Olympic Wrestling News

Coming off a fifth-place finish in womenA's wrestling in the 2008 Olympic Games, New Ulm native Ali Bernard is continuing her wrestling career on the college team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

If you find the media frenzy surrounding Tiger Woods' serial infidelities a bit much, trust me on this: it's a neighborhood carnival compared with the five-ring Olympic circus that was Tonya Harding vs.

Ron Brant was the U.S. men's National Team Coordinator from 2000 to 2009. Photo courtesy USA Gymnastics.

Why you should know him: He went 107-13 as a wrestler at Iowa State University, and was a 2006 NCAA champion.

Mixed Martial Arts star Ross "The Gladiator" Pointon, trains with Vince Vanderlipe, at Kugtar Gym in Salinas in November.

Photograph: Tom Jenkins David Brailsford, who delivered Britain's record haul of cycling medals at the Beijing Olympics, yesterday launched a blistering attack on cuts in the sport's funding and said London 2012 is in danger of becoming the "have-a-go games", with an emphasis on participation over performance.

2009 9:57AM from The Monroe Evening News Bedford always has been known as a wrestling school.

When 17-year-old Casey Silkwood travels to Austria next week she'll be receiving the training experience of a lifetime in her young wrestling career.

They chopped wood while he contemplated what to make them do next. Pittsfield's Joe Desena welcomed his latest group of challenge-seeking athletes to his 50-acre Amee Farm, base camp and adjoining properties this week - the nation's top wrestlers vying for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team in 2012.

Although new heroes will be crowned each year during the Olympic Games, Americans will not soon forget the awe-inspiring story which unfolded before an international audience at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; a true story of hope and perseverance that prompted the masses to dream.

Decoding the decade What was the biggest story in Canadian sports? Canada's Carol Huynh celebatres her gold medal victory over Chiharu Icho from Japan in the women's freestyle 48kg wrestling final at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Changes Olympic Track Program - Belgian Federation Notes Addendum: Notes and proposals concerning the reform of Track Disciplines at the Olympic Games Koninklijke Belgische Wielrijdersbond Note concerning the reform of track disciplines at the Olympic Games With reference to the communication that the track disciplines at the OG will be adapt, ...

Accident victim gets Olympic moment Former athlete thrilled to carry torch By GLEN PARKER Sat.

S OME are calling it Coates' army - a hand-picked crew of Australian sporting royalty assembled to fight off what the Australian Olympic Committee sees as an existential threat.

Skeleton racer Michelle Kelly wrestles with physiotherapist Jonathan Reimer. Photograph by: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald Standing five-foot-three and a half, Michelle Kelly would be the last person you'd expect to step into the ring.

Olympic gold medalist and former Maryvale High School student, Henry Cejudo, recently presented members of the Maryvale High School wrestling program with his signature brand of adidas wrestling shoes.

Quebec Sports Hall of Fame inductees, former Canadien Marc Tardif , and Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon, a former wrestler, chat prior to a gala at the Montreal Casino Monday.

In late 2007, Georges St. Pierre was preparing for the Olympic trials in hopes of making the Canadian wrestling team when he got a call from the UFC asking him to take an injured Matt Serra a s place against Matt Hughes .

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre says he may take a crack at making the Canadian Olympic wrestling team for the 2012 Summer Games.