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What Olympic year?
A. Carl Lewis - Outstanding Athlete.
On the track, this was Carl Lewis's games, he equalled the record of the legendary Jesse Owens by winning gold medals in the same 4 events, 100m, 200m, Long Jump and the sprint relay. The great Ed Moses won the 400m hurdles.
America did not have things all their own way, the crowd's darling Mary Decker was accidentally tripped by Zola Budd in the 3000m. Also Britain had success with Sebastian Coe in the 1500m. Sir Steve Redgrave one the first of his 5 Olympic gold medals in the coxed four rowing.
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B. Fanny Blankers-Koen 'The Flying Housewife' -1. Yet out of these unassuming Games came one of the most remarkable achievements: the four-gold performance of Fanny Blankers-Koen, a 32-year-old mother of two from the Netherlands. On the fifth day of competition, when an American sweep of the men's high hurdles led coverage in the Times, Blankers-Koen was deemed 'remarkable' for her victory in the 80-meter hurdles, having previously won the 100-meter dash.
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C. 'Bullet' Bob Hayes Bob Hayes won the 100m gold medal despite wearing borrowed shoes and running in a chewed-up lane 1. (In those days they drew lots for lane numbers.) His time of 10.0 equalled the world record at the time. However, it was when it came to the 100m relay that the 'Bullet' showed the world what he could really do, and why he earned the tag of the 'fastest man on the planet'.
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D. Politics reared its head almost immediately. The USA team spotted that there was no American flag among the national flags decorating the stadium for the opening ceremonies. As a result USA flag-bearer Martin Sheridan responded by refusing to dip the Stars and Stripes as he passed King Edward VII's box in the parade of athletes. 'This flag dips to no earthly king,' Sheridan said.
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E. One has to wonder whether the GDR's domination of the women's swimming was not not more due to good preparation rather than just natural talent. It cannot be coincidence that one nation won 11 out of 13 events in one discipline, even if they had the great Kornelia Ender.
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F. For many, Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete of the era. He did not just win the Olympic Pentathlon and Decathlon but he annihilated the opposition. The name Jim Thorpe is also famous as he was controversially disqualified for alleged professionalism. Some say there as anti-Indian prejudice, others say it was personal animosity between Thorpe and Avery Brundage (Later IOC president) who was 5th in the pentathlon.
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G. One of the first women allowed to compete against men in the equestrian dressage was Lis Hartel of Denmark. Despite being paralyzed below the knees after an attack of polio, Hartel, who had to be helped on and off her horse, won a silver medal. Lars Hall, a carpenter from Sweden, became the first non-military winner of the modern pentathlon.
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H. Herzog and DeMeuron of Switzerland together with the China Architecture Design Institute designed this 'Birds Nest'. There was certainly nothing like it when Beijing was known as Peking. It is located at Olympic Green and seats 91,000 spectators, it will host the athletics and also the football. Here is a photo, taken at night, the National Stadium for the Beijing Olympic Games.
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I. Results in the swimming pool were decided by finish judges relying on their eyes. There were three first-place judges and three more for second-place. The race itself was desperately close, Manual Dos Santos lead, but in the closing stages he was overtaken by both John Devitt and Lance Larson. Controversy arose when the first-place judges favoured Devitt by 2-1 and the second-place also had Devitt 2-1. In summary the six judges were split, 3-3, in terms of who won.
In addition to these judges each competitor had three hand-timers, each clocked Devitt, at 55.2 seconds. Whereas those timing Larson recorded slightly faster times of 55.0, 55.1, and 55.1 seconds. Under the rules the electronic timing should have been consulted, and it showed Larson winning in 55.10 seconds and Devitt second in 55.16 seconds
What happened next was abuse of power and a breach of the rules. The head judge simply declared the slower Devitt, the winner. No amount of protesting would overturn the result. By all accounts both swimmers acted with dignity throughout the saga and the years that followed. Lance Larson won a gold medal in the team 4 x 100m relay, in which he swum the butterfly leg.
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J. Translating the British, by Carol Ann Duffy
A summer of rain, then a gap in the clouds
and The Queen jumped from the sky
to the cheering crowds.
We speak Shakespeare here,
a hundred tongues, one-voiced; the moon bronze or silver,
sun gold, from Cardiff to Edinburgh
by way of London Town,
on the Giant's Causeway;
we say we want to be who we truly are,
now, we roar it. Welcome to us.
We've had our pockets picked,
the soft, white hands of bankers,
bold as brass, filching our gold, our silver;
we want it back.
We are Mo Farah lifting the 10,000 metres gold.
We want new running-tracks in his name.
For Jessica Ennis, the same; for the Brownlee brothers,
Rutherford, Ohuruogu, Whitlock, Tweddle,
for every medal earned,
we want school playing fields returned.
Enough of the soundbite abstract nouns,
austerity, policy, legacy, of tightening metaphorical belts;
we got on our real bikes,
for we are Bradley Wiggins,
side-burned, Mod, god;
we are Sir Chris Hoy,
Laura Trott, Victoria Pendleton, Kenny, Hindes,
Clancy, Burke, Kennaugh and Geraint Thomas,
Olympian names.
We want more cycle lanes.
Or we saddled our steed,
or we paddled our own canoe,
or we rowed in an eight or a four or a two;
our names, Glover and Stanning; Baillie and Stott;
Adlington, Ainslie, Wilson, Murray,
Valegro (Dujardin's horse).
We saw what we did. We are Nicola Adams and Jade Jones,
bring on the fighting kids.
We sense new weather. We are on our marks. We are all in this together.
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