Triathlon
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London 2012 Olympics diary: Brownlees' coach concerned with triathlon burnout ... - Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Nov 17, 2011
BBC News London 2012 Olympics diary: Brownlees' coach concerned with triathlon burnout ... Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Celebrated Olympic champion sailor Ben Ainslie was the first named in Team GB for the London 2012 Olympics when the sailing side was announced several… Full Story »
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NCAA men's soccer - Akron Zips coach Caleb Porter combines college ranks and national team duties
ESPN - Olympics News &bull Nov 16, 2011
Akron coach Caleb Porter isn't sure why soccer grabbed him and has refused to ever let go. He didn't have any family history with the game. He competed at several other sports, but soccer was the one that possessed him. My dad was never a soccer player," said Porter, a Michigan native. He also was a triathlete. My mom ran marathons. It wasn't that anybody pushed me into soccer. I think it was the freedom. It was something I chose. I can remember as a kid having soccer posters all over my walls and being able to recite everything that… Full Story »
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Just the facts: Verzbicas must be U.S. citizen to compete for USA at Olympics
Globetrotting &bull Nov 15, 2011
It's time to clarify the situation about Lukas Verzbicas' eligibility for the 2012 Olympics.Verzbicas, 18, is a citizen of Lithuania who has lived in the United States more than half his life and has applied for U.S. citizenship, but it seems unlikely he will get it before the 2012 Olympics.In a profile last June and two stories last week after he left both running and the University of Oregon to pursue a career in triathlon, I wrote… Full Story »
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Veterans Affairs allowances boost Paralympians, hopefuls
United States Paralympics News &bull Nov 2, 2011She can throw far, very far, in fact, but Joshua has no idea of how far his mother really has gone. An 18-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and the Army, Callahan is trying to represent the United States in another field, as a member of the U.S. Paralympic squad that will compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. She has gone quite a distance already. She suffered a back injury in a parachuting accident and consequent surgical problems and is now a full-time wheelchair user. But a recreational therapist at the Veterans Affairs hospital in San Antonio, Texas,… Full Story »
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Family affair - SkySports
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Oct 11, 2011
SkySports Family affair SkySports Last Updated: October 11, 2011 12:03pm Great Britain triathlon star Alistair Brownlee says himself and his brother Jonathan have earned their favourites tag ahead of the 2012 Olympics , and that the added pressure is a… Full Story »
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Rau'shee Warren wins bronze at worlds, earns honor
USA Today - Olympics News &bull Oct 10, 2011
Boxer Rau'shee Warren won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships. Despite a valiant battle in a semifinal bout with Russia's Misha Aloyan, the flyweight from Cincinnati lost in a 17-13 decision. But Warren did secure a spot on… Full Story »
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London 2012 Olympics: Ed Clancy will lead Team GB's defence of the pursuit without thought of past glories
Telegraph - Olympics &bull Sep 22, 2011
Great things are expected of Ed Clancy, who will lead GB's defence of the team pursuit . I'm quite unusual in that most people who do this come from a cycling family and I don't. I was just a kid who used to enjoy messing around on a BMX. My mum will tell you that the first thing I got excited about when I was a little kid was a plastic tractor with pedals on it. I was born in Barnsley and grew up near Holmfirth and I and a group of mates started messing about on mountain bikes. At… Full Story »
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Olympic Games 2012: how will business security in the City be affected? - Info4Security
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Sep 22, 2011
With less than 12 months to go before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, Advance Security convened a special Breakfast Seminar at SMBC examining security and continuity measures for businesses in the City of London. Brian Sims reports. Yesterday morning, over 50 key security professionals gathered at the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's (SMBC) Queen Victoria Street building in The City of London to hear David Evans, Jonathan Crabb and Andrew Clancy offer their views on the current state of play in relation to security and business continuity issues surrounding the 2012 Games. Among the audience were representatives from -… Full Story »
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London 2012 opens Young Games Maker volunteer applications - London 2012 (press release)
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Sep 22, 2011
Today the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) calls on teams of dedicated and passionate 16 to 18-year-olds to begin applying for Young Games Maker roles through the generalist recruitment process. The search is on for over 2,000 young people from across the UK to take up volunteer roles vital to ensure the successful delivery of the Games. Approximately 250 teams of young people, who must be aged 16 or over on 1 July 2012 and under 18 on 1 January 2012, will join the adult Games Makers next summer to help stage the… Full Story »
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London 2012 Olympics: Great Britain's Helen Jenkins wins second ITU World Championship title
Telegraph UK - The Olympics &bull Sep 12, 2011
Great Britain's Helen Jenkins secured her second ITU World Championship title after finishing second in the grand final in Beijing to claim victory in the overall series. Heading into the grand final, Jenkins only needed to make the podium to… Full Story »
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ITU WCS Final Triathlon Not So Grand For Hard-Luck Paula Findlay... - Edmonton Journal (blog)
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Sep 11, 2011
Alberta Liberals on Saturday elected health-care folk hero Raj Sherman as the party's new leader, signalling a shift toward a fiscally conservative platform and a strong mandate to attack the ruling... Since the Rwandan genocide in 1994 - when UN fecklessness led to the butchering of as many as 800,000 people... MacKinnon: Eskimos know they must 'come out with the same intensity' if they hope to sweep season series with ... Alberta gained the most jobs of any province in August, but its unemployment rate still edged upward, according… Full Story »
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London 2012 Olympics: Brownlee brothers reap more rewards in Beijing as Alistair secures ITU world title
Telegraph - Olympics &bull Sep 10, 2011
Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee has been confirmed as the 2011 Dextro Energy ITU World Champion, with his brother Jonathan joining him on the podium in second place. The Yorkshire-born pair went into today's season-ending race in Beijing separated by just 120 points, and it… Full Story »
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Back to Beijing
United States Olympic Committee News &bull Sep 8, 2011More than 250 Americans have made the trip to Beijing, China, this week to compete in the ITU World Championships, but most don't have a connection to the city the way Scout Bassett does. Bassett, who will be representing the red, white and blue in the TRI-2 category at the paratriathlon championship event set for Friday,… Full Story »
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San Diego to Host 2012 ITU World Championship Series Event
United States Olympic Committee News &bull Sep 8, 2011COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It was announced today that the International Triathlon Union (ITU) has approved USA Triathlon and the city of San Diego to serve as hosts for the sport's premier Olympic-distance series in May 2012. Pending final approval of the race course by local communities, San Diego - the birthplace of triathlon - will welcome the world's top triathletes as one of eight stops on the ITU World Championship Series (WCS). Next year's races, scheduled for May 12-13, 2012, will serve as the second of two qualifier events to determine the 2012 U.S. Olympic Men's and Women's Triathlon… Full Story »
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Canada predicted to better Beijing at 2012 Olympics - Globe and Mail
Google News - 2012 Summer Olympics &bull Sep 6, 2011
Canada's Simon Whitfield, from Kingston, Ont., holds up his silver medal after the mens triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Canada's Simon Whitfield, from Kingston, Ont., holds up his silver medal after the mens… Full Story »
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Wonder women qualify for London
United States Olympic Committee News &bull Aug 23, 2011Sarah Groff of the USA in action during the Women's Elite race during day one of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park on August 6, 2011 in London, England. She had good reason to celebrate. After missing most of last season with a lower back injury, Groff qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team with a seventh-place finish at the International Triathlon Union World Championship Series earlier this month in London. I actually lost a completely unrelated bet… Full Story »
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London Calling -- Answering the dreaded 'what happened?'
ESPN - Olympics News &bull Aug 22, 2011
Kathryn Bertine is an elite cyclist and the author of two sports memoirs, As Good As Gold (ESPN) and All the Sundays Yet to Come (Little, Brown). She can be reached through her site www.kathrynbertine.com. George Varhola Feverish and low on energy, Kathryn Bertine logged a slow-motion, second-to-last finish in the 2010 UCI Cycling World Championships in Australia. One of the high points of being an elite athlete is that those outside our sport seem impressed with our lives, as if we're victoriously awesome all the time, prancing around with yellow jerseys and champagne bottles, winning everything we do. This… Full Story »
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London 2012 Olympics: Sky News claims it was prevented from broadcasting coverage of road cycling test event
Telegraph - Olympics &bull Aug 16, 2011
Sky News says it was prevented from broadcasting live footage of Sunday's London 2012 road cycling test event because Olympic organisers did not want "the complexity" of having media cover the event. Locog says it was not vetting or restricting… Full Story »
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LONDON 2012: Team GB chief Hunt sees the power of home advantage
More than the games &bull Aug 15, 2011TEAM GB chef de mission Andy Hunt believes British athletes are ready to ride a tidal wave of patriotism to success at next year's London 2012 Olympics. Home athletes have impressed in a week of Olympic test events - Alistair… Full Story »
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LONDON 2012: Qatari ruling family to take control of Olympic Village
More than the games &bull Aug 12, 2011Qatari Diar, the same company that owns the Chelsea Barracks site in Westminster and the US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square, will enter into a joint 50-50 venture with Jamie Ritblat's Delancey real estate investment group. They have paid 557… Full Story »
