He will become the first Paralympian to compete in track and field at the able bodied Olympics.
They also may get more than 15 overall in track and field, as they did in Beijing.
Marlon won several awards this year for his achievements in track and field.
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You grow up seeing your older brother or sister taking part in track and field, sprinting, and you get motivated by that.
In Ghana, for example, Vega has sponsored schools, clinics and sports teams, most notably the national teams in track and field and boxing.
So he set a goal for himself -- he decided that he was going to make the Paralympic team in track and field.
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When Smith ran his 19.5, it was rated as the greatest-ever performance in track and field, according to scoring tables in use at the time.
"I would have dearly loved to go to Munich (but) I'd earned the frowning eyes of the powers that be in track and field, " he said in "Salute!"
Vey, who competes in track and field and shooting, had a leg amputated after an injury she suffered when a cargo plane had to take sudden evasive action.
ATHENS, Greece -- Sweden won three gold medals in track and field events in 24 hours as Stefan Holm took the gold in the high jump and Christian Olsson triumphed in the triple jump.
Dr. VINT: What we have tried to identify in track and field and some of our more explosive sports are ways in which we can help our athletes be more powerful and more explosive, particularly in the first several meters of the performance.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
You can watch music videos on a 50-inch plasma TV in the MTV Booth, or go gaming at the XBOX Kinect Room, a new sports experience that uses your voice and facial expressions to play table tennis, beach volley and even participate in track and field events.
Rudisha ran one minute 40.91 seconds to break his own world record, the first in the track and field events at the Games.
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The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
"Sonic at the Olympic Games" features the spiky-haired hedgehog racing in track-and-field events.
Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field, and she was the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas.
Holding the trials in swimming and track and field the two highest-profile sports very close to the Games, and away from the clutter of the NBA and NHL playoffs, NBC has a platform to promote its roughly 5, 000 hours of coverage of the London Olympics.
Helicopters land in the track-and-field stadium behind the center, and ambulances stream in regularly.
Get this: In the history of track and field, only three high school milers have broken four minutes in the mile.
More than 200 competitors took part in the games in Colorado last week and the British team competed in archery, cycling, swimming, track and field and sitting volleyball.
The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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Many other athletic events have been staged successfully in the wake of the Boston bombings, albeit with ramped-up security, including Sunday's Five Boro Bike Tour in New York City and last month's Penn Relays track and field competition in Philadelphia.
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The Johannesburg-born athlete is joined in the South Africa track and field team by Caster Semanya.
But to be honest, it has to do with the overall culture here in Jamaica, wherein track and field is a major sport, and athletes, for instance, are trained from an early age about how to sprint.
And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.
All athletes in a sport, like track and field, become suspect even though the majority, he believes, are clean.
These universities stockpiled the best athletes in football, basketball, track and field, swimming and wrestling and compiled long winning streaks.
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The athletes are of mixed ages and abilities, and will be competing in a range of sports from pool to track and field events.
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It was marvellous to see David Gale win his first gold medal in a major championship in the F51 discus while Beverley Jones, who won Great Britain's first gold in the shot, should continue to develop her talents in the field and also on the track.
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