What are the best London 2012 Summer Olympics photos?
For me, it's the moments of great sportsmanship captured beautifully in the photo's below that comprise the best and most unforgettable moments of the 2012 London Olympic games.Sportsmanship 1 - Hard to tell from this photo but World Champion British cyclist Victoria Pendleton on the left was the loser here. The Aussie Anna Meares and her had been fierce rivals for 5 long year that the media had described as bitter, personal and engaged in endless mind games, but their mutual respect was revealed after the race, when Pendleton raised Meares's hand in victory as an act of great sportsmanship. ''She gave me a hug and said that I deserved it, that I was a great champion,'' Meares said. ''I just broke into tears.''Sportsmanship 2 - Moments after Grenada’s Kirani James crossed the line of the 400m semi-finals, he immediately went up to South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius, the first double amputee athlete to ever compete at the Olympic games, to congratulate him and asked to trade name bibs with him, not the other way around. “He’s an inspiration for all of us. What he does… takes a lot of courage, just a lot of confidence. He’s very special to our sport.” Kirani James explained. Kirani went on to win gold. Sportsmanship 3 - Chinese star and 2004 Athens Olympic Champion Liu Xiang’s hops across the finish line with a broken heart in the Men’s 110 meter hurdles after he stumbles at the first hurdle and re-aggravates the Achilles tendon that forced him out of his home Olympics in Beijing in 2008. Competitors Brit Andrew Turner and Spaniard Jackson Quinonez waited for Liu to finish and then helped him off the track, recognizing that Liu is one of the great champions of the sport. Liu was the first Asian male to ever win gold in track and field history. Sportsmanship 4 - To see the silver medalist expressing such obvious delight, not so much in his own performance but in the winner's achievements, was a special moment indeed and captured so well in the photo below. The winner Mo Farah‘s was the silver medalist's Galen Rupp’s training partner under Oregon's athletics coach Alberto Salazar. Rupp expressed afterwards "I'm thrilled for Mo. It's unreal. Two training partners coming in first and second, I couldn't be happier. I wouldn't be where I am today without him," Rupp said. "We work hard. I'm the lucky one - I get to train with the best middle-distance runner in the world."
2012 Summer Olympics in London: What are the best images from the unimpressed McKayla Maroney/U.S. women's gymnastic team meme?
She is not impressed.[1][2]"Young attractive men—McKayla is not impressed. "[4][5]She's not impressed with Mars, and the mission there, or the haircut of one of the guys on the ground.Here she is making fun of her own meme with fellow gymnasts:[3][1] via https://twitter.com/zachbraff/st...[2] http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tum...[3] http://instagram.com/p/OMsVFpKieZ/[4] http://bleacherreport.com/articl...[5] http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/o...
What is the most impressive real fight you have ever seen?
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali -Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali is one of the most memorable fights ever. I was shocked to see Joe’s strategy and how quick he was in evading Muhammad Ali’s punches. He took some of them and laughed them off.Amanda Nunes vs. Holly Holm - Holly had a great strategy to counter Ronda’s ground-fighting skills. She kept her distance with striking and kicking. She destroyed an icon for women in MMA.
Are Olympic mascots copyright protected?
Anyways I just wanted to include Vinicius in my Cyber Hero idea show as part of any Olympic-related specials then I did not put no Rio 2016 and the Olympics logo on him and renamed into "Vinci" to avoid copyright infringement. However, can I get into trouble with them?
Which country won the most number of medals in the 2012 Olympics?
United states with 46 gold (103 total medals) followed by China with 38 gold and third was host GB with 29 gold.
Why do sprinters finish with their hands behind them?
A “lean” is a lunge at the finish line. The individual’s race concludes when his torso crosses the finish line. Thousandths of a second can be gained with a good, properly timed lean. When adjusting a center of gravity forward (for men, it is mid-chest) in a last second, well-timed lunge, the arms naturally assume a position behind the runner to help maintain balance while thrusting the chest forward.