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February 4, 2010

Jamaican Bobsled Team Fails To Qualify For Olympics

Posted by Paul Hooson · Published: February 4, 2010 · Comments (1)

There will be no great sequel to COOL RUNNINGS this year, as the Jamaican bobsled team sadly failed to qualify as good enough to compete in the upcoming Vancouver, Canada hosted Winter Olympics. The saga of this team with a lot of heart was once captured in the funny 1993... [Full Story]

September 4, 2008

Oprah Starts Season with Olympic Champs

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 4, 2008 · Comments (1)

Oprah Winfrey is trying to help Chicago win the 2016 Olympic Games - and brought more than 170 American medallists in the Beijing Games to town Wednesday to help. Swimmers Michael Phelps and Dara Torres, gymnasts Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh... [Full Story]

May 16, 2008

Double Amputee sprinter Cleared to compete in Beijing

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 16, 2008

Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter known as the fastest man on no legs, will be allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics after a ban on his prosthetic limbs was overturned today. The South African 400 metre runner had been forbidden from competing alongside able-bodied athletes because his high-tech... [Full Story]

February 9, 2006

Now we can all drink like champions, Olympic-style

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: February 9, 2006

If you're tired of actually remembering where you saw images like that during the 2006 Winter Olympics, Deadspin points out olympicsdrinkin, for all your drinking games pleasure. But that's not all! It's this thing called a "wiki", so you can change, add, or edit the thing. Not enough drinking?... [Full Story]

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