Ed knows a thing or two about what it takes to make it as an athlete.
"Our process to sponsor an individual athlete isn't easy to navigate, " admits a USOC spokeswoman.
But seven years ago Blackwell tried something offbeat: He launched the career of an Olympic athlete.
But he's a champion, a formidable athlete and will come back winning as he has before.
He is the first athlete to die from injuries sustained during an X Games competition.
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This opinion is supported by the fact that significant athlete product endorsers excel within their sport.
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The 15-time All-Star was an Adidas athlete for the first six years of his career.
It remains the largest initial player endorsement contract ever handed out to a Nike athlete.
What is it like to be an Olympic athlete after winning (or not winning) the Olympics?
For example, telling an athlete to "focus" during the heat of a competition does not help.
He wanted to try and nurture an athlete he knew could be very special.
My group got a story about Shelly Woods who is a local Paralympic athlete.
Reciprocity agreements can save an athlete thousands if their tax professional knows what to look for.
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Armstrong has ripped apart the sports credo of what it means to be an athlete.
In many respects, the pro-athlete set has come to mirror the larger investing universe.
Lagat said every athlete is different, but his schedule designed with his coach, James Li has been effective.
Well 44 years ago, an American athlete was responsible for an even bigger margin of improvement.
"I think Mo said it best, as an athlete, you can get hurt anywhere, " Girardi said.
"As a competitive athlete, I can't help but remain that we lost, " he said.
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At school, I was a bit of an anomaly, a female athlete in an academic setting.
He attended Duke on a football scholarship, and he retains the lean build of an athlete.
Her mother Dorcus Semenya has told the BBC that the athlete is certainly female.
"I am a better athlete today than I was at 29, " she told CNN.
"I would like to see, particularly team sports, take up the athlete's biological passport, " Fahey said.
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Over 26.2 miles, a litany of issues cramps, sickness, injury can derail a premier athlete's Olympic hopes.
Champion athlete Liz McColgan, who won the marathon in 1996, said some runners were in trouble.
It was a hyperbolic announcement of the ascendancy of the black athlete in pro basketball.
The star athlete has turned to fat and the homecoming queen is substantially less radiant.
The athlete was just 18 when he took home an Olympic bronze from Barcelona in 1992.
The pro athlete, and his once-servile relationship to owners and league management, had changed, too.
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