2004 Summer Olympics

doing something no other olympian has ever done: that is to win 23 gold medals throughout his Olympic career. Tim Layden explains, “On August 14, 2004, a 19-year-old from Baltimore won his first Olympic medal, a gold in the 400 individual medley in Athens” (Layden 31). That would be the first of 28 medals in Phelps career as an Olympic swimmer. Phelps would learn more about himself throughout the 4 Olympics he competed in. In Tim Layden’s article “The Gold Standard” from the December 26, 2016…

This essay will critically analyse the claims that sporting events bring positive economic benefits to the host city. The analysis will focus on one mega event, namely the Olympics, and how previous events have benefitted or hindered the city in regard to the economics of the city. During the bidding to host, and indeed throughout the running of a major sporting event, it is widely assumed that sporting events are used as a catalyst for economic advancement, and many governments around…

Baltimore Aquatic Club at the Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center. He was fifteen when he competed in his first Olympics. Known as the most decorated Olympic athlete over his whole career he has won medals from Athens, Beijing, London and Rio. Today Michele has twenty-eight medals. In 1999 Michael made the U.S.…

Swimming to gold Razorbacks broke their tie with Dolphins in the butterfly to finally win champions. For the first time in 34 years, the Razorbacks won gold at the Rockville Swimming Association Annual Championships on Thursday. After the second-to-last event, the Razorbacks and the Dolphins were tied. Winner of the last event, who were the Razorbacks, would be the tiebreaker to win champions. Boys’ fifteen-and-over one-hundred yard butterfly was the last race. Swimmers were Matt Gratton from…

Louie Zamperini, a WWII US prisoner of war survivor, inspired millions of people around the world. Zamperini was not only a U.S soldier, but a track star as well, qualifying for the 1936 Berlin Olympics at age nineteen. He finished in 8th place at the Olympic Games 5000m in 14:46.8 with a final lap of under sixty seconds. Louie was sent to war in 1942, where his plane crashed in the middle of the ocean. Along with two other survivors, they were stranded in the middle of the ocean for 47 days…

The South Dakota women captured two individual event victories. Sabrina Sabadeanu won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2 minutes, 04.89 seconds. On the diving board, Sarah Schank’s score of 275.45 on the three-meter dive earned her first place. One the one-meter dive, Schank finished third (231.10) with Haley Pederson right on Schank’s tale to take fourth (231.05). Alongside Sabadeanu’s first place finish, she also earned third place in the 100-yard backstroke (57.80), fourth place in…

Allyson Felix is an American track and field sprinter, who she competes in in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and the 400 meters. She was athletically gifted from a young age and began playing basketball. Felix earned the nickname “Chicken Legs” for her scrawny physique. She decided to go for the track team freshmen year to prove her physical strength. She excelled from the beginning, finishing seventh in the 200-meter dash at the CIF California State Meet, within a year. She eventually became a…

leader at the last possible moment, winning by one hundredth of a second. The perfect record is intact. When people think of swimming, they most likely think of Michael Phelps. He has won 28 olympic medals, 23 of them being gold. He also won 8 gold medals in one Olympics, the most ever won in a single Olympics. Most people consider him the best swimmer and olympian of all time and some even consider him the best athlete of all time. However, while Michael Phelps was a hard worker, his early…

Ben and I met when I started my teaching rounds at Black Rock in 2006. Initially, we were both in relationships when we met and I didn’t get to know him very well until the end of the year when I was got the job at Black Rock for the following year. I started to attend more social events and thought he was a funny guy. I got to know him well when we both went through break-ups of our previous relationships. We had both been in long-term relationships and could relate to what each other were…

at the victim 's single family residence located at 550 MacDonald Street. The unknown suspect(s) took the victim 's property from the dresser in her master bedroom. The point of entry is unknown. LOSS: • A silver "XL Olympiade Berlin 1936" Olympic medal, worth ???????. • A "1955 World Series Brooklyn Dodgers VS. Cincinnati Reds" baseball lapel pin with the "Cincinnati Stadium" printed on the face, worth ????????????????. • Two gold cuff links with "Jackie Robinson" face stamped on the…