Summer Olympian

Between games on the final day of the Good Luck Beijing 2008 women’s basketball tournament, Lisa Leslie and Wang Zhi Zhi ceremonially assisted Olympic officials in putting together the pools for Olympic play.

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Duncan, Gasol, Ginobili already smokin’ in the playoffs ... no wonder foreigners have won the last three NBA MVPs…

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Summer Olympian’s look at the field for the XXIX Olympiad continues. Nine teams have qualified for the Games thus far, with continental tournament placers from Argentina, the United States, Russia, Lithuania, Iran, Angola and Australia in. 

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As if the horrible pollution in Beijing, the protests about China’s human rights violations in Darfur and Tibet, and lead-tainted toys weren’t enough to worry about, a new book titled The Next Great Clash by Michael Levin…

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Yesterday Summer Olympian reported that the Russians were downplaying their gold-medal chances by predicting a total of 30 for Beijing. Now Vyacheslav Fetisov, who heads up the Russian sports bureau, is showing that the Beijing Gold…

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Athens (GRE), Bangkok (THA), Moscow (RUS), Singapore (SIN) and Turin (ITA) were today selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Candidate Cities to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010. The cities were selected unanimously from a total of nine Cities, which also included Debrecen (HUN), Guatemala…

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