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Olympics
«An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.»
Author: Jeff Fenech
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Sports
| Keywords:
athlete, gold medal, gold medals, honour, medal, Olympic, Olympics, swap, swapping, the Olympics, title
«I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.»
«The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.»
Author: Mitch Gaylord
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Memory
| Keywords:
gold medal, gold medals, honors, medal, Olympics, podium, podiums, teammate, teammates, the Olympics
«And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.»
«I?ve seen a much tougher opposition than her [Carly Patterson]. Let?s see how long she can remain on top. Can she keep going and compete in two more Olympics like myself.»
Author: Svetlana khorkina
(gymnast)
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compete, keep going, Olympics, the Olympics, tougher
«Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we canswing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not bebanned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play for you.That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off inthe distance.»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
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ban, banned, bar, damn, dangle, dangling, debilitates, debilitating, enhancing, Fair Play, joint, Mars, meters, O.K., ok, Olympics, performance, performing, smoke, swing, the Olympics, with that
«Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
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finishing, oblivion, Olympics, silver, the Olympics