10- Historical silver from Queralt Castellet With his silver medal in ‘halfpipe’ achieved this previous Thursday in Beijing, Queralt Castellet made historical past. It is the fifth medal for Spain in a Winter Olympic Games, since that first, gold, by Paquito Fernández Ochoa in Sapporo 1972. At 32 years outdated, …
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Is it attainable to be an Olympic athlete and a 12 months earlier than not even know the essential actions of the self-discipline by which you’re going to compete? Can you characterize a rustic that you do not even know and you do not know a phrase of its official …
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“I have tried to leave this sport at least three times,” says Nils van der Poel (25), an oddball on the earth of pace skating. But I’m nonetheless right here. Nils van der Poel runs ultramarathons (he runs them on foot, not on skating) and 4 years in the past …
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