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Cal Athletics in Beijing - Student Athletes (Part 8)
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Jigar Mehta, a UC Berkeley alum, is in Beijing and capturing a behind the scenes look of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Here are some of his notes that correspond to the video. For more updates and information, please visit http://calbears.com
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I have to keep reminding myself that the Olympics is not all about medals. These athletes are the best in the world, and what separates the winner from the rest of the field is often a few tenths of a second, especially in the pool. Before I left for Beijing, I clocked myself in the pool swimming the 50m free, yup about double the world record of 21.28, while Jernej Godec was only 1 second off the mark earning him a 18th place finish.
Outside the athletes' village, I met up with Jernej Godec, Damir
Dugonjic, and Hannah Wilson to talk about their experiences in Beijing before they headed back to Berkeley for the fall semester. |
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Cal Athletics in Beijing - Shellie Onstead (Part 5)
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Jigar Mehta, a UC Berkeley alum, is in Beijing and capturing a behind the scenes look of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Here are some of his notes that correspond to the video. For more updates and information, please visit http://calbears.com
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I have a special relationship with field hockey and the Olympics. It was the first event I saw at my first Olympics in Atlanta, and I have made a point of taking in a few matches at subsequent games. This Olympics, Shellie Omstead, the head coach of Cal's field hockey team is one of three assistant coaches on the US Women's team.
I caught up with Shellie after the US team lost 4-2 to Germany. While they aren't out of the medal hunt, they will have to win the next two matches as only the top two in each pool advance to the medal round.
One of the great things I have noticed about the Olympics is that friends and family really come out to support them and Shellie had a special member of the Cal field hockey family come out to Beijing. You'll have to watch the video to see who it is! |
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Cal Athletics in Beijing - Part 3
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Jigar Mehta, a UC Berkeley alum, is in Beijing and capturing a behind the scenes look of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Here are some of his notes that correspond to the video. For more updates and information, please visit http://calbears.com
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Beijing is an enormous town that sprawls in every direction, so you think you would never run into a familiar face.
My friend, an entertainment reporter, invited me to join him at the Speedo Parents' Meet and Greet, an opportunity for the press to meet the parents of swimmers sponsored by Speedo. The room was a buzz over Momma Phelps, whose son won another Gold medal that morning.
I spotted the Coughlins on the eve of their daughter marquee event, the 100 meter backstroke. While her world record was broken a few hours earlier, they were confidant that Natalie was poised to break it again. |
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Cal Athletics: 2008 Summer Olympians - Magdalena Lewy
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The University of California will be well represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a record 39 athletes and coaches from 14 different countries having qualified for the Games, as of July 9.
Lewy earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team with a second-place finish in the marathon at the Olympic Trials in Boston April 20, crossing the line in a lifetime-best 2:30.19. She led from the start until the 24th mile before being overtaken by eventual winner Deena Kastor. While a runner at Cal, Lewy earned All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the 1997 NCAA championships with a career-best time of 16:04.86. On Cal's all-time performers list, she ranks second in the 5000m (16:04.86), third in the 3000m (9:25.93) and seventh in the 1500m (4:23.34). Lewy is in her seventh year as an assistant coach with the Cal track & field program.
To help Golden Bear fans follow the Cal delegation this summer, Cal Athletics has built a special website at http://www.CalBears.com/Olympics, complete with bio information, schedules, results, feature stories and the history of the Bears at the Games. In addition, there is a sortable database of all Cal Olympic results. |
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Cal Athletics: 2008 Summer Olympians - Jernej Godec
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The University of California will be well represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a record 39 athletes and coaches from 14 different countries having qualified for the Games, as of July 9.
A member of Cal's 2008 Pac-10 champion 200 free, 200 medley and 400 medley relays, Godec placed sixth in the 50 free and 12th in the 100 free at the NCAA meet this past year. On relays, he was part of the Bears' national runner-up 400 medley relay, as well as the third place 200 free, 400 free and 200 medley relays. A veteran of international competition, he anchored Slovenia's 400 medley relay at the 2004 Olympics and placed 12th in both the 50 free and 50 butterfly at the 2007 World Championships. Godec is an immunology and molecular and cell biology major and has received a Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship.
To help Golden Bear fans follow the Cal delegation this summer, Cal Athletics has built a special website at http://www.CalBears.com/Olympics, complete with bio information, schedules, results, feature stories and the history of the Bears at the Games. In addition, there is a sortable database of all Cal Olympic results. |
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Cal Athletics: 2008 Summer Olympians - Lauren Boyle
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The University of California will be well represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a record 39 athletes and coaches from 14 different countries having qualified for the Games, as of July 9.
Boyle qualified for the New Zealand Olympic team in the 800-meter freestyle relay at her country's trials in late March. During her collegiate season in 2008, she broke her own Cal record in the 1650-yard free with a time of 16:01.80 at the NCAA championships, where she finished fifth. Boyle initially set the mark of 16:03.51 when she won the event at the Pac-10 meet, snapping a record that had stood for 20 years. Her 1650 victory was Cal's first in the event since Sarah Anderson claimed the title in 1989. Boyle also placed fourth in the 500 free at Pac-10s (4:45.37). She represented New Zealand at the 2005 World Championships and placed eighth in the 800-meter free relay.
To help Golden Bear fans follow the Cal delegation this summer, Cal Athletics has built a special website at http://www.CalBears.com/Olympics, complete with bio information, schedules, results, feature stories and the history of the Bears at the Games. In addition, there is a sortable database of all Cal Olympic results. |
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Cal Athletics: 2008 Summer Olympians - Hannah Wilson
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The University of California will be well represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a record 39 athletes and coaches from 14 different countries having qualified for the Games, as of July 9.
Wilson will represent her native Hong Kong at the Olympics for the second time this summer. In 2004 in Athens, she set a Hong Kong record in the 100-meter freestyle. Overall, Wilson, who also competed at the 2007 World Championships, holds national records in the 100 fly (1:00.81), 50 free (26.14), 100 free (56.51) and 200 free (2:03.24). During her freshman season at Cal in 2008, she earned honorable mention All-America honors in the 100-yard butterfly (53.02) and was part of the school record-setting 200 free relay that finished as the NCAA runner-up.
To help Golden Bear fans follow the Cal delegation this summer, Cal Athletics has built a special website at http://www.CalBears.com/Olympics, complete with bio information, schedules, results, feature stories and the history of the Bears at the Games. In addition, there is a sortable database of all Cal Olympic results. |
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Tim Grover's A.T.T.A.C.K. Athletics Training Center
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O.J. Mayo, Bill Walker, Chris Douglas-Roberts, DaJuan Wagner being instructed by Mike Procopio and Tim Grover of the A.T.T.A.C.K. Athletics Training Center in Chicago. Uploaded and filmed by Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com |
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(Justin Gatlin) 100m World championship 2005 in athletics
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Justin Gatlin wins the 100m world championship in 9.88 sec!
Music: Nirvana - Smells Like Teenspirit |
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2003 World Athletics Champs womens 4x100m relay final
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Cheer Athletics Gym Feature
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A behind the scenes look at the 4 time World Champion Program Cheer Athletics |
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Cheer Athletics WildCats Worlds 05-06
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WE`RE BETTER THAN YOU! & WE KNOW iT! |
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