Summer Olympian

China won the gold medal it has long craved in men’s gymnastics Tuesday, while the Americans settled for bronze.

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Beijing may mark softball’s last appearance at the Olympics, and the US team wants to defend its gold medals as well as the sport. The IOC voted three years ago to drop softball and baseball after Beijing, which US players say was a mistake and a possible reaction based on…

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World champion sprinter Tyson Gay says he’s ready to face Jamaican rivals Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt in Beijing. Gay says a hamstring injury is not bothering him amid expectations he will set a new world.

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Spanish cyclist Maria Isobel Moreno became the first athlete to fail a doping test at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The 27-year-old tested positive for EPO having undergone the test on July 31. Excerpts from the International Olympic Committee’s press conference.

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China issued the challenge, and the short-handed U.S. women couldn’t answer on Sunday.Now on to the showdown in the gymnastics team final at the Beijing Olympics, where every element truly counts.

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Fencer Mariel Zagunis won the first U.S. gold in Beijing, further minting an American rise from obscurity to the leading-edge of the sport. The 23-year-old was the first American to capture gold in fencing saber in 100 years when she won in Athens, while Zagunis says after a 1-2-3 U.S.…

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Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn’t have been any easier. With President Bush cheering him on, Phelps dominated his first event of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday morning, crushing his own world.

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A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics.

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The United States’ shooting team will be finalized this weekend, with the completion of this week’s Olympic team trials in Colorado, and one team member will enter the domestic Olympic record books simply by competing in Beijing.

On Thursday,…

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The big news this week for Human Interest Saturdays is of course the startling decision by Court of Arbitration for Sport to allow double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius the chance to qualify and compete in the Olympic…

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For Team Argentina, Nocioni in, Prigioni probably, Gabini maybe. And by the way, they ain’t afraid of the big, bad USA.

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Zara Phillips’ recent confirmation as a member of the five-person British equestrian team took no fan of the sport by surprise. She is the reigning world eventing - a rugged combination of equestrian’s three disciplines…

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Did you get your mother a card and some flowers for her special day? Well here’s another gift from the…

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With a starting team comprised of wall-to-wall NBAers, Team Spain hardly needed psychological incentive to add to all the talent taking the floor at the Beijing Games; Los Españoles have that as well.

Said motivation takes…

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