2004 Summer Olympics: Facts

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after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
the 2008 film Forever the Moment is based on the real life story of South Korea's women's handball team which won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and is also the first film to revolve around the sport of handball?
the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics?
Itoro Umoh-Coleman was one of two Hephzibah High School graduates to play on the Nigerian women's national basketball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics?
sprint canoer Thomas Zereske's life was commemorated by the dedication of his former teammate Christian Gille's gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event?
Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder?
Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
2004 Olympic gold medalist Rhi Jeffrey left competitive swimming just four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for Beijing?

Facts on topics related to 2004 Summer Olympics

amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class?
Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
East German Olympic bronze medalist Wilfried Hartung was once married to two-time Olympic silver medalist Gabriele Wetzko?
Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.?
Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age?
Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games?
speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games, is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California?

Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev was running for President of the National Olympic Committee of Kyrgyzstan, when he was assassinated, as the previous head of the Committee had been?
Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?

Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo?

besides taking the athletes' oath, Paul Aste also competed on the bobsleigh track that he designed for the 1964 Winter Olympics?

Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar?
Michael Matz, who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company?