The 1992 All-American class featured three Major League Baseball All-Stars, two Olympians, one Major League Baseball record holder and a two-time World Series champion.
He represented his country at the 2008 Olympic Games.
She has helmed 18 ft skiffs, completed 15 Sydney to Hobart races and written about all major yacht races including the Olympic Games.
He was also in the Olympic team that reached the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.
Howard Baker represented Britain at both the 1912 and 1920 Olympic Games.
Charles Brennus sculpted the shield himself in 1892, based on an original design from his friend and fellow USFSA co-founder Pierre de Coubertin, the man who founded the modern Olympic Games.
Schlegel also played for the Canadian National Team for many years, and was part of the Canadian Men's Hockey Teams that played in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and won the Silver Medal both times.
He was also matchmaker for the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Boxing Trials and for William H. King Promotions.
1984 also saw an Olympic version of the Buick Century, commemorating the 1984 games in Los Angeles, California.
Diane Moyer, former Olympic field hockey player, current chair of the psychology department
He participated at the South American U-20 Championship in Paraguay in 1999, and Olympic qualifying tournament in Brazil in January 2000.
She is a Dutch dressage champion who won two gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 summer Olympics and four silver medals in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics.
Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.
The Facility houses two ice sheets the main ice arena, the Fred Rust Ice Arena, is a 2,500-seat regulation Olympic sized ice arena on the UD campus.
The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London.
Dedecker became well-known first for his long career as a judo coach, with his judokas winning a for Belgium unprecedented number of medals (among them four times Olympian gold), and then for his politics.
Though sidelined for two months by the accident, he still managed to compete in the Ironman as well as the St. Anthony's 32 mile Olympic-style race in St. Petersburg, Florida, the half Ironman at Disney and the Timberman 70.3 in New Hampshire.
The area features a 400 meter Olympic-style 8-lane track, an alumni building that offers storage facilities and postings of team records, and permanent lights.
From 1999 to 2006 he was a popular sportscaster for national radio sports on CBC Radio, and anchored the radio coverage for four Olympic Games.
An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.
A joke game based on the Olympic sport of synchronized swimming, the participants of this game must simultaneously (as a team) guess the type of food that they are given while their eyes are closed and noses are plugged.
After college, van Arsdale won a World Cup Championship in 1991, a CISM (military) World Championship, was a two-time Olympic alternate, and a six-time member of the National Freestyle Wrestling team.
During his tenure as coach, the Danish national squad achieved over 20 major international wins, including an Olympic gold medal in 1996, six gold medals and three silver medals at the European Championships in 1996, the men's singles titles at the 1995 and 1996 All England Championships, and a gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the World Championships in 1995.
In January 2011 the NOC announced that it had chosen Loughborough University as training camps for Team Nigeria prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games, a location that would also be used by the Japanese athletes.
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The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) is the National Olympic Committee for Nigeria, responsible for co-ordinating and supporting Nigerian competitors in the Olympic Games.
Nikolai is the most capped Olyroos player representing Australia at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
McWhirter was also part of the BBC commentary team for their Olympic Games coverage between 1960 and 1976.
The Olympic Charter, last updated 9 September 2013, is a set of rules and guidelines for the organization of the Olympic Games, and for governing the Olympic movement.
In March 2012 the journal published a special issue on the Olympic Legacy to explore some of the issues surrounding the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
In Färjestad, Nordström plays winger with double Olympic gold medal winner, Jörgen Jönsson (center), and winger Pelle Prestberg, forming a line called Jönssonligan (The Jönsson Gang in English).
Although initially portrayed as a brutish, womanizing, adulterous cad, Campbell-Black's character is later somewhat redeemed through his triumphant winning of an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain.
It is not retired, as it would later be worn by former US Olympian Darby Hendrickson and Serge Aubin.
Ten years later, John Curtis (played by Landon himself) is an Olympic marathon runner and a gold-medal-winner.
For many they trump major tournaments for individual competitors such as the venerable All-England Championships, the BWF World Championships, and even the badminton competitions at the Olympic Games.
His father, Robert Rafto was an Olympic gymnast and the winner of the Norwegian decathlon championships in 1918.
His first Olympic Games as a commentator with the BBC was in 1972, and he covered every World Cup tournament from 1974 to 2006.
At the Norwegian Jazz scene he has been most recognized for the cooperation with Arild Andersen and his music for «Kristin Lavransdatter», performed to the Olympic Games at Lillehammer.
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The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2008.
He was due to be the first person to represent Iraq in archery at the Olympic Games, having qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but the entire Iraqi delegation was banned from the Games by the International Olympic Committee due to Iraqi government interference in the Iraqi national Olympic Committee.
He wasn't able to attend the award ceremony because he was covering yachting at the Olympic Games at the time.
The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.
After a spell of training several outstanding swimmers, including an Olympian and Hong Kong age group record breakers, Bright accepted an opportunity to coach triathlon at Loughborough University in England.
He was a member of the Cornwall rugby union team, which on 26 October 1908 won the Olympic silver medal for Great Britain.
In the United Kingdom, 2012 is cited by the British press as a bike boom period, fuelled by the successes of the Tour de France and the Olympic Games by its cyclists.
At the end of that season, he represented Ireland in the Olympic Games against Holland at Portsmouth.
Carlo Mattioli (born October 23, 1954 in Pergola, Pesaro e Urbino) is a retired male race walker from Italy, who represented his native country twice at the Olympic Games: 1984 and 1988.
Among those who have sailed for the club is Robert Halperin, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1960 and a Pan American Games gold medal in 1963 in yachting, and who was also a football player at Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and in the NFL, one of Chicago's most-decorated World War II heroes, and Chairman of Commercial Light Co.
Cherry-Evans was named after one of his English-born mother's favourite British athletes, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Decathlon Gold Medallist Daley Thompson.
It is also used to elect the various party nominees for President of the United States, the host city of the Olympic Games and the host of the FIFA World Cup.
The events held at this Games were not the first figure skating events contested at the Olympic Games, as the sport had also been on the programme at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics.
Together with his wife, Ursula, and their assistant, Tom Green, he produced many notable olympians such as Shane Gould, Karen Moras, Gail Neall, John Davies, Terry Gathercole, John Ryan and Ian O'Brien.
New Italian coach Carlo Recalcati let him return to the team, and although he lost the calling for Eurobasket 2003, Pozzecco was part of the roster that won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 2004.
The Greece at the team sports international competitions has achieved 12 victories at the Olympic Games (1), World Championship (3) and European Championships (8).
A number of former Olympians and European champions in athletics have run for the club including Olympic medalists Joe Deakin, David Jacobs, Herbert Johnston, Ernest Webb and Thomas Humphreys, as well as Harry Green, another Olympian who held a world best in the marathon.
Moon is best known for taking part in the 1988 and 1992 summer Olympic Games as a member of the South Korean equestrian team.
After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.
He finished 3rd in the 200m at the Drake Relays with a time of 21.10 into a headwind of 1.1 m/s behind World and Olympic Champion Jeremy Wariner and Jamaican Richardo Williams.
Shea also was chosen by fellow athletes to recite the Athlete's Oath during the Opening Ceremonies.
There are also temporary categories for special events, such as the Olympic Games, Australian Idol, Celebrity Idols, etc.
He was sent back to Cuba from Panama during the Olympic qualifying round in November 2003 for making contact with an agent.
At the conclusion of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, the Geelong City Council held a dinner on 15 January 1957 to honour the six Geelong Guild athletes (Ron Blackney, John Chittick, Robert James "Bob" Joyce, John Landy, Don MacMillan and John Vernon) who had represented Geelong and Australia at these games.
Lázaro Vargas Álvarez (born January 18, 1964, in San Miguel del Padrón) is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic gold medalist.
Since 1993 it has been named after one of the club's most famous athletes, Olympic 100 metres gold medallist Linford Christie.
After realizing his dream, McDull set himself another target: to become an Olympic champion just like female windsurfer Lee Lai Shan.
From 1946 to 1950 he had been the athletics correspondent for The Observer, a position he subsequently held for a while at the Telegraph, covering the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and in Rome four years later.
As an amateur boxer he accomplished (3x National Silver Gloves Championships, 2x Junior National Golden Gloves Championships, Junior Olympic Gold Medal, Ringside World Championship, Ohio State Fair Championship, Under-19 National Championship, and a National Pal Championship, where he defeated 2012 Olympian Lenroy Thompson in the finals.
Olympic Spirit Toronto was an Olympic-themed attraction featuring the moments of high drama and emotion experienced by Olympians and fans throughout Canada’s history with the Olympic Games.
In 1928, he served as a member of U.S. gymnastic team at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
A few days later he was mistakenly named in the Great Britain squad preparing for the Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible.
On the scene, he anchored coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Pope John Paul II, numerous royal, papal, and U.S. presidential visits to Canada, numerous Olympic Games, and the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Speaking in a High Court libel hearing in 1998, Roddan told the jury that a magazine article by John McVicar alleging Linford Christie took drugs to get to the top was a "fairy story", describing a suggestion that the Olympic gold medallist's impressive physique may have been due to taking steroids or other performance-enhancing banned substances as "ridiculous".
The talented player from the southern city of Najaf, is one of Iraq's most gifted individuals, who excelled playing for the Olympic team in the qualifying rounds – his performances compensated for the absence of Nashat Akram in Iraq's midfield.
All world, international, and regional competitions sanctioned by International Sepak Takraw Federation, including but not limited to, the Olympic Games, World Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and SEA Games, must be played with ISTAF approved sepak takraw balls.
In 1859 Wenlock Olympian Class sent £10 to Athens as a prize for the best runner in the Long Foot Race at the Olympic Games which was held in November that year - open only to Greek-speaking athletes.
Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa - Malagasy Olympic sprinter and professional Track athlete of the 1970s.
Wu Wen-Chien (吳文騫 born June 9, 1977) is a Taiwanese Olympic long-distance runner that represented Chinese Taipei in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the marathon.