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A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Summer Olympics Athletics. [1] Many Olympic sports or events do not allow three entries into a single event in the Olympics, making a sweep impossible.
Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is a scheme created by Government of India to promote sports in India. [1] In September 2014, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India started a scheme to train and promote high-performance athletes with a target of getting medals at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The word sweep is commonly used in North American sports such as baseball, basketball, cricket and ice hockey which have playoff or regular season series, to describe a situation where one team wins all the games in a series, for example, with a 4–0 victory in a best-of-seven series.
According to the International Olympic Committee, the boxes contain an official poster for the Olympic games, designed by French artist Ugo Gattoni. The poster shows a stylized version of the city ...
Student athletes heading to the Olympics in Paris this summer face a monumental task training for their sport while completing college courses. Universities will be sending scores of students to ...
Biles, the most decorated American Olympic gymnast of all time, appeared to have put together another stunning performance but landing out of bounds twice cost the US star six-tenths of a point ...
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US sprinter and Nike athlete Athing Mu leads the pack during the women's 800m final at the Tokyo Olympics, August 3, 2021. Michael Kappeler/dpa/Getty Nike has led the way in creating "super spikes ...