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There are days when it seems like the opportunity to host the Olympics is as competitive as the events themselves. If that’s true, the 2024 Olympics are the equivalent to the Super Bowl. Paris, Nairobi, Qatar, Berlin, Baku, Rome, Toronto, Dubai, and eight U.S. cities are all vying to host. Well, now you can throw…
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Now that the Olympics will be adding South America to its list of hosts when it lands in Rio four years from now, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe says there’s one last frontier for the Olympics to cross. “The Games have to go to Africa,” Coe said at the Doha Goals conference Tuesday. “The issue…
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Even after Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn cruised to a hat trick in Lake Louise Thanksgiving weekend, she says she’s still lacking energy. She wrote in the Denver Post Tuesday that weariness may have led to her finishing 27th in the giant slalom in Switzerland this weekend after she wore herself down winning the super-G.…
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The Olympics seem to demand every second of the world’s media attention when they arrive for two seemingly short weeks every couple years. Now, with 2012 coming to an end, Twitter tallied up the tweets and announced that the Olympics were the most talked about event around the globe, raking in 150 million tweets over…
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Just when you thought swimmers were done for the year, think again. Seventeen U.S. Olympians, including Ryan Lochte and Allison Schmitt, are in Istanbul, Turkey this week for the Short-Course World Championships, at which swimmers compete in a 25-meter pool instead of the Olympic-distance 50m pool. Absent from the meet is Missy Franklin, whose school…
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After the British team enjoyed it’s most impressive medal haul in a century at its recent hometown Games, they’ll attempt to out-do themselves on foreign soil in Rio four years from now. UK Sport will hope to exceed its London victories by dumping all its funding into the country’s most successful sports (rowing, cycling, biathloning)…
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Whether it’s the views, the weather, or the facilities, figure skaters from around the world are singing the praises of Sochi after the first test event was held in the 2014 Olympic Park over the weekend. “It’s a beautiful arena and the atmosphere here is just fantastic,” world champ Meryl Davis told Reuters. “We’ve been several…
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Oscar Pistorius is full of Monday surprises. First the South African sprinter hinted at a framework for the rest of his running career (and beyond), saying he’ll likely run one more Olympic cycle and then begin working with African landmine victims. Second: he’ll be racing a horse Wednesday. “I have never even thought of doing…
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Natalie Coughlin: Professional swimmer, amateur gorilla-watcher
Dec 10, 2012, 2:57 PM EDT
Fresh off her history-making performance in London that saw her tie Dara Torres’ and Jenny Thompson’s all-time Olympic medals total of 12 (the most for a U.S. female), Natalie Coughlin wants to keep swimming at age 30. We caught up with Coughlin and talked about working out, her recent trip to Africa – where she…
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While we’ve already seen track and wrestling athletes stripped of their medals from London (and somehow Greece), we’ve got some good news from the folks in the pool: of the 518 doping tests administered to aquatic athletes at the Summer Games, exactly zero came back positive. FINA, which oversees swimming, diving, open water, synchronized swimming,…
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After more than 18 months away from figure skating, Vancouver gold medalist Yuna Kim marked her triumphant return to the sport by winning the NRW trophy in Germany over the weekend. The South Korean star also locked up a spot at March’s World Championships in Ontario by scoring 201.61 points – the best of any…
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Similar to how wrestling’s semifinals match losers don’t square-off against one another, tennis officials are considering eliminating bronze medal matches for Rio to lighten the load on the world’s best pros. That would mean handing out two bronze medals, like they did when the event first returned to Seoul in 1988 after a 64-year hitatus…
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After he was unceremoniously left off the British taekwondo team for his hometown London Games, world No. 1 fighter Aaron Cook is making good on his threat to switch national allegiances. He’ll now fight for Isle of Man in upcoming events. “I was reigning European champion, world No. 1… I am never going to work with…
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And the hits just keep on coming… The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation has been suspended by the AIBA – sport’s governing body – because of “possible manipulation” of the same Indian Olympic Association elections that led to the country being banned by the IOC earlier this week. The IOA was banned Tuesday because of government…
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Beijing doubles gold medalist Roger Federer, 31, said he’ll begin ratcheting back his schedule over the next few years, but hopes to have enough energy for one more go at the singles gold medal in 2016. “I have to make sure that I take care of my schedule, of my body, of my mind,” Federer…
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It seems every famous person in the whole of Great Britain (save for David Beckham) joined two-time London Olympics gold medalist Mo Farah in doing the Mobot for his new music video. The dance mimics the famous distance runner as he stretches, runs, wins, and does his now famous pose. Farah hopes to use the video…
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The fact that former long track coach Guy Thibault will is taking the reins of the U.S. short track team following Octobers resignation of Jae Su Chun has caused yet another rift among U.S. athletes. Vancouver bronze medalist Lana Gehrig, world team member Jessica Smith, and up-and-coming teen skater John-Henry Krueger will all continue to…
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Congratulations, Adam Nelson! You’re about to the be proud owner of a 2004 Olympic gold medal. After more than 3,000 days as the silver medalist in the shot put, Nelson is expected to be awarded the gold medal after the original victor, Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine, was recently found to have been doping. “I’m still…
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Justin Bieber almost cost Missy Franklin her amateur status
Dec 5, 2012, 5:01 PM EDT
Four-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin recently revealed to ESPN that heartthrob Justin Bieber nearly ruined her amateur status with a care package he sent her during the Olympics. “It was really sweet of him,” Missy told ESPN in the issue due out Dec. 10. “But it was considered a form of special treatment that could…
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The Premier League’s West Ham football (read: soccer) club has been selected as the “first bidder” to become the main tenant of the new Olympic Stadium, and will enter into negations on a 99-year lease with the London Legacy Development Corporation headed by mayor Boris Johnson. “I feel privileged to have been granted the responsibility…
