The pair faces stiff opposition from another Essex sailor, Saskia Clark and her sailing partner, Sarah Ayton for the one British Olympic 470 class entry at 2012 Olympics.
Anthony has won the conference's last two player of the week awards and seems likely to end LeBron James' season-long run as East player of the month, but only a title will get Anthony into his Olympic teammate's class.
As a possible solution, experts have long pined for more temporary facilities that could serve the purpose of the games just fine, only to be given the thumbs down by an International Olympic Committee that equates world-class games with world-class facilities.
I, for one, have no interest in hurling down a mountain at speeds in excess of 90 miles-per-hour after having a couple pops, so it comes as something of a surprise to discover that some Olympic skiers are also world-class booze-hounds.
Mr Simpson represented Great Britain at two Olympic Games, sailing in the Star class alongside Iain Percy, his Artemis team boss.
It would be like a double Fifa World Cup and Olympics because, apart from the main venue for the Games, Kenya would have to build at least six world-class stadiums to host the Olympic football matches alone.
"Scotland has a growing reputation for staging successful world-class events and securing the 2018 Youth Olympic Games would be a fantastic opportunity to build on the experience and skills developed through delivering an outstanding Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014, " he said.
Because of his prior career as a world-class track rider, Wiggins has seven Olympic medals total, the most in U.K. history, surpassing the six won by the rower Sir Steven Redgrave, who carried the Olympic torch into the opening ceremony last week.
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Dempsey won bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the RS:X class, and silver in Tuesday's Olympic windsurfing final in Weymouth.
Mr. Simpson and his partner Iain Percy won an Olympic gold medal for England in 2008 in the Star class of sailing.
Thus was born the Onitsuka Tiger, which was worn by the Japanese Olympic basketball team in 1956 and generations of Japanese gym class students.
"I was approached by GBR Challenge but nothing much looked to be happening, " said the Olympic champion, tipped for gold at Athens in the Finn class.
"We understand the responsibilities that come with calling the nation's iconic Olympic Stadium, which will be converted into a world-class football stadium, our new home, " West Ham joint chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold said in a statement.
The chairman of the ODA John Armitt said the velodrome would be a "world-class cycling venue with a record-breaking track for events in 2012 and the legacy of first-class facilities to help create the next generation of Olympic champions".
Paul Callahan won the Olympic trails this past weekend and will represent the USA in the Paralympic Sonar class in the UK this upcoming summer.
It was the only truly world-class event the Games offered, with India midway through a hot streak of Olympic victories that was to stretch from the Amsterdam Games of 1928 to the Melbourne Games of 1956.
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