2000 Sydney Olympics News
2000 sydney olympics
The Home Depot says a tough economy is forcing it to get rid of the Olympic Job Opportunities Program for athletes. It's a big hit for Utah because many of those athletes live, work and train here. With the Home Depot program, Olympic athletes could ...
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Economy forces Home Depot to scrap Olympic athlete program - ksl.com
Silver medal at the '96 Olympics in Atlanta; 2001 world champion - those are a couple of things that might get noticed on a resume, don't you think? Yes, the whole "City of Champions" thing has taken a beating, what with the signs coming down and ...
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Grappling with a dynasty - Edmonton Sun
By Paul Upham in Marrickville: There were two reasons WBC/WBA/IBF 115lbs boxing world title holder Vic Darchinyan could have missed his Wednesday gym workout. First, it was 40 degrees Celsius in the searing summer heat. The second, January 7, 2009 ...
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Darchinyan, Bika Workout in Sydney Heatwave - Secondsout.com
Approaching the age of thirty seven (on 18 January), and having seemingly achieved neat enough symmetry to her Olympic career in Beijing by winning a silver medal in what will be her last Games to match her achievement in the first Olympic outing in ...
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Plätzer planning the climax to her race walking saga - IAAF
A record number of Australian athletes look set to dominate the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in January. Australia will field 660 athletes and officials, China 273, New Zealand 229, Great Britain 190 and Japan 117 as they prepare ...
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Youth Olympics kick off next week - ninemsn
CITY of Salford Trampoline Club star Emma Scanlon is being tipped for medal glory at the Junior Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The 17-year-old is one of just four trampolinists who will be representing Great Britain at the prestigious event. And ...
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Olympic girl - Salford Advertiser
USA Triathlon will induct its Inaugural Hall of Fame Class on Jan. 17 in Colorado Springs. The Hall of Fame class includes Livonia Olympian Sheila Taormina (post-1999 elite athlete). She competed in the 2000 Sydney (sixth) and 2004 Athens (23rd ...
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Locals: Area athlete gets Hall call - Detroit News
After her tearful and self-flagellating speech on the day she copped a plea to perjuring herself, I thought Marion Jones would come out of prison and begin where she left off. Apparently even six months in a Texas jail cell hasn't diminished her ...
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Showing entries for Category: Olympics - San Francisco Examiner
"If I only play three more years this would be a good opportunity," Oswalt said. "I thought it'd be a great time to do it and try to win a gold medal." Oswalt, who won a gold medal on Team USA at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, did not participate in ...
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Astros' Oswalt to pitch in World Baseball Classic - Houston Chronicle
On the same night that he began his professional career as starry-eyed 16-year-old, Juan Diaz also got to meet a man who was already well down the road to becoming a Mexican boxing legend. Now, nine years later, Diaz and Juan Manuel Marquez will be ...
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