Olympic Modern Pentathlon News

PLYMOUTH fencers Corinna Lawrence and Toni Denham displayed a cutting edge finishing first and third, respectively, at the Milner-Barry Cup in London.

Corsham swimming star Stephanie Millward has capped a memorable few days by winning a BBC West Sports Personality of the Year award.

MODERN PENTATHLON University of Bath-based duo Sam Weale and Freyja Prentice have been given a helping hand in their respective bids for glory at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

OLYMPIC gold medallist Dame Mary Peters is the guest of honour for the 2009 Sports Awards evening at the Villa Marina on Thursday, April 8. Dame Mary represented Northern Ireland at every Commonwealth Games from 1958 to 1974 inclusive.

BARRIE WELLS has 2million in his jacket pocket that he wants to hand over to athletes who think they can win gold medals.

Christmas Connection, a longtime charitable agency in Oklahoma City, will have a nice new "store" for its holiday shoppers.

A QUARTET of Dartford school girls competed at Gillinghama s Medway Sports Complex in the regional schools biathlon.

ATHLETICS Multi-terrain specialist Tom Fisher smashed the course record to win the Avebury eight-mile event organised by Marlborough Running Club.

Native son Jim Thorpe is regarded as the greatest athlete to set foot on Oklahoma soil.

MODERN pentathlon rising star Alice Fitton is making her mark on the European scene.

A SET of ten-year-old triplets from Nailsworth have come away with a national team title at the British Modern Pentathlon Championships in Wolverhampton.

Chinese cheerleaders rehearse a move at a special training centre in Hefei, east China's Anhui province yesterday for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.

Training as an elite athlete had been such a big part of Sheila Taormina's life for more than two decades that when she retired after the 2008 Beijing Games, she wondered how she'd be able to cope without the pressure of competition.

Relatives of famed American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe plan to go to federal court in Philadelphia in their long-running effort to win the return of his body from the Pennsylvania town that changed its name to provide him a final resting place - even though he never set foot there.

The list is obvious: the Maple Leafs, the Blue Jays, the Argos, Toronto FC soccer team, even the Sports Hall of Fame, which is moving soon to Calgary.

VA©ronique Fortin is going to Vancouver as a bobsleigh spare, but hopes she will get a chance to race.

Will Brady of Howell hopes to duplicate in three years what Livonia native Sheila Taormina accomplished for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: qualify for the Olympics in modern pentathlon.

Community torchbearer Brad McLellan and Canadian Olympian Kara Grant with an Olympic Torch similar to the one that McLellan will carry when the Olympic Torch Relay arrives in Bathurst on Nov.

A YOUNG man from Rolestown has cut his own slice of sporting history by becoming the first Irish athlete ever to medal in a major international modern pentathlon competition.

At the Vancouver Waldorf School we celebrate the Olympics every year, not just in 2010! As part of the fifth grade curriculum students explore the life of the ancient Greeks, focusing on art, culture, language and movement, as well as the many ancient Greek contributions to modern society.