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Posts Tagged ‘olympics’

From Iraq to El Salvador, refugee children shine at Oakland Olympics

By Tawanda Kanhema | August 13, 2012

Forget about the London Olympics. Friday, the real Olympic fun was right here in Oakland at Soccer Without Borders’ Oakland Olympics, an annual event bringing together displaced refugee children between the ages of 5 and 19 years old from Bhutan, Iraq, Nepal, Gabon, the Ivory Coast and El Salvador, among other countries.

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US Olympic rowers training on Estuary for London Games

By Ryan Phillips | April 19, 2012 | 1

Members of the U.S. Men’s National Rowing Team have been practicing in Oakland for months, gliding up and down the Estuary as they prepare for this summer’s Olympic Games in London.

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