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Posts Tagged ‘medal

Snowboarder Scotty Lago’s Olympic Picture Controversy…What’s This All About!?!

February 21, 2010

America must be starving for another non-controversy, or I must be missing something…but Olympic Bronze medalist Scotty Lago has inadvertently become the center of attention, most of it bad,just because of these innocent celebratory pictures posted above, courtesy of TMZ.com. The AP is reporting that American half-pipe bronze medalist Scotty Lago is heading home from […]

Gold Medal Twin Olympian Calvin Harrison Homeless…What Went Wrong?

December 11, 2009

Calvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) was a former Olympic gold medalist, famously winning the 4×400 relay with his twin brother Alvin, and legendary sprinter Michael Johnson, at the 2000 Summer Olympic games that were held in Sydney,Australia.  At the 2000 Olympics, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison made history by becoming the first twins ever to […]

Champion SpeedSkater Shani Davis Dominates The World Cup In Calgary

December 7, 2009

World Speedskating champion Shani Davis has done it again! http://wp.me/pEzT2-kP Shani Davis smashed the world record by running the third fastest time ever Sunday in Calgary,and fastest anywhere but Salt Lake City, the world’s fastest rink — to win the 1,000 meters at the speed skating World Cup. Davis was chasing his own world record […]

Suspected Intersex South African Female Sprinter Caster Semenya keeps Gold medal, Sex test results remain a secret

November 19, 2009

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=caster+semenya&iid=6073230″ src=”7/e/5/e/12th_IAAF_World_e3c2.jpg?adImageId=7642596&imageId=6073230″ width=”380″ height=”497″ /] The AP in Johannesburg reports that the South African sports ministry says 800 world champion Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal. Caster Semenya has been under humiliating public scrutiny for several months now, when it was made public that the gold medal winning world champion female runner […]