Gold medallist China's Shi Tingmao (R) and bronze medallist Italy's Tania Cagnotto reacting to the proposal.
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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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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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Former Olympic judo gold medallist Yashuhiro Yamashita was more demanding.
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Ota then defeated world bronze medallist Almat Kebispayev of Kazakhstan 6-0 before going on to pin Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov, a two-time Olympic silver medallist, in the first period of the semi-finals.
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His eight-minute gap over his two distant Japanese pursuers, silver medallist Hirooki Arai (3:41:17) and bronze medallist Kai Kobayashi (3:41:19), was by far the biggest ever recorded in the championships.
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I was competing against [fellow London 2012 gold medallist] Jonnie Peacock.
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Keeth Smart, a silver medallist, is probably second in the pantheon.
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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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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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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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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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The former 1988 Seoul Olympic silver medallist comfortably controlled the severely out-matched Moore throughout.
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He is the first medallist at these Games to test positive for a banned substance.
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Zhaina Shekerbekova, the 2014 Asian Games flyweight silver medallist, will again represent the women's side.
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Rivaldo – himself an Olympic bronze medallist – was one of a golden generation of Brazilian footballers.
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Wallace's winter sports compatriots sent their support to the 2015 Junior World Championships Bronze medallist.
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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 sort of "I'll show you' type of mentality", world championship bronze medallist Dunfee told Reuters.
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A sort of "I'll show you' type of mentality", world championship bronze medallist Dunfee told Reuters.
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A former Olympic gold medallist, Carmelita Jeter of the United States, is the international event ambassador.
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Sochi silver medallist Sven Kramer of the Netherlands, one of the favourites for gold, finished sixth.
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Yet the 2016 world indoor silver medallist insisted there were a group of favourites, including Lavillenie.
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Sochi Games silver medallist Staale Sandbech was fourth, with teenage sensation Marcus Kleveland a disappointing sixth.
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World indoor silver medallist Ajee Wilson claimed second in 1:59.51 with Chrishuna Williams taking third.
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The CAS confirmed the IOC's decisions to disqualify track cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko from the 2012 London Olympic Games and Maria Abakumova, silver medallist in javelin, and Tatyana Lebedeva, silver medallist in long jump and triple jump, from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, according to a statement.
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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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"I don't expect him (Coleman) to really challenge Noah." the four-times Olympic sprint medallist told Reuters.
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Andre de Grasse, Canada's 200-metre silver-medallist, is an up-and-coming threat at age 21.
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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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Italian Olympic medallist Filippo Magnini came to the aid of a drowning man in Sardinia on Sunday.
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Polish wrestling Olympic medallist Damian Janikowski is also expected to make his MMA debut on the card.
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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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Kendricks, the Olympic bronze medallist, took much pleasure from topping the six-metre barrier for the first time.
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London bronze medallist Marti Malloy of the United States suffered a shock early exit in the round of 16.
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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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One of the people to whom Ellie was closest was her coach, French Olympic silver medallist Déborah Anthonioz, 39.
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Ren Cancan of China, the 2012 silver medallist, and Colombia's Ingrit Valencia Victoria took bronze as losing semi-finalists.
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The 2016 bronze medallist suffered a total meltdown on Friday as she fell - over, and over and over again.
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Qatar's 2017 world outdoor bronze medallist Abdalelah Haroun, was earlier red carded for false starting in the same heat.
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Germany's Theresia Ramona Hofmeister won the bronze medal race against Sochi bronze medallist Alena Zavarzina to complete the podium.
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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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"We are on world record watch," said four-time Olympic sprint medallist Ato Boldon, now an NBC Sports analyst.
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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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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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Brown, a bronze medallist on Canada's Olympic 4x100 metres relay team, claimed his second 100 metres title in 10.021 seconds.
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All five athletes are under 373 years old, which is also special, said four-times Olympic sprint medallist Ato Boldon.
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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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That was enough to see off second place Felipe Almeida Wu of Brazil and bronze medallist Wei Pang of China.
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She goes down as a three-time world champion, an Olympic gold and silver medallist, and a fantastic, fantastic athlete.
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"It's a great thing that Liu kept the world record in Chinese hands," said the Olympic 100m backstroke bronze medallist.
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Canadians led the 200m heats with Aaron Brown pacing the men (20.58 seconds) and Crystal Emmanuel (22.82) surprising Jamaican Olympic 400m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson (22.97) Harrison, twice Olympic women's 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica and American world pole vault silver medallist Sandi Morris will be among those seeking titles on Saturday.
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A grandson of Lee Kuan Yew, the country's modern founder, is among them, as is a Paralympian medallist and a policewoman.
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De Grasse, the Olympic 100 metres bronze medallist, was second in 10.024 as they qualified for September's world championships in Doha.
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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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Four-times Olympic medallist Kosuke Hagino couldn't follow suit in the men's event as American Chase Kalisz's superior breaststroke proved crucial.
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Silver medallist Alexis Pinturault of France echoed Hirscher, telling reporters the combined was special because it determines the best overall skier.
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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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Bowie, a double sprint medallist at Rio, took down another Felix world best in the women's 150m straightaway, running 16.30 seconds.
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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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In May, Kenyan-born Bahrain Olympic women's marathon silver medallist Eunice Kirwa was also provisionally suspended after failing a doping test.
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The impressive Karapetyan, the junior world champion, finished 15kg clear of silver medallist Martirosyan, with Romania's Dumitru Captari taking the bronze.
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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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Cuban-born Spanish runner Orlando Ortega, Olympic silver medallist last year, was the other to qualify as a fastest loser in 13.23.
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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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"He has turned himself into a legitimate medal threat, and not just indoors," four times Olympic sprint medallist Ato Boldon told Reuters.
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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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"Honestly I did not even see her, she was so far ahead," silver medallist Maya DiRado of the United States told reporters.
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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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Cain, who has been skating with LeDuc since May 2016, is the 2018 Four Continents silver medalist and 2017 U.S. national bronze medallist.
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Two-time Olympic bronze medallist Patrick Barnes of Ireland lost by a split decision to Samuel Carmona Heredia in the light flyweight category.
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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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Two-time Olympic silver medallist Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia was sixth after falling on a triple lutz and stumbling on a double axel.
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"When I went to the finish I thought, Mikaela must be in front but then I saw Frida cheering," silver medallist Holdener said.
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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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The Americans also will be missing Brianna Rollins, who is serving a doping suspension, and Olympic bronze medallist Kristi Castlin, who finished sixth.
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Ganzorig, who is a two-time world bronze medallist in his weight category, crumbled to the floor as Navruzov celebrated with his team.
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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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Silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, of Ukraine, overtook German world champion Malaika Mihambo to win the women's long jump with a 6.92m leap.
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"I think this is going to be an ushering in of the new guys," four-times Olympic sprint medallist Ato Boldon told Reuters.
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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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However, Olympic bronze medallist Masse was delighted to clinch the gold ahead of Baker, who finished third with Emily Seebohm of Australia in second.
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In the end he had, just, and the world champion and Olympic silver medallist let out a huge roar when the news came through.
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Bach said if any medallist was among those 31 there would not be any automatic reallocation of medals without those athletes also being retested.
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Meanwhile, the Americans will have another strong women's long jump team with Olympic champions Tianna Bartoletta (2003 metres) and silver medallist Brittney Reese (6.98m).
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World 100m silver medallist Christian Coleman likely awaits in Sunday's final, but first both must go through rounds on Saturday and Sunday's semi-finals.
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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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Bulut, a 1,500 metres silver medallist at London 2012, was handed a four-year ban for a violation of the athletes' biological passport rules.
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In badminton, Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei, silver medallist at Beijing and London, bids for gold against China's Chen Long in the men's singles final.
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Romero came into MMA as an Olympic silver medallist in freestyle wrestling, with a list of other tournament accomplishments as long as your arm.
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"I wouldn't want what Briana has endured at her age to happen to my worst enemy," the former Olympic and World Championship medallist added.
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In 2009, Isabell Werth, a German multigold medallist, was banned for doping her horse with fluphenazine, a sedative used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
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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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"We're going to see his face in Rio one way or another," American world silver medallist Gatlin said at the U.S. Olympic trials on Saturday.
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Sochi silver medallist Akito Watabe of Japan finished 4.8 seconds behind to take second place once again and Lukas Klapfer of Austria claimed the bronze.
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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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The Eritrean-born American distance runner is an Olympic silver medallist (2004) and winner of the New York City Marathon (2009) and Boston Marathon (2014).
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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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Pechalat, twice a world championships bronze medallist with dance partner Fabian Bourzat in 2012 and 2014, was elected with 504 votes while 154 votes were blank.
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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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Beaulieu-Marchand, 49th in the World Cup rankings, was a surprise bronze medallist, his 92.40 second run leaving him looking stunned as he stood on the podium.
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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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" BRITISH OLYMPIC HEPTATHLON BRONZE MEDALLIST KELLY SOTHERTON "I'm pretty sure if this was a track and field athlete they'd be getting a much rawer deal than Sharapova.
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France's Camille Lacourt, silver medallist at the 2015 world championships and fourth at the 2012 London Olympics, took the men's 100 metres backstroke gold in 53.79 seconds.
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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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Eventually, the dropping of former World Championships medallist Jess Varnish from the WCP after her failure to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio blew everything apart.
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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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The battle for silver went right down to the wire with France's Laurie Berthron edging Olympic silver-medallist Sarah Hammer of the U.S. in the final sprint.
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Sochi bronze medallist Erin Hamlin, the United States' first Olympic medal winner in luge, bowed out with a sixth-place finish in her fourth and final Games.
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More stability exists in the women's sprints as double Rio medallist Tori Bowie is having the kind of year that could produce double gold at the Aug.
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Hagino, the bronze medallist in 2012, won with a time of four minutes 6.05 seconds to end a U.S. stranglehold on the event dating back to 1996.
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The 24-year-old shrugged off poor form in his earlier events at the Games to finish 5.5 seconds ahead of silver medallist Jakov Fak of Slovenia.
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Jamaica's Spencer won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 and was also a world championship silver medallist in the 4x400m relay in Berlin in 2009.
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The five-time Olympic medallist was on course to match Sarah Sjoestroem's world record time of 27 set at last year's World Championships, before fading towards the end.
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Team captain and Olympic silver medallist sprinter Ryota Yamagata spoke of the need to bring joy to the people of Japan, especially those affected by last month's flooding.
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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 Rio Olympic 200m silver medallist has pencilled in few meetings in his build up to Qatar, with only the world relay championships in May in Japan confirmed.
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Scott congratulated silver medallist Katsuhiro Matsumoto of Japan and Russian Martin Malyutin, who finished in the same time as the Briton, but completely blanked Sun on the podium.
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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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Reed, who sits eighth in the Cup standings, is vying with players such as Brandt Snedeker, Zach Johnson, Watson and Olympic bronze medallist Matt Kuchar for those spots.
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World indoor silver medallist Sam Kendricks led the way with 5.91 metres for the win, while Cale Simmons (5.65m) and Logan Cunningham (5.60m) took the next two spots.
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The men's 40 kilometre points race was won by Polish specialist Wojciech Pszczolarski, winner of the same event in 2015 and bronze medallist at last year's world championships.
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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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So she turned to her Twitter account to start dropping some hints to see if Drake would like to have an Olympic medallist attend one of his shows.
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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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Kingsbury, a silver medallist four years ago in Sochi, has dominated moguls skiing since and lived up to his billing with a flawless final run to score 86.63 points.
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The 3-year-old Briton was left concerned about his left knee, which he hurt in a clash with Kenyan bronze medallist Paul Tanui during a frenetic last lap.
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Coleman, beaten by Olympic silver medallist Justin Gatlin in the 253.82 metres on Friday, was pipped by 214 seconds by Webb who closed quickly to win in 222.65 seconds.
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However improbable Khan's latest comments may be, the 2004 British Olympic silver medallist would make a much more interesting proposition in mixed martial arts than James Toney ever could.
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Robby Andrews edged Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz in the men's 1,500 in 3:43.29 and Rio bronze medallist Jenny Simpson was first in the women's race in 4:06.33.
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Sun, silver medallist in the event in London four years ago, touched the wall in one minute, 44.65 seconds to beat South Africa's Chad Le Clos by 0.55 seconds.
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The 120kg silver medallist from London 2012, Georgian Davit Modzmanashvili, was stripped of that medal in January this year after a re-analysis also tested positive for oral turinabol.
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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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Bronze medallist Dipa Karmakar of India poses during the medal ceremony for the Women's Vault Final during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 31, 2014.
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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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"There will be no weak competitors at the Asian Games," Amankul, a silver medallist at last year's World Boxing Championships, said in a video published by Kazakhstan's Boxing Federation.
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The Asian Games come as Kazakh sport mourns the death of its first Olympic medallist in figure skating, Denis Ten, who was stabbed to death in Almaty last month.
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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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In the starting gate she silenced the voice, let go of the doubt and crushed the run, beating silver medallist Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway by a healthy 0.39 seconds.
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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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Gatlin, the Olympic silver medallist who has been hampered by injuries, must finish in the top three at the cut-throat championships to make the U.S. team for London.
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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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The 24-year-old London silver medallist clocked 48.85 seconds leading off his 4x100 relay team, which was a huge boost for his confidence according to national coach Jacco Verhaeren.
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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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Rupp, the Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist on the track, pulled past 2012 trials winner Keflezighi in the 23rd mile to triumph in two hours, 11 minutes and 12 seconds.
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LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Olympic bronze medallist Tomas Walsh stayed ahead of tough competition in the shot put to win New Zealand's first gold of the World Championships on Sunday.
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But then the bronze medallist on the list turned out to be a livestream of an August conference event called "Argentina: Economic and Political Perspectives," which garnered 3,324,371 total views.
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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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This gift, evidenced in his impressive wins-to-knockout ratio, cannot be taught and is quickly earning the former 2008 Olympic bronze medallist the status as a must-see competitor.
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Ohashi, the world silver medallist, came into the race as favourite and won in 2:08:16 to break the meet record set by compatriot Miho Teramura in the heats.
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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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Sochi silver medallist Sven Kramer of the Netherlands, one of the favorites for gold, finished in a disappointing sixth place as his curse in the longest Olympic distance struck again.
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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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Olympic 5.653,000 metres silver medallist Galen Rupp, already on the American team in the marathon and 10,000, squeezed into Saturday's 5,000 metres final as the 12th qualifier, clocking 13:49.50.
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Silver medallist Schippers, twice world champion over the half-lap, ran her fastest race of the summer but was still beaten by a quarter of a second in 22.14 seconds.
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Twice world downhill champion and silver medallist in the Vancouver Games eight years ago, Svindal can now take his place among the very best of all-time in his sport.
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Dalaloyan, all-around silver medallist at last year's championships, and Belyavskiy both impressed on the parallel bars to earn 15.433 and 15.466 respectively - the two highest scores earned on Saturday.
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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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Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, a bronze medallist in Athens in 2004, lit the Olympic cauldron, a small and low-emission model befitting the environmental theme of these Games.
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Swiss Beat Feuz, bronze medallist in the downhill on Thursday, was in second place after clocking 1:24.57 with Norway's defending champion Kjetil Jansrud third in a time of 1:24.62.
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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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Australia's Jared Tallent, silver medallist behind Kirdyapkin, who had long campaigned for the Russian's Olympic title to be stripped, would receive the gold medal if upgraded by the International Olympic Committee.
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Coleman, the world 100 metres silver medallist, shattered the 20-year-old 60 metres record when he ran 6.34 seconds at the U.S. indoor championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sunday.
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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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When Amir Khan won silver at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens – making him Britain's youngest ever boxing medallist, which he remains to this day – many predicted a career without limits.
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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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The winning divers from China and Italy shared a heartwarming moment on Sunday, as silver medallist He Zi received a surprise marriage proposal from her boyfriend, fellow Chinese diver Qin Kai.
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It was not the government that proposed the referendum, but a grassroots movement called the Team Taiwan Campaign led by a famous Taiwanese track-and-field athlete and Olympic medallist, Chi Cheng.
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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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Olympic silver medallist Erik Kynard won the high jump at 2.29 metres, Molly Huddle was first in the women's 5,000 metres (15:05.01) and Barbara Nwaba topped the heptathlon with 6,494 points.
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To compete in paratriathlons, which include a 750 metre swim, a 20 kilometre ride and a 5 kilometre run, she has been paired with a guide, Michellie Jones, herself an Olympic medallist.
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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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In contrast, the man Henderson pipped to the Olympic title last year, silver medallist Luvo Manyonga, eased into the final, surpassing the qualification mark of 8.05 metres with a leap of 8.12.
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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 (Reuters) - Britain's one-two finish in the Olympic men's triathlon last week was underpinned by perfect race preparations, silver medallist Jonny Brownlee said on Tuesday after returning home from Rio de Janeiro.
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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 34-year-old Briton told reporters on Saturday that he was concerned about his knee, which he hurt in a clash with Kenyan bronze medallist Paul Tanui during a frenetic last lap.
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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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DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Hamstring injuries kept Christian Coleman out of last year's U.S. championships, but the world 1003 meters silver medallist is going all out at this week's nationals/world championships trials.
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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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Mr Conlan (pictured, in red), the current world champion and a bronze medallist at London 2012, had landed more punches than Mr Nikitin (in blue) and dominated two of the bout's three rounds.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean police have banned Hungarian swimmer Tamas Kenderesi from leaving the country as they investigate allegations of sexual harassment against the Olympic bronze medallist, authorities said on Sunday.
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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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"He is very down to earth, absolutely approachable, an absolute champion," said Norwegian fan Jeffrey Allan Kolkmann, from Trondheim, who cheered on Svindal and silver medallist Kjetil Jansrud from behind the finish area.
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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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Dibaba, 25, the sister of triple Olympic distance champion Tirunesh Dibaba and Olympic silver medallist Ejegayehu Dibaba, is the favourite to win the 1,500 metre event at the Olympic Games in Brazil in August.
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Silva raised her arms in triumph as she overcame top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia, following a pulsating semi-finals victory that went into extra time against London silver medallist Corina Caprioriu of Romania.
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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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The decision means the 2009 world championship 4x400m relay silver medallist can compete in Jamaica's National Senior Championship (June 22-25), which will be used to select the Caribbean island's team for the Aug.
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He and Olympic silver medallist Gatlin are the only U.S. collegians to win a sprint double in the same school year, capturing the 60 and 200 metres indoors and the 100 and 200 outdoors.
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Americans Ted Ligety, the 2013 world champion, and Andrew Weibrecht, silver medallist in Sochi four years ago, were still to run along with Canadian dark horse Manuel Osborne-Paradis and French dangerman Brice Roger.
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Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt won the men's event, with Britain's double Olympic medallist Jonny Brownlee finishing second and Richard Murray, the South African who won the inaugural Super League competition in Australia in March, third.
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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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South African Wayde van Niekerk dropped the record to 244.31 seconds at the 2400 Rio Olympics, and Boldon, a four-time Olympic sprint medallist, is not the only one saying Norman can go faster.
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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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CAS upheld all six appeals, which included London 2012 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Yuliya Zaripova, former Olympic champions Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina, 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin and world silver medallist Vladimir Kanaykin.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A Russian curling medallist at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is suspected of having tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, a source at the Games said on Sunday.
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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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Life could have gone on in that uncomplicated way indefinitely but for a couple of serendipitous moments involving his former team mate and bronze medallist Matt Antoine and a night out with a woman.
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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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Canadian Damian Warner, bronze medallist in Rio, began strongly by winning the 100 meters in 10.50 meters but slipped down the field after struggling in the shot, where he threw a modest 13.45 meters.
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He is one of the most accomplished strikers in MMA, having won the Russian ARB Hand-to-Hand Combat championships on multiple occasions and was a bronze medallist in the Russian Kickboxing Federation's 2006 tournament.
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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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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Moldovan canoe sprint bronze medallist Serghei Tarnovschi was provisionally suspended from the Rio Olympics on Thursday, after he failed a pre-games drug test, the International Canoe Federation said.
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The 19-year-old, who was born in Kenya and runs for Bahrain, clocked eight minutes 52.78 seconds, more than nine seconds ahead of Olympic silver medallist Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi of Kenya who finished second.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Australia's former 100 metres freestyle world champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen made a winning return to the pool on Friday following a nine month break due to shoulder surgery.
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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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The previous earlier, Hirano had become the youngest medallist in X Games history with his silver at Aspen and he has since gone on to add a Winter X Games gold medal to his collection.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist weightlifter Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan was on Thursday stripped of his medal after testing positive for strychnine, the Court of Arbitration of Sport said.
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MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said on Tuesday a Russian curling medallist accused of doping at the Olympics in Pyeongchang could not have taken the substance deliberately, Russian news agencies reported.
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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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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A smile beamed across the face of Australia's Matt Graham as he was announced as an Olympic silver medallist following his excellent display in the moguls final on Monday.
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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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McNeill, a silver medallist at the 2012 Youth Winter Olympics, had said when launching her crowd funding initiative that the BBSA was funding three men's crews but had told her the women were not medal potential.
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LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Britain's triple Olympic eventing medallist Pippa Funnell will compete at her third Games in Rio after Izzy Taylor withdrew on Friday due to an injury in training to her horse Allercombe Ellie.
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