Olympics Track and Field

This can be very opinionated, but the half mile is very difficult. It is both a distance and sprint event. It is very tiring because it is a very high octane race that lasts for a while.

Usain Bolt broke the 100m world record 3 times and the 200m world record 2 times. He first broke the 100m record May 31, 2008. He rebroke it August 16, 2008 and August 16, 2009. He first broke the 200m world record August 20, 2008. He rebroke the 200m world record August 20, 2009.

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Middle distance runner Steve Cram of Great Britain won one Olympic medal, a silver in men's 1,500 meter run at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was coached by her husband, Bob Kersee.

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The Mexican record holder at 100 metres is Carlos Villasenor Garcia. Perhaps better remembered is 400 metres world championship medalist Alejandro Cardenas, but he is better as a long sprinter.

Nino Fennoy, Jackie's high school coach, was a major influence on her life.

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NAME: Wilma Glodean Rudolph

BIRTHDATE: June 23, 1940

BIRTHPLACE: Clarksville, Tennessee

EDUCATION: At first, Wilma was tutored at home by her family because she was crippled. She first began school at the age of seven. In 1947, the schools of the Southern states were segregated -- black students and white students had to attend separate schools. Even though blacks had to pay the same taxes as whites, the schools for black students were usually poorly funded, so they were less likely to have adequate books, teachers, classrooms, or equipment.

In junior high, Wilma followed her older sister Yolanda's example and joined the basketball team. The coach, Clinton Gray, didn't put her in a single game for three years. Finally, in her sophomore year, she became the starting guard. During the state basketball tournament, she was spotted by Ed Temple, the coach for the famous Tigerbells, the women's track team at Tennessee State University. Because Burt High School didn't have the funding for a track team, coach Temple invited Wilma to Tennessee State for a summer sports camp.

After graduating from high school, Wilma received a full scholarship to Tennessee State. Because of all the celebrity she received from her track career, she took a year off from her studies to make appearances and compete in international track events. She returned and received a Bachelor's degree in education, graduating in 1963.

FAMILY BACKGROUND: Wilma Rudolph was born into a large family -- she was the 20th of 22 children! Her parents, Ed and Blanche Rudolph, were honest, hardworking people, but were very poor. Mr. Rudolph worked as a railroad porter and handyman. Mrs. Rudolph did cooking, laundry and housecleaning for wealthy white families.

In 1940 millions of Americans were poor -- our of work and homeless because of the Great Depression. The Rudolphs managed to make ends meet by doing things like making the girls' dresses out of flour sacks.

Wilma was born prematurely and weighed only 4.5 pounds. Again, because of racial segregation, she and her mother were not permitted to be cared for at the local hospital. It was for whites only. There was only one black doctor in Clarksville, and the Rudolph's budget was tight, so Wilma's mother spent the next several years nursing Wilma through one illness after another: measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox and double pneumonia. But, she had to be taken to the doctor when it was discovered that her left leg and foot were becoming weak and deformed. She was told she had polio, a crippling disease that had no cure. The doctor told Mrs. Rudolph that Wilma would never walk. But Mrs. Rudolph would not give up on Wilma. She found out that she could be treated at Meharry Hospital, the black medical college of Fisk University in Nashville. Even though it was 50 miles away, Wilma's mother took her there twice a week for two years, until she was able to walk with the aid of a metal leg brace. Then the doctors taught Mrs. Rudolph how to do the physical therapy exercises at home. All of her brothers and sisters helped too, and they did everything to encourage her to be strong and work hard at getting well. Finally, by age 12, she could walk normally, without the crutches, brace, or corrective shoes. It was then that she decided to become an athlete.

In 1963, Wilma married her high school sweetheart, Robert Eldridge, with whom she had four children: Yolanda (1958), Djuanna (1964), Robert Jr. (1965), and Xurry (1971). They later divorced.

DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Wilma Rudolph's life is a story of achieving against the odds. Her first accomplishments were to stay alive and get well!

In high school, she became a basketball star first, who set state records for scoring and led her team to a state championship. Then she became a track star, going to her first Olympic Games in 1956 at the age of 16. She won a bronze medal in the 4x4 relay.

On September 7th, 1960, in Rome, Wilma became the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics. She won the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and ran the anchor on the 400-meter relay team.

This achievement led her to become one of the most celebrated female athletes of all time. In addition, her celebrity caused gender barriers to be broken in previously all-male track and field events.

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Seed times: coaches write down the time they think you'll run in a specific event (or your most recent or fastest time) so the officials know what position to start you in. Person with the best seed time is in the innermost lane, the slowest in the outer lanes. The seed times allow the officials to gauge who will probably win. That's how heats come in. If there are many athletes listed for an event, sometimes they will be broken up into two or three heats so they are not all racing at the same time. People with faster seeds are in the first heat and so on. However, if you are in a worse-seeded heat than 1 and you beat the time of someone in heat 1, it counts.

Soccer and bowling are two sports that Jackie Joyner Kersee never competed in.

Yes. In the womens 100m, the Jamaicans won a gold metal and two silver metals, because the two runners tied for second.

21 running events at the morden Olympics

9.69 seconds by Usain Bolt of Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

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JJK is very much alive and is living her life to the fullest. I think you might have her mixed up with her sister-in-law Florence Griffth-Joyner, who died in '98.

Go here for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith-Joyner

You can, it's just a bit of a difficult process which isn't too commonly used, not to my knowledge anyway

Peak-speed, 43,9 kph by Bolt

100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4x100 meter relay.

Some world records broken at the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne were ...

Swimming -

1) Jon Hendricks of Australia in men's 100 meter freestyle at 55.4 seconds.

2) Australia in men's 4x200 meter freestyle relay at 8:23.6.

3) Murray Rose of Australia in men's 400 meter freestyle at 4:27.3.

4) David Theile of Australia in men's 100 meter backstroke at 1:02.2.

5) Dawn Fraser of Australia in women's 100 meter freestyle at 1:02.0.

6) Australia in women's 4x100 meter freestyle relay at 4:17.1.

7) Judity Grinham of Great Britain and Carin Cone of the United States in women's 100 meter backstroke at 1:12.9.

Athletics -

1) Egil Danielson of Norway in men's javelin at 85.71 meters (281 feet, 2 1/2 inches).

2) Millie McDaniel of the United States in women's high jump at 1.76 meters (5 feet, 9 1/4 inches).

Weightlifting -

1) Chuck Vinci of the United States in men's bantamweight (56 kg/123 lbs) at 342.5 K (755.1 lbs).

2) Ike Berger of the United States in men's featherweight (60 kg/132 lbs) at 352.5 K (777.1 lbs).

3) Fyodor Bogdanovsky of the Soviet Union in men's middleweight (75 kg/165 lbs) at 420.0 K (925.9 lbs).

4) Tommy Kong of the United States in men's light-heavyweight (82.5 kg/181 lbs) at 447.5 K (986.6 lbs).

5) Arkady Vorobyov of the Soviet Union in men's middle-heavyweight (90 kg/198 lbs) at 462.5 K (1019.6 lbs).

He has not been stripped of any medals in which he won individually. He has, however, been stripped of his 1999 world and 2000 olympic gold medal because on Antonio Pettigrew taking performance enhancing drugs. Alongside that Jerome Young was also taking performance enhancing drugs. But that 100% messed up. Your whole team suffers (Marion Jones is another example alongside Pettigrew). You could probably put Angelo Taylor in place of Pettigrew and the U.S. would still win.