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And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.
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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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.
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.
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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Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
In Ghana, for example, Vega has sponsored schools, clinics and sports teams, most notably the national teams in track and field and boxing.
In another first, NBC Olympics Live Extra will provide multiple concurrent streams for select sports, such as gymnastics (each apparatus), track and field (each event), and tennis (up to five courts).
And for sports for which multiple events are happening at the same time, such as gymnastics or track and field, the app also will provide concurrent streams to let you watch multiple events at the same time.
The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.
Field hockey coach and school sports director Charmaine Koekemoer said she was driving the bus past the track at around 10.15 a.m. on the Sunday morning when members of her Hoerskool Voortrekker girls hockey team started shouting "There's Oscar, there's Oscar!"
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