Japan is the only Asian country to get on the Olympic soccer MEDALS podium, winning bronze in 1968 in Mexico.

日本是迄今为止唯一一个站上奥运会足球比赛领奖台的亚洲国家，在1968年墨西哥奥运会上获铜牌。

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Revelations of the recent schemes compelled the international governing body for track and field to bar Russia's team, usually a fixture on the MEDALS podium, from the Rio Games.

近期的一些兴奋剂计划接连曝光，促使管理田径项目的国际机构下达了禁令，禁止通常总能拿到奖牌的俄罗斯田径队参加里约奥运会。

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If they gave gold medals for grit, Karen would be right up there on the winners' podium.

如果他们颁发毅力金牌，卡伦应该站在领奖台上。

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The Canadian Olympic Committee, the Vancouver organizing committee and Canada's sport federations established the program Own The Podium five years ago with the goal of winning more medals than any other country in 2010.

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So, as the Olympic sponsor and official provider of many national teams, Adidas claims the right to make the athletes wear only its gear on the medals podium, although they can race in whatever shoes they want.

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Be sure to stop by the Roundhouse Lodge, at the top of Whistler mountain, to check out its Olympic Legacy display , which includes such prized memorabilia as Swiss Olympian Didier Defago's gold medal winning Rossignol skis and a wood-carved replica of the medals podium - where every athlete, no matter how skilled, can snap a photograph of a personal Olympic moment.

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"I think it's a great challenge to compete for third place especially as this time there will be a podium and medals at the end of it, " he said.

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