Article: SPO: Australia to send largest away team to Beijing Paralympics

Article: For 14 athletes, making team doesn't ensure trip to Atlanta.(Sports)(Olympics)
The Washington Times;  June 27, 1996 ;     575 words ......just begun for 14 athletes who made the U.S. Olympic track and field team at last week's trials...Atlanta next month, athletes had to place in the...wait. Most of the athletes are headed overseas...better to stay on the team. He plans to give...

Article: Com: Athletes on run casts pall over team: official
AAP General News (Australia);  March 23, 2006 ;     350 words ......Australia) 03-23-2006 Com: Athletes on run casts pall over team: official By Jamie...seven Sierra Leone athletes had cast a pall on the team's Commonwealth Games...missing yesterday. Team officials realised the athletes were missing when they...

Article: World's Athletes Open Olympics; Dream Team Draws Crowd As Summer Games Begin
The Washington Post;  July 26, 1992 ;     700+ words ......couple of Brazilian athletes away from the Dream Team. Their presence beside...1984 U.S. Olympic team - Michael Jordan...night's festivities. Athletes' absences were not...the host Spanish team. Several popular athletes were flag-bearers...

Article: ROOT, ROOT, ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM, ATHLETES SAY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ......ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM, ATHLETES SAY By MIKE CELIZIC...or other American athletes are complaining...rare to be the home team. In other times...them on, Spanish athletes had by far their...The U.S. Swimming Team, which is not as...

Article: Security to Be Boosted for U.S. Athletes; Measures Will Include Flights to Games in Athens; Team Urged to Stay in Olympic Village
The Washington Post;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...U.S. athletes will travel to...The U.S. Olympic team also will have...in terms of the athletes. . . . It's totally...Hudson noted that athletes are required to...men's basketball team, which consists...that some U.S. athletes and parents of...

Article: ATHLETES KNOW HOW GAME IS PLAYED TO IMPROVE YOURS, JOIN A TEAM, OR EXERCISE AT LEAST
The Boston Globe;  July 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......happens from every group of athletes from the liberal arts colleges...like that." Another reason athletes make more money is that they...to manage oneself within a team. These skills are not taught...And employers know that athletes have an advantage in the...athletic experience. For ...

Article: US athletes (L) compete with Jamaica's team during the women...
Getty Images;  August 22, 2008 ;     81 words ...OLIVIER MORIN Getty Images 08-22-2008 US athletes (L) compete with Jamaica's team during the women... Full Size JPG (2710 KB) US athletes (L) compete with Jamaica's team during the women's first round 4×400m relay heat...

Article: Kenya drafts more athletes into Olympic team
Xinhua News Agency;  July 18, 2008 ;     417 words ...Kenya drafts more athletes into Olympic team NAIROBI, July 18...travel with the team as reserves. "We...if we take more athletes to the Games," he...be added to the team. He had said on...a good number of athletes representing Kenya...

Article: JCCGW athletes team up for Maccabi Games
Washington Jewish Week;  June 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......track and field (eight athletes, coach Tom Temin). There will be 19 athletes plus two coaches, one delegation...the boys basketball (nine athletes, coach Jan Brown) and girls soccer (10 athletes, coach David Deutsch). Both...12-14 age range, which every team will be for those games...said. ...

Article: Team Moms work behind scenes for athletes
Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL);  September 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......buttons with the athletes' photos for parents...end-of-season banquets each team enjoys. They also...as many as five. Team Moms always work...on. "Parents of athletes become team moms in various...provide for the athletes and coaches, team moms say they benefits...

Article: PHILANTHROPIC 'DREAM TEAM': Agassi, Armstrong, Ali, Hamm launch Athletes for Hope charity
Charleston Gazette;  April 26, 2007 ;     608 words ......It's a philanthropic Dream Team. Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong...are among 12 founders of Athletes for Hope, a charitable organization...she plans to connect other athletes with her charity events. "A lot of athletes and female athletes might not have the name recognition...of the U.S. ...

Article: Athletes kicked off LSU swim team
University Wire;  May 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......La. -- Two scholarship athletes on the LSU swimming and diving team were dismissed from the...other non-scholarship athletes also left the team because of postings they...several coaches on the team and how the athletes were not properly trained...

Article: Being chief physio for Team GB at Beijing Olympics is the pinnacle for uni's MSc sports course director; Hundreds of British athletes will pursue their Olympic dream in August with the support of a small but dedicated band of health professionals. As the countdown to Beijing continues Health Editor Madeleine Brindley examines the role health plays in sport.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ......preparations for Team GB and return to China to the athletes' village at the end...with some of the athletes to their competitions...after the diving team in Athens, which...what it did for the team. When the athletes come back and thank...

Article: Ten athletes in Greek weightlifting team deny doping charge
Xinhua News Agency;  May 2, 2008 ;     198 words ...Ten athletes in Greek weightlifting team deny doping charge ATHENS...Xinhua) -- Ten out of the 11 athletes on Greece's national weightlifting team accused of using illegal performance...to Athens News Agency. The athletes had been summoned to testify...11th member of the national team ...