An Olympic Track for Cultural Hurdlers
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A group of ambitious businessmen has created an international contest to reward groups that have demonstrated achievements in arts and humanitarian service.
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The 800 meters is the forgotten race in the United States. Nick Symmonds is on a fast track from obscurity to change that.
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At the New England Velodrome, cyclists compete in track racing - a niche sport within a niche sport.
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Advances in training allow some Olympians to continue competing even as they reach beyond 30-something.
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Olympic champions have their parents to thank for their physiology&#151;but no one is born a world-record holder. That also requires training, nutrition, desire, and determination.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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Anyone who has ever wondered what sound world champion Liu Xiang makes when he starts a high hurdles race will find out when Chinese composer Tan Dun's music for the Beijing Olympics is unveiled next year.
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Recent Howard graduate David Oliver is among a crop of U.S. youngsters who will contend for the high hurdles championship.
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ATHENS - It&#39;s a quirky statistic, one that makes you do a double-take until you check the record books. In the last 40 years only one White American, Dave Wottle, had won an Olympic gold medal in an event on the track.
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By FRED PEARCE  THE Olympics could be smelly.   A pong over the track, sewage backing up into the athletes' village and water sports suspended by lumpy bits in the river.
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Australia are set to oppose a plan to introduce a revolutionary new starting block at this year's Beijing Olympics. The official timing suppliers have designed a new block with an angled foot hold at the back, similar to the types used in athletics.
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A shot put competition unique in Olympic history -- ancient or modern -- turned into one of the strangest competitions in the Games history Wednesday evening as the sun was setting on the ancient stadium.
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Tourists seeking their own Olympian challenge while attending the Beijing Games this August might be tempted to get behind the wheel of a rental car and take a spin on the roads of the Chinese capital.
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TONY EASTLEY: It&#39;s been a long time between drinks for Olympic athletes competing at the ancient sports stadium at Olympia. In fact it&#39;s been 2,000 years since Olympic athletes set foot on the site.
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Before the Olympics, the five gold medals and the world records, Michael Johnson was a skinny kid who almost quit his high school track team because he didn't think he was good enough. Now he wants to turn youngsters into better athletes with equipment and coaching that wasn't around when he went to Dallas Skyline High.
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For decades, indoor track was like vaudeville. There was an established circuit -- Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York, Boston -- with an event nearly every winter weekend and competitors and officials traveling by train.
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By CAMILLE BAINS  VANCOUVER (CP) - The organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics say they've gone so far as moving ski runs to save frogs as part of their quest to ensure the Games are sustainable.