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Sir Bradley Wiggins Withdraws from Giro d'Italia with Chest Infection

Sir Bradley Wiggins Withdraws from Giro d'Italia with Chest Infection

Sir Bradley Wiggins has withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia on medical advice. The 33-year-old Team Sky cyclist was 13th in the general classification, three minutes and 18 seconds behind team…

Save Olympic Wrestling

Save Olympic Wrestling

Click photo to enlargeSynchronized swimming. Fencing. Ping-pong. These are just three sports — “sport” being a loosely defined term now days — that will be contested at the 2020 Summer…

In bid for Olympics, baseball could go seven innings

In bid for Olympics, baseball could go seven innings

Davey Johnson was the USA’s manager at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.(Photo: Robert Hanashiro USA TODAY Sports) In a joint effort to return to the Summer Olympics after two…

Q&A: Dutch field hockey star Ellen Hoog

Q&A: Dutch field hockey star Ellen Hoog

The Olympic hero discusses posing for the SI Swimsuit and her boyfriend’s reaction to the pics The Dutch field hockey team made quite an impression at the 2012 Summer Olympics…

3rd Annual West 6 Summer Olympics

Where 1261-1265 West 6 Street 1261-1265 West 6 Street Cleveland, OH 44113 Upcoming 1:00 p.m. Sunday, June 30, 2013 Article source…

World Wrestlers to Face Off in Grand Central Terminal

World Wrestlers to Face Off in Grand Central Terminal

advertisement Commuters and visitors passing through Grand Central Terminal Wednesday might run into something unusual: an international wrestling match in Vanderbilt Hall. Wrestlers from the world’s top teams, Russia, the U.S.…

Mayor Filner talks San Diego-Tijuana Olympics

SAN DIEGO (CBS – Sunday San Diego Mayor Bob Filner sat down with News 8 to discuss San Diego and Tijuana’s bi-national bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The…

Olympic Games

“There is no doubt, no doubt that what the country needs most is a Summer Olympic Games,” COC chief Marcel Aubut told Reuters ahead of the organisation’s Sochi media summit…

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If Toronto does bid for the 2024 Olympic Games it will likely face a strong challenge from the U.S., which has not hosted a Summer Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta.…

Canadian Olympic chief would back Toronto 2024 bid

Canada has previously hosted the Winter Games in 1988 (Calgary) and 2010 (Vancouver) and staged the Summer Games in 1976 (Montreal). If Toronto does bid for the 2024 Games it…