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The Dream Team Era During the summer of 1992‚ the NBA took center stage as the world watched the greatest team in sports ever assembled joke‚ pose‚ and finally play its way to the gold medal at the summer Olympic games. The team was named the "Dream Team" and it featured eleven of the NBA’s best players. Names like Michael Jordan‚ Earvin "Magic" Johnson‚ and Larry Bird headlined the games and the play of Scottie Pippen and "Sir" Charles Barkley stole the show. After only eight games‚ the world
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23 March 1983) is a Somali-born British international track and field athlete. He is the current 10‚000 metres Olympic champion and 5000 metres Olympic‚ World and European champion. On the track‚ he generally competes over 5000 m and 10‚000 m‚ but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres. He has expressed a desire to move up to the marathon after the 2012 Summer Olympics[3] ==>Show Farah winning 10000? Farah is of Somali parentage‚ but his father grew up in Britain‚ and Farah
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Introduction The South Korean market is an excellent opportunity for Visa to introduce new products‚ communicate a new facet of its brand‚ tap into the lucrative East Asian economies‚ and partner with many successful multinational Korean firms. Not only is credit card use prevalent in the country but the advanced technological infrastructure and adaptability of the culture to innovation sets the stage for Visa to introduce new products and even improve the brand. In a mature market like South Korea
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ASL 101-06 Professor Anisa Guy 10/13/11 Journal: Deaflympics The Deaflympics is an event similar to the Olympics but geared towards the hearing impaired ("Disabled World"). This event first began in 1924‚ where it took place in Paris ("Disabled World"). The Deaflympics became the first international athletics even held for people with disabilities. This event was originally called the International Games for the Deaf‚ International Silent Games‚ World Games for the Deaf‚ and occasionally
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of athletics its roots in human prehistory. The first recorded organized athletics events at a sports festival are the Ancient Olympic Games. At the first Games in 776 BC in Olympia‚ Greece‚ only one event was contested: the stadion footrace and the first olympic winner was Koroibos. In later years further running competitions have been added. Also in the Ancient Olympic pentathlon‚ four of the events are part of the track and field we have even today. The long jump‚ the javelin throw‚ the discus
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The Olympics is a major international event where top athletes from all over the world get together to compete for a common‚ the gold medal. Being qualified for this tremendous event is already a huge achievement since each athlete is considered the best in his or her country. There is also an Olympic for deaf too‚ which is known as the Deaflympics. This event is similar to the original Olympics but the main differences are the requirements. To participate in the summer and winter Deaflympics‚ according
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American in the Olympics. Jesse Owens has twelve siblings but three died. His mom called him the gifted child because she did not think he would survive the birth (Gigliotti 2). Jesse’s mother and father were not planning on having any more children because they did not want to have any more children (Gigliotti 2). In 1918 it was a miracle Jesse Owens was even alive (Gigliotti 5). When Jesse was five years old‚ he almost had a near death experience and he thought he
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The so-called Munich Massacre took place in the city of Munich on September 5‚ 1972‚ during the XX edition of the Summer Olympic Games. That day‚ a group of Palestinian terrorists called Black September took as hostages eleven of the twenty members of Israel’s Olympic team. This situation is consider as dispute because was a repercussion of a broader conflict‚ the war between Palestinians and Israelis; the differences in religion‚ believes and culture were the main causes of this dispute. This
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