I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics)
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The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
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An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.
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People who haven't experienced Special Olympics before don't know what kids who are disabled can do. They just get out there and they have such a great time. It's so great to see the smiles on their faces. Being out there makes them feel so free.
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It was my first (Olympics). I was real excited about that. I skated real well the year before, but then the clap skates came out, so, I was anything but relaxed, because I knew I was a long shot, at best. Yet, a lot of people were expecting great things out of me, because they read about the season before.
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It was a lot of fun, but it was a tough event. They are the top 24 girls in the entire country. There were people competing from the Olympics in 2004 there. It's really amazing to fence all of them, it's a tough event. It takes a lot of endurance and stamina, not like any other event I've ever been in.
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Curling is getting a little bit more popular because of the Olympics. We want to be able to promote the sport because it's not very well known.
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We think that the Olympics is probably going to be worth about 50 million dollars. Most of that is going to go to network TV. That's why you're seeing network TV increase at a higher rate.
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There are a lot of people that want to send us home feeling like failures because we won bronze. I think we refuse that. What the Olympics is all about is character. And we showed more character and grace in defeat than anybody ever could in victory.
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One thing that comes to mind is my homecoming from Sydney, the first Olympics. He was there the whole way. You know, I got to share my experience with Savannah because he loaned me a camera.
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Right now, I'm gong to take two more runs, enjoy the Olympics and then decide. But the next Olympics, it's home track, basically.
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There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
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The work's done, you turn up on the night and do your best - I'm as well prepared if not better prepared than I was before the Athens Olympics.
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We really had a diverse group of kids. They had different kinds of disabilities. These children are too young to participate in Special Olympics, so this offers them an outlet to participate in a game that they may not otherwise get to play. It is a really special time for not just the participants, but for the families and the volunteers too.
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There's a lot of things that are out of my control. I let those things go and all any of us can do is pay attention to our games and get ready for this. It's the Olympics. It's blows me away how big it is and how much importance people put on it.
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There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.
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I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.
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The sport was booming in the 80s and then lost its cutting edge with the younger races when video games took hold. Now the attention has accelerated because of the Olympics, both with the older guys and the next generation of quality riders.
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He's been setting gates for the World Cup. We're hoping he can set one of the courses at the Olympics, for the parallel GS, that's their venue.
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Everybody has a different view of him. For people who are into our sport, he's a legend regardless of what has happened at the Olympics. To me, he's a huge legend. He's the most winning sprinter ever.
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It all felt very new and exciting,.. The Olympics had been hit by a series of boycotts - in 1976, 1980 and the upcoming Games in Los Angeles - whereas the Worlds at last featured all the best athletes from both the Eastern Bloc countries and the West.
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As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.
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I am the parent of Steven, a mentally [challenged] kid. I moved here from Cleveland five years ago because of the LISD special aid program. Back in Cleveland, my son did not have any friends or anything to do. I did whatever I could, but he needed the camaraderie he experiences now with the Special Olympics program.
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They want to be a sports superpower. That led to their pursuit of the Olympics. But they understand that to be a superpower, they have to do well in both winter and summer.
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I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.
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