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* Olympic class ocean liner, trio of ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line
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Among the small sailing catamarans, also called beach catamarans, the most recognized racing classes are the Hobie Cat 16, Formula 18 cats, A-cats and the ex Olympic multihull class called Tornado and the recent popularity of the Weta trimaran ( NZ ).
* Finn ( dinghy ), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy
* Patty Boydstun-Hovdey-World Cup and Olympic alpine ski racer-U. S. champion-McCall HS class of 1970
Representing Uganda, Mugabi was the Silver medalist at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, boxing in the Welterweight ( 67 kg ) class.
The Tornado catamaran was an Olympic class sailing catamaran, with a crew of two.
Exceptions are made for firearms with cultural / artistic value ( i. e. museum pieces ) and for class 4 air pistol competitors, such as Olympic athletes.
* Racing longboards: Mistral One Design, or the Olympic RS: X class race boards.
The current Olympic class, the Neil Pryde RS: X was used for the first time in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
During the second part of the Olympic regatta, the conditions were so good that the 10 – 20 Ton class was able to sail the complete 22 nautical mile triangulair course.
Years later, his concept sketches were revisited and used to design the starship Enterprise, the Olympic class U. S. S.
Another major milestone was achieved on December 3, 2000, when STAC and the sport of Sepak Takraw became an official class E Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee.
In " Olga Gets Engaged ," Miriam mentions to Olga's intended fiancé that she was once an Olympic class swimmer and would have most likely been a contender for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich had she not married Big Bob.
As it was an Olympic year and only one crew can be sent to the olympics in each boat class the stage was set for a battle to see who would fill the olympic single sculls spot.
In response to Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania, White Star ordered the Olympic class liners: Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic ( II ).
While Cunard was famed for the speed of its ships, the Olympic class were to be the biggest and most luxurious ships in the world.
The Olympic was the only ship of this class that was profitable for White Star.
A year after this merger, Olympic, the last of her class, was removed from service.
* DFS Olympia Meise, Olympic class sailplane
At the highest level of competition the standard is world class, and it is not unusual to find reigning or past Olympic Champions entering the major GP14 Championships, and being defeated.
With 40 daily races, up to 1, 000 boats, and 8, 500 competitors ranging from Olympic and world class professionals to weekend sailors, it is the largest sailing regatta of its kind in the world.
The Shivaji Park Residential area, a predominantly upper middle class residential zone, has also become a highly sought after residential area in South Mumbai because of its proximity to the Dadar Chowpatty, Shivaji Park, Mahatma Gandhi Olympic Swimming Pool and the famous Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi.
The Finn dinghy is the men's single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class for sailing.
In 2002 she won the Olympic class Europe World Championships.
Olympic and ocean
* University of Calgary Aquatic Centre: Contains an Olympic sized swimming pool with a deep end diving tank featuring two sparging units for the world famous bubble machine which is used for springboard and platform divers, kayakers and general ocean simulated swims.
*, a ship's tender built by the White Star Line to service the Olympic class ocean liner
* Olympic class ocean liner
Prior to this, some municipal functions were held on ocean liners that were moored in Southampton docks, including Cunard's Olympic.
For the competitive requests from the IMM in 1908 for Harland & Wolff to build the White Star Line's Olympic class ocean liner:,, and RMS Gigantic ( later renamed ).
Typically 5. 0-6. 0 metres ( 16½-21 ft ) long and only 40 – 50 cm ( 16-20 ") wide, surf skis are extremely fast when paddled on flat water ( only an Olympic K1 or K2 kayak is faster ) and the fastest paddled craft available over a long distance on ocean swells.
Olympic and liner
Lord traveled on the RMS Olympic, Titanics sister ship, when he was a boy and the experience gave him a lifelong fascination with the lost liner.
In June 1929, García Lorca travelled to America with Fernando de los Rios on the SS Olympic, a sister liner to the Titanic.
The Olympic was a luxury ship that was the largest civilian liner at that time, being nearly longer than any other ship.
Olympic and trio
When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.
The shipyard has built many ships ; among the more famous are the White Star trio Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast, Royal Mail's Andes, Shaw Savill's Southern Cross and P & O's Canberra.
In 1910 White Star launched the Olympic, the first of a trio of 45, 000 plus gross ton liners with the Titanic and Britannic.
Olympic and liners
Due to the surplus tonnage of the new combined Cunard White Star fleet many of the older liners were sent to the scrapyard, these included the Mauretania and the ex-White Star liners Olympic and Homeric.
The two former German liners operated successfully alongside Olympic for an express service on the Southampton-New York route until the Great Depression reduced demand after 1930.
For example, the Canadian Pacific Steamships RMS Empress of Russia and White Star Line RMS Olympic ( sister ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic ), former passenger liners, were given the " dazzle " treatment when used as troopships.
Olympic and built
For the Games in 1970 the city built major Olympic standard venues and facilities including the Royal Commonwealth Pool and the Meadowbank Stadium.
The Northern Stand, also known as the Olympic Stand, was built to replace the old Grandstand for the 1956 Olympic Games.
No new venues were built for the games, and athletes were housed in existing accommodation instead of an Olympic Village.
Tourism has increased since the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and many hotels and restaurants were built for the events.
First to be built was the student campus of the Helsinki University of Technology, which also served as one of the Olympic Villages in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Olympic Stadium ( Berlin ), a stadium originally built for the cancelled 1916 Summer Olympics
The Parc Olímpic del Segre, built in 1992 for the Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, is a pump-driven canoe and kayak sports venue located adjacent to the historical centre of la Seu d ' Urgell.
* An Olympic Village was built for the first time, in Baldwin Hills, occupied by the male athletes.
Five newer buildings named Glacier, Olympus, Norquay, Brewster, and Castle Halls were built prior to the 1988 Winter Olympics as the athletes ’ Olympic Village.
Near the end of World War I, Sequim became a stop for a railway which passed through from Port Angeles to Port Townsend, built primarily to carry wood products from the forests of the western Olympic Peninsula.
For the 1972 Summer Olympics the city of Munich built the Olympic Stadium.
10 of 15 prototypes were built in time for the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games in 1994.
The front gate of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, which was built for the 1912 Games.
Although not originally in the schedule, several countries requested that track cycling be added ; however, the organising committee stuck by their plans not to build a new track cycling stadium as the only one in Stockholm had been destroyed in order for the Olympic Stadium to be built.
Saint Valentine's Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of the Olympic Village, continues as a modern, well-visited parish church.
It was during this period that the company built the RMS Olympic and her sister-ships RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic between 1909 and 1914, commissioning Sir William Arrol & Co. to construct a massive twin gantry and slipway structure for the project.
Webster was the lessee of the Haymarket from 1837 to 1853 ; he built the new Adelphi Theatre ( 1859 ); later the Olympic Theatre, Princess's Theatre, London and St James's Theatres came under his control ; and he was the patron of all the contemporary playwrights and many of the best actors, who owed their opportunity of success to him.
* Olympic Stadium ( Berlin ), built for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Open since 2002, it consists of the National 50m Swimming Pool which is the only water facility in Ireland which has the approval of FINA, the international swimming body, and is the first in the country to be built to Olympic standards.
The Olympic Cauldron for the 2012 London Olympics was built in a ‘ Bond Gadget Workshop ’ in Harrogate, said designer Thomas Heatherwick.
Maxi is also the brand name for a range of production sailing yachts designed by Olympic medallist Pelle Pettersson and built on the Swedish Island of Gotland for more than 30 years.
With the influx of work, an expansion of the mine at Olympic Dam, more houses are being built and transported in.
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