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Natalie Coughlin: From the Olympics to DWTS
Last season on Dancing With the Stars, we saw gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson win gold, and this year we're watching Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin compete on land.
She made it through the first week, dancing a salsa with Alec Mazo and wowed us last night with her quick step. Although busy dancing and rehearsing, Natalie took time out of her day to answer a few questions on topics ranging from Pilates to her opinion on the ban on high-tech swimsuits.
Do You Think Golf and Rugby Should Be Olympic Sports?
The International Olympic Committee has selected golf and rugby sevens (a faster version of the traditional 15-to-a-team version) to be included in the 2016 games, over baseball, softball, karate, roller sports, and squash.
Tiger Woods will undoubtedly be a fan of the decision. As Woods recently said, "golf is a truly global sport and should have been in the Olympics a while ago."
Michael Phelps Dives Back In
After the infamous "marijuana pipe" photo mysteriously surfaced, Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming. But Phelps returns to racing this weekend — his first competition since Beijing — at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Charlotte, NC.
Riding his post-Olympic fame has been a little rocky to say the least, and the gold medal winner has had to learn how to navigate in "real life."
Speak Up: Who's Your Favorite Current Athlete?
Spring and Summer are busy seasons in the wide world of sports, and the Olympics are just around the corner. Exciting competitions like Wimbledon and the US Open, not to mention the ongoing baseball season, definitely make for good entertainment.
The athletes are fun to watch and inspiring, too, so I was wondering .
Fit Gift: Stoked, The Evolution of Action Sports
Looking for the perfect gift for that super active person (or that person that needs a little extra motivation) on your list?
The book Stoked: The Evolution of Action Sports ($78.75) by Daniel Stark and Claudia Lebenthal, takes an amazing look at action sports that you wish you could do but don't have the balls (literally for some of us) to try. It not only shows the amazing physical feats of sports stars but the book is also interactive, with special materials and papers, pop-ups and stickers.
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Play FitSugar's Summer Olympics Faceoff!
To celebrate the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, I've put together a game of my own: the FitSugar Olympic Faceoff! This addictive faceoff game features 100 of my favorite Summer Olympians from 2008 and Olympics past.
Gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug competed years apart in different Olympic games, but they face off here!
Play FitSugar's Summer Olympics Faceoff!
To celebrate the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, I've put together a game of my own: the FitSugar Olympic Faceoff! This addictive faceoff game features 100 of my favorite Summer Olympians from 2008 and beyond.
Gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug competed years apart in different Olympic games, but they face off here!
Olympics 2016: And the Winner Is . . .
It's seven years away but Olympic fever started early for Chicagoans, as the city threw its hat in the ring to host the 2016 Summer games. Despite lobbying from Chicago notables like the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey, hopes were dashed when the Windy City didn't make it past the first-round eliminations. Brazil will be celebrating tonight — Rio de Janeiro has been picked as the host city, a first ever for South America.
Speak Up: Have You Ever Attended an Olympic Event?
Given that the 2008 Summer Olympics are being held in Beijing, most of us will probably be watching this year's festivities on TV. But when the games took place in Atlanta in 1996, I knew a lot of people who attended at least a few events, if not many. Have you ever been lucky enough to check out some Olympic action live and in person?
Olympic Quiz: Looking Back at Last Week
Another week, another wealth of awesome Summer Olympics action. Last Friday, we found out if you were a gold medal spectator for the first installment of the games, and now I'm back with a quiz testing your knowledge of this week's Olympics happenings. Were you paying attention?
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