Bobby Kersee continues to coach Olympic-caliber athletes, including Dawn Harper, who today won silver in the 100 meter hurdles race, after winning gold in that event in Beijing in 2008, and Allyson Felix, who ran 5th in the 100-meter sprint in London and will compete in the finals of the 200-meter race, her best event, tomorrow.
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While the U.S. men may have lost a step in the sprints, that didn't stop Aries Merritt from taking perhaps the most hotly contested event in the Olympics, the 110-meter hurdles, in a personal-best 12.92.
In Olympic Stadium, meanwhile, America's top female sprinters outpaced their Jamaican competitors to earn gold in the prestigious 4 x 100-meter relay -- though their long dominant countrymen fell just short in the 4 X 400-meter men's race.
Dana Vollmer, the first woman in history to swim the 100-meter butterfly in under 56 seconds took Gold at the London Olympics.
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Swimmer Rebecca Adlington grabbed two bronze medals in the 400-meter and 800-meter events, but she had won gold in those events four years previously and was favored for repeat victories.
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She won the 100-meter hurdles and 200-meter sprint, with at time in the hurdles that equaled the gold-medal time in the individual event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
James (Jim) Foster, an animal breeder, has 187, 500 furry creatures in just one of his kennels, a half-filled 6, 000-square-meter building in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Or kids can be taken off parents' hands by capable babysitters, to frolic in the 15-meter pool or take part in nature walks, play board games or draw in a leather-bound blank book provided by the lodge, with complimentary crayons.
Its a 100-square-meter plant, based in a paper-pulp factory near Oslo Fjord and is expected to generate up to four kilowatts of power.
When Gilbert Johnson retired as the head of a microwave communications company near San Francisco, California, four years ago, he and his wife, Donna, planned to cruise the Panama Canal in their 17-meter motorboat and settle in Annapolis, Maryland.
Just 1% of smart meter-equipped homes in California have such programs, according to the California PUC.
Phelps finished the 200-meter medley in 1:54.27, just off his Olympic record of 1:54.23 set in Beijing.
The other half: He runs a truly virtual company, mostly from his 18-meter sailboat in San Francisco Bay.
For sheer excitement, nothing beats being aboard a 19-meter in a blow.
While he failed to win a medal there, he smashed a record to win the men's 400-meter race in the Paralympic Games a few weeks later.
HARPS, which sits on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope in Chile, allows researchers to detect the tiny gravitational wobbles that orbiting planets induce in their parent stars.
On the fifth of this month, the Wangcheng district government signed a contract with Broad Group, a local firm, which promised to put up the 838-meter tower in seven months.
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The time it took Bob Hayes, who died this fall at the too-young age of 59, to cover 100 meters during his anchor leg of the 400-meter relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Dr. Grokhovsky said the search was hampered by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 8-meter-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk of the meteor was believed to have fallen.
You won't find any "Get Shorty" memos coming out of the 5, 000-square-meter trading floor in the old Innova merchandise mart in Houston, Texas--or any round-trip swaps to inflate revenues.
The Chinese should collect three medals from the shooting range this weekend to go along with Yang's medal in swimming, a near-automatic gold in women's three-meter synchronized diving, as well as two of the three gold medals that will be awarded in weightlifting.
At the London 2012 Olympics, Lopez competed once again in the 5, 000-meter event and finished in 10th place.
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Napcabs are 4-square-meter, self-service booths operating in Terminal two of Munich Airport.
The 20-year-old Agnel, just a day after swimming an amazing anchor leg in leading France to victory in the men's 4x100 meter free style relay, routed the field in the 200-meter freestyle.
More than 2, 000 people, or about 10% of the population, died in the 15-meter waves that swallowed the city in Iwate Prefecture.
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Mr. Siegel got his first high-profile test during the U.S. track and field trials in late June when Jeneba Tarmoh finished third in the 100-meter sprint but was later declared in a dead heat with Allyson Felix.
At the beginning, they produced athletic wear, likely inspired by Missoni himself, who had been a track-and-field star specializing in 400-meter relays and hurdles.
He finished sixth in the 400-meter final at the South African championships in 2005 and this summer was named to South Africa's Olympic team.
The 6-foot-2, 220 pounder with sprinter's speed he was an all-American in the 400-meter hurdles grabbed plenty of headlines and attention with that first Friday performance against the Horned Frogs and ended the first month of the season with more touchdown passes than incompletions.
Steve Furniss, bronze medalist in the men's 200-meter individual medley swimming event in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, went on to make swimsuits for champions.
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