Athletics Men’s 4 x 100m Relay Final Full Replay from the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Olympic Games. — 11 August 2012 Since 1896, athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games of the Olympiad. Its presence on the Games programme has allowed its popularity to increase across the world. […]
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Highlights from the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Every two years, the world’s finest athletes gather at the Olympic Games – a spectacular celebration of sporting excellence that captures the attention of billions of people around the world. However, the Games are about much more than just sport. They bring the Olympic […]
Athletics Men’s 200m Final Full Replay from the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Olympic Games. — 9 August 2012 Since 1896, athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games of the Olympiad. Its presence on the Games programme has allowed its popularity to increase across the world. This popularity was […]
Greg Louganis is considered the greatest diver of all time. Arriving at Seoul 1988, he was already a champion in his sport with two Olympic gold medals from the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games and a silver won in Montreal 1976, where he had made his Olympic debut at age 16. However, no one could […]
Romanian athlete Nadia Comaneci took up the sport of gymnastics aged six, becoming one of the first students at a school founded by coach Béla Károlyi. In 1975, 13-year-old Comaneci won gold in every event at the European Championships except the floor exercise. A year later in Montreal, she became the first gymnast in Olympic […]