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...athletes, the Olympics are the culmination of years of arduous training, heady determination and the belief that anything is possible. For spectators, the Olympics are the ultimate inspiration, the opportunity to watch their favorite athletes' dreams materialize into a very tangible reality-often in the shape of a medal...
...Official Website of the Olympic Movement http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp Want to know what the International Olympic Committee is up to? Check out this site and find out everything about the Olympic Movement-from the organization's mission to your favorite athlete's medal tally. And to keep your passion for the Olympics aflame, check out the site's feature on the Olympic Museum...
Early Sunday morning, during the last Olympic qualifying event for the U.S. snowboard team, medal favorite Hannah Teter lounged at the bottom of the half-pipe- the sloping channel where boarders do their tricks- at Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, N.J. Since she had already earned a trip to Torino, Teter could just, as she says, "chill out." She shimmied to the hip-hop music blaring over the loudspeakers, and cheered while her teammates soared. "It's great to have the opportunity to reach out to people that don't know much about snowboarding, so they...
...received a doctorate degree from the University in 1991. He was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal two years ago during the annual Arts First celebration...
Speed skating is still largely a white sport, and he has yet to get rich from it, but Davis, 23, the first African American to qualify for a U.S. Olympic speed-skating team, is now a gold-medal favorite for the 1,000-m and 1,500-m races at the Games in Torino. He's also one of the sport's most controversial figures, feuding openly with its governing body, U.S. Speedskating...