US Olympic decathlete Brian Clay attends a press conference on Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics on October 1, 2009 in Copenhagen. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will vote on the destiny of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen after a final round battle between Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

US Olympic decathlete Brian Clay attends a press conference on Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics on October 1, 2009 in Copenhagen. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will vote on the destiny of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen after a final round battle between Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.

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  2. Quarterback Peyton Manning poses next to the box cover for the new Wheaties FUEL(TM) cereal, the evolution of the iconic 85-year-old Breakfast of Champions(R) and the first-ever cereal designed to help meet the nutritional needs of today's athletes. Now available at retailers, the high-performance breakfast cereal was created to fuel performance and designed with the help of champion athletes Manning, Kevin Garnett, Albert Pujols, gold-medal decathlete Bryan Clay, triathlete Hunter Kemper and leading sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy. Manning, Garnett and Pujols are featured on individual box covers.
  3. Peyton Manning is featured on the box cover for the new Wheaties FUEL(TM), the first-ever cereal designed to help meet the nutritional needs of today's athletes and co-created by Manning, triathlete Hunter Kemper, Kevin Garnett, gold medal-winning decathlete Bryan Clay, Albert Pujols and sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy. Continuing the tradition of honoring champions on the front of the Wheaties box, Wheaties FUEL features individual box covers of Garnett, Manning and Pujols. In addition, all five athletes are pictured on the back of the boxes along with Dr. Ivy. Wheaties FUEL is now available at retailers nationwide.
  4. Kevin Garnett is featured on the box cover for the new Wheaties FUEL(TM), the first-ever cereal designed to help meet the nutritional needs of today's athletes and co-created by Garnett, triathlete Hunter Kemper, Peyton Manning, gold medal-winning decathlete Bryan Clay, Albert Pujols and sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy. Continuing the tradition of honoring champions on the front of the Wheaties box, Wheaties FUEL features individual box covers of Garnett, Manning and Pujols. In addition, all five athletes are pictured on the back of the boxes along with Dr. Ivy. Wheaties FUEL is now available at retailers nationwide.
  5. Albert Pujols is featured on the box cover for the new Wheaties FUEL(TM), the first-ever cereal designed to help meet the nutritional needs of today's athletes and co-created by Pujols, triathlete Hunter Kemper, Peyton Manning, gold medal-winning decathlete Bryan Clay, Kevin Garnett and sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy. Continuing the tradition of honoring champions on the front of the Wheaties box, Wheaties FUEL features individual box covers of Garnett, Manning and Pujols. In addition, all five athletes are pictured on the back of the boxes along with Dr. Ivy. Wheaties FUEL is now available at retailers nationwide.
  6. Basketball star Kevin Garnett poses next to the box cover for the new Wheaties FUEL(TM) cereal, the evolution of the iconic 85-year-old Breakfast of Champions(R) and the first-ever cereal designed to help meet the nutritional needs of today's athletes. Now available at retailers, the high-performance breakfast cereal was created to fuel performance and designed with the help of champion athletes Garnett, Peyton Manning, Albert Pujols, gold-medal decathlete Bryan Clay, triathlete Hunter Kemper and leading sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy. Garnett, Manning and Pujols are featured on individual box covers.
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  10. Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin arrives at Rome's Olympic stadium, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 to face questions from the anti-doping prosecutor of Italy's Olympic Committee after being stripped of his medal from the Beijing Games. Last year, the International Olympic Committee stripped Rebellin of his road race silver medal because he was one of five athletes who tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, in new tests using retroactive blood samples taken at the 2008 Games. Rebellin denies doping and has appealed the IOC's decision with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  11. Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin arrives at Rome's Olympic stadium, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 to face questions from the anti-doping prosecutor of Italy's Olympic Committee after being stripped of his medal from the Beijing Games. Last year, the International Olympic Committee stripped Rebellin of his road race silver medal because he was one of five athletes who tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, in new tests using retroactive blood samples taken at the 2008 Games. Rebellin denies doping and has appealed the IOC's decision with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  12. IOC President Jacques Rogge, left, accepts a football, made by children in the slums of Nairobi, from Princess Haya Al Hussein, center, IOC member and a UN Messenger of Peace, and Wilfried Lemke, right, the UN's special advisor on Sport for Development and Peace, at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. The ball, fashioned from plastic bags, newspaper and string, took a circuitous path to Lausanne. It was acquired by UN aid workers in Nairobi in exchange for manufactured balls. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon initially delivered the football to the IOC at the opening of the XIII Olympic Congress on Oct. 3, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  13. International Olympic Committee, IOC, Evaluation Commission chair Nawal El Moutawakel, top center, Brazil's Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, top left, and Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral pose for a photo with children at the Dona Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Rio de Janeiro will hold the 2016 Olympic Games.
  14. International Olympic Committee, IOC, Evaluation Commission chair Nawal El Moutawakel, second from left, Brazil's Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, left, and Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral, third from left, watch as young people compete during a karate fight at the Dona Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Rio de Janeiro will hold the 2016 Olympic Games.
  15. IOC's director of the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli, right, and IOC Evaluation Commission chair Nawal El Moutawakel, second from right, Brazil's Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, center, Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral, second from left and Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes, left, shake hands in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Rio de Janeiro will hold the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
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