Olympics
via: eurweb.com In the new October issue of Vanity Fair, 16-year-old Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas again opens up about how she was treated while training at Excalibur Gymnastics in Virginia Beach. According to the article, she once left her clothes by her locker, only to return and find someone had taken them. She had […]
via: defendernetwork.com Gabby Douglas is golden when it comes to online popularity, too. The gymnastics gold medalist is the most clicked-upon athlete on NBC’s Olympics website, the network said. Through Sunday, her profile on the site had more than 18 million page views. That’s far above the second-ranked athlete, swimmer Michael Phelps, whose profile had […]
via:christianpost Gymnastics’ newest cover girl Gabby Douglas may be fielding tweets from A-list celebrities ranging from Oprah to Justin Bieber (and the greatest Olympian of all time Michael Phelps, who said he watched her from the pool!), but before the tweets from the “who’s who” of Hollywood were tweets of Bible verses and […]
via:christianpost The opening ceremony marks the official opening of the 2012 Olympic Games and will spark a sports fest that will continue for the next two weeks, with more than 10,000 top athletes competing from 205 different countries. Team USA will be hoping to top the medals table over the coming two weeks, […]
via: cnn.com The British government will deploy an extra 1,200 troops for Olympics security, Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced Tuesday. The 1,200 military personnel come on top of 3,500 already called up specially this month after security contractor G4S said it would not be able to supply the number of guards it promised. See More
via:christianpost Olympic runner Ryan Hall holds the record for the fastest half-marathon and the fastest marathon ever recorded by an American, and now his only running coach is God. After finishing as the runner-up at the 2011 United States half-marathon championships, Hall declared “God” to be his coach when filling out a standard […]
via: defendernetwork.com Hundreds of area youngsters ages six to 14 are competing for fun and glory in the 12th annual Hershey’s Track & Field Games. During the recent state qualifier, young athletes competed in such events as the standing broad jump, softball throw, 4 x 100-meter relay, 50-meter dash, and the 200, 400, 800 and […]
Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) — Many kids dream of being in the Olympics one day. When U.S. bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was a child in Salt Lake City, Utah, he had no idea the Olympics even existed. All he knew was his parents were drug addicts, that his mother was a prostitute who was often beaten […]
From Seun Adbiyi At The Huffington Post As a 26 year-old African-American, I don’t know which is more difficult: trying to make history as the first Nigerian delegate in the Winter Olympics, or finding a donor for a bone marrow transplant.