Posts Tagged "beijing games"
Bolt dominates worlds after another treble gold haul
By Luke Phillips, 25 Aug 2009Jamaica’s Usain Bolt dominated the world athletics championships in Berlin in the same way he did the Beijing Olympics, winning triple gold and shattering the world records for the 100m and 200m.
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Phelps named USOC’s Sportsman of the Year
By AFP, 23 Jan 2009
Michael Phelps, who made Olympic history with a stunning sweep of eight swim gold medals at the Beijing Games, was named Thursday as the US Olympic Committee Sportsman of the Year.
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Another big medals haul; but worries for the future
By Mike Hedge, 17 Dec 2008 It took Australia until late in the Beijing Olympic Games to be truly pleased with its performance. The back-slapping, however, hasn’t lasted long.
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Games don’t get us out of armchairs
By AAP, 11 Dec 2008 Australians take great pride in watching their compatriots perform at the Olympics, but less than a third are motivated enough by the Games to exercise.
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Hot Rice no match for Thorpe
By Jim Morton, 31 Oct 2008 Golden girl Stephanie Rice’s Beijing treble topped Australia’s favourite Olympic moments but she still couldn’t fill the huge shoes of Ian Thorpe.
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Madrid 2016 worries over racism claims
By Paul Logothetis, 16 Oct 2008 Madrid’s Olympic bid chief is concerned that another racist incident in Spanish sports could affect the city’s chances of hosting the 2016 Games.
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Baan’s last rites for the FFA
By The Bear, 11 Oct 2008After being underwhelmed by The Graham Arnold Olyroo’s Finishing School, that was the Beijing Games, I opined that the FFA served the bad china in the wash-up. And now it appears that Baan has poured the tea.
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Drug maker says it collaborated to catch cheats
By AP, 10 Oct 2008 The maker of a drug at the centre of a new Tour de France scandal says it collaborated with anti-doping experts to help catch cheats in sports.
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Jana wants less drama, more fun
By Leonard Siragusa, 8 Oct 2008 She has reached the lofty heights of two world championships in the 400 metres hurdles. But after enduring a shattering end to her Olympic dream, Jana Rawlinson just wants to fall back in love with racing.
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Is Rossi the world’s best sportsman?
By Adrian Musolino, 5 Oct 2008
Few athletes have dominated their sports, enthralled fans worldwide, and attained cult status like Valentino Rossi. Having sown up his eighth world title a week ago in Japan, his sixth premier class crown, there are few within the sport that question his right to the title of world’s greatest ever rider.
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The great ‘comebacks’: from Muhammad Ali to Air Jordan
By The Crowd, 11 Sep 2008The announcement that American cycling legend Lance Armstrong is to make a comeback at the age of 37 is just the latest in a series of comebacks of former champions who found the temptation for further glory too good to resist.
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Top seed Nadal advances at US Open
By AFP, 30 Aug 2008
Rafael Nadal ripped returns on serves, laced passing shots, and crafted crisp volleys in a dynamic performance to beat Ryler DeHeart 6-1 6-2 6-4 in the second round of the US Open today.
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The media’s Olympic failure
By Adrian Musolino, 25 Aug 2008 Channel 7 has been put out of its misery with the end of the Beijing Games. As the world now awaits London 2012, the Olympic coverage flag is passed to Channel 9, who has many lessons to learn from the much maligned Seven.
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Chinese gymnast age controversy
By Mohammed Patel, 23 Aug 2008 The Chinese gymnastics team picked up six medals in Beijing, including two gold. But controversy over the age of some of the girls has sparked an international inquiry.
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Millions watching Olympics online
By AAP, 20 Aug 2008 Hundreds of millions of people are getting their Olympic fix from the internet. Olympic organisers say 102 million Chinese have watched the Games live online, while tens of millions more around the world are tuning in through their computers.
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Are performance-enhancing swimsuits the new drugs?
By Spiro Zavos, 15 Aug 2008 Up until Wednesday morning, there had been sixteen World Records set at the Beijing Water Cube. This was on the fifth day of swimming. At Athens four years ago, there were eight World Records set in the entire swim event, and five of these were in relays.
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Ambrose is living the American dream
By Adrian Musolino, 13 Aug 2008 With Australian athletes representing their nation with pride in the Beijing Games, it’s also important to recognise other Australians competing abroad, such as Marcus Ambrose, the former double V8 Supercar champion, who is making waves in NASCAR.
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The most stupid question at this Olympics, so far
By Spiro Zavos, 12 Aug 2008 There was Libby Trickett, still panting heavily after winning the Women’s 100m butterfly, and a Channel 7 hack thrusts a microphone into her face, showing off the television channel’s logo, and asks: “Is it everything you’d thought it would be?”
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Could motorsport ever be an Olympic sport?
By Adrian Musolino, 12 Aug 2008 As the Beijing Games heat up, the motorsport world enjoys it’s mid-season break, with riders and drivers lounging around Monte Carlo or partying in Ibiza. But could they one day represent their respective nations in the Olympic Games?
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Satisfactory start for Aussies in Beijing
By The Crowd, 11 Aug 2008 Australia’s start to the 2008 Beijing Olympics has to date been satisfactory, at best. After day one of the two week showdown, the Australian Olympic team is off to their worst start since the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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