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Seven-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore and current world number two Sally Fitzgibbons spearhead a powerhouse Australian team announced Friday gunning for gold on the sport's Olympic debut in Tokyo.
Jun. 5—A pair of Old Lyme High School graduates have been selected to the U.S. Olympic rowing team and will compete in the Tokyo Summer Olympics next month. Austin Hack, a 2010 graduate who went on to become a two-time Pac-12 Rower of the Year at Stanford (graduating in 2014), earned his second straight U.S. Olympic bid while Liam Corrigan, a 2015 Old Lyme and 2019 Harvard grad, will make his ...
Sinead Diver was a mother of two and well into her 30s when she ran her first marathon. Ireland-born Diver is set to become the oldest athlete to race for Australia in Olympic athletics competition after being among the country's six marathoners selected Friday for the Tokyo Games. The focus on her age frustrates Diver, who ran her first marathon in October, 2014.
"People say I was born into it, which is kind of true," Raboutou said. She is the daughter of former professional and internationally acclaimed climbers, so rock climbing is in her DNA. Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, it became her passion too. Steven Luke/NBC 7 Sport Climber Brooke Raboutou shows off her strong hands "I've been doing it since I was 2. I remember we had a little wall in our basement," said Raboutou. “We went on climbing trips for vacation, I didn't go to beaches." Blessed with the physical tools to quickly scale huge walls like a real-life Spiderwoman, Raboutou works hard ...
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