Speaking of Olympic trivia, the Sochi Olympics are already breaking many records. Probably the most surprising is the cost of the games. According to some estimates, this will be the most expensive Olympic Games ever, summer or winter. In fact, at 51

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It is well known that Bill Gates is a Harvard dropout. Bill Gates, however, is no way the first successful and prominent Harvard dropout There were many students before him who had dropped out of school and turned out be successful people in differen

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By Parke Brewer Lee Lai Shan competes in women's windsurfing, or Mistral, competition. Her first Olympics was in 1992 in Barcelona, where she placed 11th. But she won the gold four years later in Atla

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The year 2016 will be remembered for a long time by sports fans around the world. The Summer Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Major sports leagues celebrated champion teams that had not won titles in a long time. And the world mour

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U.S. biathlete Tim Burke made sports history last month when he became the first American to take the lead in the Biathlon World Cup standings. Burke is due to compete in his second Olympic Winter Games this February in Vancouver, Canada. Burke's ach

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AS IT IS 2013-10-13 Wrestling May Still Be an Olympic Sport 摔跤项目有可能被奥运会保留 Hi again. Nice to have you with us on As It Is. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. People who like the sport of wrestling can breathe a sigh of relief at least for

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AS IT IS 2016-08-23 Social Media Points Out Sexism in Olympics Coverage 社交媒体指奥运报道里存性别歧视 This is Whats Trending Today. The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have come to an end, but people are still discussing media

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US Women's Basketball Team Aims for More Olympic Gold 美国女子篮球队:剑指冠军 At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the U.S. womens basketball team will work to win a sixth gold medal. The U.S. team has won the championship at every su

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LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese badminton players Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng beat their rivals 2-0 Sunday afternoon, and clinched gold medals in men's doubles in the Wembley Arena. These are the first gold medal won by Chinese in that event. This mean

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My motherin-law, Eunice Kennedy ShriverI always like to mention her, because it gets me on the good side of hershe, for instance, started an organization called Special Olympics. She stared Special Olympics which is for people with mental disabilitie

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Nick: Obviously from Seattle, there's many famous people. Cheryl: Ah, yes, from Seattle. We have Jimmy Hendrix. Nick: Jimmy Hendrix. Wow! I love Jimmy Hendrix. Cheryl: Yeah, he is a very famous musician, and we have his statues on the street in Seatt

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Paul: So Todd, we're talking about football and recently there was the World Cup bidding process that occurred and the English campaign lost to the Russians and the American campaign lost to Qatar. How do you feel about that? Todd: Yeah, it was a bit

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Foreign-born American Olympians / Question from Japan: Where Do Americans Go on Summer Vacation? / Music fr... By Broadcast: Friday, July 30, 2004 (MUSIC) DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AM

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I think this is going to be the greatest hockey tournament in the history of the world. - USA Hockey Executive Director David Ogrean The men's Olympic ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Games in Vancouver is expected to be one of the most competitive

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英公司为避奥运拥堵 让员工留宿太空舱 Company installs space pods to help staff avoid commute during Olympics With roads and tube lines set to be more congested than ever this summer a few people may be tempted to use it an excuse for

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LONDON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Top seed Zhang Jike of China beat Jiang Tianhyi of Hong Kong, China, in five sets to cruise into the men's singles semifinals at the Olympic table tennis tournament on Wednesday. The world champion, world number one and hot

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With the Chinese delegation gearing up for the start of the games in less than four months, all of the competing athletes who have won medals in previous Olympics will be looking for further success in Rio. The Chinese national shooting team have bee

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TATABANYA, Hungary, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Hungary beat China 10-8 in a women's water polo friendly game in here on Saturday. The match was a warm-up for the Olympic women's water polo tournament which begins on July 30 in London. China led after the fi

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今天我们要学的词是household name。 A household name, 意思是家喻户晓。 Michael Phelps has become a household name after winning eight gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, 菲尔普斯在北京奥运会上赢得八枚金牌后,已经成

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LONDON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The volunteers' queue for uniform collection is a long one, winding all the way round the industrial warehouse in Canning Town, an area in which 68% of locals are of a non-white ethnic background. Numbered tickets are issue

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