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• Beijing Olympic – Gay runs windy 9.68 — fastest 100m ever in any conditions

  
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  Tyson Gay (c) leads Walter Dix (r) and Darvis Patton (l) in the 100m final in Eugene (Photo credit: Getty Images) Photo Gallery >> Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100m in history to win the final of the U.S. Olympic Trials 100 by more than a metre from Walter Dix, with Darvis Patton edging Travis Padgett for ...
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• Chinese gymnasts await age decision

  
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  Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two Chinese gymnasts who have been suspected of being under-age for the 2000 Sydney Olympics Games, met in Lausanne Monday 21 December with Fig, the international gymnastics federation, to review their case. A decision on Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun will be made 26 February by ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Hunter-Galvan to compete in women’s marathon at Beijing Olympics

  
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  The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has selected Liza Hunter-Galvan to compete in the women’s marathon at the Beijing Olympic Games. Hunter-Galvan was nominated to the NZOC on Monday by Athletics NZ and the three Olympic selectors reviewed the information and confirmed her selection this afternoon. Barry ...
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• Beijing Olympic – US-based Zambian runner vows to book Olympic ticket

  
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  US-based Zambian middle distance runner Prince Mumba has vowed to book an outright ticket to compete in the Being Olympic Games by running faster than the 1 minute 47 seconds standard qualifying time, according to Times of Zambia. Mumba said in an interview from his base in Los Angeles that he determined to ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Bolt and Powell both in Jamaica’s Olympic athletic squad

  
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  World 100m record holder Usain Bolt and former record holder Asafa Powell both head Jamaica’s athletic squad for Beijing 2008. Bolt ran 9.72 seconds on May 30 in New York, beating Powell’s former world record of 9.74. On the women’s side, Veronica Campbell-Brown, the reigning 100m world champion and 200m ...
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• Top 20 sporting moments of the decade: Usain Bolt double sprint gold in Beijing

  
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  Was double sprint Olympic gold the best moment of the decade?
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• Beijing Olympic – USA Olympic trials: defending 400-meter champion outpaced by Merritt

  
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  The 22-year-old sprinter LaShawn Merritt flashed through the 400 meter qualifier in just 44 seconds on the seventh day of the USA Olympic trials being held in Eugene, Oregon. Merritt ran 0.2 second faster than Olympic gold medalist Jeremy Wariner, who finished the race second. Merritt, the 2007 World Championships ...
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• Vanoc, like Beijing, to use "mimes" in Olympic ceremonies

  
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  More bad publicity problems for the Vancouver Organizing Committee. Hard on the heels of the negative attention it got from its criticism of Lululemons release of its new athletic wear, Vanoc has been outed for planning to "mime" the Vancouver...( read more )
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• Beijing Olympic – Sanya Richards speeding to the Beijing Summer Games 400-meter competition

  
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  Sanya Richards seized first place on the American Olympic team by running the 400-meter qualifying race in 49.89 seconds. That will bring her to the Olympics for the second time when Beijing hosts the Games starting August 8. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, she took the gold medal in the 4×400m ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Gay’s fall crushes dream of double-gold

  
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  Gay falls on the track with a cramped hamstring. Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, July 6) — Just as things were looking better and better for sprinter Tyson Gay, an injury dropped him on his back. According to sports.cn, while competing in a quarterfinal heat of the 200m in the 2008 US Track and Field ...
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• Katherine Reutter: Hopeful In Olympics US Speed Skating

  
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  By Madhuri DeyDec. 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Katherine Reutter will hopefully make it to her first Olympic speed skating team from the United States. At 21, she is one of the most promising speed skaters in the country’s team. She burst into the speed skating scene at the age of 17 in 2005. She participated in [...]
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• Beijing Olympic – Kabuu takes 10,000 victory in Kenyan Olympic Trials

  
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  Lucy Kabuu swept up the first-place title in the women’s 10,000m final with a time of 32 minutes 16.6 seconds in the Kenyan Olympic Trials held on Friday, punching her ticket to the Beijing Olympics. Penina Aruse took second with a time of 32 minutes 19.3 seconds. The world record time for the event remains 29 ...
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• Beijing Olympic – More Olympians turn up at Eugene

  
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  Women’s Hammer Throw (BEIJING, July 6) — Jessica Cosby, 2006 USA Outdoor champion, stunned the field with an Olympic Trials record throw of 70.72m/232-0 as the women’s throws took center stage Saturday at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track and Field. Together with second-place Amber Campbell ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Metu, Fasuba, Amata make Nigeria’s squad for Beijing Olympics

  
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  The Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) on Saturday released the list of its contingent to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, with the Mobil 2008 Championship’s 100m champion Obinna Metu topping the men’s cadre. The Valencia world indoor champion Olusoji Fasuba, whom Metu beat in the 100m final of the ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Canada aims for two Olympic medals in Athletics

  
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  Athletics Canada aims to earn two medals at the Beijing Olympics , according to head coach Les Gramantik. While two medals might sound like a low target, achieving the goal would give Canada two more medals than they earned in the last two Olympics combined. Canada also faces more competition in Beijing. ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Allen Johnson — End of a legendary Olympic career?

  
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  Allen Johnson pulls out of the race. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, July 7) — Allen Johnson, the gold medallist in the 110m hurdles at Atlanta 1996, lost his chance to compete at Beijing 2008 after pulling out of the preliminary heats at the US Olympic track and field trials in ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Allyson Felix’s dream of Beijing Olympics comes true

  
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  (L-R) Silver medalist Muna Lee, gold medalist Allyson Felix and bronze medalist Marshevet Hooker (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, July 7) — Allyson Felix of the United States finished the 200 meters in 21.82 seconds and secured a ticket to the Beijing Olympics at the US ...
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• On Which Website Can I Watch The Opening Ceremonies Of The Beijing Olympic Games, Live?

  
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  I’m an English teacher in China, and my school is in a shopping mall, and for some silly reason, the management of the shopping mall will not allow our school to have a live television feed in our center. However, we have computers networked on a broad band network, and I want to have a class where twenty five ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Lolo Jones hurdles to Beijing Olympics

  
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  (L-R) Silver medalist Damu Cherry, gold medalist Lolo Jones and bronze medalist Dawn Harper (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, July 7) — Lolo Jones, gold medalist in the 2008 Valencia World Indoor Championships, finished the 100-meter Hurdles in 12.29 seconds at the US ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Kenya unveils Olympic track and field athletes, Kemboi vows to grab Beijing gold

  
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  (BEIJING, July 7) –The Kenya Athletics Federation, which organized the qualifying track and field trials for the Olympics, has selected 36 athletes who will compete in the Beijing Summer Games in August. Defending Olympic 3000-meter steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi vowed to bring home Olympic gold in the ...
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