Olympians at Wimbledon; Equestrian Bidding; USOC's "Green Ring"

Olympians at Wimbledon

Reigning doubles Olympic champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams are Wimbledon’s singles winners.

Williams of the U.S. outhit Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 for her fifth Rosewater Dish, then came back to Center Court hours later to capture the doubles titles too with sister Venus, her golden partner from both Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008.

For his part, Federer bested British hope Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 in the men’s final for a record-tying seventh Wimbledon win.

All of the above will return to London in less than three weeks to vie for additional glory as the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club stages the Olympic tennis tournaments for the first time since 1908.

USOC Launches Sustainability Program

The U.S. Olympic Committee hopes to bring home a "green medal".

On Monday, the USOC unveiled its "Green Ring" environmental sustainability program.

In a statement, the USOC said among its goals are to provide carbon neutral travel for athletes to London, implement a carbon neutral fleet of USOC vehicles and to renovate USOC headquarters in compliance with LEED standards.

The projects are focused on four areas of sustainability: reducing energy used by the USOC, greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste production.

"The Green Ring program aims to mitigate the USOC and our athletes' impact on the environment through a number of sustainability efforts," USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said.

"Through the Green Ring, we hope to contribute to sustainability while using our platform to educate and inspire our constituents to do the same."

Wellington Withdraws from Equestrian Bidding

Wellington, Fla. withdrew from bidding for the 2018 World Equestrian Games.

A statement from FEI, the International Equestrian Federation, says the decision came following a change in local government.

"We are fully aware of the massively positive economic impact the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 had on Kentucky", said Equestrian Sport Productions President Michael Stone. "But we have a responsibility to the local community, equestrian sport, and the FEI World Equestrian Games not to waste the time, effort and resources of all parties involved in the international selection process."

The three bid cities still in the running to host the 2018 World Equestrian Games are Bromont, Canada; Rabat, Morocco and Vienna.

Written by Matthew Grayson and Ed Hula III.

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