For years, college players were good enough to win gold for the Americans: Their only loss was in Munich in 1972, when, fair to say, the officials cheated them out of the gold medal in the final seconds. The only reason it won’t be four is that the Olympics remain sexist enough that women are not allowed to swim the 1,500-meter freestyle. The said member has left the Olympic Village’, the announcement read.
Advertisement
I’ll once again be glued to the idiot box this month as the games march forth between August 5 and August 21 in the crime-ridden paradise of Brazil.
‘The leadership of the (Greek) Olympic team in Rio announces the positive first sample of a member of the team during drugs testing conducted in early July in Athens, ‘ the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) said when referring to the unnamed competitor.
Michael Phelps’ would be in his fifth Olympic games, a Canadian equestrian Ian Millar holds the record, who has competed in 10 games, Rio will be the first Olympics that the 69-year-old will miss in 40 years, and the Canadian isn’t coming as a result of retirement but His horse is undergoing surgery. More recently, he won a silver medal at the World Cup in Azerbaijan in June. “I was the one who messed it up at the end”. I’m sure we all admire their dedication and skill, and we’ll be pulling for them. If he absolutely had to pick a basketball team it would be the Knicks, but he’d gladly trade them for just one championship for any of his other three teams. “But I had a great time”.
But sports commentators said China is steadily improving in swimming. If Biles can help lead Team USA to victory in the team final event it’ll mark the first time that the US women’s team has ever won back-to-back gold medals in the event. India will field its biggest contingent with nearly 120 athletes.
With New Zealand, their best-ever Olympic showing brought medals in a wide range of sports, including rowing, sailing, track and field, canoeing, cycling and equestrian. Bolt, who was born in the tiny village of Sherwood Content in north-central Jamaica, charged into our collective memory banks in 2012. The Olympics then became an all-out competition between the Soviets and the Americans, with athletics as a proxy war. “I’m also the greatest athlete to live”.
Success in shooting will be key to India’s hopes of surpassing the London Olympics’ six-medal haul, and the performance of Jitu and Bindra will be crucial to achieve that aim, while the likes of Gagan Narang, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Heena Sidhu and Apurvi Chandela can also fetch medals.
It’s also a huge day for the men of Team USA archery as they go for gold in Rio.
Advertisement
Perhaps the most lasting memory from Bolt’s historic games was when he slowed down at the finish line in the 200 to shush the crowd, adding some flash to his already historic dash.
