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Ex-El Monte swim coach LaMont inducted in shrine (Pasadena Star-News)
Don LaMont had just spread his towel out on the sand during a summer day in 1972 when he stumbled upon some breathtaking news about the Olympics.
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Immigrants Of The Day: Olga Korbut (Belarus), Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone), and Alfonso Marquez (Mexico) (Immigration Portal)
Olga Korbut was born on May 16th, 1955 in Grodno (Hrodna), Belarus. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, her acrobatics and open display of emotion and raw enthusiasm captivated the Munich audiences, and there she became the first person ever to do a backward somersault on the balance beam.
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This Week in History (Santa Barbara Independent)
At the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage.
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CINEMA ‘59 - Jamyang Norbu (Phayul)
With the end of the Beijing Olympics, exile-Tibetans will no doubt be taking a well-deserved rest from protests and demonstrations though Nepal (Bravo!) seems determined to go on a while longer.
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Iran strike a costly attempt to buy time (Gloucester Advocate)
JUVAL AVIV is one of those characters who have floated to prominence in the hall of mirrors where counter-terrorism, intelligence and entertainment present bewildering multiple images.
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Phelps finishes 8 for 8 (Republican-American)
BEIJING (AP) — Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.
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The Flying Housewife Ran, Leapt To Olympic Gold (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
It was 1948, and Francina "Fanny" Blankers-Koen was in London, ready to walk away from making Olympic history.
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Phelps to spend Olympic bonus on foundation for budding swimmers (New Kerala)
London, September 3 : Ace swimmer Michael Phelps has revealed that he will utilize the bonus of one million dollar he has earned for winning eight Olympic gold medals at the Beijing Olympics to start a foundation.
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ARTS + FEATURES (St. Petersburg Times)
A German film unearths both sides of Cold War-era Stasi persecution. BERLIN — Two years after the release of Oscar-winning movie “The Lives of Others”, communist East Germany and its Stasi secret police are back in the spotlight in a new film that examines the persecution of a top cyclist.
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Good as Gould: Rice doubles up (Hastings Gazette)
A LITTLE over two years ago, Stephanie Rice was just a promising junior swimmer who had never made a senior Australian team. Today she must be compared to one of our greatest female swimmers, Shane Gould.
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