Giulia quintavalle biography of michael
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Just a few days ago the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing drew to an end. The 29th edition of the summer Olympics was highly anticipated and debated due to the complex political climate; many times, the real protagonist of the games &#; the sports and its athletes &#; risked being left in the background.
Regardless of the political environment, we think it correct to honor the athletes that participated putting months and months of hard training to the test, often for just a few minutes of competition.
The two unquestioned winners of these Olympics are the American Michael Phelps with 8 gold medals and the Jamaican Usain Bolt who estabilished a new world record for the metres in 9&#;
Italy also enjoyed great satisfaction at these Olympics, with almost three hundred athletes participating. Tuscany in Beijing was represented by 28 athletes in many different sports, from fencing and swimming, to sailing and athletics. Giulia Quintavalle, a young athlete born in Livono and living in Rosignano Solvay, gained the gold medal in the under 57 kg weight class in Judo and Luca Agamennoni from Livorno partecipated in the conquest of the silver medal in the men&#;s quadruple sculls in rowing. The windsurfer Alessandra Sensini from Grosseto won the silver medal
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One day in the life of a nation of b people
Yang Xinwei
Michael Phelps picked up his second gold in the pool, Lin Yue and Huo Liang synchronized to perfection in men's diving and Kosuke Kitajima set a new record in breaststroke, but day four of the Beijing Olympics belonged to Abhinav Bindra.
The ace shooter became the first Indian - from billion people - to win an individual gold at the Olympics, beating a star-studded field that included defending champion Zhu Qinan of China.
Bindra's victory was particularly sweet because the Indian men's hockey team that has won eight golds - six in row from to - failed to qualify for the Games for the first time.
Zhu wept on the podium as he collected his silver medal and sobbed uncontrollably at a news conference later, showing the huge pressure Chinese athletes are under to win at home.
The good news for China was an easy win in the men's synchronized 10m platform diving. World champions, but Olympic debutantes, Lin Yue and Huo Liang shrugged off the pressure to take the lead from round one with a dive that won them a clutch of almost-perfect s and one perfect
Weightlifter Chen Yanqing retained her 58kg title with a total lift of kg. The year-old Chinese became the first woman to defend her Olympic title since women's w
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