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Arnold Sports Festival 2022: Tyler Schwartz Medieval Fighting

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In our melee (group fights) are last man standing. If you have three points of contact on the ground, and our feet always count. If you can touch someone’s head to the ground and fold them in half, they are down and they have to sit. You can kick their legs out and make them sit down.

March 31, 2022 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2022: Jim Dean, Bagpiper

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When you see a bagpiper play, he blows in the bagpipe, expands the bag, the air creates movements and vibration in the bass drone and two tenor drones which is the organ sound. The additional amount of breath controls the chanter

March 18, 2022 Festival, Music, People

Zoe Guice

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Overall, it is really fun to play with my sister. We compliment each other on the court. It is really fun.

January 11, 2022 People, Sports

Leila Jones

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I think we are going to be good this season. I feel like our team chemistry is really good and we complement each other really well. I am excited to see where we go.

January 9, 2022 People, Sports

Nevaeh Brownlee

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I am a basketball D1 recruit, and a volleyball D1 recruit. In the off season I play basketball and I play volleyball on two different club teams.

January 7, 2022 People, Sports

Dominique Woodard

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I am thinking about going to the ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps). I don ‘t see myself pursuing basketball in college. If I were to get a scholarship, I would go.

January 3, 2022 Art, People, Sports

Ava Robey

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Since I was little, I played sports. My main sport is lacrosse. I am committed to play lacrosse. Basketball is similar to lacrosse.

December 28, 2021 People, Sports

Madison “Madi” O’Neill

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I might not be the best offensive player, but I like to push other people and bring energy defensively. When I know I am not bringing what I can offensively, I can harass the ball and get turnovers and make plays and make someone else feel good about what they just did.

December 15, 2021 People, Sports

Nelia Guice

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I have grown to love the sport so much. It is what I want to do at the next level as well.

December 4, 2021 People, Sports

Tamara Ortiz

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I am undecided on a specific school. I want to play basketball at the next level.

November 28, 2021 People, Sports

Jermaine Guice, Head Varsity Basketball Coach at Westerville South High School

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Let’s get after it. Let’s sit down and play really good defense. Let’s be intense. Then on offence, let’s execute. Share the basketball. And hopefully, good things happen.

November 21, 2021 People, Sports

COVID-19 Break: All People Fresh Market: Youth

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My team and I are here for the kids. We serve meals Tuesday through Saturday to kids eighteen and under. We are an emergency food site in partnership with Children’s Hunger Alliance. We are serving breakfast, and dinner for the next day to families that roll through the fresh market from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

July 2, 2020 People, Thing

COVID-19 Break: Black Lives Matter Protest- Reynoldsburg

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This is the first time that we as young adults have felt that we can use our voice and that our voice is being heard. This is the first time that we have seen other high school students become politically involved. Often our generation gets a bad rep (reputation) of not wanting to do anything.

June 3, 2020 People, Thing

COVID-19 Break at Bicentennial Park featuring the Towns family

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My father is L.B. Towns. He has 19 children. We are all out here as a family. We range in age from 44 to 1 year old. My father was Buster Douglas’ corner man when he fought Tyson.

May 27, 2020 People, Place

Arnold Strongman Classic 2020: Elephant Bar Deadlift

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Mateusz Kieliszkowski won three of the first five events (Trial by Stone, Wheel of Pain, and Timber Carry). He finished 8th in this event and second in the Arnold Strongman Classic.

April 29, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Strongman Classic 2020: Trial by Stone

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Two stones were to be pressed over head weighing 275 and 300 pounds. Two stones that weighed 365 and 400 pounds were to be lifted and placed on a barrel. Next, a stone needed to be lifted and carried 50 feet.

April 26, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Pro Strongman Bobby Thompson

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My favorite event at the Arnold was the elephant bar deadlift. I’m a very statically gifted athlete when it comes to strength and even though I was tired, I was able to show case that in that event.

April 16, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Odd Haugen

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He competed in the World’s Strongest Man competitions while he was in his mid-fifties. He broke a record on his 66th birthday. He lifted a Thomas Inch Dumbbell (it weighs 172 pounds and has a handle as thick as a Coke can), 63 times in 10 minutes.

April 12, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Amateur Middleweight Strongman Winner Gary Piotrowski

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I competed in body building and powerlifting before I found my first Strongman contest in 2013. I signed up without knowing what I was doing and fell in love with it.

April 6, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Pro Strongwoman Danielle Vaji

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Typically, I am a middle weight competitor. For the Strongwoman pro series, it is an open weight class. I was able to put on a few extra pounds, which in turn helped me to hang out with the big girls a little better.

April 1, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Christopher Patrick London

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Classic physique goes by height and weight. That is what makes it challenging. Regardless of how big you are, you still must make the weight limit. If you don’t make the weight limit, you can’t compete.

April 1, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Strongwoman Hannah Linzay

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I just set the world record for the sandbag throw (40 pounds) over a 15 feet bar.

March 29, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Disabled Strongman World Record Seated Deadlift holder Martin Tye

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I don’t train too much at deadlift. I think if you train too much, it messes with your head. I do a lot of base fitness and strength.

March 25, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Mark Felix Dinnie Stone Hold Record

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I am one of the world’s strongest men. I have been to the world’s strongest men 15 times. I have been to the Arnold Sports Festival 6 times. This will make my 7th time. I am here to defend my title in the Dinne Stone Hold.

March 24, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Pro Strongwoman winner Olga Liashchuk

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The yoke is my favorite, then farmers carry. I don’t like the dumbbell. Maybe, the best of the best is the stone.

March 23, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Jeffrey Duer Scottish Highland Games

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Instead of just working out to get me to shoot for a goal, I went to a Highland Games novice class. That taught me how to throw. About five or six years later, here we are. I just won the Arnold Masters class.

March 21, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Pro Strongwoman Andrea Thompson

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I train four days a week, sometimes five days a week depending on what I have coming up for about two hours a day. The last day of the week I usually train three to four hours. This training cycle was about eight weeks long. I think that if I go too long, I burn out too quickly.

March 19, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Disabled Strongman World Record One Armed Deadlift holder Mike Diehl

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As far as deadlift goes, I do a lot of five by fives. Five sets of 5 reps at 80 percent of my one rep max. My accessory work is body building movements and muscle isolation. I focus mainly on overhead press, squats, power cleans and deadlift.

March 17, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: MAS Wrestling Heavyweight Champion Ulice Payne

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It is an amazing sport. You do not have to be a big strong guy to do it. Anyone can do it. It is simple. It is explosive. It is so much fun. I recommend anyone to give it a try.

March 16, 2020 Festival, People, Sports

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Pro Strongwoman Brooke Sousa

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After losing 115 pounds, I felt like I had to run to fit America’s viewpoint of what women should do at that level of fitness. I ran one of every race. I finished with a marathon in 2013. After that, I wasn’t sure what to do. I had a coach introduce me to Strongman.

March 14, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020: Elissa Hapner Scottish Highland Games

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Everyone can do it. We allow novices, walk ons, different age groups, even children. It is for the whole family. You do not have to be Scottish.

March 12, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Arnold Sports Festival 2020 featuring Desiree Thompson Master Class Olympic Weightlifting

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It combines two different lifts. It is the snatch which you take from the floor. You bounce it off your hips and take it to above your head. It has a wide grip. Where the clean and jerk is taken from the floor. It has a closer grip. You stop on top of your shoulder. Then you do another movement called a jerk to take it above your head.

March 11, 2020 Festival, People, Sports, Women

Chief Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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My family lived in the part of Birmingham called “Dynamite Hill.” It is where the Klu Klux Klan dynamited houses belonging to civil rights leaders, and others who were challenging Jim Crow Laws.

March 4, 2020 People

Artist Queen Brooks

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I went back to school after I was an established artist to get credentials. When God gives you raw talent and you start to see more that can be associated with that talent, we must do as much as we can with that talent.

February 25, 2020 Art, People, Women

Congress of Racial Equality: A Family Connection

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The radical civil rights movement was founded and organized by white folks (the Quakers). The book “CORE the philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement”, by Elliot Rudwick traces how he got involved. He followed the white folks (Quakers). There has always been a black movement outside of that. The first black in CORE was James Farmer.

February 16, 2020 People, Thing, Women

Ohio-Champion of Sports

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Location:  Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43211 I expected to see an exhibit highlighting […]

February 9, 2020 People, Sports, Thing

Author Stephanie Bridges

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It was important for me, as a black author and black self publisher to have black illustrators and African American main characters.

September 26, 2019 People, Women

Artist Haider Ali

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I am from Pakistan. In Pakistan, I have been painting cars/trucks since I was seven (for 30 years).

September 23, 2019 Art, People

Rust Belt Monster Collective

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We don’t plan anything ahead of time. We all came in with sketches. How everything works together happens the day of.

September 16, 2019 Art, People, Thing

Artist Jeremy Rosario

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We are painting a little girl playing hop scotch. This girl is looking up to the sky moving forward one number at a time. She is not afraid and she is confident.

September 15, 2019 Art, People

Artist Jan Kiko

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This piece is about the hope of the future in a cool kid that is a teen ager now. She is going to have to save the world because everyone else is too old to do it.

September 14, 2019 Art, People, Women

Artist Liv Barney

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This piece is based on my heritage as a Navaho woman. I am showing different blankets that people wear or create.

September 13, 2019 Art, People, Women

Artist Jania Rackes

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Since I have year round allergies, I feel stuffy and my nose is running most of the time. My goal is to capture the aspect of being stuffy.

September 12, 2019 Art, People, Women

Antonio Smith of Driven Foundation

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It is all about giving our youth an opportunity to see ahead and preparing them to be great leaders.

September 6, 2019 People

Firefighter Aja Farris

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It changed my life to be looked at as a hero and to know the efforts I make in the community is changing someone’s life is priceless.

September 5, 2019 People, Women

Tasha Marie Jones of Dress for Success Columbus

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You can become a client by starting off with the suiting appointment. If you are looking for a job, we provide interview attire, head to toe. Once you get your job, you come back in for a full week’s wardrobe, head to toe.

August 30, 2019 People, Thing, Women

Author Lorena C. Brown

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My books are bilingual (Spanish/English). My goal is to reach a child who speaks English because they are born here whose parents speak Spanish. Parents can help the children read in Spanish and they then can read in English.

August 29, 2019 People, Women

Author Ani Palacios McBrdie

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I promote Latino writers who write originally in Spanish. Not translations, original Spanish.

August 28, 2019 People, Women

Members of the Reynoldsburg High School student council

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We are bringing awareness to the events that we are having this year and to have a little fun, we have Jenga for everyone to play.

August 14, 2019 People

Jereatha Heriot Today’s International Woman’s Mrs. 2019

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My platform is called faith of a poppy seed which is premature awareness. My daughter was born 11 weeks early.

August 13, 2019 People, Women

Brian Miser of the Human Cannonball Crusaders

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I have been a human canon ball for twenty two years. I have been shot about 7,000 times. I just did the tv show “America’s Got Talent”, where I lit myself on fire and was shot from a cross bow.

August 11, 2019 People, Thing

Jim Decker of the Human Cannonball Crusaders

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I was never afraid of heights. I saw an amateur circus in my home town when I was thirteen years old. I saw the high wire act and decided I wanted to do that.

August 10, 2019 People, Thing

Artist Paul Arnold

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Today, I am doing John Lennon. I am named after Paul McCartney. I figure I would do John Lennon since it is the peace train.

July 15, 2019 Art, People

Artist Jessica Bethany

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I am part of the Chalk Guild. They told me about Summer Jam West and that is why my family is participating.

July 14, 2019 Art, People

Suzie Simpson

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I love it! People come up and talk to you that never would. You can be parked somewhere random and people come over. It makes people happy.

July 11, 2019 Art, People, Women

Artist Ramona Moon

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The theme is the garden of good and evil. I have three art cars. This is my medium.

July 10, 2019 Art, People, Women

Ayren DaPrynze

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One of the positive things about what I do is, it is oriented for everyone. You don’t have to come in with a specific ability, look, or age.

July 8, 2019 People

Tina Pierce

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We are getting people registered to vote. Why? Because I am running for Columbus City Schools Board.

July 7, 2019 People, Women

Zaria Ware Bake Theory Columbus

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I use real butter and real sugar, It is what your grandmother made. I suggest eating in moderation.

July 4, 2019 Food, People, Women

Artist Dan Kepner

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The picture doesn’t do the process justice. The part of me that rode skateboards, loves musical instruments, etc. wanted to stay a little longer and admire the work.

July 3, 2019 Art, People

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