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2 unusual facts about The Athlete


Howard Twilley

He owned 28 The Athlete's Foot sporting goods stores before selling them in 1990, and he worked in an investment firm.

The Athlete

A mixture of fiction and stock footage, The Athlete is a portrait of the legendary marathoner from Ethiopia, Abebe Bikila.



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1970 Bolivarian Games

The athlete's oath was sworn by athlete Brígido Iriarte, who the gold medal in pentathlon at the 1951 Bolivarian Games.

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

During the 2012/13 or 2013/14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum is 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes.

Bruno Paulo Machado Barbosa

Colleague names like Erick Flores, Fabricio and Camacho, just watching the athlete most of his companions climb to the first team or other teams will be on loan to gain experience, and stood quietly among the team's training base.

Criminal stereotype of African Americans

John Milton Hoberman in Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997) writes that "the merger of the athlete, the gangster rapper, and the criminal into a single black male persona ... into the predominant image of black masculinity in the United States and around the world" has harmed racial integration.

Decathlon scoring tables

For field events, this was a straightforward statistical procedure; for track events, the reciprocal of the athlete's time, representing speed, was used as the independent variable.

Felipe de Oliveira Silva

In 2010 he was loaned to the athlete to compete in Bahia Series B.

Herb Drury

In 2010, Herb Drury joined his late brother, University of Southern California football legend Morley Drury, as an inductee of the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame, in the Athlete category.

L'Imprudence

For instance, Bashung said he composed the song "Dans la foulée" ("Following") after the "media backlash against Marie-Josée Pérec in Australia" during the Sydney Olympics when the athlete, because of pressure and a surge of paranoia, fled the competition.

Michael Messner

He obtained a Ph.D. in sociology in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation titled Masculinity and Sports: An Exploration of the Changing Meaning of Male Identity in the Lifecourse of the Athlete.

Morley Drury

In 2010, Morley Drury joined his late brother, former NHL hockey player and United States Olympian Herb Drury, as an inductee of the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame, in the Athlete category.

Omegawave

While Omegawave’s products could be considered as part of the Quantified Self movement, the idea for a method of instant analysis of an athlete’s state was based on the coach’s rather than the athlete’s need for information.

Richard Sam Bera

Watching the athlete procession from the stands during the closing ceremony, he reminisced an Olympic moment from his Twitter: "Seeing all those athletes down there, abit emotional for me. I used to be down there".

Student athlete

The NLI is an agreement between the athlete and their school they have chosen to certify that they are entering a four-year institution for the first time.

Torsten Carleman

of the athlete Eric Lemming who won four golden medals and three bronze at the Olympic Games.

Werner Seelenbinder

She remained named after the athlete throughout her career, apart from her final voyage to Alang for breaking up, for which she was re-registered and renamed MILOS-1.

Yuri van Gelder

In 2011 there was an appeal, by LaShawn Merritt, at the CAS against the general rule that after a suspension the athlete is not allowed to participate in the next Olympic Games.