Boxers from Tonga are training in Liverpool as they prepare to take part in Olympic Games qualifiers.
Hunt told CNN that guidelines for the Association of Boxing Commissions are similar to the International Olympic Committee's policy that allows transsexuals to compete in Olympic games.
She lobbied successfully to have the discipline included in the Olympic Games, to debut in Sochi, Russia.
Consider his evolution: At 15, Phelps competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, placing fifth in the 200-meter butterfly.
The winners in the 2012 Olympic Games in London have a light, calm, and clear look about them, while the also-rans seem to be grinding and pushing.
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The Rugby World Cup is being held in England in 2015, and the following year the sevens shortened version of the game makes its introduction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The 31-year-old has finished fifth in two Olympic Games at 2000 and 2008 - including when Usain Bolt broke Michael Johnson's world record in Beijing - plus fifth at the 2001 World Championships and fourth at the 2002 European Championships.
Still, the incidents of piracy may not have been as rampant as in past Olympic Games.
Its low tally of medals in the Olympic Games puts practically all other countries to shame.
That would make her 14 -- too young to compete in the Olympic Games.
The prize: to take part in the Olympic games, as the coxswain or "cox" for the eight-person rowing team.
He made history in London last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.
The difference between the gold medal and no metal at all in the Olympic games is often a matter of a split second.
He points to skaters Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen becoming household names and prominent public relations properties after having appeared in several Olympic games.
"They've come clean, they've disqualified them straightaway, they've done the good thing, because sports like badminton rely on being in the Olympic Games, " he said.
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David Bowie, The Sex Pistols and The Rolling Stones all reportedly turned down the chance to appear in the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, according to The Guardian.
Meanwhile, the WNBA was in the midst of its 16th season when the league took an extended break allowing players and coaches to participate in the Olympic Games.
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In the Olympic Games just concluded, one of the horses competing on the U.S. equestrian team, Poggio II, had worked as a draft horse in his prior life.
Pistorius made history in London last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, propelling him to the status of an athletics superstar.
Mexican gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas used the arrangement for her Olympics routine, quite possibly marking the first time a video game soundtrack has been used in the Olympic games.
"There are so many athletes who are unknown but perhaps their names would have been known a lot better if they had been in the Olympic Games and competed for gold medals, " say Caraccioli.
The exemption covers those athletes who are visiting the UK in order to compete in the Olympic Games and a limited number of people who are visiting the UK to work on Games-related activity.
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Madrid's bid raises another question: After London which was selected to host the 2012 Olympics before the current crisis how will austerity programs sweeping Europe affect the Continent's role in hosting Olympic Games and other big events?
But wrestling officials are hoping to show the IOC and the world that a sport which can bring three such powerful but often clashing nations together is one worthy of a spot in the Olympic Games.
"There's never been an athlete whose been as well-positioned to leverage his success in the Olympic games as Michael Phelps, " says Howard Bloom, who teach sports management at Ottawa's Algonquin College and has worked with several Olympic athletes.
Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, coach, trainer or official who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.
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At London 2012, he made history by becoming the first double amputee to run in an Olympic Games, progressing to the semi-finals of the 400m, Just a few weeks later, he added two more Paralympic golds to his growing list of accolades.
Whatever the case, in eliminating wrestling, the International Olympic Committee has steered up a hornets nest of supporters who are seemingly ready to do anything in their power to make sure that their beloved sport continues its long and storied tradition in the Olympic games.
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On Friday, the three-time heavyweight champion, whose name became synonymous with the phrases "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and "I am the Greatest, " made another memorable appearance late Friday during a spectacular opening ceremony ushering in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
He was a left-handed pitcher with no right hand who threw a no-hitter for the New York Yankees. (Jim Abbott.) He ran in the Olympic Games on prosthetic legs. (Oscar Pistorius.) She sprinted to an Olympic gold even though they once nearly amputated her feet. (Gail Devers.) You can't make up stories like those.
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