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		<title>Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah Confirmed for London Anniversary Games</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/04/18/usain-bolt-jessica-ennis-and-mo-farah-confirmed-for-london-anniversary-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Levy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Apr. 19, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. EST Happy Anniversary, London. The 2012 Olympic Games were a joyous occasion for those lucky enough to enjoy the sports and sunshine on offer. Home crowds witnessed wonderful performances from the host nation, and many others, and for 17 magical days, it felt as if London was the global capital of sport. A year on, we&#8217;ll get to do some of it all over again. In a sensible bit of rebranding, this July&#8217;s London Grand Prix will be called the London 2012 Anniversary Games. Traditionally held at Crystal Palace, it will take place in the Olympic Stadium on the anniversary weekend of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Games this July 26-28. Tickets went on sale Friday morning and the first two days sold out in 75 minutes. (MORE: TIME&#8217;s 2012 Olympics Coverage) And the confirmed names will surely help put bums on seats. On Tuesday, Britain&#8217;s golden girl, the 27-year-old heptathlon winner Jessica Ennis announced her participation, and she&#8217;ll compete against Olympic champion Sally Pearson in the 100m hurdles. And she&#8217;ll be joined at the Games by the two British males who also won gold on the night known as Super Saturday: 5,000 and 10,000 meter winner Mo Farah and long jumper Greg Rutherford. &#8220;I have amazing memories of competing in the Olympic Stadium and it will be good to step out on that track again in front of a British crowd,&#8221; Ennis said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget the noise the crowd made when I competed last August and know that the draw of the stadium and the great line-up of athletes will fill the stands and make it another incredible occasion.&#8221; (VIDEO: Britain&#8217;s Track &#38; Field Golden Girl Jessica Ennis Gets Set for her Home Games) In total, all five of Team GB&#8217;s track and field medal winners will be there, along with 14 of Britain&#8217;s 16 Paralympic medalists. But perhaps the biggest draw will be a certain sprinter. On Wednesday, the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, confirmed that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345877&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rio 2016: Track And Field Venue Closed Indefinitely</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/03/28/rio-2016-track-and-field-venue-closed-indefinitely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro’s monumental task of staging two major international sporting events in as many years has hit a snag as one of the main athletics venues for the 2016 Olympics has been shut indefinitely for repairs. The Joao Havelange stadium, also known by its nickname the Engenhão, was officially opened&#8211;six times over budget, at a cost of $192 million&#8211;just six years ago. But structural problems with the 46,000-capacity stadium’s roof have led to safety concerns and, says Rio&#8217;s mayor, an &#8220;indeterminate&#8221; hiatus while the problems are investigated. (MORE: Rio 2016: Is Brazil Going to Be Ready for the Olympics?) Mayor Eduardo Paes told a press conference: “I asked if this represented a risk for spectators and they told me it did, depending on the wind speed and temperature. “On that basis, I immediately decided to close the stadium until we had more details. “It’s simply not acceptable that a stadium which was inaugurated such a short time ago now has to face this sort of situation. &#8220;If they give me a solution that will last a month, then it will stay closed for a month, if it takes a year, it will stay closed for a year. I will wait until a definitive solution if presented. We can&#8217;t play with something like this.&#8221; The Engenhão, which will have its capacity increased to 60,000 for the Olympics, is supposed to host track and field events during the Games, although it won’t be used for the opening or closing ceremonies. (MORE: Q&#38;A: Aldo Rebelo, Brazil’s Sports Minister, on Hosting the World Cup and Olympic Games) The stadium closure comes as an embarrassment to Brazil, which is desperately trying to prepare for both the Olympics and next year&#8217;s soccer World Cup. As well as sporting venues, there is significant investment in the city’s infrastructure, as the Independent reports. There is also a concerted attempt to clean up the city’s image, with the city’s crime-ridden favelas undergoing—controversially—a program known locally as “pacification”, accompanied by forced eviction from some areas to allow for Olympic construction (local human<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345269&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photos: Oscar Pistorius On and Off the Track</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/15/photos-oscar-pistorius-on-and-off-the-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins and Glen Levy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 26-year-old South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the &#8220;Blade Runner,&#8221; has had an eventful life, which has now been rocked by the charge that he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius rejects the charge.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344558&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Can Wrestling Fight For Its Olympic Survival?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/12/how-can-wrestling-fight-for-its-olympic-survival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo was silent on the other end of the phone line &#8212; shocked, really, beyond belief. He was about to head to church near his home in the Phoenix area Tuesday morning when I relayed the news: the International Olympic Committee had voted wrestling, the sport in which he won his gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, off of the 2020 Olympic program. Cejudo&#8217;s Olympic win, in the 121-lb. weight class, was one of the memorable highlights of the Beijing Games. The son of illegal immigrants, Cejudo proudly draped the American flag around his shoulders, running around the Beijing hall, crying. He was a living, grappling symbol of the American dream. Now, Cejudo says he&#8217;s almost in tears for a very different reason. &#8220;Is this an April Fool&#8217;s joke or something?&#8221; he asks. Sadly, I tell him, it&#8217;s not. The IOC&#8217;s executive board needed to drop one sport from the 2020 program. (Why can&#8217;t IOC just add another sport and keep wrestling, you ask? Because the organization values exclusivity and clubbiness and self-importance. There are 26 sports now. Would it hurt anyone or compromise the Olympics or be a huge economic burden to have 27 sports on the summer program? No.) Instead, wrestling &#8212; quite possibly the world&#8217;s oldest sport, a sport with an Olympic tradition going back to ancient times &#8212; gets the boot. Going into this executive board vote, modern pentathlon, the eccentric sport that combines swimming, fencing, running, equestrian and shooting, seemed most at risk. But political connections may save modern pentathlon. As the AP reports: Klaus Schormann, president of [modern pentathlon] governing body UIPM, lobbied hard to protect his sport&#8217;s Olympic status and it paid off in the end. &#8220;We have promised things and we have delivered,&#8221; he said after Tuesday&#8217;s decision. &#8220;That gives me a great feeling. It also gives me new energy to develop our sport further and never give up.&#8221; Modern pentathlon also benefited from the work of Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., the son of the former IOC president<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344480&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Lindsey Vonn Make It Back For The Sochi Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/06/will-lindsey-vonn-make-it-back-for-sochi-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year before the start of the Sochi Olympics, it appeared that America&#8217;s most decorated skier might be on the shelf for those games. After Lindsey Vonn took an awful tumble at a ski race in Austria on Tuesday, her return to the mountain was the furthest priority. As she was airlifted off the mountain to the hospital, you just hoped that she&#8217;d be OK. She will be, but it&#8217;s a long road back &#8211; Vonn tore both her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and her medial collateral ligament in the crash. Vonn also fractured her tibia. She&#8217;s out for the rest of the season, but her team has expressed confidence that she&#8217;ll be skiing in Sochi. &#8221;I can assure you that I will work as hard as humanly possible to be ready to represent my country next year in Sochi,&#8221; Vonn said in a statement. Is this wishful thinking? Not at all. First off, Vonn has injured herself before, and come back even better. Type &#8220;Lindsey Vonn crash&#8221; into YouTube, and a spill from 2009 comes up first (she bruised an arm). At the Vancouver Olympics, she battled a shin injury and still won gold in the downhill, and bronze in the Super-G. A low-level ACL sprain, sustained in a training crash, ended her 2007 season early. (MORE: 10 Questions For Lindsey Vonn) Dr. Jo Hannafin, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and USOC physician at the 2004 Athens Olympics, says that for most people, an ACL-tear would require about a year of recovery time before they resume normal activity. An elite athlete like Vonn, however, could be moving around in six months &#8212; though it would likely take her longer to return to Olympic form. Her MCL tear might not even require surgery, Hannafin says. The MCL stretches from the femur to the tibia: if the tear occurred closer to the femur, it could heal on its own. Vonn&#8217;s knees may stiffen up in the post-rehab period, says Hannafin, and that can surely slow her down.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344428&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lindsay Vonn of the United States of America skis before crashing while competing in the Women&#039;s Super G event during the Alpine FIS Ski World Championships in Schladming, Austria, Feb. 5, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Top 10 Everything: Sports</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-sports-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 55 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad of the past 12 months<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2342950&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME At The Olympics</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/07/24/time-at-the-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next month or so, you may notice very infrequent posts on Keeping Score. The reason: TIME&#8217;s sports coverage will be focusing on the 2012 London Olympics. So for dispatches from the Games, and stories on the history, culture, economics, science, and other aspects of the Olympics, plus photo galleries, Top 10 lists and more, please visit our Olympics site here. We hope you enjoy it. And enjoy the Games. (MORE: 50 Olympic Athletes To Watch)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2341207&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME Olympics Blog: London Calling</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/07/02/time-olympics-blog-london-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Programming note: today, TIME has launched an Olympics blog, which will feature daily coverage of the lead-up to the London Olympics, as well as dispatches from the Games themselves. You can find the blog here. Leading it off: a worldwide tour of &#8220;50 Olympians to Watch&#8221; this summer. Over the next six weeks, we&#8217;ll be offering stories about the personalities and events that drive the Olympics conversation, as well as pieces on the cultural, economic, and political aspects of the Games. We&#8217;ll also spotlight the best in Olympic photography, and have some video surprises in store. In others words, we&#8217;ll be covering the London Olympics from every angle. We hope you enjoy the Olympics site: and thanks, as always, for reading Keeping Score.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2340723&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Beckham Left Off Britain&#8217;s Olympic Soccer Team</title>
		<link>http://olympics.time.com/2012/06/28/david-beckham-left-off-britains-olympic-soccer-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lee Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Beckham will make several appearances at the London 2012 Olympics, but none of them will be as a competitor. That&#8217;s because Britain&#8217;s soccer coach Stuart Pearce has left Beckham off the national squad. The former England captain broke the news late last night in a statement released by his representatives. &#8220;Everyone knows how much playing for my country has always meant to me. So I would have been honored to have been part of this unique Team GB squad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Naturally I am very disappointed, but there will be no bigger supporter of the team than me. And like everyone, I will be hoping they can win the gold.&#8221; (PHOTOS: A Brief History of David Beckham) Beckham played a key role in London&#8217;s winning bid to host the Olympic Games, and he subsequently took on the role of international cheerleader for the nation. In 2008 he appeared in the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. And just last month he traveled to Athens as part of the delegation that collected the Olympic torch. That appearance—and his gig carrying the torch in Cornwall—fueled speculation that he would make the national squad, if only as a thank you for all of his efforts helping to secure the Games for London. Others suggested his selection was essential to help boost the popularity of Olympic soccer, and to sell t-shirts and other souvenirs. But Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, says that organizers put no pressure on Pearce to select Beckham. “[Pearce] has to pick the team that he thinks can lift that trophy,&#8221; Coe said last month. &#8220;I wouldn’t expect any other coach to operate on anything other than that basis. The coach has to be in pole position to select on skill and merit.&#8221; (MORE: Go Home, England: The Curse of Penalty Kicks Strikes Again) Olympic rules require the majority of players be under 23 years old. Only three players on the 18-man squad can exceed the age limit. The identity of those<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2340643&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Heat: How the U.S. Track And Field Trials Got All Muddled</title>
		<link>http://olympics.time.com/2012/06/27/dead-heat-how-the-u-s-track-and-field-trials-got-all-muddled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allyson Felix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, some numbers. 2,077 1,110 639 0 Those are the number of words on the books explaining tie-breaking procedures for, respectively, Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, and U.S. Olympic sprinting (The baseball word count may have changed now that the playoffs will expand this year, but you see the point). As the U.S. Olympic trials head into their second weekend in Eugene, Ore., one question lurks over the event: how, and when, are U.S. sprinters Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh going to determine who races in the 100 meters in London? (PHOTOS: Greece Lights Olympic Torch) Last Saturday, Felix and Tarmoh finished in a dead heat for the third and final U.S. spot in that event. Somehow, U.S.A. Track and Field (USATF) did not have procedures in place to immediately break the deadlock. Most sports have contingencies for every kind of odd finish. Baseball, for example, has rules for breaking four-way ties for a division championship. &#8220;The Commissioner shall supervise a draw that results in the Clubs&#8217; being designated Club &#8220;A,&#8221; &#8220;B,&#8221; &#8220;C,&#8221; and &#8220;D&#8221; for purposes of Rule 33(c)(1)(C)(ii). Club &#8220;B&#8221; shall play one game at the ballpark of Club &#8220;A.&#8221; Club &#8220;D&#8221; shall play one game at the ballpark of Club &#8220;C.&#8221;  Each of these two games shall be played on the day after the conclusion of the championship season as originally scheduled &#8230; &#8220; And on and on. Yet, track and field had no contingency for a two-way tie between sprinters in a 100-meter race, where competitors can be separated by nanoseconds. Sure, dead heats are rare, especially with advanced photo-finish technology available for officials. But they&#8217;re not beyond the realm of possibility. A runoff is the obvious solution. The rules, however, should have stated that it occur right away, or the next day, at the latest. Dragging this out is just silly. The coach for both sprinters, Bob Kersee, has insisted that any runoff takes place after Saturday evening; the 200-meter finals are that night. Both Felix and Tarmoh and running in the 200, and it&#8217;s Felix&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2340609&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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