The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.
I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.
Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.
I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.'
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.
