Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin has won four national all-around titles and nine World Championship medals. A leader of the US team since 2005, Nastia Liukin is the 2008 Olympic All-Around Champion. Find her bio and photogallery here.

Usain Bolt 100m

Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter, broke the world record as he blitzed his rivals to claim the Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters final in Beijing.

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Jamaica. Bolt holds the Olympic and world records for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds, the 200 metres at 19.30 seconds and, along with his teammates, the 4×100 metres relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bolt became the first man to win all three events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man in history to set world records in all three at a single Olympics. His name and achievements in sprinting have earned him the media nickname “Lightning Bolt”.

History of the Olympic Games

This is the history of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event. The original Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were held until AD 393. Interest in reviving the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem “Dialogue of the Dead” in 1833. Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathenian Stadium for Olympic Games held there in 1870 and 1875.

Michael Phelps Girlfriend

Michael Phelps Girlfriend. His connections to fellow gold medalist Amanda Beard and British model Lily Donaldson. But the question of Michael Phelps’ girlfriend may have been put to rest after the swimmer was spotted making out in Beijing with Australian swimming sensation Stephanie Rice. But what about Amanda Beard or Lily Donaldson?