Word: sporting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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IVAN IVANKOV (top) Country: Belarus Sport: Gymnastics Games low point: Weakness in floor exercise cost him bronze medal...
IVAN IVANOV (bottom) Country: Bulgaria Sport: Weight lifting Games low point: Stripped of his silver medal for a positive drug test...
IVAN IVANOV Country: Kyrgyzstan Sport: Swimming Games low point: Disqualified from two of three events
Emotionally stoic during a match, Martin is lithe on the court and uses her reach to pick a shuttlecock from the floor or violently put it away from on high. Badminton is an astonishing sport to watch live: fast and furious, nothing like the gentle game of summer cookouts. If anyone can raise its profile, it's this darting Dane...
Redgrave, 38, is the only man to have won gold medals in an endurance sport at five successive Olympics. His roll of honor started in Los Angeles in 1984. In between he has posted nine world championships. "You have to be single-minded about what you're trying to achieve," he says. After his semifinal victory, he looked relaxed, and smiled as he said, "There's a likelihood this could be my last Olympics." Unless someone ticks him off again...