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*Gabrielle Douglas has been a shining star since making her Olympic debut this year. The young gymnast, who isn’t old enough to vote, says her journey has been about faith. Gabby is releasing a book, “Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith.” “I want people to be inspired by my book,” Gabrielle said in [...]
*If you haven’t heard, it should come as no surprise that the US beat Spain … again in men’s basketball to win the gold medal in London. Kevin Durant put in 30 points, LeBron James scored 19 as the U.S. men’s basketball team defended its Olympic title, holding off the determined Spanish team 107-100 on [...]
*Yeah Serena Williams is from the hood, and she was sure to let the whole world know when she took a moment to reference the hood with a little Crip Walk after winning an Olympic gold medal. Snoop Dogg definitely noticed and saluted the champion tennis player with a “Go Girl.” His praise came just [...]
*Centre Court at the All England Club, Wimbledon played host to the worst Olympic tennis beat down since 1920, (Suzanne Lenglen of France beat Dorothy Holman of Britain 6-3, 6-0) on this windy Saturday in London (so windy the American flag blew clean away). Serena Williams (4th-seeded) all but completely shut out her rival and [...]
*The tournament favorite from the start, Serena Williams – and her A-game, have secured at least one more Olympic medal for the US. By mercilessly crushing her world no. 1 WTA peer, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 6,1- 6,2 with 16 aces and 33 winners, Serena secured a spot in Saturday’s final against her long-time rival, [...]
*Gabrielle Douglas just won her second Olympic gold medal of the London Summer Games, taking the individual all-around event to match her performance anchoring the U.S. team’s first-place performance earlier this week. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Douglas scored 15.500 or higher in her first three rotations, with an emphatic 15.966 on her vault. Her final score was [...]
*Serena Williams, all decked out in red, white and blue, had her own royal box on Wimbledon’s Centre Court today, during her 1st round match of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. First Lady Michelle Obama and three-time Olympian and gold medalist, Dominique Dawes joined Venus Williams and mother Oracene in watching the 14-time Grand [...]
*(New York) - The U.S. Men’s Epee Fencing team made history as the first American Team ever to win the Gold Medal at the 2012 World Fencing Championships in Kiev, Ukraine, on April 14, 2012. U.S. team members Ben Bratton (New York City, N.Y.); Seth Kelsey (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Soren Thompson (New York City, N.Y.), [...]
*You may have seen the historic picture of Tommie Smith and John Carlos standing on a platform at the Olympics in Mexico in 1968 with their black gloved fists held high and barefoot in solidarity with the black power movement in the U.S. The shoeless gesture of the two standing there in black socks were to [...]
*Shani Davis made history Wednesday night by winning his second consecutive Olympic gold medal in 1,000-meter speedskating, beating South Korea’s Mo Tae-bum with a time of 1 minute, 8.94 seconds. Four years ago at Turin, he became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Olympics. This time, he enters the record [...]
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