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Netherlands-born Jan Roodzant was the only Aruban swimmer to participate in the Beijing Summer Olympics.
The series was strictly created as a tribute to the gold medal the Japanese women's volleyball team earned in the 1976 Olympics.
Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.
The only other bobsledder to compete at six Olympics is Italian Gerda Weissensteiner, although only two of her six appearances were in Bobsleigh (the other four were luge).
Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO dubbed the event the, "Copyright Olympics."
1987 European Dressage Champion and Individual Silver Medalist at the 1988 Olympics under Margit Otto-Crepin.
The head coach of Russia, President of the Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, Irina Viner said the question of participation in the Olympics remained open and would be resolved only after the June Grand Prix in Austria and the World Cup in Belarus in July.
Lennart Ekdahl (1912–2005), Swedish sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
He was also selected for the Italian team in triathlon, and guaranteed his qualifying berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammate Daniel Fontana, a former competitor from Argentina at the previous games in Athens.
She finished seventh in the 2-woman bobsleigh (with the former biker Antonella Bellutti, gold medalist in cycling) at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Half of its team had competed at their first Olympic games; sprinter Vida Anim, on the other hand, was the first Ghanaian female athlete to participate in her fourth Olympics.
In July 2012, Heaton Stannington played a match against the Gabon national under-23 football team as part of their preparations for the Olympics.
Henry Lynch-Staunton (1873–1941), British sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics.
Unlike her previous Olympics, she excelled through the preliminary rounds by defeating United States' Nicole Ross, and France's Astrid Guyart.
Vladimir Ivković (born 1929), Croat water polo player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics
At the Sydney Olympics 2000 he lost in the first round to local hero Richard Rowles.
During the 1990s and 2000s, Carol Lewis was the primary female reporter in network coverage of the Olympics and Track and Field in the United States.
Marathon runner Mamorallo Tjoka, who competed at her second Olympics as the oldest member of the team, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Designed by British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, it has a triangular form that was developed in recognition of a pattern of trinities relating to the Olympic Games: the London 2012 Olympic Games are the third London Olympics (1908, 1948, 2012); the Olympic Motto is 'Faster, Higher, Stronger'; and the Vision for London 2012 was to unite 'sport, education and culture'.
His father Janusz Gortat was a Polish boxer and a bronze medalist in light heavyweight during the Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976 Olympics, and his mother Alicja Gortat was a representative of the Polish national team in volleyball.
Muhammed Memić (born 1960), Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics
He won the gold medal in the featherweight division (-68 kg) at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Olympic Silver Medal at the London 2012 Olympics.
In 1937 Morgnshtern had prepared a delegation to take part in the Workers Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, but the Polish government refused to give travel visas to the athletes.
During the Olympics, trains arrived from the west from Allach and Moosach as well as from Johanneskirchen in the east.
Niels Kristian Nielsen (1897–1972), Danish gymnast at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Posters were hung in twos alongside posters designed by famous artists chosen to represent this Olympics such as David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj, Tom Wesselmann and Allen Jones.
According to the International Triathlon Union, he was ranked no. 52 on the list of Olympic qualifiers, which guaranteed him a place for the Olympics, because of his fifth-place finish at the ITU World Cup in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
He is the father of Lisa Jane Weightman, a marathon runner who competed in the Beijing Olympics.
At 2012 European Long Course Championships in Debrecen, Chocová won a bronze medal in non-Olympics distance of 50-metre breaststroke in a time of 31.25, a national record.
This marked the first time since the 1936 Summer Olympics that neither the United States, nor the Soviet Union/Russia, had won the most gold medals at a Summer Olympics.
At a time when Greek success at the Olympics was limited, he and Voula Patoulidou (the surprise gold medalist at the 100m hurdles) became instant national heroes.
Arévalo was the first player from El Salvador to represent the country, in a tennis competition, at the Olympics.
This record stood stood till the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where India's Balbir Singh, Sr. scored 5 goals in India's 6-1 victory over Holland.
She became the second Pakistani female to compete at the Olympics—following Shabana Akhtar at the 1996 Olympics--shortly before the country's third female competitor, Sumaira Zahoor, who ran the 1500m at the 2004 Games a few days after Raza swam.
After the Olympics he joined Sears and remained with them until his retirement at the age of 65.
Kuldip Singh- Member of the Malaysia national hockey team at the 1968 Olympics
Stepas Butautas (1925–2001), Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics
That was first gold medal by Finnish woman in Summer Olympics, and only for 44 years, until Heli Rantanen won gold in javelin throw at 1996.
Qualified sprinter Suwaibou Sanneh, who competed at his second consecutive Olympics, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
De Araújo was the first East Timorese at the Olympics, he represented East Timor in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the same weight class.
Juventina Napoleão represented East Timor at the London Olympics as its only female track athlete.
Due to an illness, Tara Lipinski withdrew from the 1998 World Championships following the Olympics, and Kwiatkowski skated in her place.
At the same Olympics, he famously fenced in the team final with his right eye bandaged over after having a fragment of the Italian Michele Maffei's blade removed from his eye the previous day.
At the same time, the Choir sang with superstar Jackie Chan and represented the Philippines for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics.
Shin Joon-Sup, retired boxer who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1986 Summer Asian Games
Since the People's Republic of China did not compete in the Summer Olympics between 1952 and 1984, Zheng could not participate in the 1956 competition, won by Mildred McDaniel, whose world record Zheng bettered.
Peter Zivic (1901–1987), American boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics