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Jamaica Gleaner News - Additional distance races for Douglas Forrest meet - Monday | January 8, 2007 (430 words) |
 | Last year Olympic 100m and world sprint double champion Justin Gatlin, Olympic 200m champion Shawn Crawford, American 100m sprinter Me'Lisa Barber, along with other athletes from the Trevor Graham Sprint Capitol Group attended. |
 | Boldon was a double bronze medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games; Beamon a former record holder and 1968 Olympic long jump gold medallist; Evans won the 400m and mile-relay gold at the 1968 Olympic; and Carlos was the 200m bronze medallist at the 1968 Olympics. |
 | Pender is a gold medallist from the 1968 Olympic Games. |
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CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games (1351 words) |
 | The Olympic symbol--five interlocked rings--represents the union of the five original major continents (Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe) and the meeting of the athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. |
 | The official ending of the Olympic Games is marked by the extinguishing of the Olympic Flame to the strains of the Olympic Hymn. |
 | The Olympic Oath is a symbolic gesture of sportsmanship that began at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. |