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La ‘Première’ dans les activités de nature: une performance, un record?

Pierre-Olaf Schut and Antoine Marsac

fondement du sport moderne 1 mais les performances qui aboutissent à des records sont-elles toutes comparables? Assurément non. Les épreuves de sprint en athlétisme ou en natation sont reproductibles dans des conditions identiques. Elles offrent les conditions idéales de production d’un record. Une épreuve

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“Star Maker”: George Powles, McClymonds High School, and the Youth of West Oakland

David K. Wiggins

Angeles (UCLA), and Wendell Hayes, a basketball teammate of Silas who went on to a solid career as a running back with the NFL’s Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys and later with the American Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs. Finally, two internationally famous sprinters were McClymonds alumni. Ray

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They Didn’t Do Anything Wrong but They Did Everything White: Examination of the 1968 Harvard Crew’s Support of the Olympic Project for Human Rights

Amanda Nicole Schweinbenz and C. Keith Harrison

Carlos win gold and bronze in the men’s 200-m sprint. The coxswain met up with American journalist Pete Axthelm and the two sat together in the stands with Kim Carlos and Denise Smith; Axthelm knew Carlos and Smith because of previous work he had written on their husbands. 96 As the 200-m track

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Wood, Canvas, Fiberglass, and Whitewater: The Development of Recreational Paddling in Alberta, Canada

Jon L. Weller

in response to a perceived need for better open canoe instruction and safety; and the Alberta Flatwater Canoe Association, which grew out of the Calgary Canoe Club and focused on sprint racing. These organizations formed under one umbrella at the request of government officials who were not

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The Birth and Development of Sports Video Games From the 1950s to the Early 1980s

Lu Zhouxiang

1,500-m sprints, 100-m hurdles, long jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus, and javelin. Up to eight players could compete against each other, using the keyboard to control speed and movement. The skill, timing, and reflexes necessary for success were based on manual dexterity and hand

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Abebe Bikila: Portrait d’un Champion Olympique en Témoin de son Temps

Louis Violette

vivant », L’Equipe , 22 octobre 1964, 2. 42. Maurice Vidal, L’épopée des Jeux olympiques 1896–1988 (Paris: Miroir Sprint, 1988), 118. 43. Photographies in Abebe, Triumph , 81, 100–101, 85. 44. Judah, Bikila , 135–136. 45. Au total, Abebe Bikila se sera engagé dans 15 épreuves officielles entre 1959