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Irina Risenson | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Rhythmic Gymnastics
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:57pm
Ira Risenzon is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics
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Alice Schlesinger | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Judo
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:54pm
Alice Schlesinger is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Judo 63 kg class. |
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Gal Yekutiel | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Judo
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:50pm
Gal Yekutiel (born November 4, 1981) is an Israeli judoka. He competes in the extra lightweight (under 60 kg) weight category. He represented Israel in the Olympic Games of 2004 and 2008. In the latter, he was ranked in 5th place after losing the bout for bronze medal. His other major achievement was a bronze medal at the 2007 European Championships.
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Ariel Ze'evi | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Judo
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:44pm
Ariel "Arik" Ze'evi (Hebrew: אריאל "אריק" זאבי, born 16 January 1977 in Bnei Brak) is an Israeli judoka. He is the 2004 Olympic Half-heavyweight bronze medalist.
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Noam Mills | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Fencing
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:42pm
Noam Mills is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Fencing with the epee. |
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Maxim Podoprigora | 2008 Austria Olympic Team Member | Swimming
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:32pm
Maxim Podoprigora (April 18, 1978 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a successful Austrian swimmer and a member of Austria's 2008 Olympic Team. |
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Dalilah Hatuel | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Fencing
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:29pm
Dalilah Hatuel is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Fencing as a foilist
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Tomer Or | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Fencing
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:22pm
Tomer Or is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Fencing as a foilist.
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Michael Koganov | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Canoeing
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:20pm
Michael Koganov is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in K-1 500 and 1,000 meters for canoeing
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Alex Shatilov | 2008 Israel Olympic Team Member | Artistic Gymnastics
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:16pm
Alexander "Alex" Shatilov (Hebrew: אלכסנדר "אלכס" שטילוב , born March 22, 1987 in Uzbekistan) is an Israeli artistic gymnast. He began gymnastics at age five and immigrated to Israel in 2002. He is a floor exercise specialist and placed fifth in that event at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and seventh at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He was the first Israeli to reach the event finals in this event at the World Championships.
He will represent Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
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Ben Wildman-Tobriner | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Swimming
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 02:09pm
Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner (born 21 September 1984 in San Francisco, California) is a competitive swimmer and was until recently a member of the Stanford Men's Swim team.
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Garrett Weber-Gale | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Swimming
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 01:54pm
Garrett Weber-Gale (born August 6, 1985) is a U.S. Olympian who won 100 and 50 meter freestyles at the 2008 Olympic Trials in 47.92 and 21.47 seconds respectively.His time of 21.47 in the 50 was an American record. By clocking a time of 47.78 in the prelims of the 100 freestyle at the Trials, he became the first to break 48 seconds in that event. Weber-Gale is is also a two-time U.S. National Swim Team member, who swam on the USA's gold-medal 400 Free Relay teams at the swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada (2005) and Melbourne, Australia (2007). In 2006, he was the NCAA Division I Champion in the 100 freestyle . In 2004, Weber-Gale, with University of Texas teammates Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Ian Crocker, set a World Record in the short-course 400 Medley Relay in a time of 3:25.38. On July 2nd, 2008, he also set an American Record in the 100 freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Trials with a 47.78, becoming the first American ever to break 48 seconds in the 100 meter freestyle.
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Jason Lezak | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Swimming
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 01:48pm
Jason Edward Lezak (born on November 12, 1975 in Irvine, California) is an American swimmer.
He is a member of the Irvine Novaquatics. He went to Irvine High School in 1994, then to University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) and weighs 93 kg (205 pounds). Lezak is specialist of 50 and 100 m freestyle races. |
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Rami Zur | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Kayaking
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 01:31pm
Born in California, Rami Zur was adopted by a family in Israel.and holds duel citizenship.
After graduating from high school, he served in the Israel Army, but continued to participate in competitive kayaking. In the 1999 World Championships, Zur and partner Ro'i Yellin placed 13th in the K2 500 meter race , finishing sixth in both the K2 200-meter and K2 500-meter races at the 1999 European Championships. |
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Deena Kastor | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Track and Field
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 01:02pm
Deena Kastor (born in Waltham, MA, 1973) was the bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and only the second American woman ever to medal in the event. Since then, Kastor has won the Chicago and Flora London Marathons, beating her own American record in 2006. She has high hopes for this year's race and told letsrun.com "I want a gold medal.... There is nothing more I want than to see the flag being raised and the national anthem being played. I can't think of a better gift to my country that has been so supportive of me."
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Sada Jacobson | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Fencing
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 12:56pm
Sada Jacobson (born in Dunwoody, GA, 1983), one of the top women competitors in the fencing world, will compete in saber in Beijing. In 2004, Sada won the bronze medal in this event in Athens, where the sport made its Olympic debut. She's taking a relaxed tack with this year's games, saying: "My goal is to go and be as prepared as I can be, and to enjoy myself."
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Dara Torres | 2008 US Olympic Team Member | Swimming
Saturday, Aug 09, 2008, 12:49pm
Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American swimmer. She will be the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She will compete in the Beijing Olympic Games in the 50 meter freestyle, 4 x 100 medley relay, and 4 x 100 freestyle relay.
She has won eight Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone in Sydney in 2000, the Games in which she was the eldest member on the team with her 33 years. On August 1st, 2007 at the age of 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100 meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her 14th win at these events. She then followed that up on August 4th by twice breaking her own American record in the 50 m freestyle, 26 years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old. |
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2008 US Olympics Medalists
Wednesday, Aug 09, 2000, 02:03pm
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