Tag: olympic games
Olympics: Jordyn Wieber next to last on floor exercises, would have...
She didn't want it to end this way. No one did.
Olympics: London prepares to save surprise, welcome the world
LONDON - These 2012 Olympics have been dubbed The Twitter Games, the first in history to feel a major impact from social media as athletes share everything from their patriotic feelings to their lunch choices with legions of followers. Already, a racist 140-character joke by Greece's star triple jumper Voula Papachristou got her expelled from the Olympics on Wednesday, making her the first athlete in history to lose her spot for a social media posting.
Olds is ‘hungry’ for her Olympic opportunity
On her personal website, Shelley Olds eloquently writes that she is “always searching for that unequivocal high that comes from victory in sport,” and that “there is nothing that makes me happier than finishing a race and exceeding my own expectations.”
