by Ray Menendez
Tips To Make Your Gym Appear More Modern One of the largest infrastructure investments in the United States are schools. A large number of school buildings were built in the fifties and sixties and will require immediate attention very soon. One third of urban schools are more than fifty years old.
The gymnasium is the place where the school really shows its age. With mandatory physical education classes comes more wear and tear, while it still remains the gathering... Read Full Story
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Matthew Mitcham is an Australian swimmer , an olympic Gold medalist and was the only out gay athlete at the Beijing Olympics.
Aussie diver Mitcham turns 21 next month, he won single gold medal in the 10m platform dive, the only Australian swimmer to win a gold at Beijing Olympics and was named Australian GQ’s “ Athlete of the Year .” See other photos here
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Motivation Means Success Did you see the Beijing Olympics? Rarely are we privileged to witness such triumph and human spirit at its absolute best. How did all those athletes get motivated, especially the ones that won gold medals? Was it the thought of the gold medal itself that kept them running, jumping, swimming or facing whatever feat of endurance that will write them into the history books? Well, perhaps. But we know that what we saw them do in Beijing was the end of very, very long... Read Full Story
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Filed under: Fashion, Shopping Guide. For the past few months, and especially these recent weeks, the news has been awash with props and criticism aimed at Beijing's efforts at creating a green Olympic games. ...
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Now that it’s over. Our last ever post on the Beijing Olympics is a happy one. Let’s take a break from it all with a few candid pictures of atheletes from around the world doing what they do best.
Oh, and we included a few cheerleaders as well.
Thank goodness it’s over, can’t say I’m looking forward to 2010 in Vancouver. So much drama these things are.
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Day 16 - Closing Ceremony 1 of 506 A Chinese policeman stands guard as fireworks explode over the National Stadium during the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images AsiaPac) 1 of 100 A general view of runners passing through Tianamen Square during the Men's Marathon held at the National Stadium during Day 16 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008... Read Full Story
(L-R) Allyson Felix, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards and Mary Wineberg of the United States hold their countries flag after winning the gold medal in the Women's 4 x 400m Relay held at the National Stadium on Day 15 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 23, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts) Day 15 - Baseball 1 of 105 Get Tsuyoshi Wada Picture Alerts Tsuyoshi Wada #21 of Japan throws a pitch against the United States... Read Full Story
BEIJING (AP) Arm-in-arm, they climbed onto the middle of the medals
platform, the spot that for so long was U.S. private property.
Some players flashed their Olympic medals to the crowd. One pretended to take a bite, just to make sure it was real. Yep, it was gold - the color the Americans always used to win but hadn't since 2000. Culminating
a three-year mission to end years of embarrassment, the U.S. team
survived a huge challenge from Spain, winning 118-107 in the gold-medal
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BEIJING (AP) - A Spanish tenor, a British soccer star and a throng of kung-fu fighters are among the scheduled closing-ceremony attractions Sunday night as China concludes its first Olympics and hands over the role of Summer Games to London. Fireworks are planned at 18 locations across the vast city, and a packed house of more than 90,000 will be on hand in the National Outdoor Stadium for the ceremony itself. Its creators have promised a more lighthearted show than the opening ceremony Aug... Read Full Story
