A woman carrying pole vaults in a purpose-built bag struggles to make her way through a crowd of screaming children at an athletics meeting in northern Italy

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The track at the Beijing Olympics belonged to Usain Bolt. At the London Games in 2012, he may have to share the glory with David Rudisha. Bolt, the showman, will always be the bigger star. His events, the 100 and 200, have more glamour, more pulling power than Rudisha’s discipline, the 800. And Bolt, of course, is already a multiple Olympic champion.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic Committee is considering a bid for the Youth Olympics , with Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Lake Placid, N.Y., possible contenders for the event that drew 3,500 athletes from 205 countries to Singapore last month at a cost of $287 million.

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Shelby County Community Services sent 29 athletes to Spare Time Lanes in Decatur to bowl in the Special Olympics Area Bowling meet on August 21.

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LAKE PLACID - The prospect of this village hosting the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics appears to be fading, as the deadline to submit a bid is two months away, and local and U.S. Olympic Committee officials apparently don’t have any plans to vie for the games.

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