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The Olympic Truce
♪ [TEXT: ShareAmerica] The United States will be among the nearly 100 nations competing in the world’s greatest sporting event: [TEXT: Nearly 100 nations will compete in the greatest sporting event] the Olympic Games, held this year [TEXT: The Olympic Games will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea] in Pyeongchang, South Korea. While the competition…
Icarus and Russia’s Olympic Doping Scandal | Bryan Fogel | 2019
Hi. So, my journey of making this film and winning an Academy Award is a kind of crazy one. I grew up in Colorado. Normal parents. My father was a lawyer. My mom was a housewife. and I wanted to be a professional cyclist. And I raced my bike through college and when I was…
Assassin’s Creed III Remastered: Revisiting a Revolution for the Series | Gameplay | Ubisoft [NA]
[THUMPING] [SWISH] NARRATOR: The American Revolution reignites on March 29, when “Assassin’s Creed III Remastered” brings Connor, Aveline, and a whole lot of frontier stealth action to Xbox One, PS4, and PC, and on May 21 to Nintendo Switch. Connor and Aveline’s adventures through colonial America are getting the 4K treatment on compatible platforms, along…
The UK Is Racing to Build the World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant
We’re struggling to figure out what the future of sustainable energy looks like on our planet, and there are a lot of different directions we could go. The UK, however, made a bold move when they recently announced a huge investment in a prototype fusion power facility that could be functioning as a commercial power…
Math in the Winter Olympic Games | Things Explained: Angles
The Winter Olympics is a major international sporting event held every four years. Athletes participate in many different sports— highlighting their strength, precision, and endurance. But if we look at the Winter Olympics from a different angle, we see that these sports involve quite a bit of math. Take ice hockey for example. The design…
When Michael Phelps Was Just a Teenager | Before They Were Superstars
I think if you really just have a wide-open mind and use your imagination, I think a lot of things are possible. I swim here and eat and sleep and just hang out, pretty much. It’s a thrill every day to come into work because he does things which I’m quite sure I’ll never see…
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) Wins Olympic Boxing Gold – Rome 1960 Olympics
Three well trained USA boxers fought exciting final matches and won gold medals before a capacity crowd of 16200 wild eyed fans. Wilbert McClure defeated Italy’s Carmelo Bossi. Eddie Crook of the USA took and even closer decision from Poland’s Tadeusz Walasek. The most popular USA winner was the lighthearted Cassius Marcelus Clay V, in…
If Cute Babies Competed in the Olympic Games | Olympic Channel
(triumphant music) (crowd cheering) – [Announcer] Welcome back to the Baby Games. We’ve got it all for ya. The struggles. Oh, the intensity. The triumphs. First up, gymnastics. The American. Working it. Just look at that concentration. 10 meter toddle. One of the marquee events at any Baby Game. (start gun firing) And there they…
Olympic Level Compassion | Dotsie Bausch | TEDxChapmanU
Translator: Kay Wang Reviewer: Ellen Maloney I am an Olympian. A silver medal cyclist from the London 2012 summer games. I competed at the highest level of my sport for 12 years, with a voracious appetite for winning. Prior to my cycling career, I was a fashion model, who walked the runways of New York;…