| Yes, it would have been lekker to bring home sackfuls of medals but the reality is that we're only just beginning to produce our great athletes. |
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| Mikey Sheehy, one of Kerry's footballing legends, has eight All-Ireland medals after his exploits in the Green and Gold. |
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| Although they did not win many medals, they performed creditably, and made their presence felt. |
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| For those keeping count, the Welshman has accumulated 23 major championship medals. |
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| And the little box of medals at the bottom of his footlocker never came out. |
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| Brazil's men have won the World Cup a record five times but their women have missed out on the medals at the last two Olympics. |
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| Lord Coe holds four Olympic medals and eight world records in middle-distance running. |
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| The eight fastest times make the quarter-finals and then the race competition becomes a straight knockout to decide the medals. |
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| A couple of statements are made to convince the audience of his worthiness of the medals collected. |
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| There will be 37 events, including athletics, yachting, archery and the martial art of wushu, with a total of 404 gold medals up for grabs. |
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| Congratulations to Patrick O'Reilly and Martin Davis who won gold medals in the relay. |
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| The medals were presented by Laois footballer Joe Higgins who praised the young guns! |
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| He did award posthumous medals of honor to the families of several soldiers on 22 April 1971 and on several other occasions. |
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| The medals are about the size of a crown piece, and they look too good to have been done as a joke. |
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| Sorry, we are not counting the medals won at the invitational and the regional championships. |
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| Another four Bulgarian wrestlers contended for the bronze medals, but all lost and slotted into fourth place. |
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| One only had to look at the vast amounts of war medals sold for a pittance by impoverished and embittered veterans at flea markets. |
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| Under sunny skies, Chirac pinned Legion of Honour medals on 14 veterans in the pomp-filled ceremony at Arromanches. |
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| The day also saw Tamana felicitating those who had successfully won medals at the recently held Delhi Special Olympics. |
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| France, the United States and Germany are considered favourites for team medals. |
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| All the children will also receive commemorative medals courtesy of the governors, who are also producing keyrings. |
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| The color guard turned out as the medals of the dead were pinned on their mothers' blouses. |
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| There was a competition within each grade with a perpetual trophy at stake and small cups for the winners with placed dancers receiving medals. |
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| His grandfather's medals clinked as the old man brought his right hand smartly up in a salute. |
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| That was better than admitting that the guys got the medals for being fab pop stars whose reflected glory the government needed. |
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| Thorpe was the sensation of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and won the pentathlon and decathlon gold medals by huge margins. |
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| The champion cyclist had carried off a clutch of medals, awards and commendations, and been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year. |
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| The students have picked up a clutch of medals at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show. |
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| Quinnie passed the hours by identifying the countries that have won even fewer medals than us. |
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| Since the end of OIF II, I have seen a lot of things happen with medals and badges and patches. |
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| I thought it was dishonorable and dishonest to question the medals and citations that he had received in combat. |
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| The collection contains coins, medals, tokens, checks and other paranumismatica. |
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| Bradford's sole Paralympian, Pete Finbow, is confident Great Britain will be in the mix for men's wheelchair basketball medals. |
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| But Britain's most successful Paralympian, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, has admitted she is unlikely to add to her 11 gold medals in Beijing. |
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| Rienks's international rowing career spanned five Olympic games and during that time he won medals in both sculling and sweep oar events. |
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| Hao was looking to complete a clean sweep of gold medals for China after victories in the women's singles and both doubles competitions. |
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| The Indian shooters made a complete sweep at the event bagging all four gold medals. |
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| I started collecting when I was about 13, doing swaps of Army badges and medals at school. |
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| Against the best the country could offer the Carlow participants excelled, bringing back a hoard of medals in several disciplines. |
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| The squad put in some fantastic swims, collecting a hoard of medals in the process. |
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| Letters, cards, all sorts of miraculous medals and good luck charms have all been winging their way there in recent years. |
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| He won gold medals in the long jump and the high jump and rounded off a marvellous display by taking bronze in the 60m sprint. |
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| As Kerry preens as a hero, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's challenge to his medals is not being heard. |
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| Lewis' gold in the heptathlon in Sydney was one of six athletics medals for Britain. |
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| After their final the team was presented with boots, a football strip for the school, and their medals, by sponsor Adidas Predator. |
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| Whether the entire foursome will be stripped of their medals will have to be seen. |
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| The medals have been struck at the Royal Thai Mint, with each medal individually numbered to ensure the collectible nature of the piece. |
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| He was optimistic that the nation would reap medals at the event due to the massive talent and experience in the junior squad. |
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| The former European heavyweight boxing champion wears his championship medals round his neck, lest anyone should forget. |
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| For the second straight year, she won the most individual gold medals at the world's major championship. |
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| On the walls there were rosaries, medals, several pictures of the Virgin, and a holy-water stoup made out of a coconut. |
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| There was a volleyball final to be played, football teams to support, athletes to cheer and medals to be won. |
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| The German wife of the Australian Olympian has won two gold medals in the Olympian equestrian competition. |
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| Many now in their 80s, they marched in step, medals glinting in the sun at the end of a long, hot day. |
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| The designs of the medals are based on a traditional style that includes a generic obverse side, based on the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. |
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| It is large, 245 mm, and it is the same as the obverse of the medals struck for the same occasion. |
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| Why would collectors of Thai medals be interested in a French medal with King Louis XIV on the obverse? |
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| And some of the names are real startlers, with world titles and championship medals to boot. |
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| The medals will be presented to the victorious Junior Championship Shield winners from last year. |
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| I have awards, medals, and trophies from spelling bees and math competitions. |
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| Hartley easily beat Wu Minxia of China, preventing the Chinese from a possible sweep of diving gold medals. |
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| France are in second place with Canada in third with both the silver and bronze medals up for grabs in the final race on Saturday. |
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| He won a silver medal in football and bronze medals in unihoc, table tennis and the 60-metre sprint. |
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| At county level it was our best ever year, with a total of 23 gold medals, two silver medals and 14 bronze medals. |
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| Meanwhile, Britain came away with two bronze medals from the European Indoor Championships in Sardinia. |
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| Over the two days the team won ten gold medals, three silver medals and four bronze medals. |
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| Emma won one silver medal in the walk and three bronze medals in the badminton and track and field events. |
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| The polytechnic won the championship shield, three gold medals, one silver medal and five bronze medals. |
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| The winner of each repechage then faces the runner-up in the other, with the two victors awarded bronze medals. |
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| He now has one gold medal and two bronze medals, with five events left to go. |
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| Overall, independent India has just three bronze medals in Olympics outside of hockey. |
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| Darren can now add his gold medal to the silver and bronze medals won at the championships when they were held in Killarney last year. |
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| Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle. |
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| The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes. |
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| By nightfall, the British squad lay proudly on top of the medals table for Olympic rowing. |
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| He suffers from night blindness, but this hasn't stopped him winning three Paralympic titles and a host of other medals. |
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| The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape. |
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| He served with honor and distinction in Vietnam, earning several medals for his courage and valor. |
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| It's also serious business for brewers, who compete for medals in 65 categories. |
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| Before then the only medals awarded to serving soldiers were for good conduct or long service. |
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| De Hevesy dissolved the medals in acid, creating a colloidal sol so dark it was virtually black. |
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| Grandpa, a war hero, is wheeled daily to locations where his medals and upturned hat promote a torrent of coins. |
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| It's all very well to liken a restaurant to the army, but mess cooks seldom win medals for bravery. |
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| McVeigh served as a gunner on a Bradley fighting vehicle during the 1991 Gulf War, receiving the Bronze Star and several other medals. |
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| Nobody expected him to even get a sniff at the medals and, once again, he proved us all wrong. |
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| An unsentimental character who auctioned most of his football medals in 1995, Cantwell had one constant in his peregrinations, his home town. |
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| A slouch hat sat on the end in front of a red pillow, which bore an array of medals. |
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| There will be a disco from 9 pm to midnight and a mystery guest will do the honours in presenting the medals. |
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| The British team must take its shining medals with a decent and unhypocritical sadness. |
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| All this work goes on quietly, unheroically, with no awards, medals or statues of recognition. |
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| For many of the country's champions, gold medals are tickets to financial bonanzas. |
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| Joe Barton went away clutching two medals after winning the boccia and finishing second in the swimming. |
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| The two gold medals in boccia were much unexpected as this was their first appearance in the games. |
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| She has also won many gold and silver medals for gymnastics and many blue ribbons for equestrian. |
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| Crafted in gold or silver, medals were adorned with decorative motifs and appropriate inscriptions engraved by hand. |
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| Four years after that, Bode Miller's two silvers, in giant slalom and combined, were the only U.S. medals. |
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| She was just one of many fine performers for the York club, who picked up 17 golds, 11 silvers and eight bronze medals. |
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| China had won a total of 11 medals, with three silvers and two bronze, while Australia have won nine. |
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| Pool playing reached a frenzy after the 1998 Asian games, when the Chinese Taipei team won three gold medals, two silvers and a bronze. |
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| The U.S. had 14 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals, while the Jamaicans achieved 2 gold medals and three silvers. |
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| However, the lead was temporary as Germany went ahead with four golds, two silvers and four bronze medals late Sunday. |
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| Taiwan grabbed two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Athens Olympics. |
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| Those who could afford it wore medals struck in silver, but the ordinary people purchased medals cast in less expensive metals. |
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| Each won medals aplenty, both trousering the treasure trove of Olympic gold, each held world records galore. |
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| Individual gold, high silver, silver, and bronze medals were awarded with large trophies for group grand winners. |
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| She won four gold medals in different events at the championship and returned home triumphant. |
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| We had a lot of pride in his performance in the shot-put and discus and in his gold medals and records. |
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| The medals, including a CBE and DSO, were found in Harrow, north London, among a haul of items stolen by burglars. |
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| It's not including her numerous medals and trophies for triathlons, pentathlons and track and field events. |
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| Peter James-Robinson also enjoyed a treble success, winning gold in the snooker and silver medals in the slalom and bowls. |
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| He's big in Norway because he won two Olympic medals for that country and was knighted several years ago. |
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| The medals are generally shared between the Australians, Canadians and English. |
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| Yet the trio, who were awarded their gold medals at the Agios Kosmas sailing venue last night, remain the best of friends. |
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| The medals of a war hero have been returned to his family after a four-month police search to track them down. |
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| In blazers and berets, their medals shining, they smiled broadly and soaked up the applause and cheers. |
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| The belt has been awarded to him because of his best performance and fight in India and for winning gold medals in several championships. |
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| If we finished at the bottom of the medals table we'd be seen as a Mickey Mouse nation. |
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| With six hats, six shoes and six medals, there are only so many ways of dressing up tired ideas. |
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| In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals. |
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| Young children bearing the medals of their grandparents, along with police, Army cadets, scouts and guides also took part in the march. |
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| Damon's mother and father were at the awards night on Saturday to see their son hand out the medals. |
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| The team also picked up five silver and three bronze team medals at the event. |
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| Purple Heart medals are awarded to nine soldiers who suffered wounds in Iraq. |
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| Cabinets of coins, medals, and bronze statuettes became a characteristic feature of German princely collections. |
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| Britain doubled their medal haul in Paris after scooping two medals on the final day of the World Championships. |
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| The medals were awarded to individuals who had been nominated by others in their communities. |
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| These medals were awarded in bronze for having four children, silver for six, and gold for eight. |
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| The show garden section has been expanded, and the event awarded its own medals for the first time this year. |
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| To see the joy on so many young faces when presented with medals and awards was reward enough. |
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| No service member is entitled to wear all three medals for the same act, achievement or period of service. |
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| My grandfather's medals were awarded for his service with the St John Ambulance Brigade during the Boer War. |
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| Indeed, he has won medals at the past three Olympics, the only Great Britain athlete to have done so. |
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| But his eyes were still bright, and his threadbare old khaki police uniform shirt still bore his many medals. |
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| Indian sports looked healthy when the second string athletes collected 191 medals, including 101 gold, from the SAF Games in Islamabad. |
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| While the medals were shared out in the track events, it was the same story in the field. |
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| She won individual gold medals on vault and uneven bars, the silver medal on balance beam, and the bronze medal on floor exercise. |
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| Indians have always harvested medals by the bagfuls, utilising the event as a testing ground to spot and groom talent. |
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| It was a back-to-back success for Indonesia, which collected eight gold medals in the inaugural event in Jakarta last year. |
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| I saw them and knew she couldn't cure them herself but she placed a religious scapular and medals on them. |
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| Scott is also an accomplished musician, playing the saxophone and winning two gold medals in violin. |
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| In winning their medals, the two Scotsmen moved British cycling onwards by miles. |
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| No medals for guessing that's how a certain race ended up roughly the same distance with exactly the same name. |
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| She has brought her medals to the table and it is the Olympic ones it is impossible not to take a shine to. |
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| A sackful of medals followed, and his partnership with John Toshack is still talked about by misty-eyed Liverpool fans even today. |
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| Indeed, the ones who do it balanced atop a luge are so brave that they probably deserve some kind of counselling to go with the medals. |
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| Mr Richards was a keen athlete who scooped hundreds of medals in a range of sports from swimming to athletics. |
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| He holds the record for the most medals ever won by an athlete in a single Olympic Games. |
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| Ross Flynn in his first race, ran brilliantly to finish in fourth place and win his first of many medals. |
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| Mr Solomon heard that Zak was a purple belt in karate and had medals for rugby league as well as being a formidable footballer. |
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| One of the most popular heroes of the Games was African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. |
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| Jones, winner of three gold and two bronze medals in Sydney four years ago, is scheduled to compete only in the long jump. |
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| Padraig Maye proved how versatile of an athlete he is by winning gold medals in the long jump and the high jump. |
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| Olympic organisers wrote the track and field timetable around her bid to win five gold medals. |
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| By Armistice Day, he was himself a legitimate war hero with several recommendations for medals of valor. |
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| Both teams deserved medals for turning out in the extreme arctic conditions on the day. |
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| Finding a new platform to express their long-standing rivalry, both Britain and France opted out of judging for medals. |
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| Winners will be awarded medals and ribbons with the Special Olympics South Africa logo. |
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| With the proliferation of medals and ribbons for this and that, the time has arrived for the Combat Tanker Badge. |
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| With business and sport now irretrievably entwined, there's big money in medals. |
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| It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons. |
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| The film ends as Leia dressed in an elaborate dress with a plunging neckline decorates Han Solo and Luke with medals. |
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| As veterans we leave the military with medals, ribbons and a national debt of gratitude for our service. |
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| Hamilton was showered with medals and honours by the academies and learned societies of the world. |
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| He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. |
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| He was decorated with many medals, and he had all his weapons with him as well. |
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| The allegations have put her career and her five medals from the 2000 games in jeopardy. |
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| All-Star Reading Day and Championship Day are special days of honor and joy for the children, who receive ribbons, certificates or medals. |
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| Since then there have been 13 Olympic or world championship 100m races and 39 medals won. |
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| The athlete, who won four gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Sydney, will be presenting shows on her local station, BBC Radio Cleveland. |
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| He has won two silver medals in 100m dash, four silver medals and bronze medals in javelin throw and discus throw in national-level competitions. |
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| Their mailbox is packed daily with letters from well-wishers containing prayer cards, medals and rosaries. |
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| Almost all of the items are prize cups, souvenir objects and all kinds of sports medals, trophies and shields. |
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| As you play online, each point you get counts towards medals, ribbons and ranks that can be won. |
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| In true British fashion we won just three gold medals at the games, the worst performance by a host country in modern Olympic history. |
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| As with the Irish-born in 1871 several of the twenty-nine won medals for outstanding gallantry. |
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| Overall, 20 gold medals went to Irish companies submitting cured meats, ice cream jams, chutneys, coffees chocolates and smoked fish. |
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| York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals. |
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| The reverse of the friendship medals, much like today's nickels, had a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. |
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| Meyer won the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles, becoming the first woman to win three individual swimming gold medals in a single Olympics. |
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| Over the years Emily has demonstrated tremendous versatility winning gold medals in all strokes in the regional championships. |
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| Other items include a 1966 World Cup programme, football boots through the ages, medals and trophies. |
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| Four years ago she won two medals in Malaysia, but only in a warm-up competition. |
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| Japan took home two gold medals in women's freestyle wrestling, making its debut as an Olympic event. |
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| The 18 couples from the three schools foxtrotted and tangoed their way to silver and gold medals in the first-ever event. |
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| None of these tiny revolvers are going to win medals at the target range. |
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| He is the recipient of numerous awards and medals, including the Bronze Star and two Army Achievement Medals. |
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| While judo captivated Japanese fans at the Sydney Summer Olympics, where Japan's athletes walked off with most medals in the sport, it has been on the decline at home. |
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| A Vietnam war widow has made an emotional appeal for help after burglars stole her late husband's medals and the birth certificate of their dead baby daughter. |
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| There's nothing groovy about race-walking, but it requires the same dedication, the same commitment, and at least equal training to get among the medals. |
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| It is worth noting that he has called on protesters to address their protests to him, yet he refused to see two Gulf War veterans who wanted to hand their medals back to him. |
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| During the second day of competition, the rain of gold medals continued. |
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| After the 1992 summer games in Barcelona, scientists at Cornell University studied the faces of Olympians who had just won medals. |
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| For years, you could find them regularly in the halls of Shorecrest High School, medals shining, black shoes agleam, trouser creases sharper than a regulation haircut. |
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| With the ultimate in timing equipment being installed drivers will be graded into four categories and awarded platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals once a year. |
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| What you realise is you don't win any medals by killing yourself. |
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| At those championships, Thorpe walked away with a record six gold medals. |
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| We expected medals in hockey, tennis, long jump and shooting. |
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| What is the significance of the ribbons, insignia and medals? |
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| He opened it to reveal a collection of small medals and ribbons. |
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| Combining text with a sculptured likeness and appropriate symbols in an everlasting material, medals could be distributed widely for lasting glory. |
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| Beneath the veneer of landscapes, portraits and genre scenes, political rivalries roiled, and medals granted to entrants were contested hotly as matters of national pride. |
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| He returned from the championships with an armful of medals. |
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| Clicking your way past less important sports such as the luge and the skeleton you'll locate the abundance of games remaining before the gold medals are awarded. |
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| You don't win a record eight Olympic medals by backing down. |
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| However, most medals and testimonials are presented for courage. |
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| The 2006 Brazilians are seasoned Europeans, carrying a smart collection of Bundesliga titles, Italian scudetti, Spanish La Ligas and Champions League medals around with them. |
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| The UK won 30 medals 19, of which were won from a sedentary position. |
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| Player of the Year awards and team medals will be presented on the night. |
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| I will train for better results but I don't think too much about medals. |
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| Most of it was devoted to the award of medals in the Falklands War. |
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| Thomas had won many medals and awards in both handball and football. |
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| Jewelry and 107 medals and awards were also stolen from the apartment. |
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| Cop has medaled in three Olympic Games, winning Silver in Athens, Gold in Sydney and Bronze in Barcelona, all in addition to eight World Championship medals. |
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| Now of course when it comes to pulling on our togs, cozzies, bathers or trunks and swimming competitively, Australians never seem to be too far from the medals. |
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| On Saturday, medals will be handed out in men's and women's 25 km open water swimming, team synchronized swimming and men's 10-meter platform diving. |
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| The medals worn by them are not only for bravery but also for meritorious service and for spending more than a year in dangerous operational sectors. |
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| At a fundraiser in Sun Valley, Clint had gone way off message, talking about taxing Olympic medals and rambling on. |
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| Despite a lifetime best in the 1,500m, Lee finished out of the medals. |
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| Great Britain have won nine gold medals, 10 silvers and six bronze. |
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| The five gold medals, five silvers and 15 bronzes were the highest number garnered by local innovators at the China International Exhibition of Inventions, held in Shanghai. |
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| The senior and junior Welsh teams exceeded all expectations by collecting eight gold medals, 15 silvers and seven bronzes at the Culinary World Cup. |
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| One-two podium finishes in the ladies ski cross and both of the moguls saw them better the United States' record of eight freestyle skiing medals in a single Winter Olympics. |
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| Beard and Quann collected multiple medals in 1996 and 2000, respectively. |
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| The Olympic stadium, pool and velodrome will go down in history as the places where epic contests were fought and Gold medals won. |
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| The coffin, draped in a Union flag with Mr Miller's medals and helmet, was mounted on a turn-table ladder fire engine as it led a slow procession through the city. |
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| Their gifts include paper currency, pamphlets, manuscripts, snuffboxes, portrait busts, cartoons, medals, and coverlets, but most notable in terms of volume, prints. |
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| Appleby also designed medals and a group made between 1972 and 2005 from various metals including steel, gold, silver, and Britannia silver is on display at the exhibit. |
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| The United States stand at the top of the medals table with 23 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes, while China are second with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 12 bronzes. |
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| I won a silver medal and three bronze medals which was great. |
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| Jones won three gold medals and two bronze medals in Sydney. |
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| No one ever seeks a Purple Heart medal, but it remains the most distinctive of American military medals and symbols. |
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| Later, she readied herself to present the medals for the Russian figure skaters. |
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| Six months after he left, Mr. Rasimus was back at Travis Air Force Base in California, wearing a bunch of medals and a handlebar mustache that he was assured was bulletproof. |
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| Two were gold medals, with one in the 5000m in 15 min 20 sec and the 10,000m in 32 min 44 sec, a silver in the steeplechase in 9.37 and a bronze medal in the half marathon. |
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| I always cry on 11 November, at the Cenotaph, when the old boys march by with their backs as straight as they can get them and with their medals clinking. |
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| Team USA's strategy of drafting NBA players for the past three Olympiads has resulted in three gold medals and absolutely no intrigue, competition, or excitement. |
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| These sculptures, and others, are juxtaposed with coins, medals, gems, seals, enamels, ivory carving, a cassone, a parade shield, moulded leather and even a waffling iron. |
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| Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span. |
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| Phelps aims to overhaul Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. |
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| Norwegian ice skater Sonja Henie, who won figure skating gold medals at three successive Winter Olympics from 1928, starred in a series of skating movies. |
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| The under-14 quiz team from Brosna arrived home bearing gold medals and the Colum Mooney perpetual trophy after coming first in Ireland out of 50 teams. |
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| In Bradford we found the papers of a local faith healer from the 1930s, and even the letters and medals of the first Keighley soldier to die in World War One. |
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| They'll be handing out press releases like medals, each bringing more news as to why we're all on the pig's back as a result of their department's spending settlement. |
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| With her husband Andrew failing to get among the medals as he tried to win a fourth straight team title for Australia, it must have made for some interesting pillow talk. |
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| Britons received four gold medals at the Athens Olympics, confounding cynical expectations that our athletes would trail home with only a miserable brace of bronzes. |
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| Cash prizes and trophies are on offer for the first, second and third men and women across the line in the road race, and all finishers will be given medals. |
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| She won a couple of medals in invitational competitions in singles, but switched to dance because she always enjoyed dancing, much more than free skating. |
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| It's tonnes of fun, dancing and drinking cheap beer to frenzied mandolin picking while one of the vets oversees, clad in grey flannels, blazer, beret, and a strip of medals. |
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| Since then she's won two Olympic medals and three World Championships, the last of these in 2003, by which time she was wearing a green and gold Aussie cossie. |
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| By lucky chance, a shaft of sunlight coming though the high stained glass windows struck Tom's burnished medals full on and then reflected them back into the chairman's face. |
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| Stock options and corporate bonuses are no more fundamental to the achievement of scientific advance than were Soviet medals and patriotic exhortations. |
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| Always try to corroborate with medals, newspaper cuttings and letters. |
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| She turned to see him standing there looking quite dashing in a tuxedo with a blue garter over the vest and some medals on the left side of the lapel. |
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| I was delighted to finish second on the beam and to win bronze medals on the asymmetric bars and floor, as well as taking overall gold. |
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| Steph Twell has revealed her fury at being cheated out of medals by dopers. |
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| The Czechoslovak national ice hockey team won many medals from the world championships and Olympic Games. |
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| Volleyball team won a gold medal in Olympic 1976 Montreal and two gold medals in FIVB World Championship 1974, 2014 and hosted. |
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| Some athletes have won medals representing other countries, which are not included on these tables. |
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| Both won international medals and broke world records in middle and long distance running. |
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| Great Britain's first shooting medals came when the nation hosted the 1908 Games, at which the British shooters dominated the competitions. |
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| Cyclist Nicole Cooke won gold medals at the Commonwealth, Olympic and World championships. |
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| The most successful Games was in 2000, when Great Britain won the gold and bronze medals. |
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| Kathleen McKane Godfree also won five medals, but were one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes. |
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| The Holy See also confers orders, decorations and medals, such as the orders of chivalry in the Middle Ages. |
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| This is a list of people who have won three or more Olympic gold medals for Great Britain. |
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| A number of Northern Ireland born athletes, particularly in boxing, have won medals for Ireland at the Games. |
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| Prior to the 2014 Games all Britain's winter olympic medals had been won in sports performed on ice. |
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| From 1896 to 2016 inclusive, Great Britain has won 847 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 26 at the Winter Olympic Games. |
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| In athletics, the country has a proud history with 14 gold medals at the Asian Games. |
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| The Scottish team won a record number of gold medals, which Alan Bisset said would help give voters more belief and confidence. |
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| Manx athletes have won three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, including the one by cyclist Mark Cavendish in 2006 in the Scratch race. |
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| Manx cheese took bronze medals in the 2005 British Cheese Awards, and sold 578 tonnes over the year. |
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| Shooting is a popular sport, in which islanders have won Commonwealth medals. |
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| The Faroe Islands compete in the Paralympics and have won several gold, silver and bronze medals there. |
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| A DURHAM powerlifter was won bronze and silver medals at the World Championships. |
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| On the Olympics Those Olympic medals are so large they remind me of one of them Black Country horse brasses. |
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| At the 2009 National Games, Hubei won both the gold and silver medals, with Inner Mongolia winning bronze. |
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| There are a number of medals and trophies that are, or have been, given for various achievements during The Open. |
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| Lowe crashed hard trying to land a fakie 360 in the first round and was out of the medals at the midway point. |
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| The City of London awarded Nelson and his captains swords, whilst the King ordered them to be presented with special medals. |
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| The United States finished at the top of the table winning 46 gold medals and winning 103 medals overall. |
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| The medals were transferred to the Tower of London vaults on 2 July 2012 for storage. |
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| The Royal Society presents numerous awards, lectures and medals to recognise scientific achievement. |
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| These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1948 Summer Games, ranked by number of gold medals won. |
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| These two teams claimed 24 total medals, in other words half of the total medals given. |
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| Turkey was the most successful nation with six gold medals followed by Sweden receiving 5 gold medals. |
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| The United States won eight gold medals, including all six men's events, and 15 medals in total. |
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| The gold medals were won in the street food class, table settings, flambe, and cocktails. |
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| The general's uniform was so bedecked with medals that he began leaning to one side. |
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| Four events were contested, all open to both men and women, although all medals were won by men. |
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| One of host nation Great Britain's three gold medals at the Games came in the Swallow class from Stewart Morris and David Bond. |
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| Five events were contested, with the United States winning four total medals. |
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| Paintings, musical instruments, basketry, pottery, military weapons and medals and more will also be on display. |
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| Like, we've got very little chance of winning any medals, or they have to pay for their own Lambrusco. |
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| In the men's pommel horse, a tie was declared between three competitors, all Finns, and no medals other than gold were awarded in this event. |
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| France won three gold medals and Italy two, while Great Britain captured five medals overall, but none were gold. |
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| We are excited that these three gold medals acknowledge our direction and the quality of our award-winning zinfandels. |
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| Throughout his career the Italian won 13 Olympic fencing medals and 27 world championship medals, both of which remain records. |
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| Edoardo Mangiarotti won three medals, two silver and a bronze, having previously won a gold medal in the 1936 Games. |
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| Our yachties, too, ruled the Olympic waves benefitting from pounds 22 million pre-Olympic funding to sail away with a raft of medals. |
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