Broke the Olympic doping rules and think you got away with it? Think again.The International Olympic Comitee (IOC) has called for further analysis of all samples taken during the Beijing Games. They are...
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Mexico's Paralympic atheletes are coming back home with 20 medals. Juan Ignacio Reyes received gold in s-4 fifty meter backstroke race at Beijing's Paralympics to become three time Paralympic champion in...
He was not allowed to go to the Olympics even though he had the speed instead he had to participate in the Paralympic Games, where he went beyond his own linits beating his own mark. A man without boundaries to...
An homenage was given to the Sudcalifornian athletes that participated in the Olimpic Games Beijing 2008. Paola Espinosa who won a bronze medal in diving, Carmen De La Fuente ranking eth in Wu shu and...
Today marks the first day of competition at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics Games, which opened yesterday with what were yet another spectacular opening ceremonies at the Bird Nest Stadium in Beijing. Watching the...
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h/t @jollyrulezIn a conversation with a @jollyrulez yesterday, he just made me realize that the only Olympic medals given out during the closing ceremony were all claimed by African Marathon runners - ensuring...
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The Bahamas, with one medal for every 153, 725 people, has won what is arguably the true contest of the Games -- the medals per capita tally. This is the Bahamas's second straight per capita Olympics title. We're...
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Fidel Castro is defending Angel Matos, the Cuban taekwondo fighter who kicked a referee in the face last Saturday (see here for analysis of the event by NowPublic contributor Hazel). "Fidel Castro on Monday...
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A roundup of coverage of Olympic athletes returning home.Great Britain's athletes celebrated their most successful Olympics in 100 years by flying to Heathrow in a plane with a golden nose. Then, to cheers from a...
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Controversy creates attention; and never more so than than when it concerns the Olympic games. In the case of Beijing's 2008 Olympiad, that controversy has compelled the largest television audience of all time to...
I read this with tears in my eyes, and thinking "wow, I'm not sure I could go through this and still want to run." It really gave me something to appreciate - and something to reflect on when it comes to the athletes whose dream is for nothing more than to represent...
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An inspiring story of a little girl whose dream was to go to the Olympic games not the paraolympics as it was expected after she suffered a tragic accident."Natalie Du Toit finished 16th in the women’s 10 km...
Darren Rovell of CNBC names his 25 most marketable Olympians from Beijing 2008, excluding the every day professionals. " Michael Phelps, swimmer, USA. Eight gold medals and millions of dollars worth...
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INTRODUCTION At a time when Spain defeated Lithuania and the United States of America defeated Argentina in Olympic Basketball, the days are counting slowly towards the end of the Beijing Olympics of 2008. My...