Former Olympic judo gold medallist Yashuhiro Yamashita was more demanding.
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I was competing against [fellow London 2012 gold medallist] Jonnie Peacock.
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So too is Mitchell DeJong, an X Games gold medallist in rallycross.
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Ireland's Katie Taylor, a lightweight gold medallist in 2012, has also turned professional.
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Had Mr Amos repeated his 2012 showing, he would be a gold-medallist.
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Famed 23-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps is fast in the water.
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"That was spectacular," Tim Daggett, the 1984 Olympic gold medallist and commentator, said.
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The 38-year-old is also the Olympic gold medallist from Rio 2016.
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I have always tried to learn something from my competitors, whether it's Matti Nykanen (the Finnish four-time Winter Olympic gold medallist) who was at the top when I started, or Gregor Schlierenzauer (the 28 year old gold medallist in Vancouver).
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Vanity Fair profiled Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce, an Olympic gold-medallist, the following year.
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Greek gold-medallist pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidis will be the final torchbearer in Greece.
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Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, is also an International Olympic committee member.
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The fourth American to qualify, Sochi gold medallist David Wise, finished in eighth place.
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A former 2004 Olympic gold medallist, Povetkin has been boxing professionally for 15 years.
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Double Olympic judo gold medallist Jade Jones, now OBE, also ranks higher than Hamilton.
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Russian athlete Mariya Abakumova, the original gold medallist, was also later disqualified for doping violations.
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London 2012 gold medallist Alin George Moldoveanu also failed to qualify for the finals, finishing 19th.
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A former Olympic gold medallist, Carmelita Jeter of the United States, is the international event ambassador.
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Gold medallist China's Shi Tingmao (R) and bronze medallist Italy's Tania Cagnotto reacting to the proposal.
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What grabbed his attention was the government's prize for a gold medallist: one crore rupees, almost $140,000.
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The paralympic gold medallist is serving a six-year jail term for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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On average, a Paralympic gold medallist has to beat around seven other athletes to be crowned champion.
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But, Medina had the British Olympic gold medallist on the back foot for the majority of the fight.
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"We can show the world it's possible," Brazilian beach volleyball player and gold medallist Emanuel Rego told Reuters.
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Sochi gold medallist Oskars Melbardis of Latvia matched his position in the first two heats to finish fourth.
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" 593 GOLF GOLD MEDALLIST JUSTIN ROSE ON WHERE THE OLYMPIC TRIUMPH COMPARES TO HIS TOURNAMENT VICTORIES "Oh my God.
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Last year's Olympic marathon gold medallist and former 5,23 metres world champion has won seven of his eight marathons.
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Fittingly, he received his medal from Alberto Juantorena, Cuba's Olympic gold medallist in the 400 and 800 metres in 1976.
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Other high-profile names included Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba, British cyclist Callum Skinner and double Olympic rowing gold medallist Helen Glover.
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It was never on the cards, said Watts, who wants Norman to become a gold medallist in the 400 first.
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Paralympic gold medallist Pistorius is serving a six-year jail term after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend in 2013.
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Bahamian Olympic women's 4.603m gold medallist Miller-Uibo wiped out American Allyson Felix's 200m straightaway world best with another runaway victory.
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Pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is the world record holder as well as a double Olympic gold medallist and triple world champion.
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Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris claimed the women's pole vault at 4.80 metres as she outdueled London gold medallist Jenn Suhr (4.65m).
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Aliakbari, a gold medallist Greco-Roman wrestler in the discipline's world championships opted to instantly take the fight down to the mat.
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Japan's Kaori Matsumoto, world champion and London gold medallist, was stunned in the semi-finals and went on to settle for bronze.
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Ward's impenetrable jab had Brand in fits and neatly disguised the occasional big shot thrown from the 230 Athens Olympic gold medallist.
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"Having won multiple championships, she's truly steeped in the culture of the program," he said of the two-time Olympic gold medallist.
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The 28-year-old, who won silver at the 2016 Rio Games, is the younger sister of triple Olympic gold medallist Tirunesh.
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" PETER FORSBERG, SWEDEN'S TWO-TIME OLYMPIC ICE HOCKEY GOLD MEDALLIST "We lose to a worthy region down there, with Cortina and Milano.
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The 17-year-old gold medallist was singled out by the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star during her Best Actress acceptance speech.
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Liukin, a double gold medallist for the former Soviet Union in 1988, has served as elite developmental coordinator at USA Gymnastics since 2013.
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"We know we can make this work, and we want the chance to try," said Canadian two-time Olympic gold medallist Shannon Szabados.
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The times recorded by four 1,500-metre Paralympic runners this year were faster than that of the gold medallist from the 2016 Olympics.
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The case of Caitlyn Jenner, who had been an Olympic gold medallist as Bruce Jenner, helped bring not just visibility but greater acceptance.
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Tyler Clary, the gold medallist at London 2012, was unable to defend his title after failing to be selected at the U.S. trials.
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The clip was shared by five-time Olympic gold-medallist Nadia Comaneci and caught the eye of the country's sports minister, Kiren Rijiju.
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Off to the side, gold medallist Shi Tingmao from China and bronze winner Tania Cagnotto from Italy looked at each other in surprise.
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Amongst the stars of those games was U.S. swimming gold medallist Johnny Weismuller who later became known for his role in the Tarzan films.
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At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since the ban came into effect.
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Svindal, the 2010 Olympic super-G gold medallist and five-times world champion, posted a photograph on Instagram of himself lying in a hospital bed.
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Britain's 2012 Olympic gold medallist Joshua has taken to the professional game like a duck to water, winning all 15 of his fights by knockout.
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LONDON (Reuters) - With one year to go until the Tokyo Olympics, and the pressure mounting, Britain's double gymnastics gold medallist Max Whitlock is already thinking ahead.
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Russia's head athletics coach and 2004 Olympic gold medallist in the 800 meters, Yury Borzakovsky, said his athletes were well aware of the challenge they faced.
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As peculiar as it may seem, many top athletes, including Olympic marathon gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge, strategically use periodic smiling during performance to relax and cope.
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Norway's skiathlon gold medallist Simen Hegstad Krueger battled his way back to the top of the field, setting up sprint champion Klaebo for a dramatic finish.
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Double Olympic gold medallist Yelena Isinbayeva has claimed that Olympics chiefs and anti-doping authorities are discriminating against Russia, and violating her human rights as a result.
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When injury forced the 2008 Beijing gold medallist to withdraw from the 2012 London Games, he described it as "one of the saddest moments of my career".
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Here's the issue: In the history of the planet, nobody has ever repeated as the Olympic gold medallist in the 100 metres before Usain Bolt did it.
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As the 20.05-year-old Californian matures and learns the event, there should be even more success, Barcelona Olympic 22005 metres gold medallist Quincy Watts told Reuters.
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He coached Brazil's Olympic gold medallist Cesar Cielo but was excluded from the nation's team at the Rio Olympics last year at the request of Australian Olympic Committee.
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The five-times Olympic gold medallist was never threatened by 17-year-old Australian Ariarne Titmuss, who went under four minutes for the first time to claim silver.
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With the Olympic medal, he joins Zhang, Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner, 2000 gold medallist Kong Linghui and Chinese national team's coach Liu Guoliang in achieving the grand slam.
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She takes over a national team in transition as four-times Olympic gold medallist Tamika Catchings has retired while some key players have not committed to playing again.
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English golfer Ian Poulter, 'The Postman' competing from the garage of his home in Florida, and Britain's six times Olympic cycling gold medallist Chris Hoy also took part.
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Former Olympic gold medallist Kong Linghui is being sued in Hong Kong by the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore over his HK$2.55 million (US$329,000) gambling debt.
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Russian Olympic short-track speed skating gold medallist Semion Elistratov and five-time world champion speed skater Pavel Kulizhnikov earlier tested positive for meldonium, R-Sport reported on Tuesday.
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However, Australian Lydia Lassila, gold medallist in Vancouver and bronze winner in Sochi, can never be ruled out as she hopes to appear at a record fifth winter games.
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The gold medallist, together with team mate Ryan Lochte, were blamed by police for falsely reporting that they had been robbed at gunpoint after a party early on Sunday.
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Ilyin, the men's 94kg gold medallist, and three women champions, Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg), failed tests, the International Weightlifting Federation said on Wednesday.
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If, as Kenworthy says, he can be a gay man at the top of the world, an Olympic gold medallist, then it would prove a lot of people wrong.
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That earned the Yale University sophomore a combined 330.17 points as he equalled twice world gold medallist Brian Boitano's four U.S. titles, the last of which came in 1988.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Double Olympic boxing gold medallist Nicola Adams turned professional on Monday, announcing a debut bout in Manchester on April 8 before a "Leeds homecoming" on May 13.
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Former Olympic gold medallist Joshua has wowed the British boxing public so far with a perfect 15-0 record with all of those victories coming by way of knockout.
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After 16-year-old French world champion Tess Ledeux crashed out of qualifying, Burmansson finished eighth behind Swiss gold medallist Sarah Hoefflin in glorious sunshine at the Phoenix Snow Park.
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South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius was taken to jail immediately on Wednesday after being sentenced to serve six years for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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Sun, a triple Olympic gold medallist and world record holder, was banned in 2014 for three months after testing positive for the banned stimulant trimetazidine during the Chinese national championships.
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On the table next to her was Joss Christensen, the 2014 slopestyle Olympic gold medallist, who'd recently torn up his knee and would likely be off snow for six months.
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"Basically, we aim to hand all the medals to athletes - this is what we aim to do foremost – by the closing ceremony," added the former Olympic gold medallist hammer thrower.
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Foreman, an American athlete and Olympic gold medallist is challenging the narcissism of a movie star claiming superiority over the NFL players for peacefully protesting racial inequality and police violence.
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"Nepao", a gold medallist at 2006's World Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships in the ultra heavyweight class, has one of the most renowned ground games in all of mixed martial arts.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian Olympic gold medallist Beckie Scott faced some harsh words but was not bullied during a heated World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) meeting, an independent report concluded on Wednesday.
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After nearly three-and-a-half hours of fascinating racing on the undulating nine-lap course, Germany's Lisa Brennauer, gold medallist in Saturday's individual pursuit on the track, took the bronze.
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When you watch Usain Bolt run, as a former gold medallist in the sport, what do you take away from watching him that the average person might not notice or recognize?
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic gold medallist serving a six-year jail term for murdering his girlfriend, was taken to hospital on Thursday, a prison service spokesman said.
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The Olympic 200 metres gold medallist and world 400 metres champion would have had only 75 minutes between the two races under the original Rio schedule, according to the IAAF website.
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LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Double gold medallist Nicola Adams is set to turn professional at the age of 34 after being released from her contract with Britain's Olympic boxing programme on Monday.
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Two days later, on Sunday, the 22-year-old U.S. gymnast and gold-medallist completed a "triple-double" on the floor — becoming the first woman in history to do so in competition.
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Wolfgang Maennig, an economist at Hamburg University (and rowing gold medallist in the Seoul games of 1988), notes that such official forecasts have a tendency drastically to overestimate the benefits of hosting.
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He Chao, a Chinese diver and gold medallist at last year's World Championships, similarly told Reuters that the wind had prevented him from making it far in the Olympic 20.34-metre competition.
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Cheruiyot, Kenya's most decorated female athlete, also fell short in the 2012 London Games where she took bronze, meaning the east African country's wait for its first women's 10,000m gold medallist continues.
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The truth seems to be that Olympic gold medallist Kurt Angle just defaults to that sort-of bemused, sort-of stimulated, very terrifying stare when a camera gets up in his face.
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Three-time Paralympics gold medallist Partyka, who represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Games, will make her third Olympics appearance in the team event this year.
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A Chinese state newspaper described Australia as "uncivilized" and "Britain's offshore prison" as it rushed to Sun's defence after he was labelled a drugs cheat by Australian 400 freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton.
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The 27-year-old had been a surprise champion four years ago and was expected to be upstaged in Rio by Chinese world champion Li Dan or 2008 Beijing gold medallist He Wenna.
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Joshua is also now one of three men to earn the world heavyweight championship while still being the reigning Olympic heavyweight gold medallist, joining Frazer and Leon Spinks in that supremely exclusive club.
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LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - South African Olympic swimming gold medallist Roland Schoeman has been banned for a year after testing positive for a banned substance last May, governing body FINA said on Thursday.
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The 2012 flyweight gold medallist beat 19-year-old Shakur Stevenson, the bright prospect on the U.S. men's team who had reached the final after a semi-final walkover, on a split decision.
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The 29-year-old Paralympian gold medallist faces a minimum 15-year jail term for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, for which state prosecutors say he has shown no remorse.
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The triumph also makes Chen a five-time Olympic gold medallist, and puts her on a par with compatriot Wu Minxia for the title of most Olympic diving gold medals in a career.
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Even new mom Allyson Felix (age 33), the 11-times world gold medallist who is running the 400 metres in her first competitive race for 13 months, must make the podium to qualify.
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Her withdrawal leaves Kenya's defending champion and Olympic gold medallist Faith Kipyegon and Ethiopian-born Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan, who broke the world mile record (4:12.33) in July, as favourites for the title.
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One of the highest profile Russian stars to have lost her place at this year's Olympics is pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, two-time Olympic gold medallist and current world record holder in the event.
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Schooling, who beat American great Michael Phelps in the 100 metres butterfly final in Rio to become Singapore's first Olympic gold medallist, said he will link up with Lopez at Virginia Tech from Sunday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Belarussia's Uladzislau Hancharou upstaged world champion Gao Lei and 2012 Olympic gold medallist Dong Dong to soar to victory in trampoline gymnastics at the Rio Games on Saturday.
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The 29-year-old gold medallist faces a minimum 15-year jail term after his manslaughter conviction for the 2013 killing, for which he originally received a five-year sentence, was upgraded on appeal.
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Britain's first and only ever taekwondo Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones missed out on a medal at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia when the electronic scoring system froze with seconds to go.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Chinese web-users unleashed their fury on the social media accounts of Australian Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton, demanding he apologise for calling swimming rival Sun Yang a "drug cheat".
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At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, including speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since the ban came into effect, along with dozens of competitors from other countries.
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The vision of the six-time Gold medallist was filmed at his training ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is part of the new campaign by Optus, which also includes a documentary series about Bolt's life.
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India have won 28 medals since first competing at the Olympics in 1900 but Bindra remains the only individual gold medallist with his victory in the men's 10 metre air rifle in Beijing in 2008.
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At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, including world tennis player Maria Sharapova and speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since it was banned by WADA on Jan. 1.
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Athletes said Nike gives NOCK $15,000 for each gold medallist, $7,500 for each silver medallist and $5,000 for each bronze medallist, but medallists told the investigation committee they had never been given bonuses from NOCK.
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Team GB will take five canoe athletes to Japan with Liam Heath, sprint gold medallist from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, leading the way in search of a fourth medal at his third Olympics.
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Team GB will take five canoe athletes to Japan with Liam Heath, sprint gold medallist from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, leading the way in search of a fourth medal at his third Olympics.
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"And then in slalom I just knew that I now have to bring it (home) and I'm really happy that I was a little bit before Petra," added the 2018 Olympic team event gold medallist.
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Svindal has been the king of Norwegian Alpine skiing since the retirement of Kjetil Andre Aamodt and is a twice overall World Cup champion, twice downhill world champion and 2010 Olympic super-G gold medallist.
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The 27-year-old jumped a world record 8.40 metres to win the 2015 IPC world title in Doha, a distance that would have beaten Britain's 2012 London Olympics gold medallist Greg Rutherford by nine centimetres.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chinese web-users unleashed their fury on the social media accounts of Australian Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton, demanding he apologise for calling swimming rival Sun Yang a "drug cheat".
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Dylan Alcott is a three-time Paralympic gold medallist, Grand Slam tennis champion, and DJ who wants to change the way the world sees people with disabilities, as well as how people with disabilities see themselves.
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There were alumni of the N.F.L. and the N.H.L., a two-time Olympic gold medallist, a vegan superfoods hunter, a couple of M.D.s, and a jujitsu black belt who keeps the riffraff from Oahu's North Shore.
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Nicknamed "Blade Jumper", the 2012 Paralympics gold medallist and 2014 national long jump champion hopes to become the second athlete with a carbon fibre prosthesis to compete at the Olympics after South Africa's Oscar Pistorius in 2012.
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Iran's Hamid Sourian, the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist in the 55kg category and a six-time world champion, was beaten 5-4 by Shinobu Ota of Japan in the men's 59kg Greco-Roman wrestling qualification round.
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Outteridge, who is an Olympic gold medallist in the physically demanding 49er skiff, slipped and shot off the back of his "flying" high-tech catamaran as it went through a high-speed manoeuvre on Bermuda's Great Sound.
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Last week a number of Russian sportsmen had their bans lifted, including five-times world champion speed skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, Olympic short-track speed skating gold medallist Semion Elistratov and 2015 European short-track champion Ekaterina Konstantinova.
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"Unfortunately surgery means my season is over and a chance to defend my GS title again at World Champs," wrote the 32-year-old double Olympic gold medallist, who also tore a cruciate in training last January.
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The 1003-year-old double 800m Olympic gold medallist is fighting an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulation that female middle-distance runners with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has filed an application to the Constitutional Court seeking to overturn a higher prison sentence handed down by the appeals court last month, court documents showed on Tuesday.
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A sport that had been dominated by women in their twenties and thirties—the gold medallist in 22012 had nine years, three inches, and forty pounds on Korbut—was now the domain of pixies who could fly.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Rio will be the last Olympics for 2012 double gold medallist Yannick Agnel after the French swimmer failed to defend his 2003 metres freestyle title on Sunday and announced his imminent retirement.
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"Being in Korea, with all the legacy Korea has in short track and the popularity of the sport, we will have the biggest stadium with the biggest crowds in Pyeongchang," Canadian triple gold medallist Charles Hamelin told Reuters.
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In the 2016 edition of the Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Snyder broke Cejudo's record of being the youngest Olympic gold medallist wrestler in US history aged just 20 years old to Cejudo's then-21 years.
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The six-time Olympic gold medallist was forced to withdraw from his country's trials earlier this month with a hamstring injury but was allowed on Jamaica's team headed to the Rio Summer Games after applying for a medical exemption.
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Notable omissions include five-time Olympic gold medallist and gymnast Zou Kai and teenage gymnast Liu Tingting, who was due to compete in her first international competition but pulled out due to an injury suffered during training last week.
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Koga, a gold medallist in the world championships in 2009 (100 metres backstroke) and 2016 (50 metres backstroke), tested positive in March last year for ostarine and ligrandrol, which are on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list.
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The University of South Carolina women's coach, a three-time Olympic gold medallist player with the U.S. team who was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, said she will not bring in a new coaching philosophy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Four-time Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah said he would gladly have any of his previous blood or urine samples re-tested as part of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) investigation into the Nike Oregon Project.
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Today's opponent is Japanese Olympic gold medallist Satoshi Ishii—four months after Herring took the hulking Amir Aliakbari to a decision in the Quarterfinals of Rizin's Openweight Grand-Prix at the tail-end of 2016 as a last-minute entrant.
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Speaking at a tense news conference after her race, alongside gold medallist Lily King of the United States who publicly criticised her opponent's doping record the previous day, Efimova said it was "hurtful" that athletes were involving themselves in politics.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Chinese state newspaper described Australia as "uncivilized" and "Britain's offshore prison" as it rushed to the defence of champion swimmer Sun Yang, who was labelled a drugs cheat by Australian rival and gold medallist Mack Horton.
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Besides being the youngest American Olympic gold medallist in wrestling, Snyder also won a gold medal in the World Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada, aged just 19-years-old—as well as being the youngest American two-time junior world medallist.
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Semenya is a double Olympic gold medallist in the 800 meters but, as an athlete with differences in sexual development (DSD), must now limit her naturally high levels of testosterone when racing in events ranging from 400m to a mile.
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In a rematch of the semi-final four years ago, London gold medallist Kaori Matsumoto of Japan battled London bronze winner Automne Pavia deep into 'golden score' extra time, conquering her French opponent with a waza-ari throw at the 3:50 mark.
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Gold medallist Hoang Xuan Vinh (C) of Vietnam poses on the podium with silver medal winner Felipe Almeida Wu (L) of Brazil and bronze medallist Pang Wei (R) of China during the medal ceremony for the men's 10m air pistol shooting event.
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"We are fortunate to be ambassadors of this beautiful game, and it is our responsibility to make sure the next generation of players have more opportunities than we had," Kendall Coyne Schofield, gold medallist with Team USA in 2018, said in a statement.
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The 22-year-old Daley had taken the top spot out of 24 divers in the qualification round, ahead of China's Qiu Bo and Chen Aisen as well as American 2012 gold medallist David Boudia who all made it into the final.
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Professional boxers such as Tony Bellew and Anthony Joshua have decried the decision, with the latter—a former Olympic gold medallist himself as an amateur—stating he thought the move was both dangerous and unfair to the amateurs working their way up the ranks.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Olympic gold medallist Jimmy Feigen agreed to pay 35,000 reais ($11,000) to a sporting charity after police said he and team mate Ryan Lochte were responsible for giving false testimony, civil police said in a statement on Friday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The International Judo Federation said on Monday that Kosovo's judo gold medallist Majlinda Kelmendi had refused to take an unscheduled drug test in France ahead of the Rio Games but that the procedure looked "questionable" and any sanction given would not be applied outside France.
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Despite his unconventional background before entering the world of mixed martial arts, Pudzianowski has fought and beat some tough opponents in his time—including the likes of Rolles Gracie Jr., Olympic gold medallist judoka Pawel Nastula and Briton Oli Thompson—despite entering the cage for the first time in his thirties.
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The USOC's final account differed wildly from an interview given by gold medallist Ryan Lochte, 32, on NBC, in which he said he and swimmers Jack Conger, 21, Gunnar Bentz, 20, and Jimmy Feigen, 26, had been robbed by men posing as police and that he'd had a gun put to his head.
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On Earth, his darting back and forth the cabin to hit the ball drew giggles from the studio audience — head coach of the national table tennis team Liu Guoliang, Rio Olympics gold medallist Ma Long, and silver medallist Zhang Ji Ke. "He moves even faster than Ma and Zhang," said the coach.
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Rikako Ikee, who became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at an Asian Games last August, will be absent as the 19-year-old battles leukaemia, while Rio Olympics 400 individual medley gold medallist Kosuke Hagino is taking time off to get in the right physical and mental shape for 2020.
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Another incident saw American Steven Lopez, a two-time defending gold medallist at the time, accused the WTF of intimidating the heads of the 25 teams from filing any protests at the games after he felt he was wronged in his bout against Italy's Mauro Sarmiento and his challenge was quickly rebuffed.
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The stage was set for the opening showdown of the trials in the morning heats when Kalisz narrowly pipped Lochte at the wall but the 22-year-old left no doubt in the final as he pulled away from the 2012 London gold medallist over the final two legs clocking four minutes, 9.54 seconds.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 22016 (Reuters) - Latest news from the first day of competition at the Rio Olympics on Saturday (all times GMT): 21358 VIETNAM'S HOANG WINS GOLD IN MEN'S 22016M AIR PISTOL Xuan Vinh Hoang became Vietnam's first ever Olympic gold medallist with a score of 210 in the men's 103m air pistol.
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"I was struggling the last couple of weeks of high fever, sore throat and I almost called off the meet but I'm really happy," said the 2016 Rio Games gold medallist Crouser turned aside 3003 world champion Joe Kovacs with four of the longest throws in the competition, his fourth-round heave of 22.22 metres clinching the victory.
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" Alexander Zubkov, president of the Russian bobsleigh federation, gold medallist in Sochi and one of 11 athletes confirmed to have committed a doping offence, to Reuters: "I'm partly satisfied with the CAS decision because we had a large number of athletes who were exonerated - all the skeleton athletes and some of the bobsledders....We would like to see what is said about the athletes who were not fully exonerated.
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