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Bloomberg - 46 minutes ago
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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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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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 10:04 am ET
A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.
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DMNews - Mon Nov 9, 5:41 pm ET
Visa is conducting an integrated campaign for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver to urge consumers to use the company's credit cards while traveling there. The effort builds on Visa's effort for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which used the tagline, "Go World."
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Nov 10, 8:11 am ET
Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke. He qualified in the 100 medley, finishing seventh in 53.13 seconds -- more than half a second ...
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Nov 10, 7:04 am ET
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards. Bolt set three world records last year at the Beijing Olympics and broke two of those marks -- in the 100 and 200 meters -- in August at the world championships in Berlin.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 5 minutes ago
High in the Alps an Austrian ski resort has found an unlikely source of early season snow: Israel.
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Sports Illustrated - 1 hour 45 minutes ago
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet.
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Sports Illustrated - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) -- Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.
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New York Times - 2 hours 20 minutes ago
Public and private investors are expected to pump billions into Rio over the next three years, according to one study.
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International Herald Tribune - Tue Nov 10, 9:18 am ET
Despite difficult times for the industry, hardly a week goes by without a hotel opening or announcement of expansion plans in Asia.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 6:47 am ET
Michael Phelps failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke events at a World Cup short-course meet while wearing an old-style swimsuit.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 5:54 am ET
Swimming legend Michael Phelps failed to make it past the 100 metres freestyle heats when he returned to action in the Stockholm leg of the short-course World Cup on Tuesday.
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CBS 2 Chicago - 42 minutes ago
Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke. He qualified in the 100 medley, finishing seventh in 53.13 seconds — more than half a second slower ...
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Tue Nov 10, 7:31 am ET
CORPUS CHRISTI — He won’t hit his 17th birthday until Nov. 19, but Jeremy Longoria is continuing his pace for reaching an Olympic dream. The latest step came early last month in Houston, where Longoria was among 100 young fighters participating in the Texas Elite Amateur Showcase. At the invitation-only event sponsored by Undefeated Magazine, Longoria scored a 4-1 decision over Houston’s O ...
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 10, 9:44 am ET
Greece faces formal criticism from other EU nations for failing to cut back a ballooning budget deficit, the EU's top economy official Joaquin Almunia warned Tuesday.
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The Aero-News Network - Mon Nov 9, 5:22 am ET
FAA Notice Number: NOTC2003 The 2010 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games will be held during the period January 29, 2010 through March 24, 2010. Security associated with the Olympic Games includes some very restricted airspace in Canada and a US Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) that extends into northwestern Washington State.
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Newswise - Mon Nov 9, 9:19 am ET
This partnership is to bring the next generation of sports medicine to U.S. Olympic and paralympic athletes.
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KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul - Tue Nov 10, 7:27 am ET
We are under 100 days and counting until the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. The quadrennial running of the Olympic
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:06 pm ET
The Olympic flame began its first trek through the Canadian Arctic by crossing paths with a polar bear on the shores of Hudson Bay, local media said Monday.