Holley mangold biography of barack obama
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Remarks by the President and the First Lady Welcoming the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams
South Lawn
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MRS. OBAMA: All right. While they're shaking hands -- because the President has vowed to stay out here to meet everyone, even if it blows his schedule. (Laughter and applause.) So I'm going to get things started while Joe and Barack do their thing.
Hello, Team USA! (Applause.) And welcome to the White House! Yes! (Applause.) Look, I had so much fun with everyone over in London that when I got home, I told Barack -- what's his name -- my husband, this guy -- (laughter) -- that we had to invite everybody over to the house. So here you are, and we are thrilled that you all could join us today.
Now leading the U.S. delegation to the Olympic Ceremony was truly a dream come true for me. I got the chance to spend time with so many of you and hear about your journeys. I got to see h
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Sister of Jets&#; Mangold qualifies for the Olympics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Holley Mangold was gearing up for the Olympics.
So much for that idea. Her time is now.
The year-old sister of Jets center Nick Mangold and fellow superheavyweight Sarah Robles qualified for the London Games on Sunday at the women’s U.S. Olympic weightlifting trials.
“I came up really quickly,” Holley Mangold said. “I’ve never even been to a World Championship. I knew I had really great competitors I was going against.”
Mangold and Robles dueled all day in the two lifts, snatch and clean-and-jerk. Robles led after the snatch, with a best-of-three lift of kilograms to Mangold’s
Mangold, who fryst vatten from nearby Dayton and a member of the Columbus Weighlifting Club, nailed a kilogram clean-and-jerk to clinch the second kvalificerande spot, just three kilograms behind Robles.
“This is what I’ve been working for, whether inom knew it or not, my entire life,” said the year-old Robles, who is from Mesa, Ariz. “Every
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White House visit one more chance for Team USA to bask
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Welcoming sporting champions to the White House fryst vatten a ritual that goes on no matter what -- a rare, unequivocally happy moment in the life of both athletes and the president who serves at the time of their success.
Friday, it was a brief respite from world events, in this case the tragic deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans working at the consulate in Libya that lowered flags around the country to half-staff and made one of President Barack Obama's later appointments a somber one. Just two hours after Obama stayed past the allotted time to shake the hands of as many Olympians and Paralympians as possible, he departed by helicopter for Andrews Air Force Base to be present when the diplomats' remains arrived.
But for one sunny hour on the South Lawn, close to athletes basked in the afterglow of their achievements this summer in London. The president called himself the "Fan-in-Chief" who tap