For many hockey fans, the most important game of the Olympics will be decided on the final day, February twenty-eighth.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

About five thousand men and women from more than eighty countries will compete for seventeen days at the Vancouver Olympics.

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For example, the popular bobsleigh team from the island of Jamaica did not qualify for the Olympics four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Let us begin the Olympics,thank you." About one thousand competitors from twenty-six states and Canada took part in the event.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The National Hockey League in the United States is again permitting its players to represent their native countries in the Olympics.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Charlie White and Meryl Davis are competing for the United States at the Olympics for the first time.

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And he did it faster than the world record time Phelps set last year at the Beijing Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

On the twelfth day of the Olympics the United States broke its medal record for competition outside America.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Like the Olympics, the World Cup provides a good reason to build roads, railways and airports to manage the flow of visitors.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Eunice Shriver was best known for creating the Special Olympics, an athletic event for people with mental disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Three men on the American team, Bill Demong,Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane had been to the Olympics before.

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Today,the Special Olympics has grown to include about three million athletes in more than one hundred fifty countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The three athletes won the Gold Medal at the two thousand eight Olympics and are good friends.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

And it was shown during the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February twelfth.

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Others include anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, birth control activist Margaret Sanger and Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Some of the winter sports played at the Olympics are internationally known, such as ice hockey.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The Bina Nusantara English Club at the university started the English Olympics in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

That was Eunice Kennedy Shriver speaking at the nineteen eighty-seven Special Olympics games in South Bend,Indiana.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The service included a Special Olympics torch carried by a mother and son, both Special Olympians.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

But first we tell about winning American athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.02.26