Search results
May 9, 2024 · Pawel Pawlikowski (born September 15, 1957, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-born British film director and screenwriter whose acclaimed works notably included Ida (2013), which won an Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Pawlikowski, who was baptized as a Roman Catholic but whose family was partly Jewish (his paternal grandmother died in ...
May 8, 2024 · Chamizo won the medal. Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Rio de Janeiro that took place August 5–21, 2016. The Rio Games were the 28th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The event marked the first time that either the Summer or the Winter Olympics were held in South America.
- Adam Augustyn
5 days ago · Michael Ray. Simone Biles is an American gymnast who was considered one of the sport’s greatest athletes. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first female U.S. gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games, and she was the first gymnast to win three consecutive world all-around titles (2013–15).
- Luan Peszek
3 days ago · Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated Olympic figure skaters in history with a total of five medals. Ice dancers Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko won a bronze medal in 1984, improved to a silver in 1988, and capped their Olympic appearances with a gold in 1992. Russian ice dancers Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov ...
5 days ago · 2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year [ edit ] In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of The New Yorker stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine.
3 days ago · History Early coverage 1964 Summer Olympics. NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's Summer Olympics from Tokyo.The network originally had intended to film the events from Tokyo but the Syncom team had a 1-hour test on the Syncom 3 satellite and it was discovered that it can transmit up to two hours from the US to Japan as with signals from the West Coast.
May 1, 2024 · Cycling 101: Olympic history, records and results. NBC Olympics. May. 1, 2024 5:38 pm ET. Paul Masson, winner of a cycling event at the Olympic Games, Athens, 1896. Masson, a Frenchman, won 3 events at the first modern Olympiad, the 2km, 10km and single lap races. Here he is seen being congratulated by a compatriot after one of his victories.
