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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 3 minutes ago
Brazil's president fended off criticism of his nation's shaky power grid Wednesday as officials investigated a blackout that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness, prompting concerns about the country's preparedness to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 4 minutes ago
Brazil emerged Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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USA Today - Wed Nov 11, 12:06 pm ET
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities and at least nine states into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 11, 9:43 am ET
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people in at least nine states into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 11, 6:36 am ET
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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USA Today - 23 minutes ago
Americans Peter Marshall and Jessica Hardy set world records at the short-course World Cup on Wednesday.
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CNN - 1 hour 17 minutes ago
The Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang started playing piano at the age of three, won his first competition aged five, and today, aged 27, he is on Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 11, 11:43 am ET
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A Middle Eastern Olympic Games or soccer World Cup would show the region’s potential and overcome perceptions of bombs and instability, according to the head of Qatar’s Olympic committee.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 12:43 pm ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Istanbul is planning to bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. A move by the Turkish city has support from as much as 85 percent of citizens, spokesman Mehmet Atalay said today at a conference in London.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 12:25 pm ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Instanbul is planning to bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. A bid by the Turkish city has support from as much as 85 percent of citizens, spokesman Mehmet Atalay said today at a conference in London.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 11, 7:07 am ET
England's World Cup bid chiefs have been told their attempt to win the right to host the 2018 tournament is spluttering to towards failure, according to a report in the Times on Wednesday.
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NPR - Wed Nov 11, 6:21 am ET
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Power went out for more than two hours late Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and several other major cities.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Wed Nov 11, 5:11 am ET
* Tokyo governor reportedly wants to bid after 2016 failure
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International Herald Tribune - Wed Nov 11, 4:33 am ET
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people in at least nine states into darkness for hours.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Wed Nov 11, 4:11 am ET
* Chinese soccer dogged by corruption, flagging interest
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 10:07 am ET
The U.S. Olympic Committee has signed a sponsorship deal that makes DISC Sports and Spine Center its official medical services provider through the 2012 Olympics.
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UPI - 1 hour 29 minutes ago
ROME, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The Italian Olympic Committee Wednesday said it is blocking a bid from Bari for the 2020 Olympics, leaving Rome and Venice as the country's credible entries.
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KDKA Pittsburgh - 4 minutes ago
Brazil's president fended off criticism of his nation's shaky power grid Wednesday as officials investigated a blackout that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness, prompting concerns about the country's preparedness to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Power went out for more than two hours in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and several other major cities after transmission problems knocked ...
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Sports Illustrated - Wed Nov 11, 1:23 am ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Rogue doctors and rogue laboratories have taken the place of institutionalized doping as the most serious threat to drug-free sport, Travis T. Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said Wednesday.
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Ars Technica - Wed Nov 11, 9:24 am ET
During the Beijing Olympics, 40 athletes bought a pro-Tibet charity album through iTunes. This was such a threat to national security that the Chinese government, never shy with a bit of well-placed censorship, completely blocked iTunes, even after repeated promises to cut down on Internet censorship during the Olympics. China has shown little interest in relaxing most of its Internet ...