Results matching “"year in review"”
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. In a way, the All England Club was a quieter, more subdued version of Wimbledon during the 2012 Olympics in London. The total number of fans on the grounds was kept lower that the month prior, for security purposes, and Centre Court had lost…
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. Usain Bolt, McKayla Maroney, Mo Farah and many others stamped the Olympics with the indelible mark of their personalities, yet arguably the most entertaining person at the 2012 London Olympics wasn’t an athlete at all. Boris Johnson, the beloved mayor of London, who apparently…
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. Rebecca Soni received a lot of attention in London, not only because she frequently sported a hot pink swimsuit, but because she also broke the world record for the women’s 200m breaststroke not once, but twice during the 2012 Games. Soni first broke the…
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. When Jordan Burroughs sat down at his computer in January of 2011 and decided on the Twitter handle @alliseeisgold, the then 22-year-old from New Jersey had no freestyle international experience and was fresh off a major knee injury that sidelined him for…
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. The U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team was the overall youngest team competing in London this year and by almost all accounts, the most exciting. However, there were a few athletes on the floor who proved age is in fact, just a number. Perhaps…
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OlympicTalk’s writers recount some of their favorite moments from the 2012 London Games. One of the most triumphant series of events during the London Games began as one of the most controversial – and most awkward. It started with South Korean fencer Shin A-Lam sitting on the fencing strip, sobbing uncontrollably after she lost a…
