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Veronica campbell-brown: provisional drugs ban for sprinter

Campbell-Brown won 200m and 4x100m relay golds at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and retained her 200m title in Beijing four years later. She has won 16 medals for her country in world and Olympic meets and at London 2012 took bronze in the 100m and ...
[Source: www.bbc.co.uk]

Olympic athlete lolo jones causes controversy again as she posts video ...

Miss Jones was the gold-medal favourite for the 2012 London Olympics 100-metre hurdles, but finished fourth. Four years earlier in Beijing, the American came in as the favorite and was in position to win gold when she hit the ninth of 10 hurdles and ...
[Source: www.dailymail.co.uk]

Cubans to participate in bilbao athletics meeting

He also mentioned discus thrower Yarelis Barrios, runner up in Beijing 2008, pole vaulter Lazaro Borges, silver medalist in Daegu 2011 World Cup and the javelin thrower Guillermo Martinez, owner of two World Cup medals. The list includes the also ...
[Source: www.cubanews.ain.cu]

Eamonn coghlan claims irish sport is not getting value for money

In the four years up to Athens, Ireland won 54 medals. In the Beijing cycle it was 70 medals and in the London cycle it was 163 medals. That total included 61 medals in 2012 at European, World, Olympic and Paralympic levels across all of the sports.
[Source: www.irishtimes.com]

Athletics - factbox: veronica campbell-brown

Won gold medals in the 100 metres and 4x100 metres relay at the inaugural 1999 world youth championships and in the following year became the youngest Jamaican to win an Olympic medal with silver in the 4x100 relay at the Sydney Games. OLYMPIC MEDALS ...
[Source: uk.eurosport.yahoo.com]

2013 olympic sailing night series announced

Since then, Carpenter has had a direct hand in Team USA's continued success, including serving as coach to Anna Tunnicliffe when she won a gold medal in the Laser Radial at the 2008 Beijing Games. He serves as the Senior Olympic Coach for U.S. ...
[Source: sailingteams.ussailing.org]

Jemma lowe looking for highs in 2013

The 23-year-old took to the pool at her second Olympic Games in the capital having finished an impressive sixth in the 100m butterfly on debut at Beijing 2008 and ninth over double the distance. Lowe finished sixth again, this time in the 200m ...
[Source: www.walesonline.co.uk]

Canadian olympic committee in sochi plotting strategy for 2014 games

Chief executive officer Chris Overholt, chief sport officer Caroline Assalian and chief marketing officer Derek Kent are part of a group determining what Canada's athletes will require to win medals Feb. 7-23 in Sochi. Canada's objective is to win the ...
[Source: www.theglobeandmail.com]

Rising track star

In his mind, there are so many runners in front of him - and in front of his gold medal dreams - who are almost impossible to surpass. The farthest one is Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who set the world record at ... Over the past six years, Zhang ...
[Source: www.globaltimes.cn]

15 amazing mma submissions you have to see to believe

He has a laundry list of accolades from submission/grappling tournaments including gold medals from the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) and the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC). Werdum also holds black belts in Muay Thai and Judo. He ...
[Source: bleacherreport.com]