when and where did the revival of the olympics take place
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Evangelos Zappas, a wealthy Greek-Romanian philanthropist, first wrote to King Otto of Greece, in 1856, offering to fund a permanent revival of the Olympic Games. Zappas sponsored the first Olympic Games in 1859, which was held in an Athens city square. Athletes participated from Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Zappas funded the restoration of the ancient Panathenaic Stadium so that it could host all future Olympic Games. The stadium hosted Olympics in 1870 and 1875. Thirty thousand spectators attended that Games in 1870, though no official attendance records are available for the 1875 Games. In 1890, after attending the Olympian
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She did not advance to later rounds. Isnardo "Junior" Faro participated in the 2004 Athens Olympics as Aruba's only weightlifter. Born in Aruba in July 1978, Faro was 18 at the time he represented Aruba at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he finished in 21st place of the men's middleweight class. Although Faro did not attend the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he returned to the Olympics in 2004 as a 26-year-old in the men's middle-heavyweight class. During the event, which took place on August 23, Faro participated alongside 24 other athletes. During the snatch phrase of the event, Faro was given
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competed in the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens where an 11th place in the 50 m butterfly was her best result. At the 2000 European Aquatics Championships in Helsinki she was in the finals of all three relay events but did not won a medal. Individually a 7th place in the 100 m butterfly was her best performance. Groot was also selected to take part in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She swam in the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle but was replaced for the final by Inge de Bruijn, but still received a silver
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endurance race. Several major tennis tournaments take place in France, including the Paris Masters and the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. French martial arts include Savate and Fencing. France has a close association with the Modern Olympic Games; it was a French aristocrat, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who suggested the Games' revival, at the end of the 19th century. After Athens was awarded the first Games, in reference to the Olympics' Greek origins, Paris hosted the second Games in 1900. Paris was the first home of the International Olympic Committee, before it moved to Lausanne. Since
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Olympics at age 22 when he raced in the men's 100 meters at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, placing seventh in his qualification heat and not progressing to later rounds. He did not attend the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, but returned to the Olympics at Beijing at the age of 30. During the course of the August 14, 2008 races in his event, when the qualification round took place, Sébergué competed in the tenth heat against seven other athletes. He finished the race in 11.14 seconds, placing seventh in the heat ahead of Tuvalu's Okinali Tinilau
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an out of competition control in June 2005. She maintains that she did not take any doping until well after the 2004 Athens Olympics where she came 10th and that she did it for therapeutic reasons only. After the positive test she was immediately removed from the Swiss national team and was facing a two-year ban from triathlon. As a consequence she retired from the sport. Brigitte McMahon Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born March 25, 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon. McMahon competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won the
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the Olympic Committee that organised the 1859, 1870, and 1875 Zappas Games, but by Fokianos alone. Thirty athletes competed in a variety of disciplines including discus, pole long leap (over a ditch), weightlifting, mast climbing, and rope climbing among others. All participants were clad alike. In 1890, a royal decree, signed by Crown Prince Constantine and the foreign minister Stephanos Dragoumis, announced that the Olympiad would be reinstated, at four-year intervals, from 1888. The next Olympics were officially planned for 1892, but did not take place due to the Greek government's claim of lack of funding. In the event, the
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Academy take part in the Mandolin House, a performance venue but also a place for international students to take classes. The house works as a place where tourists can be exposed to the mandolin. The academy is recognized as having contributed to the revival of the mandolin in Naples. Squillante is a graduate of the Pollini Conservatory of Padua and did further studying under with Hopkinson Smith and Crawford Young (at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis), Enrico Baiano, Federico Marincola, Emilia Fadini and Edoardo Eguez. Mauro Squillante Mauro Squillante is a plucked-instruments researcher, a mandolinist and president of the Accademia Mandolinistica
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Olympics boycott. She did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. She competed for the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California in the quadruple sculls event where she finished in second place. At the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea she finished in second place in the single sculls event. Four years later in the Barcelona Olympics she missed out on a third medal finishing fourth in the single sculls. When she competed for the US Olympic Rowing team in Seoul and Barcelona she was
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Friendship in gold (second class) for her sporting success. Her first and only Olympic appearance was at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she competed for a unified Germany and finished eighth in the 100 m breaststroke; she was also part of the fourth-place German 4×100 m medley relay team. Dieter Lindemann was accused of giving Gerasch anabolics when she was thirteen years old. Gerasch claimed that Lindemann gave her pink tablets which she did not take. She claimed that some competitors put the tablets in the aquarium, and that the female fish became more colourful like the male ones. Following
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a total of five sailing classes, but actually only four sailing events were contested. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses. Twelve sports venues were used for the 1908 Summer Olympics. The first winter sports took place at Prince's Skating Club. White City Stadium served as a precursor to modern stadiums. The figure skating events did not take place at the next Olympics in Stockholm, but returned for the 1920 Games in Antwerp. They served as the precursor for the first Winter Olympics that took place in Chamonix sixteen years later. White City served as the
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Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals. Games were played at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California. Teams in two groups played each other in a round to decide, for which place each of them should compete in the Final Round. All matches were held on August 10. 11th place match 9th place match 7th place match 5th place match 3rd place
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the 2020 Summer Olympics Trials take place Feb. 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia where 2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) will host a marathon specific championship. 53 men ran faster than the US Olympic Team Trials standard for the marathon (2:19:00). The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics Trials take place Feb. 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia where 2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) will host a marathon specific championship. 2018 California International Marathon The 2018 California International Marathon was the 35th edition of the California International Marathon. The marathon took
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take place 13–16 February 2016. The skaters who took part the team trophy was determined by draw. The result of the draw was that none of the ladies' medalist, Polina Tsurskaya, Maria Sotskova and Elizabet Tursynbayeva could take part to this competition. It was the 2nd consecutive time when this happened. At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics none of the ladies' medalist, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Adelina Sotnikova and Li Zijun could take part the team trophy competition either. Figure skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Figure skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre
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gold from 2004 and had to be fished out of the water after when Meng Guanliang dived into the water right when crossing the finish line, causing the canoe to capsize. Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres The men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-2 event is raced in two-man sprint canoes. This would be the last time the event would take place at the Summer Olympics. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International
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15 km freestyle prior to the 2010 Games took place on 5 February at Canmore, Alberta, and was won by Italy's Giorgio Di Centa. Veerpalu did not participate to the event being in freestyle while Berger did not participate to the fact that the biathlon men's 12.5 km pursuit would take place the next day. Di Centa finished tenth in the event. Cologna is the first Swiss to win a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics. Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre freestyle The men's 15 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at
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the Americas team at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, where he finished in fifth place. In the next season he did not take part in the 1980 Summer Olympics, but instead competed at the 1980 World's Strongest Man competition. He gained 56 points in the strength events and finished in fourth, one place behind fellow thrower-cum-strongman Geoff Capes. He returned at the 1981 World's Strongest Man, but managed only tenth place on that occasion. On the athletics circuit that year he won a silver at the 1981 Pacific Conference Games, as well as another national title and fifth place at
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2016 his suspension was reduced to 6-months. Lea responded to his initial suspension by posting on his private website: "On the night of August 7th, in a state of post-race exhaustion and having run out of my normal sleep aid, I made the poor choice to take my prescription Percocet hoping it would help me rest." Bobby Lea Robert "Bobby" Lea is an American track cyclist. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's point race, which he did not finish, and the men's madison, where he finished in 16th place. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed
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and an elevation drop of 152 metres. When a bobsleigh track was not built for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California in the United States, the track in Cortina was used to host the world championships that year in place of being excluded from the Winter Olympic Games. The track played a key role in improving bobsleigh safety when West Germany's Toni Pensperger was killed during the four-man event at the 1966 world championships. Because of Pensperger's death, the world championships did not take place at the track until safety improvements were made satisfactory to the Fédération Internationale
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death in Montreal (Because of the time difference, it was 29 September in Sydney when Trudeau died). The Canadian flag flew at half-staff for the remainder of the Olympics, on orders from both IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, as the state funeral did not take place until 3 October. Cameroon won a historic gold medal over Spain in the Men's Olympic Football Final at the Olympic Stadium. The game went to a penalty shootout, which was won by Cameroon 5–3. The last event of the games was the Men's Marathon, contested on a
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current champion he was selected by the Greek Olympic Committee to be part of the team going to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. However for unknown reasons Vergos did not participate in the 1912 Olympics (possibly because he did not yet have Greek citizenship, but was an Ottoman citizen). From 1920 to 1923, he continued to take part in athletic events, having received special permission from the Greek army. Dimitris Vergos participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics in the Belgium city of Antwerp. He participated in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling along with Sotirios Notaras and Pavlidis Vasileios. His place
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In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 312. His score and place in the free rifle event is unknown, except that he did not win a medal. For the 1906 Olympics there are currently no records found on his achievements, except that he did not win any medals. In the 1908 Olympics he participated in four events: men's team free rifle, where he placed ninth; men's team military rifle, where he placed seventh; men's individual pistol, where he placed twenty ninth; and men's team pistol, where he placed seventh. In the 1912 Olympics he participated in eleven events:
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fended off Gretchen Quintana, among others, to top the podium and take the gold medal. She set a new personal best and Canadian record points score for heptathlon, with 6343. She was selected for the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, but did not compete. She finished in fifth place at the 2008 Summer Olympics. This equalled the best place finish of a Canadian woman in a multi-events sport at the Olympics. At the Beijing Olympics, she set a new Canadian record for heptathlon, with 6490 points. After her Olympic appearance, she took the 2009 season off from competition and had
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left collegiate coaching in order to coach the women's U.S. National Team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where the team fell short of the Bronze Medal to finish in fourth place. Haley returned to collegiate coaching, but instead of returning to Texas, he took over for USC where it did not take long for the Women of Troy to reach national prominence. Just in his second year, Haley led the top-seeded Trojans to the program's second NCAA championship – and first since 1981 – by defeating Stanford University in the final, 3–1, avenging their only loss of the season to
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Championships, with her best performance coming in 2011, when she finished 8th. She is a five time Canadian National Champion. Nicoll competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in the halfpipe. She finished 9th in the first qualifying round and 21st in the second, not enough to qualify for the final, and placing her 27th overall. Nicoll was also selected as a member of the Canadian team for the 2010 Winter Olympics, where she finished 6th. Four years later at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Nicoll finished 12th place (out of 14) in her heat and did not advance to the final.
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the Northern Hemisphere, the 1956 Games did not take place at the usual time of year, because of the need to hold the events during the warmer weather of the host's spring/summer (which corresponds to the Northern Hemisphere's autumn/winter). The Olympic equestrian events could not be held in Melbourne due to Australia's strict quarantine regulations, so they were held in Stockholm five months earlier. This was the second time that the Olympics were not held entirely in one country, the first being the 1920 Summer Olympics, which were held in Antwerp, Belgium, with some events taking place in Amsterdam and
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by compatriot Mohammed Shaween. In the 1500 metres race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he did not qualify beyond the preliminaries although he ran a time of 3:42.95. Noor won his first medal at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, where he finished in first place in the 1500 metre race. Emad Noor Emad Hamed Noor (born 21 April 1990) is a Saudi Arabian middle-distance runner. He represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Noor's first appearance at a major international competition took place when he ran the 1500 metres at the 2007 Pan Arab Games, recording a time of
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the Olympics, Donahue turned in a new personal best in the 100-meter butterfly finals clocking a time of 57.57. Her time was significantly slower than Dana Vollmer who won the event with a time of 56.50, but was good enough for second place, qualifying her for the Olympics. "It feels unbelievable to make it to the 2012 Olympics," she remarked. "When I finished and saw that I was second, I did not even know what to think. At first I didn't believe it." She also competed in the 200-meter butterfly, where she failed to advance past the opening round. At
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126 different events between 4 May 1924 and 27 July 1924. Germany was not invited to the games due to security reasons. Unlike the previous time France hosted the Olympics, the French athletes did not have a high medal count, finishing 3rd in the unofficial medal count with only 28 medals. The 2024 Summer Olympics (the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad) will take place between 27 July 2024 and 12 August 2024. The Paris 2024 Olympic bid was announced as the winner of the bidding process on 13 September 2017, following unsuccessful bid attempts for previous Olympics. The 2024 Summer
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on 20 January 1980, that the US would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. 65 countries and regions invited did not take part in the 1980 Olympics. Many of these followed the United States' boycott initiative, while others cited economic reasons for not coming. Iran, under Ayatollah Khomeini hostile to both superpowers, boycotted when the Islamic Conference condemned the invasion. Many of the boycotting nations participated instead in the Liberty Bell Classic, also known as the "Olympic Boycott Games", in Philadelphia. However, the nations that did compete had won 71 percent
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Nepal at the 2006 Winter Olympics Nepal sent a delegation to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy from 12–28 February 2006. This was Nepal's second appearance at a Winter Olympic Games, the first having been four years prior. The only athlete sent by Nepal was Dachhiri Sherpa, competing in cross-country skiing. In his only event, the men's 15 kilometre classical, he finished in 94th place. Nepal first participated in Olympic competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The nation did not take part in the next Summer Olympics, but have participated in every Summer Games since
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team in fourth place. She later played also as libero in the NORCECA Olympic Qualification Tournament, where her team won a berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics by winning the event undefeated. She was included in the 2008 Pan-American Cup squad that ranked 11th from 12 participants and later won the silver medal in the 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix. She finished fourth with the Cuban team in the 2008 Olympic tournament. Ortiz decided to take a break from the Cuban national team after the Olympics, but when she tried to return to the team she received a two years
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from Samaranch and Axworthy. They both ordered the Canadian flag flown at half-staff for the remainder of the Olympics, as the state funeral didn't take place until 3 October. Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canada competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 294 competitors, 150 men and 144 women, took part in 175 events in 29 sports. The final days of the Olympics for Canada was shadowed by the death of Pierre Trudeau, their 15th prime minister. When the closing ceremonies took place, he was lying in state, allowing Canadians to travel to Ottawa to pay their
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softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, becoming the first sports voted out of the Olympics since Polo was eliminated from the 1936 Summer Olympics. Italy's best finish in the Amateur World Series has been fourth place, which they did in . In , the event became known as the International Baseball Federation's (IBAF) World Cup. Italy's best finish in a Baseball World Cup is also fourth place, which they did when they served as the host nation in . Italy also hosted the and games. The 2009 IBAF World Cup was hosted by Europe. It
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were built for the Games. A cinder track was laid inside Wembley Stadium and all other venues were adapted. For the first time at the Olympics swimming events were held undercover, at the 8000 capacity Empire Pool. As the pool was longer than the standard Olympic length of 50 metres a platform was constructed across the pool which both shortened it and housed officials. In 2010 one of the last remaining venues from the Games, the Herne Hill Velodrome where cycling events were staged, was saved when a new 15-year lease was agreed meaning that repairs could take place. Campaigners
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and related "Shadowhunters" Exterior shots of the building were used in the Gothic TV Show, Strange Paradise. It is also the filming location of the TV movie "re-imagining," "", where scenes that take place at Dr. Frank N. Furter's castle and the movie theatre where the audience participation and Ivy Levan's performance of "Science Fiction Double Feature" take place were filmed (a movie theatre marquee was placed at the front entrance of the castle for filming). Casa Loma Casa Loma (Spanish for "Hill House") is a Gothic Revival style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now
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which were no separate contests yet. German athletes won Gold and Silver in both the men's and women's combined, for a 2nd rank overall. The 1940 Winter Olympics were to be held in Sapporo, but Japan withdrew in 1938 due to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In June 1939, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected again, but three months later World War II broke out and the 1940 Winter Games were cancelled in November 1939. The 1944 Winter Olympics did not take place either. For the 1948 Winter Olympics, with the war in recent memory, Germany (and Japan) was not invited as it had
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Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification The men's qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament will take place from 2019 to 2020; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones are expected to have representation in the Olympic basketball event. The first qualifying tournament will be the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in which seven teams will qualify for the Olympics. Japan as host qualifies directly. The next best 16 teams in the FIBA Basketball World that did not qualify directly to the Olympics along with 2 select teams from each of the five FIBA zones or 24 teams
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final to take the gold medal. Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight The men's freestyle lightweight competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place from 1 August to 3 August at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. Nations were limited to one competitor. This weight class was limited to wrestlers weighing up to 66kg. This freestyle wrestling competition did not use the single-elimination bracket format previously used for Olympic freestyle wrestling but instead followed the format that was introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman wrestling, using an elimination system based on the accumulation
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Joan Tomàs Roca Joan Tomàs Roca (born 17 February 1951) is an Andorran trap shooter who competed in five Summer Olympics spanning 36 years. Tomàs started practicing shooting in 1971 and two years later he started to compete in events. Tomàs was 25 years old when he made his first appearance in the Olympics, when he competed in the mixed trap event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he scored 162 points and finished in 33rd place. At the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics he had his best finishes when he finished in 26th place
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overall. Four of the qualified swimmers did not take part in their quarterfinal heats, and a fifth (Massa) did not appear due to a misunderstanding. Massa was later allowed to take part in the semifinals. Quarterfinal 1 Quarterfinal 2 Quarterfinal 3 Further confusion struck the semifinals. Under the belief that the second round of the competition had been the semifinals, the American swimmers did not appear for the third round. This led to both semifinals being essentially walkovers, as the first had three swimmers and the second only one. Since the top two swimmers of each and the fastest third-place
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Sim Myeong-hui Sim Myeong-hui (born 12 October 1925) is a South Korean former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee initially chose Sim to represent the country in the trap event at the 1956 Summer Olympics, but in the end he did not participate. He worked for Daidong Transport, and represented the company at South Korea's Workplace Defense Shooting Championships in 1959, coming in first place in first place in the individual division. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he did not progress to the finals. In 1965 when
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to live on bread and molasses to raise enough money to complete the church. In May 1901, the building was completed. The congregation marked the sanctuary's completion with a joyous two-week revival. Governor Charles B. Aycock delivered a speech when the church finally opened and "The News & Observer" described St. Paul's new building as "one of the handsomest colored churches in the South." Although the majority of the church had been built, construction on the spire did not take place for another eight years. In 1909 an accidental fire consumed most of the building, leaving only the brick walls.
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return to the Met in November 2007 to sing the role of Figaro. He told reporters in New York City that he would retire Figaro from his repertoire. But he did sing the role of Wotan in Covent Garden's revival of the "Der Ring" in September to November 2012. Terfel intended to take 2008 as a sabbatical from opera performances, but broke this to take the title role in WNO's revival of "Falstaff". He had sung in this production in 1993, when he played the role of Ford. In 2009 Terfel sang Scarpia and the Dutchman for the Royal Opera
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was never seriously challenged for first place. Domracheva did not miss a target in the last shooting and went on to finish second. Eckhoff missed one target in the first prone shooting and one in the first standing shooting, and for most of the race was skiing in the middle of the field. However, in the last shooting all of her direct competitors missed, and she left the shooting range in third place and went on to take the bronze medal. The race was started at 20:15. Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start The women's 12.5
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sculler and double lightweight sculler. But because or the new rule of diversity, Denmark gained another place for one of their boat for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio; this happened when Belgium won two competition in the men's single and double scullers at the final qualification race, but were only allowed to take one of the two boats to Rio. It was therefore up Belgium to decide, whether Denmark should have the men's single sculler or double sculler to the Olympics. Belgium chose to take their single sculler, and therefore Sverri Nielsen could not compete at the Olympics 2016,
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the team events, as the number of competing teams is already very limited through the IOC standards, and a chance for a respective place is already given by the qualification. Germany entered a team in the men's tournament. The team lost all games but one in the group play, and did not advance, finishing tied for 9th place. Germany participated in the men's tournament, where the team finished in 10th place. Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics Germany competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. A total of 439 athletes were nominated to participate in
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second run. This was the first time a German did not win this event at a World Cup, Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championships since 1997 and the first time in the Winter Olympics, world, or European level since Italy's Gerda Weissensteiner won the women's singles gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. 6 February 2009. Run 1 took place 10:00 - 10:50 EST (15:00 - 15:50 UTC) while Run 2 will take place 11:20 - 11:55 EST (16:20 - 16:55 UTC). The Italians won their first ever championships. Florschütz and Wustlich only trailed Plankensteiner and Haselrieder
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as many medals as the second-place Romania. The 2028 Summer Olympics (the Games of the XXXIIV Olympiad) will take place between 21 July 2028 and 6 August 2028. The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic bid was announced as the runner up of the bidding process on 13 September 2017, following unsuccessful bid attempts for previous Olympics. The 2028 Summer Paralympics will be the eighteen Paralympics and will take place at the Summer Olympics venues in Los Angeles. It will be the first Paralympics in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Olympics Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and will
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on a non-competitive basis. Organised competition does take place at all levels across the world, including in the Olympics. Typical formats for competitive windsurfing include Formula Windsurfing, speed sailing, slalom, course racing, wave sailing, superX, and freestyle. The boom of the 1980s led windsurfing to be recognized as an Olympic sport in 1984. However, windsurfing's popularity saw a sharp decline in the mid-1990s, thanks to licensing battles, and equipment becoming more specialized and requiring more expertise to sail. The sport experienced a modest revival, as new beginner-friendly designs became available. Further pressure came as a proportion of avid windsurfers took
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1988 Roth Quad Olympics as part of a boating/sailing section, but the olympics did not occur that year. The yacht club decided to hold the regatta as a stand-alone event which would "be the opening event if [the Roth olympics] do take place". The Roth Regatta is now traditionally held during the last Friday of April and run by the Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook, since the absorption of the Roth Yachting club by USG. The judging is split up between two different types of boats: Speedsters and Yachts. The difference between the two categories is that speedsters can
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of Saint-Denis is used for their games during the Six Nations, and they have a formidable home record at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille where they have only lost twice, to Argentina in 2004 and to New Zealand in 2009. Rugby was introduced to France in 1872 by English merchants and students. On 26 February 1890, a French rugby team recruited from the Janson Desailly Lyceum defeated an international team at the Bois de Boulogne. Although France were represented at the 1900 Summer Olympics, their first official test match did not take place till New Year's Day, 1906 against the
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2008, Teter returned to the international scene by winning again the U.S. indoor championship title, and qualified for the 800 metres at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain, where she made only into the semi-final round. Teter also finished fourth in the same distance at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, with a time of 2:01.30. However, she earned a spot on her second United States team for the Olympics, when third-place runner Kameisha Bennett did not have an A-standard of 2:00.00 or better. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Teter competed for the second
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held in 2016, but might take place in 2017. The Games were originally intended to convene sometime after the Summer Olympics (and Paralympics) in the same city or at least the same country, using some of the same facilities. The inaugural Games did use the Olympic Village in Beijing about two months after the Olympics and one month after the Paralympics. However, this intention was not carried out in 2012, as Lille was chosen as host of the WMSG for the year that the Summer Olympics were held in London, Great Britain. For 2016, the Olympic host Brazil early on
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Los Angeles such as East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union. For this European qualifier were allowed professional footballers, but under condition that they did not take party in World Cup competitions including its qualifiers and final tournament. The rule was implemented for teams from Europe and South America by the IOC to level chances between "football" and "non-football" parts of the world. Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers The European Qualifiers for men's football competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics to be held in Seoul. The tournament took place from 10 September 1986 to 31
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a wildcard qualification position for the women's single sculls in Rio by the World Rowing Federation after a qualified athlete did not take up her place, making Morley the first Bahamian rower to qualify for the Olympic Games. Emily Morley Emily Morley (born December 6, 1993) is a Bahamian rower who has qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics due to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Morley is from Nassau, Bahamas and studied at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, United States. She grew up in the Bahamas until the age of fifteen when she moved to
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Sasaki represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics participating in slalom and giant slalom, but did not finish in these events. In Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Sasaki placed 14th in the men's slalom Akira Sasaki At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Sasaki ranked 34th in the giant slalom. He did not finish in the slalom event. His best result in the Alpine Skiing World Cup is from 2003 slalom in Wengen, where he finished in a surprising second place with starting number 65. His other best results are fourth places in Kranjska Gora in 2004 and in Beaver Creek in 2005,
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draft-legal races such as the ITU races needed to qualify for the Olympics. After failing to qualify for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which she described as her "lowest moment", she decided to give up triathlon. Soon afterwards, she moved to San Diego, California, where her husband, Simon Marshall, had obtained a job as a sports scientist at San Diego State University. Paterson did not take up triathlon again until 2007, when on returning to Scotland for a summer holiday she entered the Scottish National Championships, and won the race. This success revived her desire to race triathlons, and when she
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industrial fields, some buildings such as churches, schools, colleges and universities were still constructed in the Gothic style (here often known as "Collegiate Gothic" style) which remained popular in England, Canada and in the United States (the United States has the most of Gothic Revival style architecture for Schools and Colleges/Universities) until well into the early to mid-20th century. Only when new materials, like steel and glass along with concern for function in everyday working life and saving space in the cities, meaning the need to build up instead of out, began to take hold did the Gothic Revival start
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JumpStart Typing JumpStart Typing is a personal computer game intended to teach typing skills to kids aged seven to ten. The game reuses the cast of "". The game is set at Sparks Stadium, where keyboarding Olympics take place between the Sparks Team and the Galaxy Gladiators. When Polly Spark gets mad at Coach Qwerty, who didn't like her "untapped typing talent" and consequently kicked her off the team, she locks him in the Trophy Room. When Botley reminds her of how much her father wanted to win a new trophy for the Trophy Room, Polly decides to let Coach
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Beijing's Olympic games. Born in 1990, Derebona-Ngaisset was 18 years old at the time of her participation in the Beijing Olympics. The qualification round for the event took place on 14 August, where Derebona-Ngaisset took place in the sixth heat against six other athletes. She was, however, disqualified, and did not rank in the event. The leaders of Derebona-Ngaisset's heat included Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei (1:59.72) and the Ukraine's Tetiana Petliuk (2:00.00). Of the 42 athletes participating in the event's qualification round, Mireille Derebona-Ngaisset was one of two athletes who did not finish (the other was the United States' Nicole
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Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. An alternative People's Olympiad was planned to take place in Barcelona, Spain, but was cancelled at the last moment following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War after the athletes had already begun to arrive. The civil war also meant that Spain's NOC did not compete at the 1936 Games. While no NOCs ended up boycotting the Games on anti-Nazi grounds, a multinational Jewish-led boycott of the Games took place, with individual athletes refusing to take part. Also, the IAAFs' refusal to allow athletes from Northern Ireland to compete for the Irish Olympic Council in athletics
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Saint-Germain and drawing with the hosts. The tournament did not take place in 2012 due to the ongoing Summer Olympics in London; it was believed that the capital's infrastructure was not able to cater for the extra 100,000 supporters that usually attend the two-day event. When the Emirates Cup resumed in 2013, Turkish side Galatasaray earned nine points to finish top of the group, and a year later Valencia became the first Spanish winners of the tournament as the hosts lost their decisive game against Monaco. Arsenal claimed their fourth Emirates Cup in 2015; the competition was held on the
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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification An NOC may enter up to 1 boat in each slalom event at the Olympics. Qualification places are awarded to the NOC and not to the athletes. Qualification timeline: Places: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Algeria received the African spot, but decided not to take place, leaving its place to Kenya, who chose not to participate, either. According to the classification rules, Brazil received the quota place as the next best country in the American qualification tournament. <nowiki>**</nowiki> New Zealand received the spot, but decided not to take place, Canada received the quota place as the
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serving in the Olympics: "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this is where my career would take me. Just working for NBC, that alone made my life. Now going to the Olympics for NBC? I just pinch myself as if to wonder is this really happening?" He returned to the Olympics to cover rowing at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, and also called the same events he had in Sochi at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyongchang. Beyond the Olympics, Diffey has covered rugby, anchoring studio coverage of Premiership Rugby and doing play-by-play for the
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countryman Kim Ki-Hoon, who defended his 1992 gold. The bronze was won by Canada's Marc Gagnon, who won the B final. In the A final, countryman Derrick Campbell was obstructed by Great Britain's Nicky Gooch, who was disqualified. Campbell got up and started celebrating his bronze medal, when he discovered he had not completed the race. In the men's 5000 meter relay, South Korea did not enter after a fall in the sole qualifying event, which took place in March 1993. Canada fell during the final, which saw Italy take a clear victory ahead of the United States, who were
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wedding morning, MJ shows up but Peter does not as he is lying unconscious in an alleyway. When he wakes up and rushes to where the wedding was to take place, he finds Mary Jane there and the two decide to take what happened as an omen and simply live together. At that point, the bulk of the Spider-Man stories from that point to the events of One More Day take place as they did normally, but with the two as a couple and living together while being unmarried. However, Mary Jane makes it clear she does not want to
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their Intervision debut. The contest's revival was scheduled to take place in October 2014 due to Russian anger at the "moral decay of the West", particularly in response to the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst. Moreover, the revival was seen as part of Vladimir Putin's "broader cultural diplomacy agenda". However the contest was later postponed to 2015 due to political reasons, before being postponed indefinitely. Russian singer and producer Igor Matvienko, announced that the revival of the Intervision Song Contest would take place in October 2014 in the coastal city of Sochi, which played host to the 2014
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Sudan was also set to participate for the first time, but its sole athlete did not show up in Beijing. Eritrea won their first world title at these championships, with Ghirmay Ghebreslassie winning the men's marathon. The event was the largest sporting event to take place at the Beijing National Stadium ("Bird's Nest") since the 2008 Summer Olympics. When the seeking deadline passed on 15 March 2010, three candidate cities (Beijing, London and Chorzów) had confirmed their candidatures. London then withdrew citing that they didn't want to seem to be biased towards the bids for the Olympic Stadium by committing
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Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics For the 1976 Summer Olympics, a total of twenty-seven sports venues were used. Several venues used had been in existence before Montreal made its first Olympic bid in the late 1930s. By the 1950s, Montreal's bid for the Olympics shifted from Winter to Summer before it was finally awarded the 1976 Summer Games in 1970. Strikes in 1974-5 affected construction of the Olympic Park, most notably the Stadium, Pool, and Velodrome, to the point where the FINA President threatened to not have the diving, swimming, and water polo events take place there for the
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the Games had brought along baseball uniforms, but the American Olympic Committee refused to risk injury to its athletes by having the baseball demonstration take place whilst there were any events still to take place involving those athletes. Therefore, the game was played on 17 July at the Östermalm Athletic Grounds, as the Olympic Stadium was being used for the equestrian competition. The United States lent some players to the Swedish team to make up numbers, but still ended up defeating the hosts 13–3. Twenty-eight nations competed at the 1912 Games. Egypt participated for the first time, as did Iceland,
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2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships where he finished 20th in the 1500 meters. Charlie Gruber Charlie Gruber is a retired American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team. Gruber raced for the Kansas Jayhawks where he was a 5-time All-American and 5-time Big 12 Conference champion. Gruber won the 2004 Prefontaine Classic at 1500m. Gruber followed this performance with a 2nd place finish at the Olympic Trials earning him a place to the 2004 Olympics. At the Olympics in the 1500 meters he finished 27th in the heats and did not advance. Gruber was also
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medal table. Jessica Fox won both the K1 and the C1 event, becoming the first female paddler to win both events at one world cup race. The world cup final took place in Bratislava, Slovakia from 23 to 25 August. The home paddlers won the individual medal table with 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Michal Martikán made his first competitive appearance since the London Olympics and he won the C1 event. The women's C1 team event did not take place. Both teams which entered the competition (Germany and Great Britain) did not start. 2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup
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Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. Dampney and Mullin were awarded the host nation place for the beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where the events are due to take place on Horse Guards Parade. They will be the first British pair to compete in the sport at an Olympic Games since 1996. As of the announcement that they are to compete in the Olympics, Dampney and Mullins were ranked 37th in the world. They are aiming for a top ten finish at the Games. Unfortunately, although the pairing reached the lucky losers match, they were knocked out
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Alana Boyd Alana Boyd (born 10 May 1984) is an Australian Olympic pole vaulter. The 2008 Australian Champion, Boyd was selected for the 2007 World Championships, but did not make the final. She did not make the final at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she finished in 11th place. She also reached the final of the 2012 Indoor World Championships, finishing in 9th. Her personal best jump is 4.81 metres, an Australian record achieved in July 2016 on the Sunshine Coast. She won the gold medal for the women's pole vault at the
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the titles to The Olympics (Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu). He and Tenryu would rebound in August 1988 as they won the newly unified World Tag Team Championship, defeating The Olympics. Unfortunately, they lost the belts back to The Olympics a day later. More bad news struck Hara, as days before the World's Strongest Tag Determination League was about to take place, he was fired from AJPW by Giant Baba for massive gambling debts in November 1988. Toshiaki Kawada would take his place in teaming with Tenryu. Upon his firing, he would take a hiatus. After over two and a
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announcement that they were to compete in the Olympics, Dampney and Mullin were ranked 37th in the world. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, they did not qualify from group F, but played well enough to play in the lucky loser match, where they lost to the Schwaiger sisters of Austria. Zara Dampney Zara Dampney (born 10 June 1986) is a British beach volleyball player, and former indoor volleyball player. She was chosen as one of the two players to take the home nation qualification spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with teammate Shauna Mullin. Dampney was born in Christchurch on
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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 500 metres The men's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-2 event is raced in two-person kayaks. This would be the last time the event would take place at the Summer Olympics. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced by 200 m events at the 2012 Summer Olympics with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The
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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres The men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-2 event is raced in two-man sprint canoes. This would be the last time the event would take place at the Summer Olympics. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced by 200 m events at the 2012 Summer Olympics with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women.
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6.64-metre long jumper, and Matt, a 5.35-metre pole vaulter. Alana Boyd Alana Boyd (born 10 May 1984) is an Australian Olympic pole vaulter. The 2008 Australian Champion, Boyd was selected for the 2007 World Championships, but did not make the final. She did not make the final at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she finished in 11th place. She also reached the final of the 2012 Indoor World Championships, finishing in 9th. Her personal best jump is 4.81 metres, an Australian record achieved in July 2016 on the Sunshine Coast. She won the
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DeMar did not return to serious competition until 1922, when he again won the Boston marathon in a course record 2:18:10. He repeated the victory in 1923 and 1924. In the latter year the full Olympic distance – 26 miles, 385 yards – was run. He was selected as one of the six runners on the U.S Olympic marathon team for the 1924 Summer Olympics, where he finished third. DeMar continued his success with a second-place finish at the 1925 Boston marathon, and a third-place finish the next year. He followed that with five consecutive marathon victories: at the Baltimore
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for the Junior Olympics. Although Kadra entered the Junior Olympics with the worst personal record, she finished with a time of 7:07, breaking her personal record by 50 seconds and finishing 11th in the first heat. During the second heat, Kadra fell at the third water jump, pushing her back to 5th place; when combined with the first heat, her final position was 14th place. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 1500 metres race; her time of 4:42.67 in the heats did not qualify her for the semifinals. Kadra Mohamed Dembil Kadra Mohamed Dembil (born April
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last Olympic marathon in Berlin twelve years earlier. Prior to this event, the existing Olympic record stood as follows. Key: DNF = Did not finish Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon The men's marathon event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place August 7. The race was won by Delfo Cabrera. Reminiscent of Dorando Pietri's final-lap ordeal when the Olympics were held in the same city 40 years earlier, Belgian Étienne Gailly entered the London stadium in first place, but was exhausted and running very slowly. He was passed first by Cabrera, then by Briton Tom
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and business owners did prosper from the Olympics being in Los Angeles, the Latino and African American Communities in Los Angeles especially where the Olympics mostly took place struggled. Preparing for the Olympics took a different route to make sure that their city was presentable, as they wanted to crack down on Latin and African American communities and the growing gang violence and drug movement that was in their neighborhoods. African American and Latino youths struggled during this time period by living in these neighborhoods that suffered from economic recession and unemployment rates that topped 40 percent and the growing
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the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. The contests were taken seriously for the first time, and 193 artists submitted works. This figure included three Soviet artists, even though the Soviet Union officially did not take part in the Olympic Games, which they considered to be a "bourgeois" festival. The growth continued at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, where over 1,100 works of art were exhibited in the Municipal Museum, not including the submissions in literature, music and architecture. Artists were allowed to sell their works at the close of the exhibition, which was rather controversial given the IOC's amateurism policy, which
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bearer in the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. The sole Senegalese athlete at the Games, Leyti Seck, competed in both the men's giant slalom and men's slalom. He was one of three African skiers at the Vancouver Olympics, alongside Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong from Ghana and Samir Azzimani of Morocco. Seck failed to complete his first run of the slalom, and so did not take part in a second run. For the giant slalom, he recorded times of 1:32.32 and 1:33.82, finishing some 28.31 combined seconds behind the gold medalist, Carlo Janka of Switzerland, but one place ahead of Azzimani.
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he survived a very serious accident. He was playing around a railway station, when a wagon came down on him and almost smashed his arm. He was taken to hospital where the doctors declared that his arm should be amputated. Tofalos' father opposed to it and finally proved to be right. His son recovered, but as a result of the accident one of his arms was shorter than the other. His physical defect did not stop him from becoming one of the greatest Greek athletes of all time. Unable to take part in the 1904 Summer Olympics due to a
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kiss in British television history, which went on to be broadcast around the world (including 76 countries where homosexuality is illegal) when it featured as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. She later said, "For a very long time I was defined by that kiss. And I didn't want to be. I spent years turning down other lesbian roles because it felt like going back to Beth. [But it] did also make me want to take on parts that showed extreme sides of women". In 1995, Friel won a National Television Award in the category of Most Popular
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the six villages that made up the territory of Ampezzo, located in the middle of the Ampezzo valley. Already an elite destination for the first British tourists in the late 18th and early 20th century, after World War I Cortina d'Ampezzo became a resort for upper-class Italians too. Cortina d'Ampezzo was chosen as the venue of the 1944 winter Olympics, which did not take place due to World War II. Thanks to finally hosting the winter Olympics in 1956, Cortina grew into a world-famous resort, with a substantial increase in tourists. With a resident population of 6,150 people in 2008,
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in 1994 to compete in the Olympics once again. The pair retired from competitive skating for good in 1998 when they toured one last time with their own show, "Ice Adventures", before rejoining "Stars on Ice" for one more season. Their final routine was performed to Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years", a routine they had devised a few years earlier for competition. Although remaining close friends, the pair did not skate together again until they were enticed out of retirement to take part in ITV's "Dancing on Ice". Both are from Nottingham, England, where the local National
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roadshows. They also participated in pre-National Day Parade activities, were displayed at competition venues and were featured in Youth Olympics memorabilia. The first official Olympics mascot was Waldi, introduced at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Games mascots have varied between being animals native to the area where the Games take place, humans, and imaginary creatures. They often reflect the culture and history of the hosting region, and have traits chosen to embody the ideals of Olympism and the Paralympic movement. The introduction of a mascot or mascots is often highlighted in the lead-up to the Games, to help
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advancing nations can successfully host the winter games". He called to the OCI core values saying that letting Almaty host the Games was "a golden opportunity to showcase the real long-term power of Olympic legacy for a region that has never hosted the Games". In the final voting Almaty lost to Beijing by only 4 votes. On 5 November 2013, the Chinese Olympic Committee announced that it would submit a bid for Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing (where the indoor ice sports and the ceremonies would take place), was the host city of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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photo session, the bride, the groom, and others are brought to the Shinto shrine. Nowadays, the Shinto shrine may be conveniently located inside a hotel where all the activities will take place. A Shinto priest conducts the ceremony. In the ceremony, the bride and the groom are purified. However, the ceremony's important event occurs when the bride and the groom exchange nuptial cups of "sake" also known as "san-san-ku-do". With the addition of Western tradition, the exchange of rings and weddings vows also take place. Those guests who did not attend the religious ceremony are able to view the ceremony
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23rd place on the all-time performers list. At 44.21, for 24 years he held the Trinidad and Tobago record which was eventually broken by Machel Cedenio in the 2016 Rio Olympics in a time of 44.01. Representing the Americas<br> Did not finish in the semifinals<br> Did not start in the semifinals Ian Morris (athlete) Ian ("Frinty") Morris (born 30 November 1961 in Siparia) is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 400 metres. A former soccer player for the Siparia Angels in South Trinidad, he did not take up athletics until the
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Alexandra Wenk Alexandra Wenk (born 7 February 1995) is a German swimmer who competes in the Women's 100 metre butterfly. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 21st overall in the heats in the Women's 100 metre butterfly and failed to reach the final. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she finished in 21st place in the women's 100 m butterfly and did not qualify for the semifinals. She competed in the women's 200 m medley where she finished 11th in the semifinals and did not qualify for the final. She was also a member of the
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Software. Discovery Education praised its educational and entertainment value, saying it was best suited for practicing typing rather than learning the basics, and would appeal to children who enjoyed fast-paced games. JumpStart Typing JumpStart Typing is a personal computer game intended to teach typing skills to kids aged seven to ten. The game reuses the cast of "". The game is set at Sparks Stadium, where keyboarding Olympics take place between the Sparks Team and the Galaxy Gladiators. When Polly Spark gets mad at Coach Qwerty, who didn't like her "untapped typing talent" and consequently kicked her off the team,
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14 as that day is Valentine's Day, whenever February 14 falls on a Sunday then the Grammys are held on February 15 as a result) but is held on the last Sunday of January in years where the Winter Olympics take place. When the televised Grammys came into renown in 1975, a relationship between Grammy Award winners and subsequent record sales began. Many articles of "Billboard" magazine communicate the commercial impact of winning a Grammy—improved record sales. However, it was not until after 1984 that Grammy recipients' records displayed a substantial increase in sales. This was largely due to an
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international success by beating Doug Tomalin to win the British Diving Championship at Leeds. In preparation for the 1936 Summer Olympics, Heron spent the first six months of the year in Miami, Florida, where he trained with Pete Desjardins, the 1928 Olympic champion. However, due to a dispute as to which sporting body should represent Irish athletes, Ireland did not participate in the 1936 Olympics. The next games took place in London in 1948 but another dispute over jurisdiction led to Heron and his team mates withdrawing from all swimming and diving events. Heron did, however, compete in the opening
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following: Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 16 to 28 February 2010. Games were hosted at two venues – Canada Hockey Place (renamed from "General Motors Place" for the Olympics due to IOC rules disallowing host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and UBC Thunderbird Arena. It was the fourth time since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano that the National Hockey League allowed its players to compete. These Olympics were the first to take place
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Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 16 to 28 February 2010. Games were hosted at two venues – Canada Hockey Place (renamed from "General Motors Place" for the Olympics due to IOC rules disallowing host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and UBC Thunderbird Arena. It was the fourth time since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano that the National Hockey League allowed its players to compete. These Olympics were the first to take place in
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Kuan Yew lit the cauldron at Marina Bay. However, the Youth Olympic flame was to last till the closing ceremony of the games. Although the IOC had scrapped any further international legs of the Olympic torch relay due to problems encountered during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, the Executive Board approved an exception for Singapore. The plan however was different from the traditional Olympics; the flame was to visit one city from each continent, where community celebrations would take place. The five cities, dubbed the "celebration cities", selected for the torch relay were Berlin, Germany; Dakar, Senegal; Mexico City,
2010 Summer Youth Olympics torch relay