Silver medal

coached by Charlie Francis track coach and former 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…

All About Clubfoot - Kristi Yamaguchi's Story Kristi Yamaguchi was born with clubfoot. Little did her family know she would overcome it, become famous, and become an Olympian. “Skating brought out a side of Kristi that I didn’t think she had in her,”said Kristi’s mom (Savage 61). First off, clubfoot is a deformity where the foot or feet are twisted out of shape or position (Alexander 290). Drugs, smoking, disease, and an infection during the pregnancy, and most of the time, heredity, can cause…

Jennie Finch is known as an all American softball player. She was born in La Mirada, California on September 3, 1980. Since she had two older brothers that both played baseball, when she turned 5 years old she joined her first little league team just like her brothers had done. The whole household loved baseball. Since they were close to Los Angeles they were all Dodger fans. As Jennie grew older she switched over to girls softball. This is where she started pitching at 8 years old and…

Jada was sitting alone in the grass beside the school track when Coach walked up. "Great race today, Jada," Coach said. "You look upset--is everything all right?" "Yes, Coach," said Jada. "I'm just sad that the track season is over and now I have to wait until next year to race again." "Did I ever tell you about Babe Didrikson Zaharias?" asked Coach, sitting down beside Jada. "Pretty much every day, Coach," said Jada. "She was the best female track and field star ever." "That's true, but…

The purpose of this report and lab was to assist in visualizing the structure of infinitesimally small objects and how they fit together. Normal object fit together similarly to microscopic atoms and experiment 2 exploits this to help understand structure property relationships. The knowledge gained here directly applies to the world as applications of the materials becomes apparent as the properties are explored. Copper There are a plethora of modern technological uses of copper. It can be…

Introduction The Nazi Olympics of 1936 provided Adolf Hitler with an unprecedented opportunity to cloak militarism and racism under the cape of the Summer Olympics. During this time, Hitler dampened his antisemitic policies and plans for enlarging Germany in order to exploit the opportunities as vehicle to portray Germany as more tolerant and peaceful than it actually was. In reaction to the Olympics, the United States and most western democracies rejected a boycott of the games. Rather,…

confidence in his on ability. This had a positive impact upon Chris Hoys performance, as the has won the gold medal in his event. Steve Peters only suggested to Chris to change his mental preparation before going to his event. From this Chris Hoy then went ot win his event in 2004, also winning six gold and one silver medals in Beijing 2008 and london 2012. Chris also achieved medals in 11 world…

diggers came from around the world. 15. Do you know that modern gold medals are covered in 6 grams of gold? However, in earlier Olympic Games, the medals were made of pure gold only. 16. Yellow, white and rose are three colours in which Gold jewellery is available. It is the colour of the metal mixed with gold which influences this colour. For instance yellow gold has usually zinc or nickel mixed in it. 17. Do you know that palladium silver mixed with gold to make jewellery? This gives the Gold…

tournament. In 2004, she was part of the Olympic Gold Medal Softball team. She also was a silver medalist in 2005 at the Japan Cup and World Cup softball tournaments. In 2006, Jennie had to take a short break because she became pregnant with her first son Ace, but very shortly after, returned to the field on Team USA. In 2008, she was also a silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, pitching at speeds over seventy miles per hour. She won numerous awards, medals and titles through those years, but…

The time has come for the International Olympic Committee to decide who will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. There are many options for a host city, but the best option is Sydney, Australia. In Sydney, there are many things for tourists to do in their free time, there is infrastructure already built for the different events from gymnastics to swimming, because Sydney has hosted the Olympics once already, and it is an overall safe city. Australia has been the host for two previous Summer Olympic…