KEITH GARVIN IS COVERING TRACK AND FIELD. WE BEGIN WITH KEITH WHERE IT’S BEEN A JAM-PACKED DAY FULL OF ALL KINDS OF COMPETITION, KEITH.>>Reporter: IT HAS. SYAN, JUST A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE IN EUGENE, OREGON. THE COMPETITION REMAINS INTENSE. THERE ARE SEVERAL ATHLETES WITH TIES TO THE HOUSTON AREA WHO ARE COMPETING TODAY FOR A…
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UNITED STATES at the OLYMPICS – WikiVidi Documentary
WikiVidi.com United States at the Olympics The United States of America has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games except the 1980 Summer Olympics, during which it led a boycott. The United States Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee for the United States. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,522…
Women’s Vault | Looking Ahead to Rio 2016
I’m Dipa Karmakar and I represent India in Gymnastics. As far as the athletes I’ll be competing with in the Vault, Russia’s Maria Paseka, she won the bronze medal in the last Olympics. Her vault is very good, it’s very clean. It’s so clean I think it’s even cleaner now. The North Korean athlete, she…
Eligible Participants
Since the hosting of the first Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948, to coincide with the London Olympic Games, and the formation of Scottish Disability Sport in 1962, disability sport has come a long way. The modern Parallel Olympics, or Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, are currently held in the same stadia, with the…
Beyond Champions – Libby Clegg part 5 | ASICS
Run! Six minutes! I feel like I’ve got jelly legs. I haven’t run properly for ages. -No pain? -No. I’m obviously gutted that I won’t be able to race. I think it kind of has sunk in, but at the same time, it really hasn’t. Probably when everybody’s running around, that’s when the reality will…
The Wearable Device That Avoids Injuries Through Technology | The Tech Races
Welcome to the Tech Race. Lactic acid is one of an athlete’s most dangerous enemies, causing fatigue, pain and even loss of consciousness. How do competitors control it? (LACTIC ACID MONITOR) Athletes measure the level of lactic acid that their own body produces as they train to avoid injuries and tachycardia. Until now it was…
The Street Boy Who Became an Olympic Medallist | Against All Odds
You know, when I was a child, there was no such thing as a thought of going to the Olympics. My normal life was either living on the streets, eating out of garbage cans, you know, watching people do drugs, watching my mum do drugs… And so, back then, the only thought of anything was,…
Jessica Ennis-Hill long before London Glory | Throwback Thursday
(BEFORE THEY WERE SUPERSTARS) (JESSICA ENNIS-HILL) (AGE: 23 DATE: JULY 2009) (SPORT: ATHLETICS LOCATION: SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND) Born and raised in Sheffield, England, Jess is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an English mother. She was introduced to athletics at the age of ten. Back in 2009, Jess was training at the English Institute of…
The Ideal Open Water swimmer with Poliana Okimoto [BRA]
The aquatic marathon is a 10k open water event. The differences between the aquatic marathon and the pool events is mainly the climate. We are always dealing with exterior factors from nature. Lot of time we have to swim in really cold or very hot water. The environment isn’t controlled so there’s a lot of…
Idaho’s international Olympic hopefuls looking to compete in Tokyo next year
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