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4 unusual facts about athletes


Alex Lincoln

Lincoln is General Manager of Athletes' Performance Florida, located in Gulf Breeze, FL, on a Baptist Healthcare campus adjoining the Andrew's Institute of world renowned orthopoedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews.

Athletes' Performance

EXOS has trained 6 NFL overall #1 picks, 94 NFL first round draft picks and 459 total NFL draftees, 9 NBA first-round picks, World Cup heroes (US Women's Soccer and German Men's Soccer), and hosts of All-Stars across every major sport.

The company offers training and nutrition services in Raleigh, North Carolina and Cary, North Carolina through a partnership with Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic.

Craig Von Wielligh

After matriculating from Bergvliet High School in 2004, he went on to receive a National Diploma in Coaching Science at ETA (Exercise Teachers Academy), as well as attending local and international conditioning courses such as XLR8 (NZ), Athletes' Performance (USA) and F-Marc FIFA 11+.


1987 World Taekwondo Championships

The 1987 World Taekwondo Championships were the 8th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Barcelona, Spain from October 7 to October 11, 1987 with 434 athletes participating from 62 countries.

1988 Junior Olympics

Many athletes from these games went on to play in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics.

1995 All-Africa Games

Discus thrower Adewale Olukoju and sprinter Mary Onyali became the first athletes to win four All-Africa gold medals.

1999 Pan Arab Games

Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.

Adam Graves

Along with other professional athletes such as Al Leiter, Troy Aikman, and Terry Cummings this award was given to charitable and community service efforts.

Allison George

She ran in the sixth and final heat against seven other athletes, including Jamaica's Sherone Simpson and LaVerne Jones-Ferrette of the Virgin Islands, both of whom were heavy favorites in this event.

Alsip, Illinois

The Alsip area is home to two predominantly African-American cemeteries, Burr Oak and Restvale cemeteries, which are the resting places of many Chicago blues musicians (including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington), athletes (Jimmie Crutchfield), and other celebrities.

Aquashift

The TYR Aquashift suit is worn by all of TYR's sponsored athletes, including Ukrainian Yana Klochkova, Americans Erik Vendt, Peter Verhoef, and Bryce Hunt, and Slovakian Martina Moravcova.

Australia at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Due to the Great Depression, Australia could only afford to send 12 athletes to the Games.

Belgrave Harriers

The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.

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.

Bill Hartman

In 1992, the University announced the creation of the "Bill Hartman Award" for athletes who had distinguished themselves as alumni with recipients including Fran Tarkenton and Pierre Howard, who held the position of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer 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.

Caitlin Brunell

Her parents were seniors and successful athletes at the University of Washington at the time she was born, and her father went on to play for the Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins, and the New Orleans Saints.

Central governor

The existence of a central governor over physiology has been questioned since ‘physiological catastrophes’ can and do occur in athletes (important examples in marathons have been Dorando Pietri, Jim Peters and Gabriela Andersen-Schiess).

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Daly Cherry-Evans

Cherry-Evans was named after one of his English-born mother's favourite British athletes, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Decathlon Gold Medallist Daley Thompson.

Edward Moulton

He trained many well-known track and field athletes from the 1880s through the 1910s, including the original "world's fastest human," Al Tharnish, and Olympic medalists Alvin Kraenzlein (four gold medals in 1900), Charlie Paddock (two gold medals and one silver in 1920), Morris Kirksey (one gold and one silver in 1920), George Horine (bronze medal in 1912), and Feg Murray (bronze medal in 1920).

Ernst Gadermann

There in 1947 he and Adolf Metzner developed the basics of the first telemetric measurements of the ECG in athletes.

Geiner Mosquera

He ran in the fifth heat against seven other athletes, including Belgium's Jonathan Borlée and United States' LaShawn Merritt, both of whom were heavy favorites in this event.

Glasgow bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The village would be purpose-built to house 6,000 athletes and officials in 2,500 residential units and leave a legacy of regeneration in this deprived district of the city.

Global Boxing Gym

Global Boxing has also served as a filming facility for Everlast photo shoots for professional athletes such as NFL running back Reggie Bush, Super Six Champion Andre Ward, 2008 Bronx Olympic medalist Deontay Wilder and many more.

Great Australian Run

The race featured over 4000 competitors at its inaugural edition, and also succeeded in attracting high-calibre elite athletes such as marathon world record breakers Haile Gebrselassie and Catherine Ndereba, as well as Australian 2008 Olympians Craig Mottram and Benita Johnson.

Griffin Guess

Along side musicians, Guess holds advisory to athletes and other entertainment professionals to the likes of Marisa Miller, Aaron Rogers, and Barry Bonds of mention.

John Ayton

Ayton and wife Ducas were ambassadors for Team 2012, the campaign to support British athletes in their quest for medal success in the London Olympics.

Julie McBride

When CNNSI.com released a poll of the top 10 athletes all-time at Syracuse, McBride was the only female athlete on the list at No. 9 – one slot ahead of future NFL Hall of Fame receiver Marvin Harrison.

Lathbury Barracks

In 1995 the government furnished the barracks with 1,000 bunkbeds to accommodate the athletes competing at the Island Games hosted by Gibraltar that year.

Modern pentathlon at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

There is a quota of 40 athletes (24 male, 16 female) (however one spot over quota for each gender was allowed); Mexico as the host country is guaranteed a full team of four athletes (two men and two women).

Morgnshtern

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.

Nadine Ramkisson

During this time, she interviewed many of show business' hottest stars, such as Wyclef Jean, Destiny's Child, Shaggy, Usher, Denzel Washington and many more actors, singers and athletes, often receiving very positive feedback from them.

Nauru at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Among the nation's athletes were Sled Dowabobo, the oldest member of the team at age 29, who played for the nation's sporting debut.

NCAA Season 84

The Mapua juniors team returns with student-athletes from the Malayan High School of Science; the original Mapua Institute of Technology Pre-Engineering High School closed down after the Yuchengco takeover of the institute.

Nearest neighbor search

Similarity scores for predicting career paths of professional athletes.

Netherlands at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

One Way Sport

The best-known professional athletes using One Way products are Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Kristin Størmer Steira, Tobias Angerer, Marianna Longa, Vincent Vittoz, Anders Aukland and Lasse Paakkonen.

P visa

A P visa is a type of temporary employment visa of the United States, granted to alien athletes, artists, and entertainers, and their spouses and children.

Park Live

Each day of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Park Live played host to numerous celebrities and medal-winning athletes including, Sir Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis, Ben Ainslie, Rebecca Adlington, Dame Kelly Holmes, Denise Lewis OBE and Lord Sebastian Coe.

Paul Greifzu Stadium

Every year the Anhalt-Meeting is held in the Paul Greifzu Stadium, regarded as one of the best outdoor meetings in Europe by athletes such as Franka Dietzsch or Tim Lobinger.

Pecatonica, Illinois

Pecatonica is the hometown of Hacks Auction, Northern Illinois premier auction house and J&J Tumbling and Trampoline which has produced several world class athletes, including 1988 Woman's Tumbling World Champion Megan Cunningham Gearhart (later a coach) and National Trampoline Team member Michael Devine.

Peteca

When Brazil was present at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium the Brazilian athletes took with them some shuttlecocks for amusement on the ship and during the intervals between games.

Sam Keller

On May 6, 2009, Keller filed a lawsuit against EA Sports and the NCAA in an attempt to recover damages for the likenesses of college athletes being used in the NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball series.

Samoa at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Samoa, host of the next Games, has selected three athletes to represent the nation in three sports athletics, boxing and swimming.

Sheex

The company was founded in 2008 by former athletes and basketball coaches Susan Walvius and Michelle Marciniak.

Speculator, New York

After World War I, famous athletes came to practice in the isolated communities, such as Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, and Max Baer who arrived to train for the heavyweight championship fight.

Susie O'Neill

She was the Oceania athletes' representative on the International Olympic Committee to 2005, when she resigned her membership (and was replaced by Barbara Kendall).

Terry Albritton

From 1990 to 2004, he was a teacher and assistant football coach at St. Anthony High School and was also a personal trainer on Maui for professional athletes, including Shane Victorino of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Terry Fox Award

The selection committee, that included Fox's brother, Darrell, sportscaster Brian Williams, former-Olympian and VANOC board member Charmaine Crooks and former rower Tricia Smith, originally planned to choose only one recipient but felt both athletes' stories were so compelling that they decided to honour both.

Utrecht Marathon

A Nairobi-based businessman, Gert-Jan van Wijk, disapproved of the prize scheme and offered to personally make up the difference for foreign athletes, saying: "I think the Netherlands is afraid of competition, afraid of the unknown, afraid of different cultures. Holland is turning inside herself, instead of becoming stronger by taking up the competition".

Wes Kittley

Former Tech athletes coached by Kittley would go on to win 3 Medals in the 2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x400 Relay Michael Mathieu, Olympic Bronze medalist in the 4x400 Relay Shereefa Lloyd, and Olympic Silver medalist in the 10,000M Sally Kipyego.

Zehetner

Brian Zehetner, an American nutritionist for athletes and individuals


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