RIO DE JANEIRO — Aimee Boorman, the United States women’s gymnastics coach, couldn’t remember the specific jokes she was telling her prized protege, Simone Biles, to keep her loose during the long interval before the balance beam. “I’m sure she thinks they’re really stupid,” Boorman said. But they were good enough to help Biles conquer […]
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad made her debut as the first American Olympic athlete competing with a hijab on Monday but her adventure ended prematurely in the second round of women’s sabre fencing. Wearing a black Muslim head scarf under her mask, the eighth-ranked Muhammad won her first round match 15-13 against Ukraine’s
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAIf you watched the Olympics this weekend, you probably noticed the purple circles on swimmer Michael Phelps, and some members of the US men’s gymnastics team. The marks have been garnering a lot of buzz, and speculation: Michael Phelps probably just fell asleep on his medals pic.twitter.com/IOzvGaJ0Dv — Above Average (@AboveAverage) August 8, 2016 But
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Their athleticism may look smooth on the floor exercise, uneven bars and balance beam and achieved with the greatest ease on the vault. But gymnast Aly Raisman talked about the hours of hard work in the gym to get that magical payoff, the heavy lifting rarely seen by the public. On
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International, Sports & CompetitionsRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Anna van der Breggen delivered the Netherlands its first gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Sunday in a nail-biting finish to the women’s cycling road race, which saw her team-mate Annemiek van Vleuten injured in a nasty fall. Van Vleuten had been in the lead when she fell while
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International, Sports & CompetitionsRIO DE JANEIRO — Michael Phelps added a 19th gold medal to his ever-growing record haul Sunday night. Phelps surged ahead in the second leg of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay to give the U.S. team a lead it held for good. It was Phelps’ first race of these Rio 2016 Olympics, and the 31-year-old looked
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics isn’t everything. There’s also sport. Anyone who’s visited Rome’s Coliseum, or the remains of Greek amphitheaters around the Mediterranean, knows that it’s capacity to divert has been with us for a long time. We’ve moved beyond the blood sport of the gladiators. Boxing is losing its popularity. Dog fighting
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Ira Sharkansky, Sports & CompetitionsCulture and Sport Minister Miri Regev on Sunday decried the Lebanese Olympic delegation’s refusal to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts as “anti-Semitism” and “the worst kind of racism.” On Friday, Lebanese Olympic athletes attempted to block the Israeli team from traveling with them to the opening ceremony, according to a report
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad is set to leave a mark at the Summer Olympics, no matter how she ends up doing in the women’s sabre fencing events in Rio de Janeiro. When she takes the stage at the Carioca arena in Monday’s individual tournament, she will be the first US athlete to
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Recently retired NBA all-star Amare Stoudemire and current NBA star Omri Casspi on Friday afternoon, Aug. 5, gifted their friend, Entourage TV actor Jeremy Piven, with a life-saving ambucycle. The ambucycle immediately became part of Israel’s national emergency medical services (EMS) organization, United Hatzalah’s, response team. “Just the idea that we can use
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLAUSANNE, Switzerland, Aug. 6, 2016 – Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, was a dreamer who revived the Olympic Games in 1896. Though it was an idealistic concept to unite the countries of the world through athletic competition, the baron believed the games should encompass three things: athleticism, art and culture. Baron de Coubertin (Wikipedia)
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International, Sports & Competitions, Travel and FoodMembers of the Lebanese delegation to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games refused to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts, with some attempting to block athletes from entering the vehicle, according to a report by an Israeli trainer who claimed to have witnessed the scene. “I kept on insisting that we board the
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsRIO DE JANEIRO — Virginia Thrasher has a gold medal, but it won’t get her a pass with her physics professor. She will return to classes at West Virginia only 20 hours after returning to the U.S. on Aug. 17. “I’ll be in physics at 8:30 a.m.,” she said. Thrasher might want to volunteer for
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO – Ask a guy who makes small, compelling, artsy films to design the opening ceremony for the Olympics and he’s not going to hand you a teeth-rattling, bombs-exploding blockbuster. And so it was that the Games of the XXXI Olympiad officially opened in Rio de Janiero on Friday night, with a presentation
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