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Lightning Usain Bolt has Three Gold Medals

Posted in bolt, olympics, tagged , , on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There’s no stopping the new sprint force from Jamaica (apart from one slip up in the womens 4 by 100m relay final).
Usain Bolt is the poster boy for global athletics with his effortless 100 meter final run which had him slowing down with 10 meters to go and still break the world record. His coach [...]

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Ohuruogu goes for Gold

Posted in field, ohuruogu, olympics, track, tagged , , , , , on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

An amazing 400m race makes Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu only a handful of British women athletes to win Olympic Gold on the track. It was so exciting to watch as with 200m to go Ohuruogu looked out of contention but she applied the power in the last 100m to sweep past the field and into first [...]

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Phelps Olympic Powerhouse

Posted in culture, olympics, phelps, tagged , , , , on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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If like me you have been blown away by the phenomenonon that is Michael Phelps you might be interested in this story from the Guardian online. What does the man eat to give him all the energy he needs to become the greatest Olympian of all time (in terms of his [...]

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Rebecca Adlington Powers to Gold

Posted in culture, olympics, review, tagged , , , on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What a race! Everyone was expecting Katie Hoff the american swimmer to win and despite swimming a tactically flawed race Hoff had it in the bag until the last 5 centimetres! We were always taught to dive for the tape in our school athletics, to remember that the race is not over till the end. [...]

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