The event in question is conducted in a 25-yard pool, a non-Olympic course not contested on the international stage.
On home soil in August, for the first time, the Hyde Park triathlon will be run over the full Olympic course.
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After the Cadillac Championship, the Blue Monster will be shut down for six-to-eight months for a renovation led by golf course architect, Gil Hanse, the man chosen to design the 2016 Olympic course in Rio de Janeiro.
The Boat Race is unique because it takes place over a course that not only twists and turns - unlike the 2, 000m Olympic course - but does so on tidal water, where the pace of the stream varies, and conditions are never the same from one day to the next.
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Christie was unwittingly put on his course to Olympic glory by his grandmother.
Now of course the Olympic sponsorship is a huge business.
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Actually, the comment came from a beaming Mike Davis, the U.S. Golf Association's executive director and the brains behind how the Lake Course at Olympic Club was set up for the Open.
If it does, it will not have been because of any Olympic-related change of course.
Cancellara, the defending Olympic champion, remained on the course, and only after the Swiss veteran finished in seventh place did Wiggins dare accept a congratulations.
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Too young to compete at Athens in 2004, Ennis was on course to make her Olympic debut in China in 2008, until a foot injury forced her to withdraw.
You've likely heard of Vonn and Ligety, as well as three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso and, of course, Bode Miller, the winner of 33 World Cup races.
Of course there are limitations to the Olympic soft power paradigm.
Under a deal struck in 2005, Locog booked around 600, 000 room nights in London during the course of the games, for Olympic officials, media and others.
Of course it helps to be an Olympic hero.
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Of course, because a Belorussian won the Olympic women's 100 meters in 2004, this would be my hope.
Sun dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far, including Congressional, Bethpage Black, Olympic Club, Pinehurst No. 8, the Old Course at St.
It was even better when Mr Cameron appeared to respond in kind with a slight on Salt Lake City by saying "of course it is easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere".
"As it marks the return of golf to the Olympic Games after over a century of absence, this course represents the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the sport, " said Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the president of the Rio organizing committee.
The two-time Olympic 10, 000m champion was unable to threaten the 2005 course record of 59 minutes 05 seconds.
The difficult, undulating course will be used in next year's Olympic Games.
The most famous resort town here is, of course, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which hosted the 1936 Olympic Games and is popular with the international set.
Of course, many rival swimmers are enthralled to swim against an Olympic star.
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Elsewhere, sprint king Usain Bolt produced an effortless run to coast into the men's 200m final and remain on course to claim a world sprint double to add to his Olympic sprint double from Beijing.
Unlike many former Olympic sports complexes, which wind up as half-empty hulks, the course could have a popular afterlife.
When Olympic marathoner Kara Goucher was deciding whether to run the race, she previewed the course from the lead truck in 2007.
He is forgoing Ironman races to focus on short course racing again in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (an Olympic distance triathlon is about one-quarter the distance of an Ironman).
The land is heavily covered with mature Douglas firs and maple trees, and rolls across the base of a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, with a total onsite elevation change of nearly 600 feet, again huge by golf course standards.
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