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Alexander Doom (pronounced [aːlɛkˈsɑndər ˈdoːm]; born 25 April 1997) is a Belgian sprinter specializing in the 400 metres. [1] In 2024, he became the first male athlete to win the individual 400 metres and 4×400 metres relay at the same World Athletics Indoor Championships [2] [3] [4] He has won several medals in international competitions with the Belgian 4 × 400 metres relay team ...
Subsequently, he won the first ever Olympic gold medal for the Dominican Republic on August 28, 2004, during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. [12] During his 43-race [8] winning streak, from 2001 to 2004, Sánchez was known for wearing a wristband while competing. The red flashing wristband, a souvenir from the 2000 Olympics, served ...
Ben Johnson entered the race as the reigning 100 metres world record holder and won the Olympic final, raising his arm in victory, in a new world record of 9.79 seconds to much fanfare. Soon after being awarded the gold medal the results of his post-race drug test revealed his urine contained traces of stanozolol (a banned steroid). [90]
The Dominican Republic has won fifteen medals at the Olympics. Pedro Nolasco won a bronze in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in 2004 Félix Sánchez won a gold in the 400 meter hurdles. In the 2008 Summer Olympics Manuel Felix Diaz won a gold medal in Boxing and Gabriel Mercedes won silver in Taekwondo. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in ...
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques,) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics. 1992 Barcelona ... Sean Rooney; Riley Salmon; Clay Stanley; Scott ...
Marileidy Paulino (born 25 October 1996) [4] is a Dominican athlete sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first woman from the Dominican Republic to earn an individual Olympic medal in athletics. [5]
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.