Cuban hurdler could spoil Chinese party
Posted August 13, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Ryan Friedman
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Events, Track & Field, Special Features, Videos
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.
Olympics ‘08: Phelps wins 10th, 11th golds
Posted August 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Beijing Results, Events, Aquatics, Special Features, Videos
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.
Olympics ‘08: U.S. men take gymnastics bronze
Posted August 12, 2008 at 06:46 PM by Joe Starr
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Beijing Results, Events, Gymnastics, Special Features, Videos
China won the gold medal it has long craved in men’s gymnastics Tuesday, while the Americans settled for bronze.
Gay hopes to set 100m record
Posted August 11, 2008 at 03:43 PM by James Flesher
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Events, Track & Field, Special Features, Videos
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.
Spanish cyclist first athlete to fail doping test
Posted August 11, 2008 at 10:34 AM by Martha Jones
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Doping, Events, Cycling/BMX, Special Features, Videos
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.
U.S. spears gold for fencing
Posted August 10, 2008 at 10:37 AM by Jamal Walker
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Beijing Results, Events, Other, Special Features, Videos
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.…
Phelps Wins Gold, Sets Record … 1 Down, 7 to Go
Posted August 9, 2008 at 09:23 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Beijing Results, Events, Aquatics, Special Features, Videos
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.
Relative of US Olympic Volleyball Coach Killed in Beijing
Posted August 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Martha Jones
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Events, Other, Special Features, Videos
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.
Beijing Olympics 2008: Let the Games Begin
Posted August 8, 2008 at 03:18 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Special Features, Videos
Thousands gather in Tiananmen to see the flag raising on the opening day of the Olympics. Beijing was eerily quiet on Friday morning as the government declared the day a holiday for most local residents. But many still gathered on Tiananmen Square to see the flag raising on the opening…
Olympics will be safe, says China
Posted August 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Adam Jacobs
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News
China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe following an attack that killed 16 policemen.
Fraudulent website offers tickets to Olympics
Posted August 4, 2008 at 03:47 PM by Bart Moylan
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News
The U.S. Olympic Committee is again asking a federal judge to shut down a Web site allegedly scamming people on Olympics tickets.
Olympics ‘08: One-of-a-kind venues
Posted August 3, 2008 at 12:49 PM by Jamal Walker
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Culture/History, Design/Art/Culture
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.
China Blocks Journalists Access to Some Websites
Posted July 31, 2008 at 11:42 AM by Adam Jacobs
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Culture/History, Socio-Political
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.
Mother’s Day Olympians
Posted May 12, 2008 at 01:43 PM by Michael J. Sedor
Section: Beijing 2008, Culture/History, Human Interest, Socio-Political, Events, Basketball, Soccer, Softball, Featured Writers, Michael Sedor
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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…
Beijing Price Tag Difficult for Olympic Parents
Posted May 8, 2008 at 08:17 AM by Michael J. Sedor
Section: Beijing 2008, Culture/History, Human Interest, Socio-Political, Events, Aquatics, Boxing, Featured Writers, Michael Sedor
While your watching the your favorite athlete at the Beijing Olympics this year the cameras will inevitably flash to his/her nervous parents. Maybe one of them has left their seat out of anxiety, maybe one has their eyes covered, or maybe they’re…
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On October 9, 2008
versace 4127 said:
The problem is a new injury would leave him out of the competitions.