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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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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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Performance-enhancing drugs and the Olympics. The proverbial elephant in the room. Someone’s not afraid to talk about it and it’s none other than Victor Conte, head of the infamous Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) lab and supplier to countless would-be cheaters. In…

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What news could possibly emerge from the Men’s 10k Open Water World Championships that would top yesterday’s…

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Now if you thought the Sunday New York Times’ front page article “Witness in Track Doping Case Is Ready to Name…

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While Beijing security specialists fear no problems with international hooliganism connected with Olympic soccer, the gangs are more organized than ever. And Beijing itself does have a history of sport-related rioting.

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Boxing’s second (and final) Americas Qualifier got started on Friday in Guatemala City, Guatemala with three American pugilists aiming to join their eight already-qualified teammates in Beijing.  In their first bout of the tourney middleweight Shawn Estrada picked up a decisive…

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Ottawa-based public opinion research firm Phoenix SPI, upon releasing its most recent numbers, announced that “most Canadians would like to keep politics out of the Olympic Games, and do not want Canada to boycott the Beijing…

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Two weeks ago we wrote here at summerolympian.com about 58-year-old yachtsman John Dane III. He will be competing in the Olympics’s Star Boat sailing competition. At the time we were confident that he would be the oldest…

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Did you spring for that 46” high-definition plasma or LCD extravaganza of a TV for Christmas this year? Maybe you balked but then realized you just had to have it for the Super Bowl? Or maybe you were a savvy buyer and held…

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Pitchers win championships in the intense climate of fast-pitch softball. They stare down their batting adversary from just 43 feet away before whipping the horsehide to home plate at an incredible speed. Hitting a world-class softball pitcher is much more difficult than…

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The United States women’s soccer squad faces the lightly-regarded Costa Rican side this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. in Ciudad Juaraz, Mexico for a trip to the Beijing Olympics. The Stars and Stripes finished at the top of the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualification Group A table with…

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No one would ever accuse American swimming phenom Michael Phelps of not being able to prove a point. Sunday’s Boston Globe lengthy profile of Phelps begins with a quote: “‘I’m far, far from being a morning person,’…

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The 2008 U.S. Softball team was announced last week. It’s a fearsome squad. 10 of its 15 members return from 2004’s all-conquering fast-pitchers. The team, including its three alternates, owns 18 Olympic golds, 10 collegiate National Championships and myriad Pan Am Games…

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Passport information for 437 British Broadcasting Corporation journalists, presenters, translators, and other staff was stolen from the BBC offices in early March, the Guardian reports. What trait did those dispossessed share (other than being BBC…

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