Through the 2008 Games in Beijing:
1) Steve Redgrave - 5 gold medals in rowing
2) Chris Hoy - 4 gold medals in cycling
3) Matthew Pinsent - 4 gold medals in rowing
4) Paul Radmilovic - 4 gold medals in Water Polo and swimming
5) Jack Beresford - 3 gold medals in rowing
6) Brad Wiggins - 3 gold medals in cycling
7) Ben Ainslie - 3 gold medals in sailing
8) Reginald Doherty - 3 gold medals in tennis
9) Charles Smith - 3 gold medals in water polo
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Troy Finfrock, lives in Oregon and owns more Golds gym's all recently filed for bankruptcy.
Yes, by weight, diamonds are more valuable than gold.
The British were better trained in their army
Triple H is better hes had more matchs and won more golds.
Gold is about 4 times more dense than pyrite.
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zues had a lot of children with many different women. not all of them were olympians only aphrodite, dionysus, apollo, artemis, hermes, athena, ares and hephaestus are olympians that are his children. but there were quites a few more that are not one of the 12 olympians.
There were approximately 80,000 British soldiers on the beaches at D Day. There were many more in ships and aircraft assisting.
more than 500000 british soldiers died in ww2
Many reasons. Firstly, the British bought their support. Also, they were more scared of colonists taking their land than the british. Apperently rightly so.
From the IOC's website: "In Beijing more than 10'500 athletes from 204 NOCs will be present at the Games" http://www.olympic.org/uk/utilities/faq_selection_new_uk.asp Under the question "How many countries...?"