Marathon race is 42.195 kilometers or 26.365 miles long. Its roots are in Greek ancient history when a messenger was dispatched to Athens to let the citizens of the City-State of Athens know that Greece just won the war. Few events symbolize the Olympic Games more than marathon. Discus throw, epitomized in stone by the [...]
After Czech Republic’s defeat of Slovakia at their Olympic hockey tournament opener in Vancouver Olympic Games, Jaromir Jagr, one of NHL’s all-time great forwards, said it: “We can beat anybody here, and anybody can beat us.” That prophesy has been correct in both respects. The Czechs beat the Slovaks and Latvia, got edged by the [...]
It’s a shocking news to read of an Olympic athlete dying at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The news was even more tragic that it happened only few hours before the actual official opening ceremony, the joyous of occasions when athletes march on the Olympic stadium sporting nothing but smiles. While the Georgian delegation [...]
