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19 hours ago ago from The Salt Lake City 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Salt Lake City, UT
Among the Greeks, fitness competitions and games were nationalistic in spirit; states were said to have been prouder of Olympic victories than of battles won. Women, foreigners, slaves, and dishonored persons were forbidden to compete. Contestants were required to train faithfully for 10 months before the games and had to take an oath that they had fulfilled the training requirements before participating. At first, the Olympic Games were ...
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Take a good look at the Vancouver Olympic home rental market. Many families are willing to take the risk and rent out their homes for the very first time with hopes that there will be a lucrative rental contract to balance the risk. Not since 1986 when the World Exposition focused the attention of the world on our door has there been so much general anticipation of the possibilities. Unlike other homeowners world wide, we Vancouverites are ...
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It was in March 2008, on the eve of the Beijing Olympic selection trials in Sydney, that Libby Lenton retired from swimming, to be replaced by Libby Trickett. Now that Libby' too has left swimming behind, along with the chance to compete at a third Olympic Games. Libby with her 100m freestyle world championship gold medal. Photo Joe Armao Libby won 3 Olympic Gold medals, eight World Championship titles and is a former multiple ...
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Women's Hammer Throw (BEIJING, July 6) Jessica Cosby, 2006 USA Outdoor champion, stunned the field with an Olympic Trials record throw of 70.72m/232-0 as the women's throws took center stage Saturday at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track and Field. Together with second-place Amber Campbell (69.24m/227-2) and fourth-place Loree Smith (67.11m/220-2), Cosby is now part of the U.S Hammer Throw team. Third-place finisher ...
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