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Tulsa might make run at 2024 Summer Olympics

...000 hotel rooms, far fewer than the 45,000 required, and Mavis said the city would have to finance and build an Olympic stadium to host major events. Tulsa's largest facilities now are the 30,000-seat Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2013-04-27/tulsa-might-make-run-202
Oscar Pistorius is cleared to travel

...chairman Ed Warner said it was too early to say if Pistorius would be invited to the London Anniversary Games in July at Olympic Stadium, a meet to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Olympics. Any decision would be taken "with great care...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-03-28/oscar-pistorius-clea
George Kitchens fails to qualify for long jump finals

...feet, 5 1/4 inches ? to finish second to last out of 40 jumpers who recorded a score in front of 62,421 at Olympic Stadium."The wind was swirling," said Kitchens, a three-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion at Clemson and post-college...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-08-03/george-kitchens-fails-qualif
Spain dominates final, defends Euro crown

...international soccer.Spain's other goals on Sunday at the Olympic Stadium came from David Silva, Jordi Alba and Juan Mata...stadium, filling up more than six sections of the Olympic Stadium. On the opposite side, the blue-clad Italians...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2012-07-01/spain-dominates-fina
Amputee Oscar Pistorius will run in Olympics

...sailing) at that time. We have paid a solemn memory and homage to the athletes on the day after the massacre in the Olympic Stadium."Rogge said he has attended several ceremonies with the Israeli Olympic Committee and Israeli athletes during recent...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-07-04/amputee-oscar-pistorius-
American Jenn Suhr wins gold in pole vault

...35-year-old Felix Sanchez, of the Dominican Republic, took the men's 400-meter hurdles on a rainy night at Olympic Stadium. Other winners included Belarus' Nadzeya Ostapchuk (women's shot put) and Russia's Yuliya Zaripova (women's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-08-06/american-jenn-suhr-wins-
The Olympics are full of 'losers'

...Rene Herrera of the Philippines did manage to set a personal best in a men's 5,000-meter heat Wednesday at the Olympic stadium.That he finished dead last, 43 seconds behind the next finisher hardly mattered. He was an Olympian, even if the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-08-08/olympics-are-full-losers
American wrestler Jordan Burroughs wins gold

...Tatyana Lysenko (women's hammer throw) and France's Renaud Lavillenie (men's pole vault) were winners at Olympic Stadium.WATER POLO: Led by Valentino Gallo's three goals, Italy upset Serbia 9-7 to advance to the final against undefeated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-08-10/american-wrestler-jordan
Closing ceremony puts cap on 'happy and glorious games'

...marching band in red tunics and bearskin hats.It was all delivered in a psychedelic mashup that had 80,000 fans at Olympic Stadium stomping, cheering and singing along. Organizers estimated 300 million or more were watching around the world...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-08-12/closing-ceremony-puts-ca
Usain Bolt's future is big question

...third gold medal of the London Games, Usain Bolt gave a little wave to 80,000 or so of his best friends in the Olympic Stadium stands.Almost immediately, the questions started: What did that mean? Was Bolt bidding adieu for good? Will he...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-08-12/usain-bolts-future-big-q