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The defending Olympic gold medalists need only to beat New Zealand on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals. The game against Japan on Saturday was 90 minutes long, but all it took was one minute for the U.S. women's Olympic soccer team to win it.
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Norway's women's handball team has won its first Olympic gold medal, beating Russia 34-27.
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BEIJING, Aug. 10 -- Violence and bloodshed marring the first two days of the Beijing Olympics provided a dramatic reminder that there is no such thing as perfect security in a country as vast as China, with so many people nursing grievances against the authoritarian...(more)
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BEIJING - Beijing's pollution levels dropped yesterday to less than half of the previous day's, the lowest reading since authorities began pulling cars off the road and shutting down factories to address athletes' concerns about air quality ahead of the Olympic Games.
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The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing begin in just three days, and the Chinese government is rushing to get ready. The job is massive! Cleaning up the city's polluted air, preparing facilities for the nearly 11,000 athletes and maintaining security are some of the efforts...(more)
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Yao Ming has done more for China as burgeoning sports power than a thousand gymnasts and swimmers.
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The 41-year-old swimmer making a historic Olympic appearance carries her father's spirit to Beijing. BEIJING -- Dara Torres was born on April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, two weeks before a blessed event was held in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel, the wedding of singer...(more)
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Shortly after Liu Zige grabbed China’s first gold medal for swimming in the Beijing Olympics, questions regarding doping and other possible advantages surfaced.
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Softball team returns to dominance with wins over Japan, Canada So daunting is the U.S. softball team's assault in its fourth straight Olympic Games, that a 1-0 lead by Canada in a game postponed by rain in the fourth inning Thursday, constituted as big a story...(more)
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Some members of the U.S. cycling squad arrived for the Olympic Games on Tuesday wearing black respiratory masks, apparently concerned over reports of unhealthy levels of air pollution in Beijing.
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Of all the Americans who watched on television Saturday night as 41-year-old Dara Torres won an Olympic silver medal in the 4x100 relay, none was as moved as her coach Michael Lohberg, who is fighting for his life in a hospital bed in Bethesda, Md.
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On the eve of the first Olympics held in China, the air was soupy and gray, with the air quality rating reaching 95, far short of clean air standards in the United States.
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