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For many young athletes, their parents and coaches, the Olympic Games breathe life into a dream. Leotard-wearing little girls by the hundreds have walked into the World Olympic Gymnastics Academies since Nastia Liukin's all-around gold.
The Beijing Olympics will be the final Games on a such large scale, according to London 2012 organiser Sebastian Coe who wants the next event in Britain to focus more on providing a lasting legacy.
Many, but not all, area residents in the Chinese community are proud the Olympic Games in Beijing showcase the success of individual athletes, and of the overall event.
Dutch Antilles could appeal the controversial Olympic Games disqualification of Churandy Martina as the tiny Caribbean island stepped up its battle on Thursday to win back the sprinter's 200m silver medal.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said Thursday he will decide in October at the earliest whether he seeks another mandate next year in Copenhagen.
Americans occupied the top two spots two rounds into the decathlon competition at the Beijing Olympics. But a third American, Tom Pappas, withdrew from the competition after suffering a foot injury early in the day.
The 2008 Summer Olympics are roaring! United States leads the medal count with a whopping 82, an outstanding 26 of them gold. Down to second place overall, China has 79 medals, 45 of which are gold.
Terry Schroeder inherited a water polo program so dysfunctional that it had its funding cut by the U.S. Olympic Committee, and molded it into a winner.
BEIJING -- The Beijing Olympics will be remembered for the displays of unprecedented dominance put on in the pool by Michael Phelps, and on the track by Usain Bolt. Both men have afforded spectators the rare opportunity to watch the kind of performances that seem to transcend the conventional bounds of sports, and become almost performance art.
How can one describe former gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi?s role as commentator for the Olympic games?
China's Chen Ruolin led the women's 10-meter platform semifinals Thursday, setting the home team up for its seventh diving gold of the Beijing Olympics.
Olga Kaniskina of Russia won gold in the women's 20-kilometer race walk in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing Olympics.
The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry — convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard.
Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the women's 20-kilometer race walk gold medal in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing Olympics.
There's still plenty of fun in the Games on cable. The Beijing Olympics are down to their last four days, but they have enough TV events left to last the summer. Today alone, midnight to midnight, NBC will offer 73 hours of coverage spread over NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD, with an extra 24 thrown in if you get the Basketball Channel and Soccer Channel.
Texas-Ex Laura Wilkinson qualifies fifth for the platform diving semifinals Wednesday at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. BEIJING -- Texas-Ex Laura Wilkinson placed fifth in the women's platform diving preliminary round to advance to Thursday's semifinals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Track and field's world governing body is exploring the option of banning athletes who test positive for doping from competing in the next possible world championship.
But, with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing starting to come into focus, Rogers could see the future, and he could see it revolving around a young blocker named Phil Dalhausser, who was still a little raw on ball skills but at 6-9 was probably already the most fearsome net player on the AVP tour.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted Wednesday the low number of positive doping cases announced at the Beijing Olympics was proof that they were winning, not losing, their battle against drug cheats.
Two elderly Chinese women who applied during the Olympic Games to protest the loss of their homes have been ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday, as more foreign activists were detained.
Jamaican Usain Bolt streaked to the 200m gold in world record time Wednesday to complete the sprint double for the first time in 24 years at the Olympic Games and then loudly declared himself "Number One".
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