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Sarah Brown is an orphaned teen determined to win the Olympic gold medal for riding. Captain Johnson is the tough, no-nonsense trainer who teaches her the meaning of true dedication. He₂s there to help as much as he can, but on the day of the big race, it will all be up to Sarah.
3) The ringer
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Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve resorts to an unthinkable scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged in order to rig the upcoming Special Olympics, to dethrone the reigning champion and bringing home the gold.
5) Frog kingdom
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When the Frog King announces that the winner of the Froglympics will win the hand of his daughter, Princess Froglegs, in marriage, she runs away. Disguised as a commoner, Princess Froglegs befriends street vendor, Freddie, and begins training with him for the games, determined that she will win and thwart her father's plans of marriage. Meanwhile, the villainous Serpent has ideas of his own to ruin the Froglympics and take over the kingdom.
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Criterion collection volume 494
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A skier desperate to win gold in the Olympics joins an American team only to find that his new coach doesn't agree with how he goes about getting it.
12) Olympic dreams
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Set against the Winter Olympic Games, an intimate and unexpected love story develops between two lonely hearts. Penelope is a first time Olympian and introverted cross-country skier, who, after finishing her event early, finds herself spending time in Athletes Village with the gregarious and outgoing Ezra. As they grow closer, they push one another to embrace qualities they lost sight of in pursuit of their dreams. Will they be able to help each other...
14) For the glory
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The true life story of Olympic soccer player Kurt Kuykendall. Faced with rejection of his perfectionist father, his mother's crippling alcoholism and his own failure to make it as a college basketball player, Kuykendall meets Christ at an emotional crossroad. Then at the bidding of an insistent friend, he tries out for the college soccer team, having never played competitive soccer in his life. To everyone's surprise he becomes an overnight sensation....
16) Tokyo Olympiad
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A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all...
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In this new 2024 high-definition program, learn all about the history of the Olympic Games from 776 BCE in Olympia, Greece to the summer 2024 Games in Paris. What is the "Olympic Truce"? Who is the most- decorated Olympian of all time? What are the greatest Olympic victories throughout history? How and why did Black athlete Jesse Owens' wins at the 1936 Olympics upset Adolph Hitler? What were the Munich Massacres of 1972? Who are some of the...
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