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Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony [Leftovers]
Jezebel —
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• Meet Mackenzie, a child prodigy who can type 119 worlds per minute (the average professional adult types 50-70 wpm). "It makes me feel powerful," she said. "Id like to get to at least 200." • • A Florida judge refused to block the prosecution in Casey Anthony s murder trial from seeing the death penalty ...3 days ago -
Marion Joness Teammates Lose Gold
The Outside Blog —
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has issued a preliminary ruling against the claim from Marion Jones s teammates on two U.S. womens relay teams that the IOC could not disqualify them from the Sydney Olympics, the AP reports. Those games were held eight years ago, and the runners cited an IOC rule barring the ...4 days ago -
The Decade’s Biggest Cheaters In Sports
FanSided —
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Cheating in sports is as American as apple pie and corporate downsizing. In an ultra-competitive, kill or be killed business, some are compelled to take extreme measures to gain an edge. The allure of being the best and staying on top can sway even the most successful sports figures to put aside good judgment and [...]4 days ago -
Countdown: Hall of Cheats, Hall of Fame, Hall of Nuts (Leavitt)
Jeff Schultz —
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The Counts right-handed for a reason. If there’s one thing The Count hates more than anything else, it’s a cheater. Back in his younger carousing days, when he’d stay up late, even on Thursday nights of a work week, riding shotgun with Jonathan Babineaux , The Count always tried to bite by the book. Oh sure, ...1 week ago -
International Olympic Committee Reallocates 2 Of Jones’ Medals - NPR
Beijing 2008 Stadium —
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International Olympic Committee Reallocates 2 Of Jones’ Medals - NPR Washington Post International Olympic Committee Reallocates 2 Of Jones Medals NPR The International Olympic Committee has re-awarded a gold and a bronze medal won by track and field competitor Marion Jones at the ...1 week ago -
Result of Marion Jones doping scandal: a race that no one won - Christian Science Monitor
Beijing 2008 Stadium —
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Result of Marion Jones doping scandal: a race that no one won - Christian Science Monitor Washington Post Result of Marion Jones doping scandal: a race that no one won Christian Science Monitor "They dont want to reward [Thanou]," says David Wallechinsky, author of "The Complete Book of ...1 week ago -
Sports’ limitless powers - Albany Times Union
Beijing 2008 Stadium —
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Telegraph.co.uk Sports limitless powers Albany Times Union … 27 years as a political prisoner, Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman, a lock for an Oscar nomination), attended the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. … Invictus and 5 other worthy films where sports and politics mix National ...1 week ago -
London venue changes could save $30 million - YAHOO!
Beijing 2008 Stadium —
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London venue changes could save $30 million - YAHOO! Rogge and the International Olympic Committee’s executive board received on Thursday a progress update from Sebastian Coe , head of London’s organizing committee. Among the topics was the proposed move of badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to Wembley Source: ...1 week ago -
For first time in Olympic history, event is without gold medalist
Progressive News Daily —
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By Chris Chase YAHOO! SPORTS (Marion Jones, center; Katerina Thanou, right) For the first time in the 113-year history of the Olympics, an event will be without a gold-medal winner. The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reallocated two individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for ...1 week ago -
IOC gives away Marion Jones’s medals
GenevaLunch —
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Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Marion Jones, the six-time Olympic winner who was stripped of her medals in 2007, has had her medals reallocated, the IOC announced 9 December. She participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and in one event in Athens in 2004. The medals reallocated were for: 100m, ...1 week ago -
The IOC Erases History [Olympics]
Deadspin —
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Remember the womens 100m race at the Sydney games? No you dont. Because according to the IOC, it never happened . Marion Jones had already been stripped of her five medals at the 2000 games for doping. Today the IOC gave out two of her golds to the second-place finishers, but not in the 100 meters. It becomes the ...1 week ago -
Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar" [Leftovers]
Jezebel —
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• Two teachers have been removed from their jobs at a Brooklyn high school after they were caught undressing in an empty classroom. Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro were getting busy during a talent show when a janitor walked in. Both are being investigated for misconduct, and, as the Daily News notes, both of the ...1 week ago -
Marion Joness tainted Olympic gold goes to waste, rather than to Katerina Thanou
Steroid Nation —
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The New York Times says that Marion Joness tainted gold medals from Sydney will in part be distributed and in part will rot in purgatory. Greeces Katerina Thanou will not be elevated to gold, after her second place finish in 2000 in Australia. Obviously Thanous behavior in her native Greece during the 2004 ...1 week ago -
IOC denies Thanou sprint gold
Thaindian News —
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Lausanne (Switzerland), Dec 10 (DPA) Olympic officials decided against giving the 100 metre gold stripped from Marion Jones to Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board has reallocated other individual medals taken from Jones for doping at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.Thanou, ...1 week ago -
IOC withholds Marion Jones Sydney 100m gold from Katerina Thanou
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
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IOC confirm Katerina Thanou would not be awarded with 100m gold medal forfeited by Marion Jones from Sydney Olympics.1 week ago -
Marion Jones Seeks Redemption in Basketball
FitSugar —
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Sprinter Marion Jones has certainly been on a wild run this decade: winning gold in the Sydney games in 2000, posing in red sequins on the cover of Vogue , then admitting to steroid use and serving a six-month prison term for perjury. The 34-year-old mother of of three is starting a new chapter in her sports ...1 week ago -
Thanou denied Jones Olympic gold
Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com —
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Katerina Thanou will not be awarded Marion Jones 100m gold medal from the 2000 Olympic Games.2 weeks ago -
Marion Jones Comeback in Basketball Video
RightFielders Women in Sports —
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Marion Jones was the star athlete but everything was overshadowed in 2007 when she confessed in court about her steroids use in the Olympics of 2000 and served a sentence of six months in jail. Now Marion wants so much to return to her life as an athlete, but now wants to do it in [...]2 weeks ago -
A Marion Jones Comeback?
DC UrbanSports —
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Its been two years since Marion Jones admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and retired from track and field competition. She served six months in prison last year, because she lied about her drug use, but shes looking to get back in action – on the basketball court. In an interview with the New York ...2 weeks ago -
Marion Jones attempts comeback in basketball
Singapore Athletics —
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Marion Jones attempts at WNBA basketball In November 2009, it was reported that Jones was working out for the San Antonio Silver Stars of the WNBA. She had previously played basketball while in college at the University of North Carolina, playing on the team that won a national championship in 1994. Her number ...2 weeks ago
