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President-elect Barack Obama spoke via video on Friday to European Olympic committees at a meeting in Istanbul in an effort to sell Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games.
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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter known as the fastest man on no legs, will be allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics after a ban on his prosthetic limbs was overturned today.
The South African 400 metre runner had been forbidden from competing alongside able-bodied athletes because...(more)
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It wasn't the smoothest or aesthetically pleasing effort, but the United States men's Olympic basketball team opened with a 101-70 victory over China on Sunday. With Yao Ming inspiring his countrymen to play above their heads for most of the first half, the Americans dominated them...(more)
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Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will race for the first time since taking the Beijing Games by storm at the Zurich Grand Prix on Friday.
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AFP - Tokyo's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games will not be affected by the present global financial crisis their bid chief told AFP here on Thursday.
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submitted by Grace 62 weeks 4 days 7 hours 28 minutes ago
England were knocked out of the Women's World Cup after a 3-0 defeat by the United States in the quarter-finals.
England had held their own in the first half but a 48th-minute far-post Abby Wambach header put the USA ahead.
Shannon Boxx powered a low shot past the...(more)
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Thousands of top athletes from around the world jumped into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay early this morning to begin the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.
The 1.5-mile swim from Alcatraz Island to the Marina Green began at 7 a.m. - an hour earlier than...(more)
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Natalie Coughlin is 25 years old, an elder stateswoman of swimming.
Dara Torres wears goggles that are older than Coughlin.
Torres is 41. In swimming, that's not old, that's Pleistocene.
Torres swam in her first Olympic Games in 1984. Last year, she came out of a seven-year retirement, practically...(more)
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Xan Rice visits Pamela Jelimo Street in Kapsabet, the home town of Kenya's first ever female Olympic champion
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AP - Hundreds of mountain runners spent in the night in tents and hastily organized shelters after a long-distance race in England's Lake District was called off due to heavy rain and flooding, British authorities said Sunday.
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Dana Abdul-Razzaq truly dodges sniper bullets . . . . to train for the Olympics in her country's capital, Baghdad. Abdul-Razzaq, an incredibly brave sprinter, will be the only female athlete representing Iraq.
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submitted by Lisa 56 weeks 3 days 5 hours 9 minutes ago
Martin Lel of Kenya and Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco, who waged a battle for victory in the London Marathon this year, found themselves neck and neck in the final stages of the New York City Marathon on Sunday morning, matching strides through Central Park, having dropped...(more)
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