Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor, Olympic silver medalist Mitchell Watt, IAAF world championship silver medalist Fabrice Lapierre have confirmed their participation.
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Mamiashvili said two male wrestlers, 2014 world championship silver medalist Evgeny Saleev and 2015 World Cup silver medalist Sergei Semenov, had been caught using meldonium.
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Australian silver medalist Peter Norman stood with them in solidarity.
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Silver medalist Sebastian Samuelsson had plenty of praise for Fourcade.
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The Sochi silver medalist finished 17th and was in tears.
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Three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop seems hot favorite in the men's 1,500-metre line-up, ahead of world silver medalist Elijah Manangoi, 2011 world silver medalist Silas Kiplagat and Commonwealth Games champion James Magut.
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Lukyanova was a silver medalist at the 2010 World junior championships.
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Jennie Finch is an Olympic gold and silver medalist in softball.
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Ismayilov was well clear of silver medalist Sergei Petrov, of Russia.
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Rupp, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist, finished fifth in 27:53.
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New Zealander Willis is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist at 19.100 meters, while Jamaica's Blake is the 2011 IAAF world champion at 100 meters and 2012 Olympic silver medalist at both 100 meters and 200 meters.
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The 2012 silver medalist was 10th overall with only eight going through.
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He beat American silver medalist Danell Leyva by 0.141 of a point.
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While last year's silver medalist, Jesse Kirchmeyer, finished with bronze in 2020.
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Olympic 10,000 meters silver medalist Galen Rupp faded to ninth after leading early.
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Suicide claimed this amazing woman, Olympic silver medalist, world champ, Stanford grad student.
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Gay clocked a wind-assisted 9.97 seconds and world silver medalist Gatlin 10.03.
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The 26-year-old silver medalist in freestyle skiing in Sochi scored 94.80.
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Alvarez, naturally, disagrees with the suggestion he's ducking the former Olympic silver medalist.
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And Cullen Jones, 32, a silver medalist in the event four years ago.
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Masato Sakai of Japan was the surprise silver medalist and Kenderesi was third.
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"Forget that notion," said Louis Smith, silver medalist in gymnastics' pommel horse competition.
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Higuchi earned 70.53 points with two-time European silver medalist Radionova scoring 70.48.
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Olympic Marathon silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa plans to do the same in September.
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Patrick Chan, the defending silver medalist, has not been nearly as good since.
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India's Sathish Kumar Sivalingam took gold ahead of English silver medalist Jack Oliver.
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"Tonight's going to be amazing," said McEvoy, silver medalist at the 2015 world championships.
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Silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia stands on the podium during the medal ceremony.
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Barega held off American Olympic 5,000 meters silver medalist Paul Chelimo for the victory.
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Petrova, the silver medalist at the 2015 European indoor championships, had denied any wrongdoing.
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García's friendship with Fish, an Olympic silver medalist, dates back more than a decade.
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Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was the silver medalist, a whopping 1.27 seconds behind Hirscher.
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Aloian, silver medalist in the -52kg boxing event, failed a test for tuaminoheptane, a stimulant.
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Ellison is a three-time Olympian and a two-time silver medalist in the sport.
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The rocket fuel of resentment, and the pure anger juice of the perpetual silver medalist.
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Heath, 32, claimed victory in 35.197 seconds, just 0.165 seconds faster than silver medalist Beaumont.
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All your hard work is paying off, and now you're an Olympic AA Silver Medalist!!
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Niyonsaba, Olympic silver medalist in 2016, recently revealed she had similar DSD characteristics to Semenya.
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Even when he's engaged in guerrilla marketing, the former Olympic silver medalist seems genuinely comfortable.
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Soon his neighbors were silver medalist Peter Koech and three-time steeplechase champion Joshue Kipkemboi.
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In contrast, the Olympic silver medalist Evan Jager has a lifetime best of 8:00.45.
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New Zealand's team sprint silver medalist Eddie Dawkins said the fast times were not surprising.
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" The silver medalist added that there was "#nofilter on the picture or apparently in the pool.
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He beat Kazakh former boxer and Olympic silver medalist Serik Konakbayev for the association's top job.
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Olympic silver medalist Paul Chelimo outkicked Shadrack Kipchirchir for the 3,000 metres win in 7:57.88.
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Olympic silver medalist Paul Chelimo has been very vocal about his goal of dethroning the champion.
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Both Kamworor and Flanagan, who is an Olympic silver medalist, will be racing again this year.
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From there, he has "nowhere to hide", Hendrawan, silver medalist at the 2000 Sydney Games, said.
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"I've wanted to hear some of those things for 12 years," the Olympic silver medalist said.
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"He cannot run from that problem," said Hendrawan, a silver medalist at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Shoma Uno, the silver medalist from Japan, said he was glad to see Chen bounce back.
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Several members of the silver medalist Brazilian team saluted and Canada's bronze-winning team stood quietly.
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She was also the silver medalist at the United States Figure Skating National Championships in 2007.
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Nia Ali, the silver medalist at last year's Olympics, was second, and Christina Manning took third.
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The Rio silver medalist coached juveniles and street children during his trip to the West African country.
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Then there was a warm-up on a Sproing machine with Kim Glass, an Olympic Silver Medalist.
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Ahoure finished second in the last heat behind Olympic silver medalist Tori Bowie of the United States.
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The crowd once again booed silver medalist French Renaud Lavillenie, ignoring Da Silva's gestures asking for quiet.
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He ended the competition with 301.10 points, nearly 40 points ahead of silver medalist American Jason Brown.
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And her cousin Gigi Marvin is a two-time Olympic silver medalist with the women's national team.
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And on Wednesday, March 9, Georgian Olympic wrestling silver medalist Davit Modzmanashvili admitted to using the drug.
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Ugandan hopes rest on national champion Joshua Cheptegei, African cross country silver medalist Phillip Kipyeko and Timothy Toroitich.
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Earlier, Olympic silver medalist, Sally Kipyego was defeated in the women's 23,2000m and missed her ticket to Rio.
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The 35-year-old Henze, a canoeing silver medalist at the Athens 2004 Olympics, was rushed to hospital.
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Australia's Jared Tallent, silver medalist behind Kirdyapkin, has long campaigned for the Russian's Olympic title to be stripped.
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World road champion Lizzie Armitstead leads the women's squad with Beijing 2008 time-trial silver medalist Emma Pooley.
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Silver medalist Horton refused to take the podium after Sun's victory in the 400 freestyle final on Sunday.
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"The thing about Tokyo is that it is an open contest," explained the 2018 X Games silver medalist.
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After Mr. Garber's bid for Connecticut state treasurer faltered — he was "the silver medalist," he noted wryly — Gov.
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The gymnasts – calling themselves the #FinalFive – came out a staggering eight points ahead of silver medalist winner Russia.
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In third place was Japan's Hiromi Miyake, the 2012 silver medalist who was competing in her fourth Games.
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Aksyonova is a former European champion in the 400 meters relay and silver medalist in the individual event.
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Kenworthy was a silver medalist in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was not openly gay at the time.
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Why do I have to wait 10 years to find out if I'm the silver medalist or not?
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In addition to Rohler, European silver medalist and German champion Andreas Hofmann also failed to reach the final.
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Johnson is a former American rower and silver medalist who participated in the 30 Olympic Games in Athens.
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Meanwhile, Nathan Chen, 17, the Grand Prix Final silver medalist, could become the youngest men's champion since 1964.
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On April 11, Dubois will fight against the 2016 Olympic silver medalist Joe Joyce at London's 02 Arena.
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"It's all about execution, not about superior speed," the 2400-year old Olympic 1003 meters silver medalist told reporters.
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Ren Cancan of China, the 2012 silver medalist, and Colombia's Ingrit Valencia Victoria took bronze as losing semi-finalists.
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World silver medalist Ta Lou also anchored Africa's 4x100m relay but missed out when the squad dropped the baton.
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Only half the field finished, with Olympic silver medalist Evan Jager of the United States scratching before the start.
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British Olympic high jump silver medalist Germaine Mason has been killed in a Jamaica motorcycle accident, according to reports.
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Now, after reaching the final of the women's sprint on Tuesday night, she's a double Olympic silver medalist. Heroes.
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Zara Tindall, daughter of Britain's Princess Anne and an Olympic silver medalist in 2012, finished 23rd on High Kingdom.
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American Tori Bowie, silver medalist behind Thompson in Rio last year, won her heat in exactly the same time.
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Chinese diver Qin Kai proposes to silver medalist He Zi of China on the podium during the medal ceremony.
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Polish world silver medalist Piotr Lisek conquered a talented field in the pole vault with a national-record 6.01m.
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In a statement, Henze's family said the coach – and former Olympian and silver medalist – would leave a lasting legacy behind.
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Competing in Doha, Qatar, Biles scored 57.491 — besting the silver medalist, Mai Murakami of Japan, by an impressive 1.7 points.
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His best jump – 8.38-meters (27 feet, 6 inches) was just one centimeter better than silver-medalist Luvo Manyonga's mark.
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Abakumova was a silver medalist at those Games, while Lebedeva won silver medals in the long jump and triple jump.
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The Olympic silver medalist stormed home in 2400 seconds ahead of American Ameer Webb (2800) and Britain's Zharnel Hughes (249.80).
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World champion and Olympic silver medalist Mayer surpassed American Ashton Eaton's 9,045 total at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.
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Birthday girl and Sochi silver medalist Devin Logan couldn't repeat her feat from four years ago and finished in 10th.
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On the men's side, Japan's world silver medalist Shoma Uno topped of the podium after nailing his difficult long routine.
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Stephanie Venier, the silver medalist at the 2017 worlds and Siebenhofer's roommate on the Austrian team, was third, 0.46 behind.
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Stuhec finished 0.23 of a second ahead of the silver medalist, Corinne Suter of Switzerland, and 0.49 ahead of Vonn.
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"So I was thinking of other people when it started to hurt," said Flanagan, the 2008 Olympic 251,201 meters silver medalist.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Monday they had banned four athletes including European silver medalist Irina Maracheva for doping offences.
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World under-20 silver medalist Shiann Salmon was second in a personal best 55.39, while Rhonda Whyte took third in 55.41.
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The 2015 world silver medalist missed the world championships earlier this year due to a stress fracture in her left hip.
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Orser, twice Olympic silver medalist, coaches some of the world's leading figure skaters, including Japan's double Olympic men's champion Yuzuru Hanyu.
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Also competing will be Galen Rupp, the 10,000m silver medalist at the 2012 Olympics who will be making his marathon debut.
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"I knew I had to get out on top of the field," said the 23-year-old world championship silver medalist.
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In the quarterfinals, he stopped the Olympic silver medalist Juan Martín del Potro, who had upset him at Wimbledon in July.
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The group boasts American Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp and Britain's multiple world and Olympic champion Mo Farah among its members.
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Rio Olympic silver medalist Brittney Reese delivered the first seven-meter leap of the outdoor season to win the long jump.
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Stéphane Lambiel, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist from Switzerland who is now a coach, said the Russian skaters were being welcomed.
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A Russian delegation that included Evgenia Medvedeva, the silver medalist in women's figure skating, made a presentation to the executive board.
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China's Chen Aisen came top in the semi-finals while team mate and London silver medalist Qiu Bo took second place.
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The 20-year-old, a world silver medalist, had set the previous mark last Saturday by clearing 6.17m in Torun, Poland.
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" He did just that with a performance that left the silver medalist Shubenkov sighing afterwards: "The Jamaican is just too fast.
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This time, they have objected to the burden of proof being shifted to Leeper, a silver medalist at the 2012 Paralympics.
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Coburn won a duel between the top two 220.99,5003m steeplechase finishers in the 2500 world championships, defeating world silver medalist Courtney Frerichs.
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Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, silver medalist in 2010 and in with a big chance this time, told reporters "there's 10 potential winners".
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Two time silver medalist Danell Leyva went rogue and stripped down during a Rio routine – much to the delight of fans watching.
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Johnston, a silver medalist at the London Olympics, is looking to medal again in Rio, competing in the women's 3-meter springboard.
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" Johnson – the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist, and all-around, floor exercise and team silver medalist – says gymnastics is "constantly evolving.
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World number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand, the Olympic silver medalist, opened with a 70 to trail the leaders by seven.
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Russia, of course, produced the two top female finishers in this year's Olympics, gold medalist Alina Zagitova and silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva.
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"I don't like this new system," said Fabien Hambüchen of Germany, a silver medalist on the horizontal bar at the 2012 Games.
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Can you just give me the medal so I can be a silver medalist for the last few years of my career?
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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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Up-and-coming Katie Nageotte added another season-best in the pole vault, soaring 4.91m to defeat world silver medalist Sandi Morris (4.86m).
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This year's bronze went to countrywoman Tabea Alt (13.300) with all-round champion Morgan Hurd of the United States the silver medalist (13.400).
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Olympic and world triple jump champion Christian Taylor was beaten by the silver medalist Will Claye, who bounded 18.06 meters to Taylor's 17.82.
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The reigning silver medalist became the first member of the royal family to win an Olympic medal as part of the 2012 team.
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The symbol became internationally recognizable after Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa made the gesture while crossing the finish line at the Rio Olympics.
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Marathon open-water swimmer and British Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne enjoys two slices of unbuttered toast with raspberry jam before training.
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Jamaican Powell was second in 10.08 while Olympic silver medalist Gatlin was fourth and Olympic bronze medalist Andre de Grasse of Canada fifth.
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Olympic silver medalist Josh Prenot tied the knot with longtime love Tiffany Sudarma, and PEOPLE has an exclusive look inside the big day.
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After the first round of reanalysis, Bulut, the silver medalist turned gold after Alptekin's disqualification, was provisionally suspended in March of this year.
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Seebohm, silver medalist in London in 2012, had achieved the second-fastest time in the heats but qualified for the final in seventh.
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Tretiakov has lost his gold medal because of a doping violation, but Dukurs for now is still listed only as the silver medalist.
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Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, 23, has been called "the most complete athlete in figure skating, probably ever," by the 2006 Olympic silver medalist.
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American Jonathon Lillis top-scored with 127.44 and the world champion will be joined in Sunday's final by Sochi silver medalist David Morris.
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Cheruiyot, also a silver medalist at the African Games and Commonwealth Games last year, said he took the initiative to avoid being jostled.
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The silver medalist in that race, Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey, was barred for doping this year after her sample from 2007 was retested.
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Only Olympic silver medalist Nia Ali qualified for the world championships but the U.S. still has a very strong chance of sweeping the medals.
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France's Marie Martinod, the Sochi silver medalist, qualified in second and was another competitor to lay down two runs of more than 90 points.
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Biles bested teammate, close friend and 2016 silver-medalist Aly Raisman – the 2012 London gold medalist in the event – with a score of 15.966.
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Her grandfather Jan Klapac - a member of the 1972 world champion Czechoslovak ice hockey team and Olympic silver medalist - also provided inspiration for Ledecka.
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When he was in seventh grade, his parents sent him to Glenville to live and train with Jason Morris, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist.
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So I'm not just some guy who sits in an office and is like, 'Well, you're a silver medalist; you'll get it next time.
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Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton and silver medalist Tanith White will offer skating insights on Olympic Ice, NBCSN's new live figure skating preview show.
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Dwyer, fastest in the morning heats, came fourth, with American Connor Jaeger fifth and Guy, the world silver medalist last year, fading to sixth.
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Peszek, another silver medalist from Beijing, is a gymnastics analyst at the Pac-12 Network but wanted to return to work at the Olympics.
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" There was some sympathy elsewhere too for innocent Russian athletes, with American Olympic decathlon silver medalist Trey Hardee saying: "Sad day for Russian athletes.
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The 2017 silver medalist at nationals, Zhou calmed himself moments before he began by shutting his eyes, then opening them with a deep breath.
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Around seven-tenths of a point (big in gymnastics) higher than Gabby Douglas, the next-highest performer on the apparatus and eventual silver medalist.
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Biles, 21, finished with 57.491 points in the four-apparatus competition, well ahead of the silver medalist, Mai Murakami of Japan, who had 55.798.
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Sunday Routine After years of competing and touring, Sasha Cohen, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist in figure skating, rarely sets foot in the rink.
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"It looks the exact same, just mini; it probably should be bigger," said Christian Coleman, the American silver medalist in the men's 100 meters.
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The 2018 Olympic silver medalist proposed to girlfriend Mara Marian last week, the couple shared on social media, showing off her beautiful diamond ring.
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Pourzarabi was a silver medalist in the National Olympiad in Informatics and the pair had been undergraduates in the prestigious Sharif University engineering program.
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Iowa native Shelby Houlihan also delighted the Des Moines crowd, running down world silver medalist Jenny Simpson to win the women's 1,500m in 4:05.48.
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"I've performed in Korea many times with Yuna Kim, who is an Olympic gold medalist, Olympic silver medalist, just a hero in Korea," Kwan says.
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The 35-year-old, who is currently ranked fourth in the world, has won 69 international titles and is a three-time Olympic silver medalist.
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A double freestyle silver medalist at the 2000 Sydney Games, her presence in Rio made her the first female swimmer to compete at six Olympics.
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Facing a powerful American team boasting Harrison, Olympic silver medalist Nia Ali and 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper-Nelson, Pearson is mindful of the challenge.
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Jeter, the 2012 Olympic 100 meters silver medalist and 200m bronze medal winner, pulled out of the July 1-10 trials with a quadriceps problem.
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American swimmers Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin took gold and bronze respectively at the 2100 world championships in Kazan, Russia, with Pellegrini the silver medalist.
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Even in Rio, the United States has several athletes on its roster that have served lengthy drug suspensions, including 100-meter silver medalist Justin Gatlin.
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World champion Justin Gatlin finished second to training partner Isiah Young in their 100 meters heat, while 2017 world silver medalist Christian Coleman won his.
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"I know I still have the talent and can do it," Harper Nelson, the 2008 Olympic champion and 2012 silver medalist, told Reuters by telephone.
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"I know I still have the talent and can do it," Harper Nelson, the 2008 Olympic champion and 2012 silver medalist, told Reuters by telephone.
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Twice a world silver medalist but never the champion, she went out hard in the final and was clearly the leader by the final straight.
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India's silver medalist in badminton at the Rio Olympics, 103-year-old PV Sindhu, has become the country's second-highest-paid sports celebrity for endorsements.
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That was 2100 seconds ahead of the silver medalist Nicola Spirig of Switzerland, who won in 225 after Jorgensen's flat tire relegated her to 223th.
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Silver medalist Bjoergren has decided not to participate in Thursday's 10km race, but said it had nothing to do with her performance in the skiathlon.
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Burundi's Olympic silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba shared pictures of herself, and other teammates camped on the airport floor, resting on their luggage on social media.
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But his coach, Brian Orser, a two-time Olympic silver medalist for Canada in the 1980s, cautioned reporters not to underestimate Hanyu's talent and resolve.
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"He's the most complete athlete in figure skating, probably ever," said Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland, the 22006 Olympic silver medalist who is now a coach.
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Goucher, silver medalist in the 10,000m at the world championships while training under Salazar in 2007, called for samples from Salazar's athletes to be retested.
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Arndt piloted his sled to a two-run combined time that was 193 of a second faster than Benjamin Maier of Austria, the surprise silver medalist.
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The 2006 Olympic silver medalist and three-time World Championship medalist married her boyfriend of two years, Tom May, in a private Massachusetts wedding on Saturday.
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The men's hurdles was won by Commonwealth Games champion Ronald Levy (13.23) ahead of world under-20 silver medalist Orlando Bennett (13.27) and Andrew Riley (13.33).
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"At a certain point he just took off and I thought maybe I could try to hang with him but I couldn't," silver medalist Jaeger said.
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Sochi silver medalist Mikaël Kingsbury, a Canadian mogul skier, recently broke Weinbrecht's record 46 World Cup wins, one she long held in tandem with Hannah Kearney.
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Pengilly, a former world championship silver medalist, could now face further sanctions from the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, of which he is a vice president.
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But 26-year-old sprinter and 2013 European Championship silver-medalist Nadezhda Kotlyarova has now tested positive for the substance, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.
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Theisen-Eaton has the top heptathlon score in the world this year and is the two-time world outdoor silver medalist and 2016 world indoor champion.
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World silver medalist Coleman, who holds the year's fastest time of 50.203 seconds, won the final in 250.20 seconds after clocking 244.04 in the semi-finals.
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He took up with Couture and Olympic silver medalist Matt Lindland, and spent the next seven years jetting from his home in Temecula, California, to Japan.
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De Grasse, 23, was silver medalist in the 200 meters at the 2016 Rio Olympics and won bronze in the 100 meters and 4x100 meters relay.
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Olympic champion Christian Taylor and silver medalist Will Claye in the triple jump and shot put gold medalist Ryan Crouser are other strong candidates for gold.
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The racewalkers Denis Nizhegorodov, who was an Olympic silver medalist in 2004, and Svetlana Vasilyeva argued that a ban of the entire team was unfair punishment.
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The silver medalist said Puig, ranked 34th in the world, put in one of the best performances of her career, making it difficult to catch her.
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Biles, 19, averaged 22012 during her two vaults, well clear of the silver medalist Maria Paseka of Russia and the bronze medalist Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Double Olympic silver medalist Louis Smith has apologized for a leaked video in which he and fellow gymnast Luke Carson appeared to mock Islam.
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Theisen-Eaton, silver medalist at the 221.78 worlds, took gold in the pentathlon with a winning total of 4,881 points, 34 ahead of Ukraine's Anastasiya Mokhnyuk.
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Representing the United States flag will be Kerron Clement, the world champion in 2009 and the silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Byron Robinson.
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Manly also filed a lawsuit against the USOC and other defendants in December on behalf of McKayla Maroney, a 2012 Olympic gymnastics gold and silver medalist.
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The American skier Travis Ganong, the 2015 world championship downhill silver medalist and a likely contender on Saturday, agreed that age was an asset for skiers.
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Olympic silver medalist Will Claye overtook London triple jump gold medalist Christian Taylor with a big fifth-place jump of 17.65 meters as both advanced to Rio.
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The tallest member of the team is NBA basketballer Andrew Bogut at 213cm (7ft), while Beijing silver medalist in diving Melissa Wu is the shortest at 153cm.
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Jesse Owens took home the gold medal over silver medalist Lutz Long of Germany, who along with other German officials gave the Nazi salute during the ceremony.
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Beemo had been saved from a dog meat farm in South Korea while the silver medalist was in PyeongChang for the 2018 Winter Olympics earlier this year.
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World championship silver medalist Christian Coleman also set a world leading time as he won the 100 meters in 9.85 seconds, especially impressive in the cool conditions.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Two-time Winter Olympic silver medalist Ayumu Hirano will take part in the Japan Open skateboard competition later this month, according to his management team.
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After Sun, who also served a doping suspension in 2014, won the 400 freestyle on Sunday, silver medalist Mack Horton refused to share the podium with him.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Olympic hopeful Ihab Abdelrahman, a silver medalist in the men's javelin at last year's world championship, has been suspended for failing a doping test.
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Olympic silver medalist Blake eased up with 20m to go but still posted a season's best 20.29, while Thompson cruised to her semi-final win in 23.37.
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"There are still a lot of games that aren't so violent," Mr. Huang, 23, the silver medalist this week in a video game called Clash Royale, added.
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Laffont, a world championship silver medalist, produced an impressive run to score 79.72 in the first action of the Pyeongchang 2018 Games at the Phoenix Snow Park.
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"Athletes should be upset" if it's illegal, said Hawi Keflezighi, the agent and brother of Meb Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic marathon silver medalist from the United States.
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"Most coaches in the United States hang their own shingle out, and they don't want anybody touching their skater," said Paul Wylie, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist.
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"I know it sounds silly, it's an insane feeling (and) I can't put it into words," Langridge, a twice silver medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, told reporters.
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With each stellar performance, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist is further subjected to public scrutiny over her broad shoulders, deep voice, muscular arms, severe jawline and narrow hips.
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"When I was 16, I basically lost all my skills," said Jason Burnett, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist from Canada (who will compete in Rio on August 13th).
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The other Australian rower whose records were leaked on Friday, Rio silver medalist Alexander "Sasha" Belonogoff, also carries an EpiPen because of a food allergy, Rowing Australia said.
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And their number includes a US Olympic silver medalist, a Secret Service officer, a nuclear energy fellow at MIT and the US Army's 2012 Soldier of the Year.
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The 2012 Olympic silver medalist, who is a single mother of two children, Isabelle, 13, and Harry, 11, says there is crossover between her parenting and her horsemanship.
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A silver medalist four years ago in Sochi, the Canadian has dominated the sport in recent years and stretched his World Cup winning run to 12 consecutive titles.
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While she never won an Olympic medal, Bonaly is a three-time World Cup silver medalist, five-time champion of Europe and a nine-time champion of France.
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Gatlin, the world silver medalist at both 20143 and 200 meters, is expected to be a key member of the U.S. men's 4x100m relay team at the Aug.
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Mr. Anderson, an Olympic silver medalist in ice hockey, won a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives when he was just 21972 and still in law school.
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A silver medalist at worlds in 2013 and 2000, Brianne is convinced the key element to gold in Rio will be mental: focusing on herself, not her rivals.
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The Americans posted a team score of 171.629 in winning their fourth straight world title, well clear of Russia, the silver medalist, and China, which won the bronze.
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She carried the torch around the track in the opening ceremony, her wheelchair pushed by her countrywoman Raelene Boyle, a three-time Olympic silver medalist in the sprints.
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Ashley Wagner, the world silver medalist, and her American teammates Karen Chen and Mariah Bell, chase after Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia, the reigning world champion, in Helsinki, Finland.
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"We as players are playing with the intention of leaving this game better than we entered it," Kendall Coyne Schofield, an Olympic gold- and silver-medalist, told Reuters.
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"I learned a lot from sparring with him," said Olympic silver medalist Shakur Stevenson, the 19-year-old prospect who will fight Carlos Gaston Suarez on Saturday's undercard.
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Younger brother Jonny, Olympic silver medalist from Rio, was leading the field at the World Triathlon Championships in Mexico - but he was suffering in the 30 degrees Celsius heat.
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With 2016 Olympic champion Ashton Eaton having retired, the gold medal will be up for grabs in Tokyo with Rio silver medalist Mayer and bronze medalist Warner the favorites.
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There has never been a non-African world champion in the men's steeplechase but Olympic silver medalist Evan Jager of the U.S. has a chance of becoming the first.
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The other athletes banned by RUSADA, all race walkers, were former Olympic champions Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina, 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin and world silver medalist Vladimir Kanaykin.
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On Wednesday, individual all-around silver medalist Aly Raisman shared a hilarious pic with Australian female basketball player Liz Cambage to show the height difference between the two athletes.
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England's Jonny Brownlee, the silver medalist in Glasgow in 2014 and at the Rio Olympics, says fitness was a major factor in his seventh-placed finish in the triathlon.
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In the starting gate she silenced the voice, let go of the doubt and crushed the run, beating silver medalist Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway by a healthy 0.39 seconds.
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Trinidad and Tobago national champion Kyle Greaux spoiled the host country's chances in the men's 2500m, clocking 24 seconds to upstage Canada's Commonwealth Games silver medalist Aaron Brown (2400).
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Olympic silver medalist Justin Gatlin, winner of the U.S. 2400 over Coleman, also should be a contender in the London race as he faces Bolt for the last time.
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On the medal podium next to the silver medalist, Peter Norman of Australia, Smith and Carlos bowed their heads and each raised a black-gloved fist in the air.
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Efimova's team mate Anastasiia Fesikova took the 43m backstroke title in 59.19sec, just preventing Britain's silver medalist Georgia Davies from completing her own double after her 50m backstroke win.
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U.S. Olympic champion relay runner Phyllis Francis opened a comfortable lead before passing the baton to Sydney McLaughlin, silver medalist in the 400m hurdles at the worlds in Doha.
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Desisa, last year's New York marathon winner and world silver medalist in Moscow six years ago, became the first Ethiopian to win the title since Gezahegne Abera in 2001.
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Its stars included Cheryl Toussaint-Eason, a silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics in the 1,600-meter relay and a gold medalist at the Pan American Games; Diane Dixon, who won Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 19723 in the 400-meter relay and was an 11-time national indoor champion; and Grace Jackson-Small, the silver medalist in the 200-meter sprint at the 21969 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
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The first shock of the final came in the second round, when Sochi silver medalist and world leader Xu Mengtao landed heavily and was eliminated with a ninth place finish.
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Silver medalist in the 200m in Athens in 2004 and again in Beijing four years later, Felix won her only individual gold over the half-lap in London in 2012.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) exonerated Tretyakov this month, so Martins Dukurs, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, is likely to end his career without his coveted gold.
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World bronze medalist Derwael, also 18, took the gold on the bars with a routine that earned her an outstanding 14.733 mark ahead of Sweden's silver medalist Jonna Adlerteg (14.533).
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He was reportedly riding with numerous high-profile international athletes including eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, 100-meter silver medalist Michael Frater and retired Jamaican footballer Ricardo Gardner.
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A five-time Grand Slam winner and 2012 Olympic silver medalist, Maria Sharapova was poised for success at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio when her dreams of gold disappeared.
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The country's also the silver medalist for nickel production in the world, and the fourth-largest producer of diamonds; in 2013, mining accounted for 3.4 percent of the country's GDP.
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The Netherlands' world champion and Olympic silver medalist Dafne Schippers won the 200m in 22.10 seconds and is peaking at the right time before her world title defense next month.
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Ohashi, the world silver medalist, came into the race as favorite and won in 2:43:16 to break the meet record set by compatriot Miho Teramura in the heats.
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The silver medalist in London four years ago went a step better in Rio with a winning time of two minutes, 4.85 seconds, the fastest time so far this year.
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And in the all-around event, Biles was truly competing in a league of her own, racking up an impressive 2.1 points more than silver medalist Tang Xijing of China.
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If recent form holds, the gap between Ledecky and the silver medalist in the 800-meter freestyle will reflect her dominance more powerfully than the gold medal she receives afterward.
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China's You Hao, silver medalist behind Petrounias at last year's world championships, was expected to push him all the way with a routine that had the highest 7.000 difficulty score.
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With the eight-times Olympic sprinting champion nearing his last race, the group has signed Canadian Olympic silver medalist Andre de Grasse as well as a number of Jamaican sprinters.
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Consider Thursday's comment about the 200-meter silver medalist Andre De Grasse, made with De Grasse sitting next to him: "You should always want to be the best," Bolt said.
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Names like Choi Min-jeong, Shim Suk-hee and Kim Alang (all women) and Lim Hyo-jun (men's 1,500 meter winner) and silver-medalist Hwang Dae-heon joined the pantheon.
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World number three Li is the last woman standing for China, with London silver medalist Wang Yihan upset 22-20 173-19 by India's Sindhu Pusarla in a riveting contest.
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For many, the battle for freestyle snowboarding gold medals comes down to four-time X Games champion Parrot and compatriot Mark McMorris, as well as Sochi silver medalist Ståle Sandbech.
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Youth Olympic silver medalist Mica McNeill and team mate Mica Moore had appealed for 30,000 pounds ($40,000) in September after being told there was only enough money for the men.
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The Haitian-born sprinter never let up after bursting out of the blocks, winning in 2003 seconds, two-hundredths of a second faster than Schippers, the world 100m silver medalist.
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The shuttler is targeting greater consistency to counter the threat posed by world number one Carolina Marin, defending Olympic champion Li Xuerui and London silver medalist Wang Yihan of China.
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The men's hurdles race should be another crowd pleaser with American Devon Allen (13.37 seconds), Jamaican Commonwealth Games silver medalist Hansle Parchment (13.42) and Canadian Johnathan Cabral (13.43) the top qualifiers.
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World 400m silver medalist Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas ran a world leading 22.14 in the 200m but again the mark will not stand because of the +2.5 m/s wind.
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The Olympic silver-medalist noted that raising dogs for food is part of Korean culture, but that the inhumane conditions were not something that the concept of cultural differences could excuse.
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In the women's final, world number 12 Okuhara, who felled defending champion Carolina Marin on Friday, meets either China's world junior champion Chen Yufei or India's Olympic silver medalist Pusarla Sindhu.
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Gentle gave Jake Birtwhistle a 40-second buffer over Alistair Brownlee that the individual silver medalist held to give their team, which also included Gillian Backhouse and Matt Hauser, the gold.
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Thompson, 2015 world 19.893 meter silver medalist, withdrew from the Jamaican 200m final with a hamstring niggle, two days after clocking a world leading 10.70 seconds to win the 100 meters.
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Chanu, who was a silver medalist at Glasgow in 2014, lifted 26kg more than Mauritian Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa, who sealed silver, while Sri Lanka's Dinusha Gomes won the bronze medal.
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The U.S. women's gymnastics team — with all the sky-high expectations surrounding it — did not disappoint, drawing clear of silver medalist Russia by more than eight points for the gold medal.
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The last of the heavily-fancied British boxers to fight, the 20-year-old from Bury - home town of 2004 silver medalist Amir Khan — Ali had been waiting for his moment.
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Efimova, the silver medalist on Monday and Olympic bronze medalist in the 43 in 2012, came third in her heat, despite finishing strongly, and qualified in eighth place with 2:23.90.
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In the latest move, the IOC disqualified Russian bronze-medalist weightlifter Nadezda Evstyukhina, silver-medalist weightlifter Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4x400m track event.
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The top hopes were Thiago Pereira, silver medalist in the 400 meters medley in London, and Bruno Fratus but neither set a personal best in their divisions and finished without medals.
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Henrik Stenson, the British Open champion and Olympic silver medalist, had to withdraw after the first round and will undergo a magnetic resonance imaging examination on his surgically repaired right knee.
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He did not reference Dr. Brown by name with regard to hypothyroidism and a Salazar-coached athlete, Galen Rupp, a silver medalist in the 10,000 meters at the 2012 London Olympics.
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Niyazymbetov, also the silver medalist in London four years ago, had been hoping to become the second Kazakh boxing champion of the tournament after Daniyar Yeleussinov won welterweight gold on Wednesday.
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Brian Orser, a two-time Olympic silver medalist for Canada and coach of the 2014 men's gold medalist, Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, watched a documentary about Russian doping the other night.
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"So many people feel that if there was an answer then we would know what to do," said Kathleen Baker, a gold and silver medalist in swimming at the 2016 Olympics.
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And Sasha Cohen, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, once required 21 stitches after her calf was sliced by the blade of a competitor who collided with her while landing a jump.
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Canada's Sochi silver medalist Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished the first round of qualifying in a disappointing 13th, while her sister Justine, who won gold in Russia four years ago, was fourth.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday sanctioned four Russian Olympians who competed at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London games for failing drug tests, including silver medalist Maria Abakumova.
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He will leave the sport as a two-time Olympian, a six-time United States outdoor champion at 800 meters and a silver medalist at the 2013 world championships in Moscow.
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He ran the 4.75-mile course in 21:16, beating Paul Chelimo, the 5,000-meter silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and Andy Butchart, a British Olympian, by 30 seconds.
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Kenyan world silver medalist Timothy Cheruiyot seized the yearly lead in the 1,500m with a quick 3:28.77 with Norwegian runner-up Jakob Ingebrigtsen setting a personal best of 3:30.16.
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Ethiopian marathoner and Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa was reunited with his family after months of separation following his protest of the Ethiopian government at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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She ousted London silver medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou by four-hundredths of a second while bronze medalist Dafne Schippers, who also won the 200m crown in London, finished sixth in 11.22.
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Guest appearances will include current Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr., and former Bachelorettes Rachel Lindsay and JoJo Fletcher, champion figure skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, and Olympic skating silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan.
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They include London 2012 silver medalist Nick Dempsey, who has been given a chance to become the most successful men's Olympic windsurfer in history if he wins gold at his fifth Games.
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It was noticeable in the measured way that Olympic silver medalist wrestler and mixed martial artist Sara McMann discussed the fighter who knocked her out in the first round at UFC 170.
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Burling, an Olympic gold and silver medalist, was helmsman on Emirates Team New Zealand and the face of the crew during the campaign to wrest the "Auld Mug" from its U.S. holders.
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Figueroa, a silver medalist at the London 2012 Games who escaped jail when the sentence was commuted, came out on top in a head-to-head battle with Indonesia's Eko Yuli Irawan.
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The 24-year-old, shooting with a golden gun, shrugged off poor form in his earlier events at the Games to finish 5.5 seconds ahead of silver medalist Jakov Fak of Slovenia.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australian diver Brittany O'Brien was called up to the Rio Olympics in her sleep on Saturday, the teenager drafted in to replace injured 2012 silver medalist Brittany Broben.
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A world silver medalist in Beijing last year, Lapierre posted a jump of 8.21 meters to finish third behind winner Marquise Goodwin (8.42) and another American in Mike Hartfield (8.29) on Sunday.
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Guest appearances will include current Bachelor Arie Luyendyk, Jr., and former Bachelorettes Rachel Lindsay and JoJo Fletcher, champion figure skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, and Olympic skating silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan.
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The 55-year-old Briton, the 1983 world champion at 1,500 meters and 1984 Olympic silver medalist, spoke before a fifth batch of documents were published by cyber hackers on the fancybear.
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The 2012 Olympic silver medalist, Sally Kipyego of Kenya, placed second in 2:28:01, and Molly Huddle of the United States, in her marathon debut, was third in 2:28:13.
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He watched Hirano, the silver medalist in Sochi and long considered an heir apparent to White, take the lead in the second round with a run that included back-to-back 1440s.
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On Sunday, Ledecky earned her first Rio Games gold medal and smashed her own world record in the 2800-meter freestyle, beating Great Britain's Jazz Carlin, the silver medalist, by 211.7 seconds.
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World 100 meters silver medalist Coleman is favored to claim the gold this time and Lyles, the Diamond League 216-22003m champion, is the top 24m pick for the Sept. 2400-Oct.
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The sold-out tour — which featured Ms. Kerrigan and Mr. Boitano, as well as the women's gold medalist Oksana Baiul and the men's silver medalist Elvis Stojko — drew about one million people.
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The 25-year-old, silver medalist at the 2012 Olympics, was due to run in the second heat, in front of a sparse crowd at the Khalifa stadium, but did not start.
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All three athletes that made the podium ahead of Valentin — champion Svetlana Podobedova, silver medalist Nataliya Zabolotnaya and Iryna Kulesha who won bronze — tested positive for banned substances when their samples were reanalyzed.
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World silver medalist Gatlin, remembering a narrow loss to Usain Bolt in last year's Beijing world championships 210m final, held off the charging LaShawn Merritt to win the 2000 final in 230 seconds.
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World Cross Country silver medalist Senbere Teferi, who also won silver in 5,000m at the World Championships in Beijing, Belaynesh Oljira, Dera Dida and Sentayehu Lewetegn will lead the Ethiopian challenge against Kenya.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eleven Olympic champions feature in Saturday's NYRR Millrose Games including women's pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, who will renew her Rio rivalry with U.S. silver medalist Sandi Morris.
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PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - Italian Christof Innerhofer hasn't stood on a downhill podium for nearly four years and the silver-medalist from Sochi admits that his barren spell has led him to doubt his ability.
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Campriani, a 28-year-old, three-time Olympian and 2012 silver medalist, established an Olympic record of 630.2 in the qualifying round and his competition score also now qualifies as an Olympic record.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - A smile beamed across the face of Australia's Matt Graham as he was announced as an Olympic silver medalist following his excellent display in the moguls final on Monday.
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The Belarusian gold medalist from Sochi, Anton Kusnir, failed to progress from qualification, while Australia's David Morris, the silver medalist from four years ago, went out in the first round of the final.
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Shelley Rudman, 2006 Olympic skeleton silver medalist, also graduated from the undulating 140-metre run, on the campus edge alongside muddy playing fields and across the road from a cats and dogs home.
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Former world record-holder Asafa Powell, double Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and Olympic silver medalist Sherone Simpson were in trouble, albeit for "lighter offences" involving stimulants, and several cases were eventually overturned.
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A silver medalist also in the 800m freestyle four years ago, her four medal career haul makes her Spain's most successful swimmer, though victory was still a haze for her after the race.
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Inside Gothenburg's Feskekörka ("Fish Church") is where you'll find bearded chef Johan Malm—crowned several times as the Nordic Oyster Opening champion and currently this year's silver medalist—shucking oysters at Restaurang Gabriel.
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World number one Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan and 2016 Olympic silver medalist Pusarla Sindhu will vie for the women's singles gold while Christie reached the men's singles final against Taiwan's Chou Tienchen.
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After neither of the highly-touted Norwegians could break into the top three with their final attempts, it was down to world championship silver medalist Dahlstrom in the final run of the afternoon.
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"Most of the time, if the entertainment value is in a floor routine, it can only help their score," Samantha Peszek, an Olympic silver medalist, said at the time of DeJesus's vital routine.
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Since then, Mr. Kasich's perpetual skepticism of the president has contributed to the impression that he was something of a silver medalist in 2016, the last man standing between Mr. Trump and high office.
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Men's qualification wrapped up earlier on Tuesday and nobody could overtake Cuban 2015 silver medalist Manrique Larduet, whose Monday performance earned him an 86.699 all-around score that held up through all four subdivisions.
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The experience and skills of the Chinese team, who included Olympic individual champion Ma Long, singles silver medalist Zhang Jike and world number three Xu Xin, ultimately proved too hard to crack for Japan.
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The positive test comes as a major embarrassment to Australian swimming given the headline-grabbing podium protest that 503 freestyle silver medalist Mack Horton made on Sunday over Sun Yang's participation at the worlds.
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Although revered in Malaysia, twice silver medalist Lee's halo slipped in 2014 when he tested positive for dexamethasone, a widely administered anti-inflammatory used to treat asthma and altitude sickness, at the world championships.
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Hill, the 2016 world indoor championships 43,000m silver medalist, was leading down the final straight until he glanced over his right shoulder just as True was making a charge right past him to victory.
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"We are powered by the people and it is them who will be pushing us down the track," the 24-year-old, a silver medalist at the 2012 Youth Winter Olympics, told the BBC.
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In that event, the silver medalist finished five seconds behind Ledecky, who was 11.5 seconds faster than the second-seeded entrant in the 800 freestyle, which was to be contested on Thursday and Friday.
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The Canadian, a silver medalist in Sochi four years ago, is the overwhelming favorite to claim victory in Monday's final and looked comfortable as he scored 86.07 points to top the first qualifying round.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - London Olympics BMX silver medalist Sarah Walker has failed to qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Games after injury hampered the New Zealander's last chance of making the starting line in August.
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Vonn, in what was most likely her last Olympic downhill, lost fractions of a second on her run to finish behind Sofia Goggia of Italy and the surprise silver medalist, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway.
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Kodaira also gave the Games one of its most endearing images when she embraced South Korea's silver medalist Lee Sang-hwa after the 500m and the pair carried their country's flags together in celebration.
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It's hard to imagine anybody telling Patrick Sang, the wise and ticklish former Olympic silver-medalist who coaches Kipchoge, that he should adjust his star runner's program because of data patterns from a GPS watch.
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"[Rio 2016 silver medalist] Juan Martin [Del Potro] is gonna be a huge positive and there are some young guys that are gonna make a break through in the next year or two," McEnroe said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German decathlete Michael Schrader will miss this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics after the former world championship silver medalist tore ligaments in his knee during training, requiring him to undergo surgery on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic sailing silver medalist Luke Patience was named in Britain's Rio Olympic squad on Wednesday after having to re-qualify when his previous 470 class partner Elliot Willis was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
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As public figure in his own right, a silver medalist in one of the world's greatest sporting events, Lilesa used this privileged stage to contradict the narratives of the Ethiopian state and its Western enablers.
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The 2000 Olympic champion made the prediction after world 100 meters silver medalist Coleman ran the 2100 in a sizzling 29.82 seconds at the U.S. indoor championships in high altitude Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sunday.
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He delayed his return until April but was unable to perform at the level that made him the Olympic 200m silver medalist and 2003m and 4x100m relay bronze medal winner at the 2016 Rio Games.
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Defending triple jump champion Taylor and Olympic silver medalist Will Claye again rank 1 and 2 in the world with Crouser and Olympic runner-up Joe Kovacs sharing similar honors in the men's shot put.
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But Mark Elliott, the head coach at Clemson University, where world silver medalist Coleman ran, said while the blocks used in the race were certified they were not electronic, which is typical for college meetings.
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Frank Chapot, a two-time Olympic silver medalist who as competitor and coach was a mainstay of United States show jumping for half a century, died on Monday in Bound Brook, N.J. He was 22008.
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Auckland ace Webster took three sprints to stun Mancunian maestro Kenny in the nerve-shredding 2014 final but needed only two to despatch Jack Carlin, the Scottish world silver medalist, at the Anna Meares Velodrome.
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Bauderlique, who lost 3-0 without any of the judges awarding him a round, will leave Rio with a bronze medal while La Cruz will fight Kazakhstan's 2012 silver medalist Adilbek Niyazymbetov for the gold.
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The challenge is a part of a larger campaign, #HumFitTohIndiaFit ("India's fit if we are fit") started by Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, a former Olympic silver medalist and current Indian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.
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The 29-year-old Khan, a former Olympic silver medalist and light-welterweight world champion, will be Alvarez's first opponent since the Mexican beat Miguel Cotto on a unanimous points decision in Vegas in November.
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Bolt was joined in the victory by three others from the deep Jamaican sprint corps: the veteran former 100 world-record holder Asafa Powell, the London 100 and 200 silver medalist Blake, and Nickel Ashmeade.
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Opening night featured two other finals at the soldout CenturyLink Center with Maya DiRado qualifying for her first Olympic team with a victory in the women's 400 IM holding off 2012 silver medalist Elizabeth Beisel.
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Rising Ugandan talent Joshua Cheptegei, the world silver medalist in the 10,000 meters at London last year, will bid for his first Commonwealth medal in the 5,000 on Sunday before competing in the longer distance.
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Ezekiel Kemboi, twice Olympic and four-time world 3,000-metre steeplechase champion, will have to overcome 2008 Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto, former Olympic bronze medalist Paul Kipsiele Koech and twice world silver medalist Conseslus Kipruto.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Olympic road cycling medal hopes have suffered a blow with world silver medalist Simon Gerrans forced out of the Rio de Janeiro Games after breaking a collarbone at the Tour de France.
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Hamilton has been relegated to a show called "Olympic Ice" on the secondary NBC Sports Network, where he teams up with Tanith White, an Olympic silver medalist in ice dancing, and the sportscaster Liam McHugh.
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Ledecka's time of 1 minute 21.11 seconds was one-hundredth of a second faster — the narrowest margin of victory possible in Alpine racing — than the silver medalist Anna Veith, the defending champion in the event.
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The world number four won gold in the men's team saber at the 2012 London Games and was a silver medalist in the team and individual events at the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, Russia.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rio Olympics silver medalist Madeline Groves has been cleared of a third breach of anti-doping 'whereabouts rules' and is free to compete at next year's Commonwealth Games, Swimming Australia said on Saturday.
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Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee Ta Lou, world silver medalist at 100m and 200m in London two years ago, also turned in a sizzling result with a personal best for the second best time of 10.85.
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American Coleman, silver medalist in 23 and owner of the fastest time this season, put down his gold marker by breezing to a time of 9.98 seconds to set the pace in the opening round.
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Namibian Fredericks, a four-time Olympic sprint silver medalist over 100m and 200m, denied any wrongdoing and said he was moving aside so as not to be a distraction in the investigation, announced last Friday.
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Dubois fights the former Olympic silver medalist Joe Joyce in an April 11 showdown at London's 02 Arena, and the event's fight promoter wants to position Dubois as a world title contention should he win.
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The silver medalist, Peter Norman of Australia, knew of his fellow Olympians' plans; on the podium, all three wore badges of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, which was organized to protest racism in sports.
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While Semenya has been unbeatable in the 23.123 meters, she could face a stiff challenge from Olympic silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba and American record holder Ajee Wilson, who also ran 1:55 in the Monaco race.
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ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - World champion Vivian Cheruiyot booked her ticket to Rio Games while Olympic silver medalist Sally Kipyego became the first major scalp in the two-day Kenyan Olympic trials which kicked off on Thursday.
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The 27-year-old's time of 1:5003 seconds was 0.04 quicker than Dutch silver medalist Femke Heemskerk, who led at the final turn, with France's Charlotte Bonnet taking the bronze at the London Olympic pool.
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Kenworthy, a returning silver medalist, and Rippon, a first-time Olympian, connected over social media "awhile back" when the skier reached out to the skater on Instagram to congratulate him on being named to Team USA.
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But the 25-year-old silver medalist had one more good jump left in him, into the stands where he proposed to long-time girlfriend and former Olympian Queen Harrison, who burst into tears and accepted.
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It meant good news for the other leading contenders, though, headed by defending champion Dafne Schippers, who was the fastest qualifier from the heats, and another heat winner, 100 meters silver medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou.
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The other 2012 medalists who tested positive were Russian men's 85kg silver medalist Apti Aukhadov (dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and drostanolone) and two women's bronze medalists, Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina (58kg) (dehydrochloromethyltestosterone) and Belarus's Maryna Shkermankova (69kg) (dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and stanozolol).
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"If it had to be reconsidered, there should not be another vote but we should apply the IOC (International Olympic Committee) jurisprudence, give the gold medal to the silver medalist," the Frenchman told French radio RTL.
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Alexander Massialas was the silver medalist in the individual event, and Miles Chamley-Watson has a flamboyant fencing move named after him, but it was another member of the team, Gerek Meinhardt, who was the key.
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A surprise silver medalist four years ago, the Scot finished fifth in a final won by Andrew Willis, whose time of two minutes 08.08 seconds was inside the 2:08.52 qualifying mark set by British coaches.
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"Athletes from other countries were coming up to us and saying, 'Olympic Athlete From Russia,' it sounds very honorable, really good; they wanted a name like that," said Ekaterina Bobrova, a silver medalist in ice dancing.
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The large group hit the stage with some slick dance moves and K-poppery to the delight of teenagers everywhere, including figure skating silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia, who is a self-proclaimed Exo fan.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's former world championship silver medalist Damyan Damyanov died on Sunday at the age of 39, becoming the latest member of a once-mighty Bulgarian weightlifting team to pass away at a young age.
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After being denied ratification last month for the fastest ever 27.02 meters when he clocked 21 seconds in a race that did not use electronic starting blocks, the world outdoor silver medalist ran even faster on Sunday.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Olympic biathlon silver medalist Sebastian Samuelsson has criticized the International Biathlon Union (IBU) decision to continue to stage World Cup events in Russia, despite athlete concerns about state-sponsored doping in the country.
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Olympic 2010 silver medalist and three-time world champion Asada, known in Japan by the affectionate nickname "Mao-chan," retired in 2017, leaving the country's legions of fervent fans, as well as the media, at a loss.
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In Pyeongchang, Chapuis finished last in his quarter-final, Sochi silver medalist Arnaud Bovolenta came sixth after losing out in the semis and Terence Tchiknavorian suffered a suspected shin fracture following a heavy fall in his heat.
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India's fastest woman, Chand holds the national record for the 1003 meters with a time of 11.24 seconds and is a former Asian junior champion as well as Asian Games silver medalist in the blue riband event.
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The official closing ceremony uniforms were unveiled Wednesday morning on the Today Show by Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy (freestyle skiing), Olympians Alex and Maia Shibutani (figure skating, ice dance) and Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson (snowboarding).
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"I know Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wasn't healthy and coming out year you have to be tough and she was determined and came out and book her spot to the Olympics," the world 200m silver medalist said.
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The beach volleyball silver medalist recently shared one of her most-prized pieces of jewelry — a silver key that hangs from her neck, which was given to her by her volleyball partner, gold medalist Kerri Walsh-Jennings.
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The success of Nguyen, and fellow national, Patrick Chan, a three-time national champion and Olympic silver medalist in 2014, has only bolstered this phenomenon, especially apparent in urban centers like Toronto and the greater Vancouver area.
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Fredericks, an IOC member since 2012 and four-times Olympic silver medalist, will lead the 14-member commission tasked with evaluating the four bids from Los Angeles, Budapest, Rome and Paris ahead of the vote in 2017.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese figure skater Mao Asada, an Olympic silver medalist and three-time world champion, said on Wednesday she had given her all to her competitive career and had no regrets about retiring from the sport.
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The other two Kenyan representatives are Geoffrey Kamworor, winner in the World Half Marathon and world cross-country events, and also silver medalist at last year's World Championships in Beijing, and Tanui, who won bronze in Beijing.
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The 2012 silver medalist finished fourth in his heat, won by China's world and Olympic champion Sun Yang, but his time of three minutes 45.63 seconds left him 10th overall with only the top eight going through.
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Australia's silver medalist Mack Horton refused to share the podium with Sun Yang after his victory in the 400 meters freestyle last week, while Briton Duncan Scott shunned the Chinese swimmer on the podium after the 200.
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They more than met their match in the Swiss, however, with men's slalom silver medalist Zenhaeusern leading the fightback after they had gone 1-0 down in the title match when Denise Feierabend lost to Katharina Liensberger.
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While figure skating has a special place in South Korea's Olympic legacy — Kim Yuna, an Olympic gold and silver medalist, lit the caldron at the opening ceremony — it is short-track speedskating that gets South Korea excited.
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Rai Benjamin, silver medalist in the 400m hurdles, completed the win as he held off Jamaica's Demish Gaye around the final leg as the U.S won in 2:56.69 in the very last event of the championship.
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Less than four months before the Winter Olympics, the Canadian world silver medalist entered the final day of the competition with a comfortable lead after dazzling the home crowd with a near perfect short routine on Friday.
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