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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Running was one of the very first competitive sports, and it is a favorite of today's games as well. There is some dispute as to exactly when the Olympic Games began, with a gap in guesses from 776 BC to as early as the ninth or tenth century BC.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
If you watched the last summer Olympics, you obviously know who Usain Bolt is, don't you? If you did not, well here is a very brief scoop for you: he is the fastest man ever who has set a new world record in the 100 meter dash during the Beijing ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
College Track Athletes must be in training all year, if you skip a day of running you go backwards two days, it's that simple. You must, keep in the game all year around and any runner who wants to compete at the college level needs to run a heck of ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Many a coach will tell you that you need to run in the off season if you wish to be competitive in track. This is true, so how much should you run? Rather how much should you run and how hard each day to stay competitive? Now many runners will ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Though running is an extremely efficient way to keep yourself in great cardiovascular shape, there is a joke that there are only two types of runners: those that are injured and those that are yet to be injured. And though it's true that the constant pounding of running can take ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Kim McGreevy, a former Big Ten Conference cross-country champion and Academic All-American, has been named as the new assistant track & field and cross-country coach at Michigan State University. McGreevy had spent the last 4 years in the same position at the University of Connecticut. Find out why her arrival ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Cunagasabai Kunalan was a former Singapore sprinter whose sprinting accomplishment in the 60's and 70's saw him achieving two Olympics participations, five Asian Games and nine Southeast Asian Peninsular Games medals. He will always be much remembered for his men's 100m record of 10.38 seconds which stood firm for 33 ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Although the roots of modern trampolines can be traced back to China, Persia the Ancient Egyptians and even Eskimos, who used Walrus skins to bounce each other. In fact the first modern trampoline only actually came into existence in the 20th century in America.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Although the roots of modern trampolines can be traced back to China, Persia the Ancient Egyptians and even Eskimos, who used Walrus skins to bounce each other. In fact the first modern trampoline only actually came into existence in the 20th century in America.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Although the roots of modern trampolines can be traced back to China, Persia the Ancient Egyptians and even Eskimos, who used Walrus skins to bounce each other. In fact the first modern trampoline only actually came into existence in the 20th century in America.
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