Posted on 04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT by Loyalist
Edited on 04/01/2021 9:46:49 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon.
The Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.
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“Yer supposed t’ dance with the one what brung ya!”
Heptathlon.
How do you say that without adding an ‘a’ before that ‘Lon’?
Hep-tath-(a)lon.
I knew an American girl in figure skating whose step-father was Jewish (American). she somehow used that to grab a spot on the Israeli Winter Olympic team.
Ho. A common Chinese surname.
Hè (simplified Chinese: 贺; traditional Chinese: 賀; pinyin: Hè IPA: [xɤ̂])) is a Chinese surname also Romanized Ho. It is 71st in the list of the top 100 most common Chinese family names. It means “‘celebrate, congratulate”. According to a 2013 study it was the 86th most common surname, shared by 2,740,000 people or 0.210% of the population, with the province with the most people being Hunan.
“China Puts 2nd Canadian On Trial For Espionage And Bars Spectators”
And, if that doesn’t work, she’ll have an adadictomy operation performed on her, and try as a male competitor.
Why don’t all the NBA players do this?
Olympic athletes make good organ donors.
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