The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.
Although sportsmen and women in the public eye are often singled out for abuse, Adlington, who alongside Katherine Grainger is Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian, feels women are criticised for a wider range of supposed sins than men.
Olympian hero Mo Farah isn't any less British because he was born in Somalia and lived there until he was eight.
A furious Phelps is one the finest sights in sport and this was the last great evening for the greatest Olympian.
Former Olympian Nova Peris is on track to win one of two Senate seat for the Northern Territory.
Within 12 hours of Bruce Jenner's double coming out on network television Friday night – in which the former Olympian told ABC News that he identifies both as a woman and as a Republican – the hostility he is likely to face from some of his newly revealed party associates was on full display in Minnesota.
Selected by: Tim Don, 2006 world champion, two time Olympian, Mazda representative and the most successful British triathlete of the last five years Summarised in a sentence: "This bike favourite of mine will get you used to pedalling at pace". 1. Warm up with 20 minutes' gentle spinning.
Ancient Greeks could more readily seek the intercession of Olympian gods than today's citizens can hope to change policy in Brussels.
But even Mrs Snowe is not ready to take on the Olympian task of reviving the Senate's long-lost tradition of bipartisanship.
"WHERE does the power come from, to see the race to its end?" asks Eric Liddell in that cinematic celebration of the Olympian ideal, "Chariots of Fire".
Though the winners, especially the natural scientists, are generally thought to have deserved their prizes, the whole procedure appears to be cloaked in an air of Olympian inevitability.
