It is also banned from use in many sports, including the Olympic Games, under the World Anti-Doping Code.
He wasn't able to attend the award ceremony because he was covering yachting at the Olympic Games at the time.
Formed after the dissolution of the West Indies Federation in 1962, the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) first competed at Olympic level at the 1968 Summer Olympics and has continued to compete at every Olympics since excluding the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
He was also in the Olympic team that reached the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
The recent focus of this radio station has been the World Cup in Germany and the Beijing Olympic Games for 2008.
Howard Baker represented Britain at both the 1912 and 1920 Olympic Games.
Schlegel also played for the Canadian National Team for many years, and was part of the Canadian Men's Hockey Teams that played in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and won the Silver Medal both times.
He was also matchmaker for the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Boxing Trials and for William H. King Promotions.
1984 also saw an Olympic version of the Buick Century, commemorating the 1984 games in Los Angeles, California.
The game featured Olympic style contests without rules or regulations, between five teams.
The COC organizes Croatia's representatives at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Gaven played every minute for the U.S. in the 2003 Under-17 World Championship in Finland and then became the youngest player in CONCACAF history to appear in an Olympic qualifier when he played for the U.S. Under-23 team.
He participated at the South American U-20 Championship in Paraguay in 1999, and Olympic qualifying tournament in Brazil in January 2000.
The Greece at the team sports international competitions has achieved 12 victories at the Olympic Games (1), World Championship (3) and European Championships (8).
Though sidelined for two months by the accident, he still managed to compete in the Ironman as well as the St. Anthony's 32 mile Olympic-style race in St. Petersburg, Florida, the half Ironman at Disney and the Timberman 70.3 in New Hampshire.
John M. Phillips is the attorney for Ishika Lay and her family, who was in a prolonged coma after collapsing in an Olympic qualifying tournament.
The game is set at Sparks Stadium, where a kind of keyboarding Olympics take place between the Sparks Team and the Galaxy Gladiators.
He was sent back to Cuba from Panama during the Olympic qualifying round in November 2003 for making contact with an agent.
During his time with RTB he reported at numerous football matches and covered 40 World and European Championships, as well as The Olympic Games.
A joke game based on the Olympic sport of synchronized swimming, the participants of this game must simultaneously (as a team) guess the type of food that they are given while their eyes are closed and noses are plugged.
Initially reporting on high school sports, Penner went on to cover a variety of national and international sporting events including the Olympics, Major League Baseball, tennis, and World Cup soccer.
After college, van Arsdale won a World Cup Championship in 1991, a CISM (military) World Championship, was a two-time Olympic alternate, and a six-time member of the National Freestyle Wrestling team.
Nikolai is the most capped Olyroos player representing Australia at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
McWhirter was also part of the BBC commentary team for their Olympic Games coverage between 1960 and 1976.
The Olympic Charter, last updated 9 September 2013, is a set of rules and guidelines for the organization of the Olympic Games, and for governing the Olympic movement.
In March 2012 the journal published a special issue on the Olympic Legacy to explore some of the issues surrounding the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
In Färjestad, Nordström plays winger with double Olympic gold medal winner, Jörgen Jönsson (center), and winger Pelle Prestberg, forming a line called Jönssonligan (The Jönsson Gang in English).
On October 28, 2010 Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes, working for Yahoo Weekend News and Independent Investigations Group (IIG), tested Power Balance bracelets for their claim that they improve balance, flexibility and strength.
Bourque is also an Olympian and has become near-synonymous with the Boston Bruins franchise, for which he played 21 seasons and became its longest-serving captain.
Regal Classic was trained by Olympic Games equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Day.
Although initially portrayed as a brutish, womanizing, adulterous cad, Campbell-Black's character is later somewhat redeemed through his triumphant winning of an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain.
It is not retired, as it would later be worn by former US Olympian Darby Hendrickson and Serge Aubin.
For many they trump major tournaments for individual competitors such as the venerable All-England Championships, the BWF World Championships, and even the badminton competitions at the Olympic Games.
His father, Robert Rafto was an Olympic gymnast and the winner of the Norwegian decathlon championships in 1918.
His first Olympic Games as a commentator with the BBC was in 1972, and he covered every World Cup tournament from 1974 to 2006.
At the Norwegian Jazz scene he has been most recognized for the cooperation with Arild Andersen and his music for «Kristin Lavransdatter», performed to the Olympic Games at Lillehammer.
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The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2008.
: 8th Olympic Games (Team pursuit with Alexei Markov, Alexander Serov, and Nikolay Trusov), Beijing (CHN)
Bicaba became the first athlete to represent the Republic of Upper Volta at the Olympic Games when he competed in the Men's 100 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The Aryan Games were a proposed replacement for the Olympic Games by the National Socialist (Nazi) government of the Third Reich, to be housed permanently in Nuremberg at the German Stadium that was designed, but never built, by Albert Speer.
She has helmed 18 ft skiffs, completed 15 Sydney to Hobart races and written about all major yacht races including the Olympic Games.
The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.
After a spell of training several outstanding swimmers, including an Olympian and Hong Kong age group record breakers, Bright accepted an opportunity to coach triathlon at Loughborough University in England.
He was a member of the Cornwall rugby union team, which on 26 October 1908 won the Olympic silver medal for Great Britain.
At the end of that season, he represented Ireland in the Olympic Games against Holland at Portsmouth.
Like Johnny Weissmuller who starred in classic Tarzan films, the starring actor Shigeyoshi Suzuki was also an Olympic swimming medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
In 2012, Lars designed dresses for Olympic gold medalists Sanya Richards-Ross, Carmelita Jeter, and Allyson Felix.
Carlo Mattioli (born October 23, 1954 in Pergola, Pesaro e Urbino) is a retired male race walker from Italy, who represented his native country twice at the Olympic Games: 1984 and 1988.
Among those who have sailed for the club is Robert Halperin, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1960 and a Pan American Games gold medal in 1963 in yachting, and who was also a football player at Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and in the NFL, one of Chicago's most-decorated World War II heroes, and Chairman of Commercial Light Co.
Cherry-Evans was named after one of his English-born mother's favourite British athletes, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Decathlon Gold Medallist Daley Thompson.
It is also used to elect the various party nominees for President of the United States, the host city of the Olympic Games and the host of the FIFA World Cup.
Featuring the highest level of competition with the Olympic, America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race Veterans amongst this strictly Owner/Driver Class.
Together with his wife, Ursula, and their assistant, Tom Green, he produced many notable olympians such as Shane Gould, Karen Moras, Gail Neall, John Davies, Terry Gathercole, John Ryan and Ian O'Brien.
New Italian coach Carlo Recalcati let him return to the team, and although he lost the calling for Eurobasket 2003, Pozzecco was part of the roster that won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 2004.
The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London.
Ingrid Mickler-Becker (née Ingrid Becker; born September 26, 1942 in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion.
After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.
He finished 3rd in the 200m at the Drake Relays with a time of 21.10 into a headwind of 1.1 m/s behind World and Olympic Champion Jeremy Wariner and Jamaican Richardo Williams.
At the conclusion of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, the Geelong City Council held a dinner on 15 January 1957 to honour the six Geelong Guild athletes (Ron Blackney, John Chittick, Robert James "Bob" Joyce, John Landy, Don MacMillan and John Vernon) who had represented Geelong and Australia at these games.
Lázaro Vargas Álvarez (born January 18, 1964, in San Miguel del Padrón) is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic gold medalist.
Liberia (LBR) has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1956 with the exception of 1968, 1976 and 1992, although the country has never won an Olympic medal.
An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.
Dara Torres, 2008 Beijing Olympian, said, "If I can do it, you can too. Don’t put an age on your dreams."
Ghada Shouaa, the first Syrian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, was born in Mhardeh as well as Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch.
SPORTS - Throughout her career Buchan has covered events including the Olympic Games, the US Open, and French Open tennis tournaments (for Tennis Channel), Australian Open Tennis (for Triple M) World Cup Soccer (SBS), the Super Bowl, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship (Fox Sports America), the Crown Australian Poker Championship (Aussie Millions), Melbourne Cup Carnival.
During his tenure as coach, the Danish national squad achieved over 20 major international wins, including an Olympic gold medal in 1996, six gold medals and three silver medals at the European Championships in 1996, the men's singles titles at the 1995 and 1996 All England Championships, and a gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the World Championships in 1995.
Olga Šplíchalová (born September 1, 1975 in Třebíč, Vysočina) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who twice competed for her native country at the Olympic Games: in 1992 and 1996.
He competed in eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988, being one of only four persons ever (the others are sailor Ben Ainslie and athletes Carl Lewis in the long jump and Al Oerter in the discus) to win four consecutive individual gold medals (1948, '52, '56, '60), first time in a Firefly, subsequently in Finns.
A few days later he was mistakenly named in the Great Britain squad preparing for the Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible.
Speaking in a High Court libel hearing in 1998, Roddan told the jury that a magazine article by John McVicar alleging Linford Christie took drugs to get to the top was a "fairy story", describing a suggestion that the Olympic gold medallist's impressive physique may have been due to taking steroids or other performance-enhancing banned substances as "ridiculous".
He was rumored to be dating United States Olympic gymnast Chellsie Memmel however Rohlinger stated in San Francisco Chronicle that "It isn't true," Rohlinger said, "I don't even know her."
Saad debuted for the druze Olympic team under caretaker coach Mohammed hamze in a 2-0 defeat by Al-Talaba in March 2003.
It is home to most of Clarksville's restaurants, retail businesses, and industries, with U.S. Highway 79 (named "Wilma Rudolph Boulevard" in this area for the Olympic sprinter), running directly through the center.
Thailand first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
The Dream with Roy and HG was a sports/comedy talk show, broadcast every night during the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics, presented by Australian comedy duo Roy and HG.
Hewitt was honorary team manager of three consecutive Olympic gold medal winning hockey teams, the Winnipeg Falcons (1920), Toronto Granites (1924), and Toronto Varsity Grads (1928).
In 1859 Wenlock Olympian Class sent £10 to Athens as a prize for the best runner in the Long Foot Race at the Olympic Games which was held in November that year - open only to Greek-speaking athletes.