Athens, Greece, 2004: the Summer Olympic Games were in full swing. That year saw a total of 301 events on the programme. American swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total wins. Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel, from the Netherlands, became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, while Argentina won the men's football tournament without conceding a single goal.
Meanwhile, at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, Sheikh Ahmed bin Hasher Al Maktoum became the first person from the UAE to win an Olympic gold medal in double-trap shooting. This picture, taken on August 17 that year, shows him, centre, on the podium with fellow winners Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore of India, left, who won the silver medal, and Zheng Wang of China, who scored bronze.
Sheikh Ahmed had only taken up the sport seven years earlier, at the age of 34, and competed in the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics as well. However, in 2012, he was forced to forgo his plans to take part in the London event and retire due to a heart condition.
To this day, he remains the UAE's only Olympic gold medallist.
Sole survivors
- Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
- George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
- Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
- Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
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Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha
Starring: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shantanu Maheshwari, Jimmy Shergill, Saiee Manjrekar
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Rating: 2.5/5
Six large-scale objects on show
- Concrete wall and windows from the now demolished Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in Poplar
- The 17th Century Agra Colonnade, from the bathhouse of the fort of Agra in India
- A stagecloth for The Ballet Russes that is 10m high – the largest Picasso in the world
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930s Kaufmann Office
- A full-scale Frankfurt Kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, which transformed kitchen design in the 20th century
- Torrijos Palace dome
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