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Gyorffy spent the summer competing on the European track circuit, which pitted her against many of the same athletes she saw at the Olympics. According to Turner, she finished as high as fourth and consistently in sixth or seventh place in meets from Portugal to Norway. She also won the...
Harvard has a long history with the Olympics. James B. Connolly, Class of 1898, won the first-ever gold medal of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Connolly competed in the hop, skip and jump, now commonly known as the triple jump.
"That for me was as big as I've been in track," Taylor said. "It was amazing in the same way that the Olympics would be big for Dora. It was taking your competitiveness to the next level. Hopefully, Dora and I would be able to meet up again in...
Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that...
Second, there has to be more communication among the various national associations, sports federations and the IOC. It is absolutely preposterous that the IOC isn't required to be informed of every drug infraction. Drug testing may be a joke in smaller events, but at the Olympics it should be...