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Comment on: Topic 'OT - Road to the 2012 London Olympic Games': London Olympic Games. The 530-member team is comprised of 269 women and 261 men, marking the first time in history that Team USA features more female athletes. The United States will be represented in 25 sports (38 disciplines) and 246 of the 302 medal events that will be contested in London. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1254142-us-olympic-committee-ann...…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 11:30pm on July 10, 2012

Comment on: Topic 'OT - Road to the 2012 London Olympic Games': om/photos/latestpictures.html#the-olympic-flame-takes-water-the-london-2012-olympic-games-venue-eton-dorney-lake-1258525…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 1:18am on July 11, 2012

Blog Post: Olympic Pride Brightens Up the Workplace: With the end of the Olympics quickly approaching it has become apparent that the games have instilled a new found sense of pride in fellow Canadians in what has been a dismissal few years. Those who…; Added by Sandra Gallacher at 4:12pm on February 25, 2010

Blog Post: Is Your Career Olympic Bound? Is Your Company Olympic Bound?: It only happens once every four years, however takes a lifetime of dedication, sacrifice, and training to compete on the world stage.Everyone who watched the Olympics experienced the exhilaration of…; Added by Candice Arnold at 9:03am on September 22, 2008

Comment on: Photo 'Michael Phelps - London Olympics - Considered the Greatest Olympian?': f the most cheerful, too. It doesn’t hurt that he knows how to freeze for the cameras while we’re still trying to recover from the breathless shock of watching him run. But Bolt himself knows that his claim to sit atop the Olympic pantheon with double golds in the 100 and 200 is nonsense. His boasting, “I am the greatest athlete to live, I am a living legend, bask in my glory,” was just a lot of noisy post-victory exultation. He may not even be the best in the Olympic stadium according to the decathletes. “Just because you’re fast doesn’t make you an athlete,” silver medalist Trey Hardee said." http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/greatest-olympic-athlete-jim-thorpe-not-usain-bolt/2012/08/10/f9114872-e33c-11e1-ae7f-d2a13e249eb2_story.html Olynpic Champion Bruce Jenner also weighed-oin on the Bolt boast -- and he is right about Olympic Decathletes have a larger challenge vs. Olympic Athletes with fairly narrow focused competitive events. And who better than an Olympic Gold Medal Decathlete to weigh-in on a discussion on athletic greatness in the Olympic tradition? The competitive athletes and loyal sports fans in the room know and respect past and present champions regardless of the sport. Each of us has an idea about what is great and greatness. Sometimes it comes down to the effort and the accomplishment...like the marathon champion Abebe Bikila who won the gold medal for the Olympic Marathon in 1960. Bikila BTW was a last minute substitute for an injured team mate. Winning a gold medal in one of the more formidable races known to humankind is significant anywhere, but doing it against the best in the world magnifies the accomplishment. Then there’s the fact that Abebe Bikila who won the 1960 Olympic Marathon running with no shoes. The Adidas he was given did not fit. Bikila ran and won the most demanding competitive and illustrious footrace in the history of the Olympic Games -- barefoot. There is great and there is greatness. Greatest is TBD.…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 2:54am on August 14, 2012

Photo: Decathlon World Record Set by Ashton Eaton at U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials 6-23-2012: Photo Source: Throwers of track & field shared Dan O'Brien's photo.; Added by Valentino Martinez at 4:47am on June 24, 2012

Photo: Olympic Games Are Done...Ready for the Reindeer Games?: Image Source: JCarrollFB; Added by Valentino Martinez at 2:13pm on September 20, 2012

Comment on: Photo 'Picture of a Pitcher - USA Women's Softball Team - St Louis circa 1996': n softball at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The 2004 U.S. Olympic softball team and Fernandez, a three-time gold medalist, have been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) (2004 AP) Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2012/07/14/lisa-fernandez-inducted-into-olympic-hall-fame/#ixzz20oahYlzi…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 3:22pm on July 16, 2012

Topic: OT - Congratulations to ROLE MODEL - LISA FERNANDEZ - Olympic Hall of Fame Inductee: n softball at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The 2004 U.S. Olympic softball team and Fernandez, a three-time gold medalist, have been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) (2004 AP) The 2004 U.S. Olympic Softball Team and three-time gold medalist Lisa Fernandez have been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Five other individuals in the 2012 induction class also were honored Thursday in Chicago. Dubbed the "Real Dream Team" on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, the 2004 Olympic Team went 9-0 in Athens, a record that included eight consecutive shutouts and four run-rule victories. Fernandez won gold medals in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 games and is the only pitcher to appear in three Olympic finales. She earned the save in the final game of the 1996 Olympics as the U.S. team beat China 3-1 for the inaugural softball Olympic gold medal. The U.S. team took silver losing gold to Japan in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2005 the IOC voted to drop softball along with baseball from the Olympic program leaving the U.S. with 3 gold medals and Japan with 1. Softball advocates are hoping to get the sport back on the program by 2020, it will not be on the London games later this month or the Berlin games in 2016. The move set the sport back in some countries. Fernandez, is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent, led the UCLA Bruins to the National Championship in softball during the 1990 and ’92 seasons, they were runner ups during the ’91 and ’93 seasons. She was a first team All-American during her four collegiate years at UCLA. She currently serves as an assistant coach at her alma mater. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2012/07/14/lisa-fernandez-inducted-into-olympic-hall-fame/#ixzz20odHztYT Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2012/07/14/lisa-fernandez-i... …; Added by Valentino Martinez at 3:33pm on July 16, 2012

Blog Post: Permanent work? Really?! - working at the 2012 Olympics: This morning, as I wandered round with my classic combo of tea and toast, I heard on the news about stadiums being taken apart and sold off in little bits after the London 2012 Olympics. Now this…; Added by Emily Stevenson at 10:29am on March 25, 2011