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List of athletes who have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics
After the 2nd century A. D., the Roman Empire brought even more competitors to the Olympic Games, but regional differences always gave the Olympics an international flavor.Excellence and the Competitive Spirit Ancient athletes competed as individuals, not on national teams, as in the modern Games...
Confucius was a great thinker and educator in Chinese history. He was the founder of Confucianism and was respectfully referred to as an ancient "sage". His words and life story were recorded in The Analects. An enduring classic of ancient Chinese culture, The Analects has had a great influen...
(标枪).The javelin was the only event he didn't win,probably because he had never competed in that event before.It is interesting to note that Thorpe had tried to throw the javelin once before in the Olympic trials.At the time,he didn't know that he could thr...
An Olympic Legend; with the Olympics Fast Approaching LINDSAY BRUCE Looks Back on the Life of a Teesside Olympian Who Competed in the Games the Last Time They Were Staged in the UKByline: LINDSAY BRUCEEvening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)...
Wiederkehr, Stefan (2009): `"We Shall Never Know the Exact Number of Men who Have Competed in the Olympics Posing as Women": Sport, Gender Verification and the Cold War', in: International Journal of the History of Sport 26 (4), 556-572....
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000 athletes from 44 nations competed that year, and for the first time the Games featured a closing ceremony. The Winter Olympics debuted (问世) that year, including such events as figure skating, ice hockey, bobsledding and the biathlon. Eighty years later, when the 2004 Summer Olympics ...