Pin ItemailprintThe city of Pyeongchang has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics after beating out Munich and Annecy, France, in its third bid to bring the event to the country of South Korea. The town, which lies in the Taebaek mountains some 80 miles east of Seoul, won in the first round of voting by [...]
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Here’s an interesting way to go out. Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died this morning after jumping off of the balcony of his Nyahururu home in Kenya. Wanjiru jumped from the second floor of his residence last night after his wife caught him with another woman. His wife, Tereza Njeri, and another unidentified woman [...]
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Nothing like waiting until the last minute to voice your concerns. It seems Iran is upset over the 2012 Olympics logo, which was unveiled way back in 2007. The secretary general of Iran’s Olympic committee, Bahram Afsharzadeh, says that he thinks the 2012 Olympics logo spells out the word “Zion”, a term which is widely used [...]
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Former Olympian Antonio Pettigrew was found dead on Tuesday morning. The assistant North Carolina Tar Heels track coach was found in his vehicle. A cause of death has not been made available. Pettigrew, 42, was a member of the 1,600-meter U.S. relay team that took the gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Australia, but [...]
Sorry, China, thanks for playing our game…but you lose. Team China has been stripped of an Olympic bronze medal it was awarded back in 2000 at the Sydney games after it was revealed that country’s gymnasts were underage. The IOC has said that Dong Fangxiao was only 14 years old at the time of the [...]
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The Canadian women may have taken things a little too far. The International Olympic Committee will launch an investigation the antics of several players on the Canadian women’s hockey team players who took part in a gold medal celebration on Thursday that included chugging beer and smoking cigars right out on the Vancouver ice. Among [...]
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Chicago is out. Rio de Janeiro is in. The Brazilian city was chosen Friday afternoon to be the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, defeating Madrid in the final vote by the IOC. Chicago was eliminated in the first round in one of the most stunning upsets in IOC history. Tokyo was then given a [...]
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UPDATE: Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Read details here. In what has to be a shocking upset, Chicago has been eliminated from the first round of International Olympic Committee voting for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Tokyo, which was an underdog from the very beginning, was then eliminated in the second round. [...]
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