September 20th, 2008
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Liu Xiang, China’s star 110m hurdler who had to withdraw from the Beijing event due to an Achille’s heel injury, stated yesterday that he will be traveling to the United States to seek treatment for his heel. Liu Xiang has previously preferred holistic medicine and massage rather than surgery, but says […]
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September 9th, 2008
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa won the Paralympic Gold Medal in the mens 100m event on Monday. Pistorius, a double amputee who runs on specially-constructed blades, is best known for having won the right to compete with able-bodied athletes in the Olympic Games. He failed to qualify, but vows to try again for the 2012 […]
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August 24th, 2008
The track and field events of the XXIX Olympiad concluded on Saturday. Here are the results:
The American women took the Gold Medal in the women’s 4×400m relay, with anchor Sanya Richards passing Russian, Anastasia Kapachinskaya in the final meters. The Russian women took the Silver Medal and the Jamaican team earned the Bronze. In addition […]
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August 23rd, 2008
Sammy Wanjiru won Kenya’s first gold medal in the men’s Olympic marathon in record time. How fast was he? He killed the Olympic record of 2:09.21 (set by Portugal’s Carlos Lopes in 1984) with a time of 2:06:32. “It feels good to make history here,” Wanjiru said.
Jaouad Gharib of Morocco won the silver medal with […]
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August 23rd, 2008
Bryan Clay of the United States won the Olympic decathlon on Friday and earning him the title of the “World’s Greatest Athlete.” Clay is the first American to win the event since Dan O’Brien won the Gold in 1996.
Clay, the 2004 Silver Medalist, led the event from “wire to wire,” earning so many points that […]
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August 23rd, 2008
The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:
In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of […]
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August 22nd, 2008
I was over on Yahoo Sports and spotted an article about a possible curse (I know, I giggled a bit too) associated with the miniseries “A Shot at Glory.” Of the eleven athletes profiled, six have had disastrous experiences at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Need examples? Here we go:
The biggest shock was when […]
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August 22nd, 2008
Portugal’s Nelson Evora won the men’s triple jump at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games yesterday when he hopped, skipped and jumped 17.67m to claim the Olympic title. It was a significant win since it is the first gold medal for the European nation in 12 years.
It was a really close match! Phillips Idowu of Great Britain […]
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August 22nd, 2008
Lyudmyla Blonska of Ukraine has been forced to relinquish the Silver Medal that she was awarded in the womens heptathlon event after testing positive for steroid use, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday. She had been temporarily suspended and removed from the long jump competition on Thursday pending verification of the test results. The […]
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August 22nd, 2008
It was a crazy day at the Bird’s Nest on Thursday. Both the United States mens and womens 4×100m relay teams dropped their batons in the qualifying heats and were disqualified from the events. In addition, there were also a lot a positive things happening at the “Nest.” Here are the highlights:
Andrey Moiseev of […]
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