great as any in the world. An unlikely story‚ but not impossible. Impossible is Nothing. For adidas‚ it all started with shoes. Shoes to play in. Shoes to play better in. Shoes to win in. Shoes that‚ one day‚ would tread Wembley and Wimbledon‚ win medals at the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup™. Athletes would wear them‚ record-breakers‚ and champions. Today‚ adidas is one of the world’s leading brands‚ recognised and respected. Passion‚ authenticity‚ innovation‚ inspiration‚ honesty and commitment
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Vince Lombardi‚ most likely the best coach to ever lead a team to victory or multiple ones on a football field. His ethics sometimes questionable‚ but never misunderstood‚ were always meant to lead and encourage his team to be nothing but the best‚ and the best was achieved in 1967. After nine incredible winning seasons with the Green Bay Packers‚ Lombardi decided to retire as head coach. The Packers had dominated professional football under his direction‚ collecting six division titles‚ five NFL
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India’s size and population its sporting successes are few and far between. They‚ however‚ tend to forget that in today’s highly commercialised and fiercely competitive sports‚ mere skill and talent are not enough to ensure success in the form of medals. In this regard the developed countries have a definite edge over the developing ones for they have surplus financial resources as compared with their basic needs. They can obviously afford to spend enormous amounts of money on providing proper infrastructure
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Gold mining is a serious problem due to air‚ water pollution it produces an it threatens the human health. It is a term used to define the series of processes to extract gold from underground. It is impossible to know the exact date that humans first began to mine gold‚ but some of the oldest known gold artifacts were found in the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria. The graves of the necropolis were built between 4700 and 4200 BCE‚ indicating that gold mining could be at least 7000 years old (Oancea
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All that glitters is not gold is a well-known saying‚ meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can apply to people‚ places‚ or things that promise to be more than they really are. The expression‚ in various forms‚ originated in or before the 12th century[1] and may date back to Aesop.[2] Chaucer gave two early versions in English: "But all thing which that schyneth as the gold / Ne is no gold‚ as I have herd it told‚" and "Hyt is not al golde that glareth."
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Cited: Brown‚ Daniel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. New York: Penguin‚ 2014. Print. Crosby‚ Josh. “Me Time.” Rowing Magazine Apr. 2014: 61. Web. Zinn‚ Howard. “SelfHelp in Hard Times.” In A People’s History of the United States‚ 377406. New York : Harper Collins‚ 2003
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public and media‚ and their actions are seen both on and off the field‚ sometimes even when they think nobody is watching such as Olympic Gold Medalist and swimming phenomenon‚ Michael Phelps. Phelps is looked at as a national
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Jesse Owens: The Silent Movement When America typically thinks about black athletes‚ they think of the great ones like Michael Jordan‚ Muhammad Ali‚ Jackie Robinson‚ and others in that category. One athlete that is over looked is the great Jesse Owens. It might be that he did not participate in a popular sport like basketball‚ football or baseball‚ but he was an exceptionally fast on the track and overcame racial adversity. Jesse Owens impacted athletic world in a positive way throughout his
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become the best. Barra says “He didn’t win any medals at these games but he became a huge threat” (Barra). Lots of people don’t have this kind of experience like Phelps‚ but without this experience he wouldn’t know how to compete at this level later on in life. After high school swimming Phelps moved on to go to the University of Michigan while training for the Olympics. Lamm wrote “While at the university he won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Olympic Games” (Lamm). Even though Phelps
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Kelsey Williams Period 3 Gym 15 October 2012 Mia Hamm Mariel Margaret Hamm‚ otherwise known as Mia Hamm‚ was born in Selma‚ Alabama on March 17th‚ 1972. Mia Hamm’s brother recalls that she was extremely athletic even back then and that she would often compete with the other boys on the block in childhood games‚ often winning them. But earlier on‚ Mia Hamm had some problems with her legs‚ she was born with a partial clubfoot. This meant that she had to wear casts on her feet to correct
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