Athletics: IN BRIEF - Young stars will shine - Holmes.ATHLETICS athletics or track and field also track-and-field games Variety of sport competitions held on a running track and on the adjacent field. It is the oldest form of organized sports, having been a part of the ancient Olympic Games from c. : Dame Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE (born April 19, 1970) is a retired British middle-distance athlete. She won gold medals in the 800 metres and the 1500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. has backed Great Britain's next crop of athletes to eventually fill the shoes of former Olympic O·lym·pic adj. Of or relating to the Olympic Games. Olympic Adjective of the Olympic Games Adj. 1. Olympic - of or relating to the Olympic Games; "Olympic winners" 2. heroes. Holmes won the 800m and 1,500m in Athens but is among those who have retired from competition since. She said: "We're at a point in the cycle where a lot of established sports people have retired so there is a new crop coming through and need to make their mark. There will be a championships when we see some surprises and breakthroughs. We've always done well in the Olympics Olympics Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games. and the expectations increase each year." |
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