02:07 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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Obamas' Olympic Bid for Chicago Fails
Originally posted 10/02/2009 11:50AM
President Barack Obama and wife Michelle's efforts to land the 2016 Olympics for Chicago have failed: The city was eliminated in the first round of voting to determine where the Summer Games will be held.
On Friday it was announced that Rio de Janeiro – long thought to be the front-runner – would host the Olympics, the first time any city in South America got the Games.
The President and his wife had both lobbied Olympic leaders in Copenhagen to give the global event to their hometown. "I urge you to choose Chicago," the President told members of the International Olympic Committee. "And if you do – if we walk this path together – then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."
That Chicago was eliminated in the first round came as a surprise to many. Tokyo was eliminated in the second round. Also in the running was Madrid.
– Marla Lehner
Permalink | Filed Under: Olympics, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
Even Cindy Crawford Is Rooting for Michael Phelps
Originally posted 08/15/2008 02:30PM
He may be wracking up the gold medals – but swimmer Michael Phelps is also earning plenty of phrase from his superstar fans.
"I'm rooting for Michael Phelps along with the rest of the world," supermodel Cindy Crawford told reporters Thursday during a press conference in Beijing.
There to check out the games, she also said she and Phelps, who's won six gold medals so far in Beijing, actually go way back.
"I'm friendly with Michael Phelps," she said. "We met four years ago when he was just trying out for his first Olympics. And to see how far he's come ... He was a kid and now he's just so much more poised and handling the pressure so well."
Permalink | Filed Under: Cindy Crawford, Olympics, Olympics Summer 2008, Michael Phelps
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Olympic Skaters Get Engaged on Ice
Originally posted 01/28/2008 12:35PM
John Baldwin didn't win a gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend – but he did get the girl.
Moments after he and Rena Inoue, his skating partner of seven years, completed their silver-medal-winning pairs performance Saturday, Baldwin, 34, got down on one knee in the middle of the ice and proposed.
As the crowd of spectators at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., read Baldwin's lips on the jumbotron, they began chanting, "Yes! Yes!" But Inoue, for one, stood there dumbfounded.
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Sasha Cohen Dazzles in Short Program
Originally posted 02/22/2006 08:00AM
Graceful and smiling, Sasha Cohen finished first in Turin Tuesday night, beating former world champion Irina Slutskaya of Russia by a slim .03 points and winning the figure-skating short program.
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Ligety Takes Gold, Bode Disqualified
Originally posted 02/14/2006 04:45PM
Bode Miller is out. Ted Ligety is in.
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Emily Hughes Heads to Olympics
Originally posted 02/13/2006 11:00AM
Emily Hughes, who has been tapped to replace Michelle Kwan on the women's Olympic figure skating team in Torino, says she was so excited by the news that she had to leave the restaurant where she was having dinner.
Permalink | Filed Under: Olympics, Emily Hughes
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Michelle Kwan Withdraws from Winter Games
Originally posted 02/12/2006 09:00PM
Michelle Kwan, five-time figure skating world champion and nine-time U.S. title winner, withdrew from the Winter Olympics Sunday in Torino, blaming a severe groin strain.
Permalink | Filed Under: Olympics, Michelle Kwan
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'Flying Tomato' Snowboarder Wins Gold
Originally posted 02/13/2006 08:15AM
"Flying Tomato" snowboarder Shaun White – so named because of his mane of long, red hair – made an embarrassing admission after winning the Olympic gold medal in Sunday's men's halfpipe contest.
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Torino Olympics Kick Off As 35,000 Cheer
Originally posted 02/10/2006 08:30AM
Italian former cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo lit the flame at Torino's Olympic Stadium during Friday's opening ceremony, after she took the torch from favored torchbearer, 10-time Olympic winner Alberto Tomba.
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Paul Hamm to Keep Olympic All-Around Gold
Originally posted 10/21/2004 03:00PM
Paul Hamm remains as good as gold.
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