All articles from: October, 2011

Olympic champs Virtue and Moir win gold at Skate Canada

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are back on top. Canada’s Olympic ice dance champions…

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Olympic gold medal-winning father and son want their hockey jerseys returned

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota father and son who won Olympic gold medals 20 years apart want the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto to return their Olympic jerseys.

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Father, son ask for Olympic hockey jerseys back

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota father and son who won Olympic gold medals 20 years apart want the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto to return their Olympic jerseys.

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Olympic Steel, Inc. Announces 3rd Quarter 2011 Webcast

CLEVELAND — Olympic Steel, Inc. would like to announce the following webcast to discuss the third quarter 2011 financial results.

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Strange Sports Once Included in the Olympic Games

The events and sports contested at the Olympic Games are forever changing. Sports that are popular now may not have even been included in the first Olympic Games. On the flip side, some of the sports that were popular around the dawn of the modern Olympic Games are not contested…

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Britain planning memorable Olympic return

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is planning to mark its return to Olympic soccer after a 40-year absence with a gala double-header featuring both the women’s and men’s teams playing international friendlies at the same venue on the same day next July.

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Olympic gymnastics coach accused of abuse resigns

A former Olympic gymnastics coach facing allegations of sexual abuse resigned Tuesday from his coaching and director positions at a prominent Orange County club.

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10 Unusual Discontinued Olympic Sports

There was a time when you would see these sports in the Olympics but that time has passed. Here are some odd Olympic sports that have now been discontinued. The Olympic games have really changed a lot over the years. Even in my lifetime I have seen some sports leave the Olympic…

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Olympic chiefs under fire over sponsor’s links to Bhopal disaster

Olympic organisers are under growing pressure to reconsider a lucrative sponsorship deal that was awarded to a controversial US chemicals firm which has “failed to address one of the worst corporate-related human rights disasters of the 20th century”.

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Olympic chiefs under fire over sponsor’s links to Bhopal disaster

Olympic organisers are under growing pressure to reconsider a lucrative sponsorship deal that was awarded to a controversial US chemicals firm which has “failed to address one of the worst corporate-related human rights disasters of the 20th century”.

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