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'''Jeremy Ryan Bloom''' (born [[April 2]], [[1982]] in [[Fort Collins, Colorado]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Jewish]][http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498897866&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull] [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[skier]], [[fashion model]], [[VJ]], and an [[American football]] player for the [[Philadelphia Eagles]].

==Early life==

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Bloom grew up in [[Loveland, Colorado]]. His father, Larry Bloom, is a psychology professor at [[Colorado State University]], and his mother, Char, is a [[ski]] and [[fly fishing]] instructor. Bloom has an older brother, Jordan, and an older sister, Molly.

==High School years==

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Bloom attended [[Loveland High School]] in [[Loveland, Colorado]], and was a letterman in football and track. For all four years, he made the [[Honor Roll]].

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Bloom was the [[quarterback]] (and a [[defensive back]]) on the freshman [[American football|football]] team. He was on the [[junior varsity]] football team as a sophomore, and his top games included a 35-12 win over [[Lakewood, Colorado|Lakewood]] in the [[2000]] state playoffs, when he broke three school records with nine receptions for 204 yards and four [[touchdown|touchdowns]]. He also had 135 yards on four receptions in a win over [[Northglenn, Colorado|Northglenn]]. Against Rampart in the 2000 playoffs, he had his best day as a runner, rushing three times for 85 yards.{{fact}}

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As a junior, when he garnered All-Area honors, he caught 19 passes for 550 yards and 6 touchdowns.{{fact}}

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Bloom earned Prep Star and Super Prep All-[[Midlands]] honors as a senior. He also earned 1st-team All-State recognition from the [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]] ''[[Denver Post|Post]]'', and added All-Area accolades. As a senior, he caught 48 passes for 1,116 yards and 12 touchdowns, and ran a few successful reverses, gaining about 200 yards on five attempts. He also occasionally returned punts.{{fact}}

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Loveland was 13-1 his senior year, claiming the Colorado [[4A]] State Championship. Bloom finished his career with 67 catches for 1,666 yards and 18 touchdowns.

==AND DOVER DOWNS?==

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He lettered in [[track and field|track]] three times (relays, sprints), and was a 3-time All-State performer. He helped Loveland to the state title his junior year as a member of the 4x200 relay team.

==[[Marik Ishtar]]==

His cousin, Colby Cohen, is a projected first round pick in the [[National Hockey League]] draft.{{fact}}

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|style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;" colspan="2"|'''[[Marik Ishtar]] (also known as Malik Ishtar)''' {{cleanup}}

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|[[Image:Malik.jpg|thumb|right|Marik Ishtar, one of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|second series anime]] characters. {{fairuse}}]] '''Marik Ishtar''' (&#12510;&#12522;&#12463;&#12539;&#12452;&#12471;&#12517;&#12479;&#12540;&#12523; ''Mariku Ishut&#257;ru'') in the original Japanese anime and manga, is a character in the [[manga]] ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' and the [[anime]] ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters]]'' (known internationally as simply ''Yu-Gi-Oh!''). His name is also commonly read as "Malik".

Participating later in the [[Superstars]] competition, he ran a 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds.[http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:523mgjZaNpwJ:www.philadelphiaeagles.com/homeNewsDetail.jsp%3Fid%3D47969+loveland+high+school+jeremy+bloom&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us]

Marik Ishtar is a later antagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh!. His family has guarded the tomb of the pharaoh for generations. Marik holds the Millennium Rod and with his Ghouls organization (called the Rare Hunters in the English anime), he wishes to obtain the three God Cards, and with them, unlock the power of the pharaoh for himself. He also has a hidden agenda - to get revenge on the ancient Pharaoh's soul for killing his father, as he was made to believe. The character's sister is [[Ishizu Ishtar]].

==Skiing career==

'''Dark Marik''' ('''Yami Marik''') is an entity was created by Marik's hatred for being a tombkeeper. Dark Marik slowly grew by Malik's hatred, he was ordered to be a Tombkeeper (as he had come of age) he unwantingly unleashed Dark Marik, who took the Millenium Rod for himself. In the manga, Marik specifically skinned his father with it and then threw his father's back onto Rishid. Marik killed his father in the Japanese version of the Duel Monsters anime as well, though the reason was that the man was about to kill Rishid (In the English anime, it is explained that he sent his father to the [[Shadow Realm (Yu-Gi-Oh!)|Shadow Realm]]). Dark Marik is sealed away in Marik's body by Marik's step-brother Rishid (Odion in the English anime), and remains sealed away until Rishid is knocked out in his battle with [[Katsuya Jonouchi]] (Joey Wheeler in the English anime) on Kaiba Craft 3 - The Battle City Semi-Finals.

Bloom grew up skiing at the [[Keystone Resort]], where his mother was an instructor.

Bloom joined the US [[Freestyle skiing|Freestyle Ski Team]] at age 15, and was the # 1 ranked men's freestyle skier in the world by age 19.

Dark Marik unleashes himself when Rishid ends up in a coma. Dark Marik then traps the soul of [[Mai Kujaku]] (Mai Valentine in the English anime). In the English anime, Mai's soul goes to the Shadow Realm. After this, Jonouchi is determined to duel Marik and save Mai. [[Ryo Bakura|Dark Bakura]] (Yami Bakura) teams with Marik's soul to stop Dark Marik, but fails as well and loses the Millenium Ring. Jonouchi becomes severely injured to the point where he can no longer duel. As time well, Dark Marik becomes the dominant host of Marik's body, with the real Marik's soul slowly fading out of existence. [[Yugi Mutou|Dark Yugi]] (Yami Yugi) is the only who could stop Marik. In the manga and the Japanese anime, the bodiless soul of the loser is destroyed. In the English anime, Yami Yugi is fighting in a duel where the bodiless soul of the loser is forever trapped in the Shadow Realm. When Rishid wakes up, he makes Marik realized he had to accept his responsibility for being a tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowers his evil self and forfeits, destroying Dark Marik. Marik gives Yugi the Millenium Rod and Sun Dragon Ra a.k.a. [[The Winged Dragon of Ra]]. Marik then reveals the Tomb Keeper's initiation. The carving of the pharaoh's (Dark Yugi a.k.a. Yu-Gi-Oh a.k.a. Dark Yugi) memory onto back of tomb guardian involves using either a hot dagger (as in the [[manga]]), a normal dagger (in the Japanese version of the second series anime), or a tattoo (in the English second series anime) on his back. Fulfilling his duty as tomb keeper, Marik returns to to Egypt to start a new life.

Bloom competed in the 2002 US Nationals, coming in at # 1.

Marik's name presumably derives from the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word [[Malik]] ("king") and the [[Mesopotamia]]n deity [[Ishtar]].

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|Appears in||''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' [[manga]]<br> [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' 2nd series anime]] ([[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters|''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'']])<br> ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]''

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|Birthday||[[December 23]] ([[Capricorn]])

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|Age||16

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|Height||180 cm,5 feet 9 inches

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|Weight||55 kg,roughly 122 pounds

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|Blood Type||B

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|Relations||Elder sister: [[Ishizu Ishtar]] (Isis Ishtar in the Japanese anime and manga)<br/>Servant: Rishid (Odion in the English anime)

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|Favourite Food||[[Koshari]]

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|Japanese [[Seiyu]]||[[Tetsuya Iwanaga]]

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|English [[Voice actor|Voice Actor]]||[[J.T. Ross]]

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He also competed in the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] at [[Salt Lake City, Utah]], where he placed # 9.

==[[Dover International Speedway]]==

Bloom's experiences at the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]] were documented in a special that aired on [[MTV]].

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|style="background-color:#016DAB;color:#FFF;text-align:center;border-bottom:2px #000 solid;" colspan="2"|<font size="+1">'''[[Dover International Speedway]]'''</font><br>''The Monster Mile''

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|colspan="2"|[[Image:Doverdowns.jpg|Dover International Speedway, previously named as Dover Downs International Speedway.]]

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|width="60%"|1131 North Dupont Highway, [[Dover, Delaware]], 19903

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|140,000

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|[[Dover Motorsports]]

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|[[As of 2004|2004]] [[NASCAR]] [[Nextel Cup]]

|[[MBNA 400]], [[MBNA America 400]]

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|2004 NASCAR [[Busch Series]]

|[[MBNA America 200]], [[Stacker 200]]

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|2004 NASCAR [[Craftsman Truck Series]]

|[[MBNA America 200 (Craftsman)|MBNA America 200]]

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|Oval

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|1.6 km (1 mile)

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|24&deg;

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Bloom subsequently received a modeling job with [[Tommy Hilfiger]] Jeans. He also currently hosts ''Video Stew'' on [[MHD (TV network)|MHD]] and is a [[VJ]] for the channel.

'''[[Dover International Speedway]]''' is a [[NASCAR]] [[race track]] located near [[Dover, Delaware]]. It is unusual in several respects. It is a concrete track; most NASCAR tracks are asphalt. It is co-located with a [[horse racing]] track, ''Dover Downs'', and in fact is sometimes also referred to by this name. It is also exactly one mile long; technically this means that it is neither a [[superspeedway]] nor a [[short track motor racing|short track]]. The speedway is also notoriously hard on cars, and its standard nickname is ''The Monster Mile''. The horse track is part of an extensive entertainment complex including other forms of [[gambling]]; at one time both it and the speedway were owned by the publicly-traded ''Dover Downs Entertainment'', but they have since been split into two separate enterprises, partly at the encouragement of NASCAR. At one time the [[Winston Cup]] races held here were 500 miles long until a NASCAR rules change limited 500 mile races to being held only at tracks over a mile in length; the current [[Nextel Cup]] races here are 400 miles long.

==College football career==

The same company owning Dover Downs also owns several other racetracks, including [[Nashville Superspeedway]]; it has been suggested that one of the two current Cup races held there could be shifted to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] but this seems unlikely as both current Cup races at Dover are easily sold out. The Dover ownership is one of only three publicly-held ownership groups of NASCAR tracks, the other two being [[International Speedway Corporation]], controlled by NASCAR's founding France family and owners of the [[Talladega Superspeedway|Talladega]] and [[Daytona International Speedway|Daytona]] tracks, among others, and [[Speedway Motorsports]], led by Bruton Smith and H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, which owns [[Lowe's Motor Speedway]] and [[Texas Motor Speedway]], among others. Aside from these three ownership groups, NASCAR tracks are privately held by one or a few individuals.

Bloom is a former [[wide receiver]] and [[punt returner]] for the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado]] american football|football team. He was declared ineligible by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] for doing ski endorsements, after a long legal battle (according to NCAA regulations student-athletes are not permitted to endorse products. Exceptions are not made for endorsement deals in non-NCAA sports, such as freestyle skiing.) Bloom since declared football his priority, continued to train, attended the [[NFL draft|NFL’s combine]] after the [[2006 Winter Olympics]], and signed with the [[Philadelphia Eagles]].

==Pro football career==

On [[April 30]], [[2006]], Bloom was selected by the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] in the 5th round (147th overall) of the [[2006 NFL Draft]]. The drafting of the former olympic skier was hyped, when he was featured in the NFL's TV show "[[Hey Rookie Welcome To The NFL]]". He practiced with the team all through mini-camp as a receiver and kick returner, but injured his [[hamstring]] during the training camp. Due to this injury, he was placed on [[injured reserve]] and sat out the [[2006 NFL season]].

==Awards==

''See also:'' [[List of NASCAR race tracks]]

For his accomplishments in both football and skiing, the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame named him the Colorado Amateur Athlete of the Year for 2002.

==Dover International Speedway Records==

*NASCAR qualifying: [[Rusty Wallace]], 159.964 mph, [[1999 in sports|1999]]

*NASCAR race: [[Mark Martin (NASCAR)|Mark Martin]], 132.719 mph, [[September 21]], [[1997 in sports|1997]]

[[Mile High]] Sports magazine named him the state's athlete of the year in 2002.

==External link to Dover International Speedway==

*[http://www.doverspeedway.com/ Dover International Speedway Official Site]

==Superstars Competition==

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In March 2003, he won the 30th annual [[Superstars]] Competition in [[Jamaica]]; he defeated 9 professional athletes in the competition, of which all had to choose 7 of 10 events to participate. Bloom excelled, including wins in the half-mile run and the 100-yard dash (which he accomplished in 9.41 seconds). He donated his $45,000 prize to charity, as NCAA rules prohibited him from keeping it.

[[Category:Kent County, Delaware|*Dover International Speedway]]

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==Commercial==

Leading up to the draft, Jeremy, along with fellow prospects [[Vernon Davis]] and [[A. J. Hawk]], appeared in ads for [[Under Armour]]'s new line of football cleats, with the slogan Click Clack (I think they hear us coming).

== External Links ==

* [http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_882.htm U.S. Olympic Team bio]

* [http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/teamRosterDetails.jsp?id=47983 Philadelphia Eagles bio]

==Credits==

*2006 Olympic Winter Games, 6th

*2002 Olympic Winter Games, 9th

*2005 World Cup Champion (overall, moguls)

*2005 World Championships, bronze (dual moguls)

*2003 World Champion (dual moguls), silver (moguls)

*2003 World Cup Overall Champion

*2003 Duals World Champion

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