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2 days ago · Allyson Felix, Ryan Lochte, Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Kobe Bryant. Rio de Janeiro 2016. The event marked the first time that the Olympic Games—either Summer or Winter—were held in South America. The Games featured a record 205 participating NOCs, with more than 11,000 athletes competing in 42 sports.
- Mindy Johnston
4 days ago · In 1960, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to Rome to compete in the "Parallel Olympics", which ran in parallel with the Summer Olympics and came to be known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year and, starting with the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, the host city for the Olympics has also played ...
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3 days ago · The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, United States making it the third city to host the games three times (the other times being 1932 and 1984) and the U.S. 5th time hosting the games. The 2032 Summer Olympics will be held in Brisbane, Australia the third city to host the games in Australia and the fourth south of the Equator.
4 days ago · Hubert Humphrey (born May 27, 1911, Wallace, South Dakota, U.S.—died January 13, 1978, Waverly, Minnesota) was the 38th vice president of the United States (1965–69) in the Democratic administration of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1968. A liberal leader in the United States Senate (1949–65 ...
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5 days ago · Wijan Ponlid. Wijan Ponlid of Thailand after winning a gold medal in boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. (more) Boxing first appeared as a formal Olympic event in 688 bce. In the modern Olympics boxing debuted for men at the St. Louis 1904 Games and for women at the London Games in 2012.
- Mindy Johnston
5 days ago · Bennett was an official in a number of international ski races, head of the U.S. Alpine Ski program in the 1956 Olympics, Assistant Director of ski events at the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley and Chief of Course for the men’s downhill at the Lake Placid Olympics. He was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1986.
3 days ago · William married Sandra Jane Vordenbaum on July 28, 1962, in Gonzales, Texas. They were married for 62 years and had two sons. William had a career in Communications, working for GTE (later Verizon) for about 35 years, and it was during this time that he served as area vice president for the Communications Workers of America Union (CWA).
