Olympics age-dispute gymnast living in Waikato
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Dong's official birthdate is listed as January 23, 1983, but the federation said accreditation information for the Beijing Olympics, where Dong worked as a national technical official, listed her birthdate as January 23, 1986, which would h...
Vancouver police chief: No Beijing-style protest zones for 2010 Winter ...
Baltimore Sun
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Vancouver's police chief says there will be no Beijing-style protest zones at the Winter Olympics . Chief Jim Chu is trying to quiet a backlash over a bylaw the city says is aimed at so-called guerrilla ma...
Taiwan baseball league won't fold over scandal, says official
Earthtimes
In recent years, it has been mired in several match-fixing scandals, and has been hit by low stadium attendance and Taiwan's poor performance in international games, especially the humiliating loss to China in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The...
Young sport set for rousing Games debut
The Guardian
Honestly, I believe ski-cross deserves to be at the Olympics," six-times World Cup champion David told Reuters in an interview The sport and race format are modern, crowd-pleasing and perfect for television, just as BMX proved to be in Beij...
Make My Day
American Reporter
And a picture of Prince Willem-Alexander, the Netherlands Crown Prince, picking his nose at one of the swimming events at the Beijing Olympics. "This week they just came out with a list of the top 10 most irritating phrases in the entire wo...
Sir Chris Hoy makes super return at National Track Championships at ...
Daily Telegraph
He marked his first ride in earnest in this country since last year’s Beijing Olympics by crashing through the 10-second barrier in the flying 200 metres time-trial. That is used to determine the seeding for the last-12 man-on-man racing wh...
Meares out for revenge in Manchester
Skynews.com
Pendelton beat the Australian star in the race for the gold medal in the women's sprint at the Beijing Olympics and Meares is relishing the chance for another crack at her in Manchester. 'Despite what has gone on between us in the past she ...
Meyer wins Whiting award for 'Last Days’
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The book chronicled the two four-year stints that he spent in China, once with the Peace Corps and later as a volunteer teaching English in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. While there, he ending up documenting the razing of ancient neig...
Athletes to be Used for Globalist Purposes: International Olympic ...
ChristianNewsWire
He has been involved in track and field ministries since 1981. Underground Apologetics is the first apologetics ministry offered by a sports ministry. During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 4 WINDS put Olympic athlete testimonies in the Chinese ...
Liu shaves 1.6 seconds off 200 butterfly world record
CNN Sports Illustrated
Liu, who won the same event at the Beijing Olympics last year to clinch China's only swimming gold medal of the games, won Wednesday's race by almost four seconds from Jiao Liuyang, the Olympic silver medalist. "I don't think the result tod...
The Olympics effect before and after, in Rio and Beijing
Irish Times
Cities that host the Olympics can expect a race to invest in property, even in a recession. But what happens afterwards? We report from Rio de Janeiro, where residential prices are expected to rise by 50 per cent before 2016, and Beijing, w...
Multi-Sport Events
Chicago Tribune
TOKYO (AP) — Double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will return to competitive swimming next month for the first time since the Beijing Olympics. The 27-year-old Kitajima has entered the 50-, 100- and 200-meter breaststroke ev...