This piece is about the strength and power of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic ideals and values, and the Movement’s creativity in overcoming adversity, succeeding, and ultimately thriving. The ...

You In-Tak had the following finishes at major championships – 1981 World Championship: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (6th); 1982 Asian Games: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (3rd).

Flatwater canoeist Erich Hanisch and his partner Willi Horn qualified for the K-2 over 1,000 metres for the 1936 Berlin Olympics as the German Champions, which they had won for the fifth year in a row ...

The Italian teenage sensation reveals how skiing and art allow her to express herself and how she deals with the pressure of expectation ahead of her home Winter Games.

Despite recent economic achievements, Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia, and over half of the population is under 25 years old. The non-profit organisation Skateistan operating in ...

Yury Blinov began playing hockey with CSKA Moskva in 1967 and played there until 1975. He then played one season with SKA Moskva Oblast, before finishing his career with Kristall Saratov in 1977. With ...

Kyle Bennett started racing BMX at age seven and turned professional in 1997. He progressed steadily from a BMX AA Pro ranking of 9th in 2001 to winning the National Bicycle League's Elite Men's Grand ...

Dick Bruggeman was the 400 hurdle champion at the 1972 AAU meet. He placed second that year in the Olympic Trials, but failed to get to the final of the Olympic intermediates. He competed for Ohio ...

Ed Mitchell rowed for the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1923, and then joined the Bachelor’s Barge Club. Mitchell won a bronze medal with the Barge Club four at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He ...

Bonny Warner became interested in luge when she was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch during the torch run for the 1980 Winter Olympics. She attended Stanford on a field hockey scholarship but would ...

Joe Bost attended Temple University, winning the 1976 intercollegiate judo title. He was fourth at the 1975 AAU Meet. Bost began playing judo in 1968. He later worked in law enforcement and also ...

Dan Bolduc skated for Harvard University graduating in 1975 before playing for the US Olympic team in 1976. Bolduc immediately went to the World Hockey Association, playing in 1975-76 with the New ...