Olympic Champions and Medalists and London Olympic Tickets

The winners receive gold medals, which were solid gold until 1912, then made of gilded silver and now gold-plated silver. Every gold medal however must contain at least six grams of pure gold. The runners-up receive silver medals and the third-place athletes are awarded bronze medals. Olympic Fans can buy or Sell Olympic Tickets at Sport Ticket Exchange in very easy and secure way. Sport Ticket Exchange offers you Olympic Tickets for...

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Growing trend of Olympics and Olympic London Tickets

Since 1992, about 60 athletes have competed for the United States after previously competing for another nation, but only since 2000 have foreign-born and trained athletes been contributing to the United States medal count. Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian born member of the 1996 United States men’s basketball team, was the only foreign-born athlete to win an Olympic medal for the United States in the 1990s. This can affect the participation of United...

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Violence in Olympics and Olympic 2012 Tickets (II)

Terrorism has had an impact on the Olympic Games. In 1972, when the Summer Games were held in Munich, Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the terrorist group Black September in what is now known as the Munich massacre. The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed liberation attempt. A German police officer and 5 terrorists also perished.Olympic...

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Violence in Olympics and Olympic 2012 Tickets

Three Olympiads had to pass without a celebration of the Games because of war: the 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II. The South Ossetia War between Georgia and Russia erupted on the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Both President Bush and Prime Minister Putin were attending the Olympics at that time and spoke together about...

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International Olympic Committee and Olympics 2012

Olympic Fans can purchase London Olympic Tickets from very secure and guaranteed Sport Ticket Exchange. Sport Ticket Exchange is selling all sorts of Olympic Tickets at affordable rates. You can also get entertaining return on Olympic Tickets Resale at Sport Ticket Exchange. The Olympic Movement encompasses a large number of national and international sporting organizations and federations, recognized media partners, as well...

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Paralympics and Olympic 2012 Tickets

In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, determined to promote the rehabilitation of soldiers after World War II, organized a multi-sport event between several hospitals to coincide with the 1948 London Olympics. Guttmann's event, known then as the Stoke Mandeville Games, became an annual sports festival. Over the next twelve years, Guttmann and others continued their efforts to use sports as an avenue to healing. For the 1960 Olympic Games, in Rome, Guttmann...

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