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  Jul 14 2010 10:40 AM ET The Olympics may still be two years away, but designer Stella McCartney has already begun a special race of her own: She has just been named the creative director for the British Olympic team. The designer, 38, is to head up Team GB’s Adidas ranges for the London-based [...]

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  Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:05 UK Charlie Francis, the former coach of disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, has died at the age of 61. Canadian Francis died on Wednesday at a Toronto hospital after a five-year battle with cancer. Francis was working with Johnson when the sprinter became the first athlete to be stripped [...]

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  Dong Fangxiao (right) was 14-years-old when she won the bronze medal   Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:22 UK Underage gymnast costs China Sydney Olympics bronze China have been been stripped of the Olympic bronze medal won by the women’s gymnastic team at the 2000 Games in Sydney for using an underage gymnast. The International [...]

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12:57 p.m. EDT, April 28, 2010 Pen Argyl gymnast wins Olympic medal — 10 years later China today was stripped of a team bronze medal in women’s gymnastics from the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics, elevating the United States — and Pen Argyl’s Kristen Maloney — to third place and the bronze. In a ruling made [...]

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American Rebecca Bross won the women’s competition on Saturday, finishing ahead of 15-year old American Alexandra Raisman, who comes from about 45 miles away in Needham, in a strong showing for the Americans. from:  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-03-06-3463324046_x.htm Rebecca Bross was born on July 11th, 1993 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Bross July 11th 7 + 11 +2+0+0+9 = 29 = [...]

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WHEN Sydney figure skater Cheltzie Lee pulled off the performance of her career yesterday, one person was never far from her thoughts: close friend Morgan Innes. Stepping on to the rink for her first Olympics, 16-year-old Lee dazzled spectators with an athletic routine performed to Michael Buble’s Feeling Good, a show that put her 18th [...]

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Mother of Top Canadian Figure Skater Joannie Rochette Dies Two days before the Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette was to compete here on home soil and contend for an Olympic medal, her Olympics took a tragic turn. Her mother, Therese, died on Sunday in a hospital here, Skate Canada president Benoit Lavoie said. She was [...]

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Short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno skated into the Olympic history books Saturday, winning a seventh winter games medal – a bronze in the 1000 meters – making him the most decorated American athlete in Winter Olympics history. “It feels amazing, especially in a sport as volatile as short track speed skating,” he said [...]

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   Feb-19-10 4:35pm Intrigue abounds today in the Russian curling world, as its been revealed that Anna Sidorova has been promoted to the position of skip. The move comes after the Russians have dropped to 1-3 at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Sidorova is a 19-year-old junior on the Russian curling team. When she’s not curling, [...]

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Veteran Swedish skier Patrik Järbyn saw his Olympic career come to an abrupt end on Friday as he crashed out of the super-G at the Vancouver Olympics. The soon-to-be 41-year-old, who won a world super-G silver in 1996 and a world downhill bronze in 2007, landed awkwardly after clipping a gate near the end of [...]

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February 18, 2010 Vonn Fails to Finish Race She won the downhill gold ahead of Mancuso on Wednesday, but three runs in a little more than 24 hours might have been too much for Vonn’s injured leg. “It’s killing me,” she said, but she went out of her way to make clear that it wasn’t [...]

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Speed skater Shani Davis used a push in his final lap in the men’s 1000 meter race to become the first Olympic speed skater to win the event twice and the first U.S. speedskater to defend a gold medal title. The American trailed the time of South Korean silver medalist Mo Tae-Bum by .26 seconds [...]

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Aya Yasuda, a Japanese luger, has been disqualified from competing in the women’s luge event at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics because she was carrying weights heavier than the legal limit. Lugers are allowed to carry some extra weights to help them go faster, but Yasuda’s 29.2 pounds was more than the 28.8 pounds the athletes [...]

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The 2010 U.S. National skating champ discusses what makes him nervous about his upcoming performance in Vancouver. from:  http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20343869,00.html Jeremy Abbott was born on June 5th, 1985 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Abbott June 5th, 1985 6 + 5 +1+9+8+5 = 34 = his life lesson = what he is here to learn = Speed.  Quickness.  Rapidity.  Swiftness.  [...]

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Canada’s long wait for a first Olympic gold medal on home soil is over after Alexandre Bilodeau won the men’s moguls event in Vancouver. Bilodeau, 22, finished ahead of Australia’s reigning champion Dale Begg-Smith and American Bryon Wilson. It ended a 34-year wait and sparked wild celebrations at Cypress Mountain. Canada had never won an [...]

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Weir on threats: ‘I didn’t want to get hurt’ U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir says he received threats from anti-fur activists that made him fear for his safety, causing him to scrub any plans to stay at a hotel while in Vancouver for the Olympics. “I felt very threatened,” he said Saturday. “I’m not allowed [...]

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Shannon Bahrke of Tahoe City, Calif., a silver medalist in 2002 who led the competition prior to Heil’s run, took the bronze for the U.S. from:  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/vancouver/2010-02-13-olympics-roundup_N.htm Shannon Bahrke was born on November 7th, 1980 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Bahrke November 7th 11 + 7 +2+0+0+9 = 29 = her personal year (from November 7th, 2009 to [...]

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  Hours before the Winter Olympics were set to open in Vancouver, a Georgian luge competitor died after a horrific accident during training on Friday. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was training at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, B.C., when his sled veered off the Olympic track and crashed into a steel pole at 90 mph, [...]

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