These medals are success stories for the countries, but as well as the Olympics. Also, Iowa teenager, Nastia Luikin, takes home the gold for the U.S. under pressure. And China collected 51 gold medals which is the highest figure for nations who have competed in the Olympics within the last 20 years. With 159,801 views of the U.S. Girls Gymnastics Olympics team and 155,830 of Women’s Olympic Gymnastics teams alone, these two sets of gymnasts’ show the success for the 2008 Gymnastics Olympics.
After women’s soccer did take off, it took of with a vengeance. It had enormous support at the youth and amateur levels. The fan base skyrocketed and after two World Cup titles and a gold and silver medal in the Olympics the US dominated the world in women’s soccer. However, the road to this success was an interesting one. In the nineteenth century historians documented informal village competitions in England and Scotland between the women of the towns.
He was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents. He was solid in geography, from self study during travels, and bright in history and biology. Alice died from kidney failure which had been masked by the pregnancy. In his diary, he wrote a large X on the page and then, he said the light had gone out of my life. His mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3:00 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house.
In 1994, Cathy received gold in the 200m and 400m race. In 1996, she earned a silver medal and a personal best of 48.63 seconds in the 400m event. In 1997, at the World Athletic Championships, she earned gold in the 400m event. In 1998, Cathy freeman was awarded Australian of the year and in the 1999 World Athletic Championships she earned gold in the 400m.Cathy Freeman is a sporting hero for many young Australians. She shows great sportsmanship, she shows Australia that she is skilled and hard working as well as kind hearted.
Hassiba Boulmerka an Algerian competitor, who competed in the 1992 games in Spain states that she wins give her confidence for all women in her country. She is a strong woman who believes every woman who wants to compete should do it. She states that even though some people may not approve of her competing, she has her friends and family supporting her. In document 10, Ali Kabir, a sportswriter talks about the rise and fall of Pakistan’s men field hockey team. He believes that the 2000 Olympics reflected their social values and from national pride to self-promotion.
Marion Jones was a track and field star, who was adored by legions of young female fans and athletes who viewed her as a role model of what women athletes could do for the sports world. Jones a former world champion track and field athlete won five gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Jones has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took steroids. She was charged and indicted with lying to a grand jury. According to Dr. Walder of New York university of Medicine, and the lead author of the book, Drugs and the Athlete.
Full Name: Doreen Elizabeth Jones Type of Dementia: Alzheimer’s disease Age/ D.O.B: 85 23/03/1930 Sex: Female Material Status: Widow Children: two Children (one son and one daughter) Son lives away so only sees daughter. Siblings: Two sisters, both died before Doreen Friends: One female friend, she has a car and they go for weekly trips out together. Career History: she worked as a typist from the age of 18, became a housewife when she had her first child at 24. At the age of 30 she became an English teacher at a local primary school as she approached retirement she became a cleaner for the final few years of her career before retiring at the age of 60. Interests and Hobbies: she has always looked after her family so hasn’t
Unfortunately, her father was killed two months later in a train accident. For the next two years she lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows. Her great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past. Kate O'Flaherty
I had the chicken pox when I was 5. I got them from my brother. I had kidney stones in 2001 that had to be surgically removed. I was in the hospital for 2 days.” Patient denies allergies to any foods but says, “I am allergic to latex.” Patient was treated for urinary tract infection recently. Family Health History Patient states that grandparents on each side of her family passed away because of cancer.
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