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During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin and America’s Abbey D’agostino competed against one another in the 5000 meter race. Neither won the race, but they both participated into one of the most memorial events in Olympic history. Midway through the race,…

Will Claye thought he had qualified for the 2016 Olympic team in the long jump but when officials ruled that his jumps were wind-aided, he discovered that he did not qualify. He did not give up. Instead, he regrouped and qualified for the team with his performance in the triple jump. He said afterward…

Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was running in second place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the London Olympics. As they came down the finishing straight, he was trailing the leader, Abel Mutai from Kenya, by a distance too great to overcome. Mutai would get the gold, Anaya would settle for silver.…

When President Jimmy Carter announced on Meet the Press, January 20, 1980 that he intended to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games, it altered the lives of many American athletes, like Bob Bugg. He had qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials already, unlike many others, and could have earned a place on the…

Jong Sim Rim won the 3rd weightlifting gold medal for North Korea and, like all North Korean athletes, she credited her success to the great leadership of the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim, Jong Un. However, few people from the western world take this seriously. So what was the real reason for the…

Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

Olympic champion Tara Lipinski intends to become a professional figure skater so she can spend less time training and more time with her family. "Now I'll ... be able to be with my family because they mean so much to me," she said Tuesday. "I don't want to be 21 and not know my dad." As a pro, Lipinski…