Articles, tagged with "summer olympics", page 1
07th September 2011
All around us are devices with tiny lights from the alarm clock that you knock off the table every morning to your camcorder. These lights answer our most basic status questions. What is the time? Is your cell phone charging? Is it your turn to get on the...
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Author:
1STOPlighting
06th July 2011
Volleyball was created by William G. Morgan in the year 1895 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He took the key characteristics of the game from Tennis and Handball while he was a physical education director at YMCA. In the beginning, the ball used for Volleyball...
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Author:
socialmea
16th July 2010
Kerri Walsh - Gold-medalist in beach volleyball at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, she has been called one of the greatest beach volleyball players of all time.
Lance Armstrong - 7 time winner of the Tour de France, the most famous event in competit...
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Jim Knight
16th March 2010
Unless you live under a rock, do not own a television set and/or did not read the newspaper, you have heard plenty about Michael Phelps, the swimming superstar extraordinaire who this month added eight gold medals during the 2008 summer Olympics to his st...
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Jeannine Virtue
02nd March 2010
This specific sports person is the only one to ever acquire multiple medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Name them.
Answer: Clara Hughes
Hughes was born on the 27th of September, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Clara won her first two Olympic...
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Author:
Jane Long
12th May 2006
Summertime is just around the corner. Serious swimmers are already hard at work training for the next summer Olympics and many Americans are thinking about swimming for fun. But every stroke they take in chlorinated water, and even the after-swim showers ...
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