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The 79th Dong-A Seoul International marathon was a very good one this year. Sammy Korir, of Kenya, won the race. His time was the best since April of 2006, and it was the fourth fastest of his career. His time was 2:07:32, very fast, considering he is 36 years old. The odds were against him, the entire pack of the men had stayed together until the 25 kilometer mark. However, Sammy Korir prevailed and won, with a sprint finish. The winner in the wormen's category was a Chinese runner named, Zhang Shujing. She had finished the race in 2:26:11. The race between the women here was decided much earlier than the men, and Zhang Shujing had gave her best time in five years to win it.
Jessica Morrow from Belfast's Kiryoku Karate Club has made her instructors proud by bringing home the gold from this year's WIKF British National Championships. Although not her first UK title, this is Jessica’s first gold in senior ladies kata at national level. She also helped win a second consecutive team gold. This has already been a big year for the 19-year-old as she was awarded her 1st Dan black belt by Sensei Tatsuo Suzuki (8th Dan) in February, as well as successfully defending the Northern Ireland title that she has held for four years. She says, "I’m very proud of what I have achieved, but I could never have done it without my instructor". With another title under her belt, Jessica is now looking ahead to the WIKF World Championships to be held in Portugal this July, and she hopes to soon become an assistant instructor at her club.
According to this article australian Ultimate Federation will be hosting a 24 hour Ultimate Frisbee party for charity. They plan to donate all of the money to the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Unit. Why are they doing this? They thought that it would be a fun and creative way to raise money for the Kids at the hospital. The party consists of food, tents and lots and lots of ultimate frisbee. Apperently this has already been done in other parts of the world but this will be the first time Australia will participate.
Muntain biker Fred Bull is the icest person you will probably ever meet. In 2002, he had a benign tumor removed from his head. The doctors told him he'd be fine. But he wasn't. Later on, he was found to have cancer in his head, and this too was removed. But it didn't go away. Two years ago, he was given 2-5 years to live. The cancer is terminal. It is very unfortunate that such a nice person would battle something so aweful. Although this doesn't drastically affect the sport, I think it will inspire many to go out and ride in his honor.
Posted: 2008-02-01 10:43:22 CLEARWATER, Fla. (Feb. 1) - A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?
Leo Fiyalko couldn't see it, but his golf buddies did - a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club.
Fiyalko is 92 and has macular degeneration. He's been golfing for 60 years, but his 110-yard shot with a five iron on Jan. 10 was his first hole-in-one.
"I was just trying to put the ball on the green," Fiyalko said.
Fiyalko tees off every Thursday with a group of golfers ranging in age from 70 to 90-plus. He used to have a seven handicap, but now he needs help lining up his shots and finding his golf balls because he only has peripheral vision in his right eye.
Jean Gehring was playing in his foursome and watched Fiyalko's swing.
"I could tell it went on the green, (but) when we got up there I didn't see it. I looked in the hole and there it was," Gehring said.
Gehring said Fiyalko brushed off the feat, and had to be prodded to tell his wife about it at the end of the round.
The article I found on skiing is called, “American accent on World Cup slopes: US skiers live up to ‘Best in the World’ slogan”. In this news article it talks about how America’s ski team has been called the best in the world. Since the Turin Olympics we have lost that slogan. Yet with Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn they are trying to bring it back.
Bode Miller says,“It is cool to see us take those globes away from the Europeans once in a while,”
It is hard for the American professional skiers because they spend six months of the year over seas.
“To go on the road and sacrifice everything else in your life to purse a sport that you love, you need a family that supports you, and that family turns out to be your team, and then you can shine as an individual within that environment,” says Mc Nichol.
This year in Europe their skiers have been crashing. So hopefully American skiers will do good in next coming years.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/NEWS/802250308/1001 Jumping rope for health, brains Candalaria club mixes academics with exercise in after-school program BY ANN ANDREWS This article is about an after school jump rope club for 3rd graders and how they are proud of what they do by learing new skills. "Seeing the student's enthusiasm and motivation has been worth the effort, Bartruff said. "The kids are moving and they are having fun. They are just so happy." "
Men's Table Tennis World Championships before the 2008 Beijing Olympics outpost in the final climb of the Great Wall of China do not heomulji high walls leaves a mere runner-up.
Men's team, led by Director seosanggil two tournaments held in Guangzhou, China and Ryu Seung-min in the final jusehyeok Team (Samsung Life), but had yijeongwoo afterlife (Nongshim samdasu), 0-3 to China in the knee Thursday.
The two times in a row since 2006 at Bremen in the final climb at all satisfied with the silver medal. Bremen tournament two years ago when the United States became the first man to play in the finals 0-3 to China as successful, but the runner-up wanpaehae.
But Beijing Olympic team for the first time for five months before being introduced to the world stage, a test-digit second Olympic medal hunt expect to have a defender.
On the other hand, China is the last private. Integrated team championship since the tournament was the fourth consecutive title in Osaka in 2001, and his world-class team and women's 3-1 victory in Singapore to make a difference in achievements, including eight straight dominating win namnyeobu.
Heat 5 wins in the quarterfinals and then jikhaenghae Germany and Japan beat South Korea 3-1 in the final of building China met impregnable stronghold.
Korea has one ace in the game Yoo deployed teams advancing to the salty naseoteuna `Yo (Cheer) 'enthusiastic cheers of the home fans to yell federal karma, and the momentum of China nulryeotda.
Yoo (world No. 8) in the first game against 11 wins and 1 loss is overwhelming superiority jeomhan `nemesis' Marin (second world). Yoo said the Marine Jinx 'escape noryeotjiman to finish 1-3 (5-11 12-10 6-11 5-11) gobae heard.
Yoo first set is a lot of tension right hand penholdeo due to a 1-4 lead and lost, allowing kkeulryeogan end of the set. Ryu Seung-min in the second set contains the powerful fore-hand drive is a sharp walked three in the 9-10 attacks created Deuce 11-10 after a strong serve to drive the ball diagonally into 3 gujjae turned back to the game.
But if the Marine is using a fast attack tabeop Come to the third set, Yoo took the momentum into the fourth set wins out of the chase to finish 11-5 ahead.
2 minutes before the game, but also took yijeongwoo wangha Oh choegangja world's highest wall.
Fast attack on the first set of left-handed penholdeo yijeongwoo wangha rise bully 11-7 victory, but the second set Deuce initiative to create a skilled and oh wangha game 12-14 to hand it ahswi was involved in some operations. Wangha momentum coming into the third and fourth set, and staged a dramatic reversal, and wins the game 3-1 and made the score 2-0.
Hyuk Korea is desperate to know at the end of the cliff three straight game-winning two world championships, but he used the `Lord of table tennis' 3-0 victory wangrichinege heonnap and crumbled. South Korea also flew the first championship dreams.
Meanwhile, the United States women place team is 11-12, and he dismissed 3-0 record and finished in the top 11 bad.
North Korea has also failed to advance to the final 16 Men 24 Women 13 geuchyeotgo rivers compete on more than one division championship division ahraein `2 'in the final by defeating Ukraine, 3-0 victory.
"The Indianapolis star is reporting a 3-year-old girl nearly drowned in a bathtub as the girl’s mother was distracted by American Idol. Indianapolis police say a mother of five was watching “American Idol” while her 3-year-old girl nearly drowned in a bathtub last week. The 25 year-old-mother, Sheila R. Brooks, has yet to be charged in the incident that occurred last Thursday (Feb 28). The infant was left in a tub with her younger sister as the mother allegedly went for clothes and was distracted by ‘American Idol.’" This story is significant because it shows the importance of learning how to swim, and the importance of responsibility for your children; leaving your child unattended in the bathtub is not the least bit responsible.
Attempts were made to resuscitate the woman diver A woman has died after scuba diving off the south Devon coast. Police say the 44-year-old woman, who was from Somerset, died on Friday afternoon. The dive vessel Interconnect was four miles off Hope's Nose, near Torquay, when it radioed Brixham Coastguards to say an unconscious diver had surfaced. Teignmouth and Torbay Coastguards and the Coastguard Rescue helicopter were called out.
Attempts were made to resuscitate the diver before she was airlifted to Torbay Hospital, but she was dead on arrival. A post-mortem examination is to be carried out to find out why the woman died. A police spokesman said: "She was an experienced diver. She had been diving to a depth of about 20 metres."
Back in late january Sean White, arguably one of snowboarding's most popular riders, won Men's superpipe in Aspen, Colorado in the 2008 winter X-games. His finishing run was flawless, a combo of style and finess like never seen before.This was his third consecutive gold in superpipe at the x-games. His crowd wowing 1260 spin was the trick that put the cherry on the sunday. After he landed it he knew that he he was guaranteed the most altitude on the podium.
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The 79th Dong-A Seoul International marathon was a very good one this year. Sammy Korir, of Kenya, won the race. His time was the best since April of 2006, and it was the fourth fastest of his career. His time was 2:07:32, very fast, considering he is 36 years old. The odds were against him, the entire pack of the men had stayed together until the 25 kilometer mark. However, Sammy Korir prevailed and won, with a sprint finish. The winner in the wormen's category was a Chinese runner named, Zhang Shujing. She had finished the race in 2:26:11. The race between the women here was decided much earlier than the men, and Zhang Shujing had gave her best time in five years to win it.
Jessica Morrow from Belfast's Kiryoku Karate Club has made her instructors proud by bringing home the gold from this year's WIKF British National Championships.
Although not her first UK title, this is Jessica’s first gold in senior ladies kata at national level. She also helped win a second consecutive team gold.
This has already been a big year for the 19-year-old as she was awarded her 1st Dan black belt by Sensei Tatsuo Suzuki (8th Dan) in February, as well as successfully defending the Northern Ireland title that she has held for four years.
She says, "I’m very proud of what I have achieved, but I could never have done it without my instructor".
With another title under her belt, Jessica is now looking ahead to the WIKF World Championships to be held in Portugal this July, and she hopes to soon become an assistant instructor at her club.
http://www.afda.com/trashtalk/showarticle.php?articleid=515
According to this article australian Ultimate Federation will be hosting a 24 hour Ultimate Frisbee party for charity. They plan to donate all of the money to the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Unit. Why are they doing this? They thought that it would be a fun and creative way to raise money for the Kids at the hospital. The party consists of food, tents and lots and lots of ultimate frisbee. Apperently this has already been done in other parts of the world but this will be the first time Australia will participate.
Muntain biker Fred Bull is the icest person you will probably ever meet. In 2002, he had a benign tumor removed from his head. The doctors told him he'd be fine. But he wasn't. Later on, he was found to have cancer in his head, and this too was removed. But it didn't go away. Two years ago, he was given 2-5 years to live. The cancer is terminal. It is very unfortunate that such a nice person would battle something so aweful. Although this doesn't drastically affect the sport, I think it will inspire many to go out and ride in his honor.
Posted: 2008-02-01 10:43:22
CLEARWATER, Fla. (Feb. 1) - A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?
Leo Fiyalko couldn't see it, but his golf buddies did - a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club.
Fiyalko is 92 and has macular degeneration. He's been golfing for 60 years, but his 110-yard shot with a five iron on Jan. 10 was his first hole-in-one.
"I was just trying to put the ball on the green," Fiyalko said.
Fiyalko tees off every Thursday with a group of golfers ranging in age from 70 to 90-plus. He used to have a seven handicap, but now he needs help lining up his shots and finding his golf balls because he only has peripheral vision in his right eye.
Jean Gehring was playing in his foursome and watched Fiyalko's swing.
"I could tell it went on the green, (but) when we got up there I didn't see it. I looked in the hole and there it was," Gehring said.
Gehring said Fiyalko brushed off the feat, and had to be prodded to tell his wife about it at the end of the round.
The article I found on skiing is called, “American accent on World Cup slopes: US skiers live up to ‘Best in the World’ slogan”. In this news article it talks about how America’s ski team has been called the best in the world. Since the Turin Olympics we have lost that slogan. Yet with Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn they are trying to bring it back.
Bode Miller says,“It is cool to see us take those globes away from the Europeans once in a while,”
It is hard for the American professional skiers because they spend six months of the year over seas.
“To go on the road and sacrifice everything else in your life to purse a sport that you love, you need a family that supports you, and that family turns out to be your team, and then you can shine as an individual within that environment,” says Mc Nichol.
This year in Europe their skiers have been crashing. So hopefully American skiers will do good in next coming years.
http://search.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=skiing&id=3296507
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/NEWS/802250308/1001
Jumping rope for health, brains
Candalaria club mixes academics with exercise in after-school program
BY ANN ANDREWS
This article is about an after school jump rope club for 3rd graders and how they are proud of what they do by learing new skills.
"Seeing the student's enthusiasm and motivation has been worth the effort, Bartruff said. "The kids are moving and they are having fun. They are just so happy." "
Men's Table Tennis World Championships before the 2008 Beijing Olympics outpost in the final climb of the Great Wall of China do not heomulji high walls leaves a mere runner-up.
Men's team, led by Director seosanggil two tournaments held in Guangzhou, China and Ryu Seung-min in the final jusehyeok Team (Samsung Life), but had yijeongwoo afterlife (Nongshim samdasu), 0-3 to China in the knee Thursday.
The two times in a row since 2006 at Bremen in the final climb at all satisfied with the silver medal. Bremen tournament two years ago when the United States became the first man to play in the finals 0-3 to China as successful, but the runner-up wanpaehae.
But Beijing Olympic team for the first time for five months before being introduced to the world stage, a test-digit second Olympic medal hunt expect to have a defender.
On the other hand, China is the last private. Integrated team championship since the tournament was the fourth consecutive title in Osaka in 2001, and his world-class team and women's 3-1 victory in Singapore to make a difference in achievements, including eight straight dominating win namnyeobu.
Heat 5 wins in the quarterfinals and then jikhaenghae Germany and Japan beat South Korea 3-1 in the final of building China met impregnable stronghold.
Korea has one ace in the game Yoo deployed teams advancing to the salty naseoteuna `Yo (Cheer) 'enthusiastic cheers of the home fans to yell federal karma, and the momentum of China nulryeotda.
Yoo (world No. 8) in the first game against 11 wins and 1 loss is overwhelming superiority jeomhan `nemesis' Marin (second world). Yoo said the Marine Jinx 'escape noryeotjiman to finish 1-3 (5-11 12-10 6-11 5-11) gobae heard.
Yoo first set is a lot of tension right hand penholdeo due to a 1-4 lead and lost, allowing kkeulryeogan end of the set.
Ryu Seung-min in the second set contains the powerful fore-hand drive is a sharp walked three in the 9-10 attacks created Deuce 11-10 after a strong serve to drive the ball diagonally into 3 gujjae turned back to the game.
But if the Marine is using a fast attack tabeop Come to the third set, Yoo took the momentum into the fourth set wins out of the chase to finish 11-5 ahead.
2 minutes before the game, but also took yijeongwoo wangha Oh choegangja world's highest wall.
Fast attack on the first set of left-handed penholdeo yijeongwoo wangha rise bully 11-7 victory, but the second set Deuce initiative to create a skilled and oh wangha game 12-14 to hand it ahswi was involved in some operations. Wangha momentum coming into the third and fourth set, and staged a dramatic reversal, and wins the game 3-1 and made the score 2-0.
Hyuk Korea is desperate to know at the end of the cliff three straight game-winning two world championships, but he used the `Lord of table tennis' 3-0 victory wangrichinege heonnap and crumbled. South Korea also flew the first championship dreams.
Meanwhile, the United States women place team is 11-12, and he dismissed 3-0 record and finished in the top 11 bad.
North Korea has also failed to advance to the final 16 Men 24 Women 13 geuchyeotgo rivers compete on more than one division championship division ahraein `2 'in the final by defeating Ukraine, 3-0 victory.
"The Indianapolis star is reporting a 3-year-old girl nearly drowned in a bathtub as the girl’s mother was distracted by American Idol.
Indianapolis police say a mother of five was watching “American Idol” while her 3-year-old girl nearly drowned in a bathtub last week.
The 25 year-old-mother, Sheila R. Brooks, has yet to be charged in the incident that occurred last Thursday (Feb 28). The infant was left in a tub with her younger sister as the mother allegedly went for clothes and was distracted by ‘American Idol.’"
This story is significant because it shows the importance of learning how to swim, and the importance of responsibility for your children; leaving your child unattended in the bathtub is not the least bit responsible.
Woman scuba diver dies
Attempts were made to resuscitate the woman diver
A woman has died after scuba diving off the south Devon coast.
Police say the 44-year-old woman, who was from Somerset, died on Friday afternoon.
The dive vessel Interconnect was four miles off Hope's Nose, near Torquay, when it radioed Brixham Coastguards to say an unconscious diver had surfaced.
Teignmouth and Torbay Coastguards and the Coastguard Rescue helicopter were called out.
Attempts were made to resuscitate the diver before she was airlifted to Torbay Hospital, but she was dead on arrival.
A post-mortem examination is to be carried out to find out why the woman died.
A police spokesman said: "She was an experienced diver. She had been diving to a depth of about 20 metres."
and i posted the one i was missing. the Etiquette & Equipment one.
Back in late january Sean White, arguably one of snowboarding's most popular riders, won Men's superpipe in Aspen, Colorado in the 2008 winter X-games. His finishing run was flawless, a combo of style and finess like never seen before.This was his third consecutive gold in superpipe at the x-games. His crowd wowing 1260 spin was the trick that put the cherry on the sunday. After he landed it he knew that he he was guaranteed the most altitude on the podium.
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