Olympic gymnast to serve as Indy 500 grand marshal

A U.S. gold medal champion for gymnastics in the 2008 Summer Olympics games will be the current year's grand marshal for the Indianapolis 500.  Nastia Liukin, who was the individual all-around gold medalist for the Beijing Summer  Olympics will partake in a parade lap, show up on celebrity lane and be a piece of different 500 Festival occasions, including the Snake Pit Ball.

Liukin said that she can not hold up to be a part of the race. I have extremely affectionate recollections of contending and performing in Indianapolis, and I will really be back again in August for the P&G Gymnastics Championships. Liukin resigned from rivalry in 2012, however stays dynamic in the gymnastics scene. Her visit to Indianapolis in August will be to serve as a TV observer for the P&G Gymnastics Olympics Championships.

Emily Overholt to defer UBC commitment until after 2016 Summer Olympics Games

Canadian swimmer Emily Overholt has chosen to concede her acknowledgement to the University of British Columbia and their varsity swim group so as to concentrate on the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Overholt was acknowledged to study science at UBC and will be a colossal part to their effectively beat quality varsity squad. The UBC Thunderbirds won both the men's and ladies' CIS Championships this year, and Overholt's abilities will probably help them keep up their prosperity for a considerable year to come.

At the point when Overholt joins the group in the fall of 2016, she'll have a lot of incredible preparing accomplices, for example, Erika Seltrenreich-Hodgson in the IMs. UBC's womens group is going to lose immense numbers next season, so Overholt will be joining the squad at an extremely advantageous time. With respect to preparing, Overholt is as of now extremely acquainted with what goes ahead at UBC. She's as of now preparing at the superior focus in Vancouver which is matched up with the college. She has some of Canada's top mentors, for example, Tom Johnson and Steve Price available to her.

Overholt qualified this April to swim at both the 2015 Pan Am Games which will be held in Canada, and the 2015 World Championships. Overholt was one of the couple of swimmers who figured out how to plunge under the 'main 16′ standard that was established as the qualifying time for the Canadian universes squad. At the meet, she won the 200m free-form, 400m free-form, and set second in the 400m IM. She is presently preparing at the elite summer in readiness for the two universal meets this summer.

Anderson Silva wants to compete in taekwondo at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

Anderson Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Middleweight Champion. The former UFC middleweight champion this week wrote a letter to the Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation stating his desire to compete in the sport at the upcoming Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Silva said that Everybody knows that the Olympic Games are a dream for every athlete. It is  going to be a big pleasure for me to be part of that gold team, so I register officially in this letter my desire to represent taekwondo and Brazil in the Rio Olympic Games.

Fernandes stated that he will meet with Silva this week but made clear that, if “The Spider” accepts, the 40-year-old fighter will have to participate in the national trials. As the host nation, Brazil is granted the right to issue four special invitations -- two female and two male -- but last week, CBTKD announced that one of those invites will be given to Lucas Oliveira.

Silva is currently serving a temporary suspension from the Nevada Athletic Commission after testing positive for multiple banned substances following his win over Nick Diaz at UFC 183. He is expected to be formally disciplined at a hearing next month, though any suspension issued by the NAC would not necessarily affect Silva’s Olympic eligibility. Silva’s longtime friend and training partner Antonio Rogerio Nogueira brought Brazil a bronze medal in boxing at the 2007 Pan American Games, the same competition where Ronda Rousey won gold for the U.S. in judo.

Olympic Wrestler Bilyal Makhov Eyes Rio Olympics and Signs with UFC

Olympic bronze medalist wrestler Bilyal Makhov still eyes on 2016 Olympics gold medal but he has set another objective to win the UFC heavyweight title. Makhov signed with UFC despite he has no MMA fighting experience. First priority of Makhov is to win gold medal at Rio Olympics in either freestyle or Greco-Roman wrestling and the 27-year-old will concentrate on MMA after that. Murat Keshtov who is trainer of Makhov said the wrestler can win the UFC heavyweight championship after half year of training. Keshtov said if he works six months with him, Russia can be owner of UFC heavyweight belt.

Makhov has won freestyle wrestling world championship three times. He lives in the area where he saw the flourishing of MMA fighters. He has also worked with ex UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski which increaed his interest in the sport. He said on this he always likes to challenge himself. He presented as an example that he decided to switch to Greco-Roman style after successful career of freestyle wrestling and he would focus on MMA afterwards. The Olympic medalist said he has focused on hard work, time and attention in his career and if he can work in the same way In MMA then he can achieve highest level of success in the sport.

Wrsetling is liked and played all over the world. Olympics has two wrestling categories for men Greco-Roman Style and Freestyle. Rio Olympics wrestling competitions will take place at Hall 3 of Olympic Training Center in Barra da Tijuca from 14 to 21 August. Sports fans who want to get updates on Olympic wrestling should remain connected with this blog for fresh information.