Buffy Summers

Recently the Australian Football Federation (AFF) was awarded the right to hose the 2014 FIFA World Cup. As a host nation, Australia must provide a minimum number of host venues in capital cities to cater for the international phenomenon and successful event that the World Cup has become. The Major Sports Facility Authority (MSFA) is investigating the construction of a super stadium in Brisbane that has the capacity to hold 80,000 spectators. In addition, the new stadium will be home to the…

Olympian. In the 1982 Commonwealth Games where he won 2 silver medals for the 100 metre and the 4 x 100 metre relay for Canada. Ben Johnson has stated to become a real competitor in international athletics. His next big achievements were in 1984 Summer Olympics where he also received 2 bronze medals in 100 and the 4 × 100 He finally won gold medals in the 100 metre and 4 x 100 events at the 1986…

Due to this being Gatlin’s second offense violation doping regulations, he had initially faced a lifetime ban. In order to avoid this, Gatlin had cooperated with authorities in order to find out what he had done wrong and in order to attempt to show that he had not been doping. Because of the cooperation and assistance from Gatlin he had only received an eight year ban for this offense. Not only was he banned, but his recently shared co-world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100-meter sprint had…

sessions were very intense Owens still came because of his love for the sport and his dedication. Owens had poor grades in high school so the summer before college he had to pass a series of exams that finally qualified him to enter college. Owens wanted to go to college to run track so bad that he used his summer time to take exams. Taking the exams over the summer was a choice that only a very dedicated person would make to be able to play a sport in…

World Cycler and expert rower, Sarah Outen (https://twitter.com/SarahOuten) is an adventurer and traveler on wheels (and kayak), as she continues her London2London journey, cycling and rowing across the world. She was recently featured on Cycle Traveller (https://twitter.com/CycleTraveller) for her two wheeled cycling and kayaking escapades that have lasted over 4 years in the project. In the interview she talks about her accomplishments on her bike “Hercules” and the distance she has traveled,…

Most Ohioans know who John Kasich is, or at least have heard of him. John R. Kasich is the 69th Governor of the State of Ohio. Currently, Kasich is in the running for President of the United States. John Kasich is 9th at this current moment in the Presidential Race. John Kasich is, as Governor and running as President, a Republican. His political views are mainly Conservative Republican. He has been the Governor of Ohio since 2011. While in office, Kasich has passed over $5 billion in tax cuts.…

before the summer Olympics games in Beijing in early 2008. My family and I were on an extended visit to Beijing. The daughter of one of my father’s friends invited me to the new Beijing National Olympic Stadium, i.e. the Bird’s Nest. Her mother was participating in a pre-Olympic track and field event at the Nest, basically a dress rehearsal for the Olympics. The stadium along with its dramatic lights is quite impressive. As we walked on to the stadium grounds, with its open roof and early summer…

Now for example we have the winter Olympics and the summer Olympics whereas back in the day there was just one Olympiad every four years. The amount of days the Olympics were held for was the same for bon ancient and modern times, l7 days. The ancient games were held in either held near Delphi or at Olympia…

things have in common? You probably use those items every day, so the cost of use or investment will eventually pay off, or so I hope anyway. Well what do you do with the infrastructure that was built in the 43 different cities hosting the Winter and Summer games? Now imagine that you bought a billion-dollar item that you would use for sixteen days, and never use again. Is that the smartest way to go about repurposing/ reusing the buildings built for the Olympics? That is going to be the major…

Performance Enhancing Drugs: Their Effect on Individuals, Athletics, and Society Three in every five Olympic athletes have been caught doping. Let that sink in. This means that on average, for each Olympic event, only one athlete who medals is also clean. Such widespread consumption of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) throughout dozens of sports and nations makes this a topic that must be promptly addressed: the integrity of athletics is at stake. Some may argue that tightening regulations on…