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The 110 metres hurdles will be one of the hotly watched track and field events at the Beijing Olympics. China’s Liu Xiang will be fighting hard to retain his title. The main threat to his supremacy: a young Cuban named Dayron Robles.

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For Michael Phelps, it’s not enough to just set a new standard. He has to demolish the old one. Winningest Olympian ever? He’s two golds past that already and not finished yet, just over halfway to his goal of breaking Mark Spitz’s.

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China won its first Olympic gold medal in women’s gymnastics on Wednesday, taking the most important title in its rivalry with the Americans.

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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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China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe following an attack that killed 16 policemen.

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The U.S. Olympic Committee is again asking a federal judge to shut down a Web site allegedly scamming people on Olympics tickets.

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The Chinese have built some of the most unique architecture to ever serve as an Olympic venue. Associated Press reporter Jason Bronis takes a tour.

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The Chairman of the International Olympic Committee Media Commission confirmed that some internet sites have been blocked by Chinese authorities, but these were unrelated to the Olympics.

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