultings six-metre pantheon. As the best jump since Dmitriy Markovs 6.05 in winning the Edmonton championships three years ago, it also gave the event a much-needed injection of life after several lacklustre seasons. Perhaps somewhat drained of adrenaline after achieving one of the events most sought-after goals, Stevenson still found the strength to take several respectable attempts at a would-be American record 6.04 to close out the competition.
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Extractions: Saturday 31 January 2004 Mexicos Race Walkers begin a new season with an intensive calendar of competitions and one major goal which is to stay on the Olympic medal podium in Athens as they have done in the last three Games. After a successful three-week high altitude training camp in Ixtapan de la Sal, in the central state of Toluca, the national team members are currently tuning up for the first event of the 2004 IAAF Race Walking Challenge, to be held in the northern city of Tijuana, 20-21 March. The Tijuana race will determine the Mexican squad for the 21st IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Naumburg, Germany, 1-2 May. Bernardo Segura (MEX) approaches the 20km finish in Tijuana at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge (Juan Ramón Piña de la Fuente ) Considering such a busy schedule in the first semester of the year, the National Race Walking Commission unified the training programme under the experienced coaching Miguel Angel Sánchez with a plan to help the athletes peak at the right moment. National squad members The national team includes 1996 Olympic 20km bronze medallist Bernardo Segura, Sydney 20km runner-up Noe Hernandez, who also finished fourth in the Paris World Championships. Also included is Alejandro Lopez, who took third place at the 2002 IAAF World Cup in Turin and won the 1999 World University Games.
DerKeiler Directory - /Sports/Events/Olympics , olympic history from Buffalo and Western New York, Highlights of olympichistory with stories about olympic medal winners and their accomplishments. http://directory.derkeiler.com/Top/Sports/Events/Olympics
Extractions: Home UNIX Linux Coding ... Olympics Olympics Sub-categories See also: Links 2002 Winter Olympics Provides a listing of medals received by country, historical facts, articles about various sports, and athlete biographies. A Journey Through: The Olympics An interactive site about Olympics, the IOC, how the competitions are held, the ancient games and World Olympic Records, Paralympics. Includes also message boards to voice out opinions on olympic issues, interactive puzzles and quizzes. Andrew Jennings: The Great Olympic Swindle Investigative journalism work on Olympic corruption. Evidence of cheating, doping and bribes related to the International Olympic Committee by Andrew Jennings. Around the Rings Online News and photos about the business and politics of the Olympic movement worldwide. Edited by Ed Hula, a radio correspondent for Radio 2UE in Australia and KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City. AskMen.com: The Other Side of the Olympic Games Article exposing the scandalous side of the games. Austrian Olympic History Historical results of Austrian athletes competing at Summer and Winter Olympics. Includes medal count tables of all countries. An unofficial site.
Australian Swimming | Olympic Champions DICKS DIVES INTO olympic history Dick Eve remains Australia s only olympic divinggold medallist having won the high diving event at the Paris Games of 1924. http://www.swimming.org.au/history/categories.cfm?id=2
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Extractions: Beijing, China, June 19, 2001-Beijing Mayor Liu Qi, joined by Olympians from around the world, marked World Olympic Day by dedicating the 120-year-old Prince Jun's Palace to serve as a hospitality center for Olympians should China host the Olympics in 2008. The Palace, which during the Games will be called the "Olympian Reunion Center," will provide transportation, communication and other services for Olympians past and present and will serve as the headquarters for the World Olympians Association during the Games. "The celebration today highlights three key elements of Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, our cultural history, our dedication to athletes and our commitment to the Olympic movement," said Mayor Liu, who also serves as President of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee. "I can think of no better way to celebrate World Olympic Day than dedicating this convenient and grand location to Olympians all over the world. It is my hope that the athletes, by using this facility and the services provided, will also gain greater insight into China and our people's culture and history."
Extractions: Your MURVC HotList you are here : home volleyball history Add this page to your HotList History of Volleyball 1995-1998 History of volleyball with an Australian focus. There does not seem to be any documents with a complete history of Australian volleyball, so if you are able to add or correct any of this information we would like to hear from you. volleyball@musa.net.au The Australian womens team toured Japan and competed against company teams as well as touring China to play against their strong provincial sides. VTAW made history when they defeated a Chinese team in the Healthway International Volleyball Challenge. Unfortunately, they lost the series overall. The Australian womens team competed in the 8 th Asian Senior Womens Championships in Thailand and finished in 6 th spot; they then went onto compete in the World Cup Qualification Series where they were defeated by Kenya 2:1. This means that their last opportunity to compete in the Atlanta Olympics would be the Asian Olympic Tournament in Canberra in March 1996. Volleyball Team Australia Men began 1995 in good form going to Canada in February and winning their third straight series. VTA played host to two Korean company teams and were defeated, they then toured Korea and Japan for matches against University teams. The mens team then travelled to Perth to compete against the Brazilian and Italian National Junior Teams. They retained the Tasman Cup in their tour of the North Island of New Zealand and travelled to Japan to take part in the highly competitive World University Games where they finished 15
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Extractions: After the Flora London Marathon on Sunday (April 18), the next time that Britain trains its collective eye on 26 miles 385 yards will be on 22 August when, we hope, Our Paula will settle a score with history. That is the date of the Olympic women's marathon and Paula Radcliffe , if she can stretch her career at the distance to four wins out of four in Athens, will bring us a long overdue Gold medal. For all Britain's harrier tradition, fascination with the event, and near misses, no British runner has ever won an Olympic marathon title. Four Silver medals sums up the frustration, so will Radcliffe end it or will Britain's best Olympic marathon runners continue to be Sam Ferris Ernie Harper Tom Richards (1948) and Basil Heatley (1964)? Runners-up all. But for the disqualification of Paavo Nurmi for professionalism, the 1932 Olympic marathon may have had a significantly different outcome. It was won by Juan Carlos Zabala , from Argentina, with Ferris just 19 seconds off the Gold medal.
Events / Olympics olympic history from Buffalo and Western New York Highlights of olympic historywith stories about olympic medal winners and their accomplishments. http://paloweb.com/Sports/Events/Olympics/
SPORT Slovakia When the Slovak olympic Committee was established, G were presented by our gold medallistsJ. Torma popular sport throughout modern sporting history in Slovakia http://www.sportslovakia.sk/english/eng-history.htm
Extractions: The Mosaic of Sports History in Slovakia Modern sports in what is now the Slovak territory, formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire first took place in the late nineteenth century. Because of the difficult economic and social living conditions of the day, other social issues took precedence over sporting activities at the time. It was an everyday struggle for the population to get by on a day-to-day basis. However, in spite of these hardships, the gradual development of sports clubs progressed at a healthy pace in what we know as modern day Slovakia. The first documented sport to have taken place was horseracing . The first modern style horse race in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was held in Bratislava's district of Petralka in 1826. By 1839, a mere 13 years later, a horse racing association had been fully established and was responsible for organising a multitude of events. Further sporting developments were witnessed in the very same period in other areas of sport. Such as the first Gymnastics and Fencing School in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, established in 1844 by F. Martinengo in Bratislava. Physical education was introduced in schools by I. B. Zoch, a physical education teacher at the Secondary Grammar School in Revúca. He authored the very first Slovak textbook on physical education, published in 1873.
Olympics Events Sports English Events olympics. Highlights of olympic history with stories aboutolympic medal winners and their accomplishments. ? A Journey http://www.interactiva.org/Dir/I/English/Sports/Events/Olympics/
Rediff.com: Redgrave Poised To Make History Redgrave poised to make history. Greg Buckle It proved to us most importantly butalso to guys like you that winning an olympic gold medal is never going http://www.rediff.com/sports/2000/sep/15red.htm
Extractions: yatching Greg Buckle The bid by Britain's Steve Redgrave to take away an unprecedented fifth successive rowing gold medal will be one of the dramas of the Olympics. Matthew Pinsent, who partnered Redgrave in their coxless pairs triumphs in Barcelona and Atlanta, says "superhuman" is a good way to describe Redgrave. But the air of invincibility surrounding the rowing phenomenon is fading. World champion nine times, the 38-year-old is no longer universally regarded as a gold medal favourite, or even the shining light in his own crew. That is Pinsent, who knows other crews in the coxless fours will "give us a good kicking" if the British let things slip in the rowing, which starts on Sunday. Italy, New Zealand and Australia beat the British into fourth place in the coxless fours at the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July an indication of how hard it will be for Redgrave to win gold again. "It proved to us most importantly but also to guys like you that winning an Olympic gold medal is never going to be easy," Pinsent told a news conference on Thursday.
FIG - Fédération Internationale De Gymnastique USSR) set the unsurpassed record of 18 medals (including nine once but six times atthe 1976 olympic Games in In the history of modern olympics only three men http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/cache/html/3636-116-10001.html
Books On The Olympic Games Roller Skating for Gold (American Sports history Series, No. Equestrian ExcellenceThe Stories of Our olympic Equestrian Medal Winners from http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/sport/olympic_games.htm
This Week In Australia - Sydney Olympic Park largest stadium in modern olympic history. It features a visit to the media centreand puts you with the rest of the winning athletes on top of the medal dais http://www.thisweekinaustralia.com/sydney/locations/article9162.asp
Extractions: You are at: Home Sydney Locations Location intro ... Sydney Discounts Re-live Olympic Memories at the home of the 'Best Games Ever'. Located within easy reach of the city centre, Sydney Olympic Park comprises 640 hectares of man-made and natural attractions that provide visitors an irresistible choice of touring, cultural, historical and nature based activities. Start your adventure at the Sydney Olympic Park Visitor Gateway where we bring to life this spectacular place, its history and its future. Boulevard Market Follow the Games Trail The perfect way to experience the Park. Hire a bike and discover over 35kms of cycle pathways which lead you around former Olympic venues and then take a leisurely ride through the world's largest urban parklands. Don't forget to ask our bookings staff about all new Sydney Olympic Park Bike Safaris coming soon! Re-live the passion, excitement, pride and glory of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and some of the biggest International sporting and entertainment events ever hosted on this guided tour of Telstra Stadium. Discover why it's considered to be the most advanced sporting stadium in the world. This tour features a visit to the media centre and puts you with the other winning athletes - on top of the medal dais.
Extractions: Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos raise fists for Black Power in 1968. (Source: AP) It was the most popular medal ceremony of all time. The photographs of two black American sprinters standing on the medal podium with heads bowed and fists raised at the Mexico City Games in 1968 not only represent one of the most memorable moments in Olympic history but a milestone in America's civil rights movement The two men were Tommie Smith and John Carlos . Teammates at San Jose State College, Smith and Carlos were stirred by the suggestion of a young sociologist friend Harry Edwards, who asked them and all the other black American athletes to join together and boycott the games. The protest, Edwards hoped, would bring attention to the fact that America's civil rights movement had not gone far enough to eliminate the injustices black Americans were facing. Edwards' group, the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR), gained support from several world-class athletes and
Athletic Timeline Larry S Adidas Page adidas are worn by 83% of the athletes at the Montreal olympic Games. New Zealand sJohn Walker earns a place in history with his 1500 meters Gold Medal win. http://adidas.freehomepage.com/athletic_timeline.html
Extractions: Free Web space and hosting - freehomepage.com Choose an ISP NetZero High Speed Internet Dial up $14.95 or NetZero Internet Service $9.95 Athletic Timeline Home adidas News Affiliates Athletic Timeline Building on a Rich Heritage Corporate Overview Corporate Timeline Creation of a Product ... Clima - Adolph Dassler produces his first training shoe in Herzogenaurach, Germany. - Dassler shoes make their debut at the Amsterdam Olympic Games - The first Olympic medal won in Dassler shoes is awarded to Arthur Jonath when he wins a bronze medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. - Jesse Owens competes in Dassler spikes and wins four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games. - Rudolph Harbig sets a new 800-meter world record wearing Dassler spikes. - More athletes wear adidas shoes than any other German sports brand at the Helsinki Olympic Games. Emil Zatopek wins the 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and the marathon in adidas shoes. - The German team wins the World Cup wearing the rebolutionary soccer shoes with the screw-in studs. - adidas are worn by 33 world record setters at the Melbourne Olypmic Games. American Al Oerter, the only athlete to win four consecutive Gold Medals, wins his first.
SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History Of The Games history OF THE GAMES 1992. Barcelona, Spain 10,632 athletes, 171 nations TheOlympic code of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson easily won the gold medal. http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesHistory/1992games.html
Extractions: Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CANOE Travel CNEWS CANOE Money C-Health LIFEWISE AUTONET flirt.canoe.ca Newsstand WHAM! gaming AllPop Search eBay.ca Find Old Friends Free E-Mail shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index SPORT INDEX Pick a sport Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Handball Judo Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Swimming Synchro Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball B.Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Team Canada There were few political problems during the Barcelona Games. Germany competed as one team for the first time since 1952 and the end of apartheid meant that South Africa was allowed back into the Games. The Soviet Union had dissolved, but the IOC allowed its former republics to be represented as a Unified Team to save them training and other expenses.
Extractions: Back to ROWING NEWS Saturday, September 23 SEARLE AND COODE CRUELLY DENIED MEDAL Ed Coode, the rower who lost out to Tim Foster in the race for the prized final place in Steve Redgraves coxless four boat, was cruelly denied the salve of a consolatory medal here in bright sunshine at Penrith Lakes this morning. Coode and his partner in the coxless pairs, Greg Searle, led their final for three quarters of its 2000 metres length before they were overhauled in the dying instants. Coode and Searle had always seemed destined to be the support act for Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Foster, who rowed an hour later. As they stormed into the lead at the start of their race, though, it raised hopes that they might be able to claim Britains third gold medal of these Olympic Games before the teams flagship boat even took to the water. Searle has won gold before when he claimed the coxed pairs first prize with his brother, Jonny, at the Barcelona Games in 1992 and when the crews went through 500 metres, Coode and Searle were more than a second ahead of their nearest rivals from Yugoslavia. They held their lead up to the half way point as the favourites, the Australian pair of Matthew Long and James Tomkins, silenced the crowd by struggling to make any impression. Just before the 1500 metres mark, though, the French boat, crewed by the world silver medallists, Michel Andrieux and Jean-Christophe Rolland, made its move. They overhauled Coode and Searle so quickly that they appeared to be going backwards and their surge was so powerful that they were never in danger of being caught.
Rugby In The Olympics by a walking stick. The American anthem was jeered, and rugby ceasedat the Olympics. Dual gold medallists. Daniel Carroll was a http://www.uidaho.edu/clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/FAQ/Trivia/olympics.htm
Extractions: Rugby is not currently an olympic sport but long ago it was included. Here is the full story. Article 2488 of rec.sport.rugby: Newsgroups: rec.sport.rugby >From wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) Subject: Re: Olympic rugby .....the TRUE FACTS ! Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: sss330.canterbury.ac.nz Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 01:36:59 GMT There have been a large number of "I-seem-to-recall-reading-about-this" posts. Here at last is some genuine info about this olympic rugby matter, straight from "The Guiness Book of Rugby Records", which I have *here* in my office, alongside the keyboard, right now ! It has been laboriously typed in by me, for the benefit of all, (kindly send donations to the address below). [irrelevant comments deleted] Introduced by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who refereed the first ever French championship final), rugby was on the Olympic program at Paris in 1900, at London in 1908, Antwerp in 1920, and Paris again in 1924. In 1928 the I.O.C. turned down the request to stage rugby at the Amsterdam games. Three factors were believed to be behind this: the IOC wanted more emphasis on individual sports; women's athletics had swollen the number of competitors; and the sport did not receive the backing that it should have from the British entries. Both the Soviet Union in 1980 and South Korea in 1988 made attempts to have rugby readmitted, and it should be pointed out that South Korea came desparately close to achieving their aim. [* I never knew this! -wft]
Edited Hansard * Table Of Contents * Number 146 (Official Version) The Salt Lake City Olympics has been a great success Cindy Klassen won our firstmedal in 3,000 metre Again, these women have made history in Canada because http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/146_2002-02-21/han146_1
Extractions: Black History Month Ms. Beth Phinney (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.): Madam Speaker, the Reverend John C. Holland Awards were recently held in Hamilton to mark the beginning of Black History Month. I congratulate the recipients honoured at the awards dinner. Both Norma Rookwood and the Stewart Memorial Church were recognized for their efforts in preserving and promoting black history in Hamilton. Brock University professor Dr. Sybil E. Wilson was honoured for professional achievement in her field of education. Tanya Charles, concertmaster for the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, received the Youth Achievement Award and Jeremy Shand was awarded the Educational Bursary of $1,000 toward his multimedia studies at Humber College. I am sure all the hon. members will join me in congratulating the winners for their achievements and for their contribution to the Hamilton community. 2002 Winter Olympics Mrs. Karen Kraft Sloan (York North, Lib.): Madam Speaker, it gives me pleasure to stand today to acknowledge the accomplishments of two of our Canadian athletes who earned medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics. I congratulate Veronica Brenner of Sharon, Ontario from my riding of York North who placed second and won the silver medal in the aerials event, just ahead of her teammate Deidra Dionne. A three time Canadian champion, Veronica Brenner has been one of Canada's most successful women's aerialists and is considered a veteran of the sport of freestyle skiing. Veronica has made an astonishing comeback this season after a serious injury she sustained in the fall of 2000.
