Italy Olympic Team

Italy Olympic Team

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  Pescante endorses IOC presidential candidate Bach

  Longtime IOC member Mario Pescante of Italy has endorsed Thomas Bach's bid to become the next president of the Olympic body. A day after declaring his ... 

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  Gay athletes have come out while active or retired

  Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement. From Martina ... 

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  Pistorius as mysterious as the shooting tragedy

  His head shrouded by a sports hoodie, the young man walked unnoticed through a bustling crowd outside the gates of the Olympic village in London last ... 

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  Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius

  Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ... 

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  News of Pistorius leaves many in disbelief

  Out in the small Italian town of Gemona, among many places around the world, the arrest of Oscar Pistorius on murder charges was hard to believe. 

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  Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics

  For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...