Deanna Molinaro was skeptical when she was invited to one of Harrell's gold parties this summer.
Two of his proteges - Aled Sion Davies and Josie Pearson - won gold at last summer's Paralympics.
U.S. shot-putter Adam Nelson, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, is willing to try anything legal to win gold at this summer's games in Beijing.
Meanwhile, analysts also say gold has formed some correlation with the stock market lately, a turnabout from late summer when gold drew safe-haven demand when stocks tumbled on the European crisis.
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When gold prices rallied in the late summer into early fall, the gold-mining stock ETFs outperformed the gold price, but when gold prices fell, the miner ETFs underperformed, said Christian Magoon, chief executive officer of Magoon Capital, who tracks performance of ETFs, particularly gold ETFs.
As with all GB gold medal winners from this summer's London Paralympics and Olympics she had a post box in her home town painted gold, becoming the first Paralympian to be honoured by Royal Mail after she won the Women's C5 Pursuit.
Several participants look for prices to be in a range, partially because gold is entering its summer doldrums time.
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The black box investment strategy over at ClearStream has been as volatile as the markets, with the investment model moving quickly in and out of the big emerging market ETFs, gold and oil all summer.
She won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and silver in 2008.
He expects gold to rebound strongly this summer and possibly into new highs.
He retired from professional squash last summer after winning gold medals in both singles and doubles at the Commonwealth Games.
From their summer lows, gold, silver and equities have boasted double-digit gains.
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Chris Boardman won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times.
After a fourth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Dobriskey was only a hundredth of a second away from gold at the Worlds last summer.
Mr Boardman, who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times, said he hoped Martyn's victory would change that situation.
Wrestler Rulon Gardner has faced enough obstacles to last a lifetime since his gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics when he defeated Russian Alexander Karelin, who had not lost for 13 years.
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Lot of people were counting on him to get two or more gold medals in Beijing this summer, but now suddenly some young Jamaicans are running very, very fast, so he's going to have to put some good marks on the track in Oregon to let everyone know he's on top of his game.
She remained a force on the tour into the early 1990s, highlighted by a gold medal win at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
They'll try for their first Olympic gold medal, together, next summer.
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However, he added, after the summer winds down, gold prices could rally sharply, which has been the pattern for the metal since 2001, except for 2008.
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From early 2008 to the summer of 2009, gold formed a massive reverse head and shoulders pattern that signaled to me that a future spike in prices was on the horizon.
Vlasic was the only athlete to clear 2.04m for a victory that goes some way to making up for the disappointment of missing out on gold at the Beijing Olympics last summer.
Murray had captured not the usual trophy, but a gold medal, in a London Summer Olympics, held on the most prestigious court in the game, before thousands of homeland maniacs shouting his name.
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Some have said a stand-off would lead to further safe-haven buying of the metal, as occurred during a protracted dispute on how to deal with other fiscal measures late in the summer of 2011 when gold ran to its record high.
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Indeed, the Dow Jones index has outpaced the gold price by 25% since last summer.
Comiskey anticipates safe-haven buying, recounting that when there was a stalemate during the debt-ceiling debate in late summer 2011, Treasury securities and gold rose.
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Samsung says it will offer an 18-carat gold phone especially for the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
Team captain Jenny Meadows, bronze medallist at the World Championships last summer, will be going for 800m gold on Sunday.
In a nutshell, the 2, 000 women bloggers who gathered this summer in New York City are a gold mine for brands.
Recent reports are saying that there has been less physical demand for gold, due to seasonal weaker demand during the summer months.
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