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The cost-benefit analysis of hosting the Olympics
The Week via Yahoo Finance· 17 hours agoLondon generated $5.2 billion in revenue against its $14.6 billion spent, said Investopedia. In 2010, Vancouver spent $7.6 billion on the Olympics but...
Beach Volleyball 101: Olympic history
NBC Olympics· 5 days agoChaoyang Park, Beijing's largest park, was home to a temporary 12,200-seat stadium that held 17,000 tons of sand from Hainan, off the southern coast of China. Following a ...
On This Day in 2013: Sarah Stevenson ends taekwondo career
PA Media: Sport via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoThe announcement brought to an end a glittering career that also brought her four gold medals at the...
T20 World Cup 2024: Eight-time Olympic Gold medalist Usain Bolt appointed as brand ambassador of the...
Sporting News· 1 day agoThe International Cricket Council (ICC) unveiled eight-time Olympic Gold medalist Usain Bolt as the...
Kristi Yamaguchi Reveals What Really Goes Down in the Olympic Village
E! News via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoKristi Yamaguchi reflected to E! News about her time in the Olympic Village during the 1992 Winter...
Olympics-WADA says 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive before Tokyo Games but it accepted...
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMultiple media reports said the swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ), which is found in...
COLUMN: Steeplechase
Clark Fork Valley Press & Mineral Independent, Plains, Mont. via Yahoo Sports· 19 hours agoApr. 24—As comedian Jerry Seinfeld used to always say, "what is the deal with....?". In this case, insert the word steeplechase at the end of that inquiry. It is a centuries old human endeavor ...
Tennis: Rafael Nadal aims to 'enjoy every moment' on return to red clay - with Olympics on horizon
Olympics.com· 3 days agoNadal won his singles gold at Beijing 2008 at the age of 21, beating Novak Djokovic in the...
Lolo Jones headlines FCA banquet
KOLR - KSFX Ozarks· 7 days agoRIDGEDALE, Mo–Hundreds of high school athletes and coaches gathered at Big Cedar Lodge Thursday night for the South Central Fellowship of Christian...
Does China Have to Play by the Rules?
Foreign Policy Magazine· 2 days agoSecretary of State Antony Blinken prepares for a trip to Beijing and Shanghai, and the U.S. Senate votes on the TikTok divest-or-ban bill. The reporting...
