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Shawn Johnson has been home a grand total of four days since the Beijing Olympics, she misses her dog and cats terribly, and her schedule is so hectic she needs to look at a calendar just to be sure what day of the week it is.
Legendary Pakistani squash player Jahangir Khan says his sport has its best ever chance of gaining entry into the Olympics next year.
American speedskaters won 10 medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the most of any U.S. team. They won 11 medals at the 2002 Games. But the totals belied what was happening behind the scenes.
The Coca-Cola Co. reported its profit rose by double digits, weathering a volatile third quarter in which consumers felt pressured by economic uncertainty.
BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading innovator in digital video networking, today announced that Gehua Cable provided coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Games using BigBand's Broadband Multimedia-Service Router.
WASHINGTON — As if the next president won't have enough on his plate — with the collapse of the financial markets, two foreign wars, persistent security threats and a host of other concerns — America's infrastructure is collapsing.
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Airlines Ltd. , the world's largest airline by market value, declined as much as 5.6 percent after passenger traffic dropped for the first time in more than three years.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Butte native Erin Popovich has been honored by the United States Olympic Committee as an athlete of the month for September, for her performance at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Italian cyclist Marta Bastianelli, the 2007 women's road race world champion, has been handed a one-year ban by the anti-doping tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee for failing a drugs test.
Following in the footsteps of BMX's Summer Olympic debut in Beijing, the equally elbow-bumping, pedal-to-the-floor events of skiercross and boardercross will make their Winter Olympic debut at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Former women's road race world champion Marta Bastianelli has been banned for a year after failing a dope test, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Wednesday.
Italian cyclist Marta Bastianelli was banned for one year by the Italian Olympic Committee on Thursday for testing positive for a banned stimulant.
The mining giant warns about the effects of slowing Chinese demand on its business and ponders postponing the sale of $10 billion in assets that would go toward debt reduction.
Oct. 16, 2008 -- The Coca-Cola Co. reported on Oct. 15 better than expected third-quarter profit driven by international sales that gained an extra lift from the Beijing Olympics and a weak dollar.
Ballesteros has surgery for brain tumor … Rays turn to pitcher Kazmir for Game 5 … Cyclist Bastianelli receives doping ban … Browns' Wright leads AFC weekly honorees ... Sports news from United Press International.
Italian cyclist Marta Bastianelli, the 2007 women's road race world champion, has been handed a one-year ban by the anti-doping tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee for failing a drugs test. Bastianelli, 21, missed the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for flenfluramine, a stimulant, at the European under-23 championships in Verbania, northeast Italy, in July. The year ban was ...
New traffic rules coincided with a 'blue sky day,' when the Air Quality Index drops below 100, but the cleaner air may simply be the result of autumn winds.
USA Boxing's CEO Jim Millman recalls the long flight home from the Beijing Olympics after the team won just one bronze medal and suffered its worst performance since the 1948 Olympics.
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Coca-Cola Co. , the world's largest soft-drink maker, said third-quarter profit rose more than analysts estimated as sales climbed in China and India.
Preparation for this cross country season by Stanford runner Katie Harrington was unconventional. The Carmel High School graduate spent part of the summer in Costa Rica, volunteering in a turtle conservation project. She attended the Beijing Olympics, where she watched swimming, not track and field. She traveled for 10 days around New Zealand in a rented camper.
Kleiza, SmitJ.R. Smith and Linas Kleiza each scored 19 points and hit big free throws in overtime Wednesday night, leading the Denver Nuggets past the Utah Jazz 120-119 in a preseason game.h lead Nuggets past Jazz
