Vote Now: The most handsome and FIT Male Sportsmen at Beijing Olympics 2008 !

Milieunet must not be allowed to get away with his "vote for the sexiest female athlete" - here's your chance, girls (and guys...?) to put forward your nominations for the male athlete or sportsman with the bigggest...

Norway's Olympic Champion Andreas Thorkildsen Makes the Javelin Trendy

The winning 90m throw was with a red swirl-on-white javelin.  Of rival Tero Pitkamaki, Thorkildsen revealed, "Some days are his, some days are mine".  Today was all Thorkildsen's. "Beijing – “Some days...

Norway's Thorkildsen Gave up the Day Job to Concentrate on Getting 90m.

  Olympic Beijing 2008 Champion and Olympic record holder, Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway gave up the "day job" in financial services two years ago to practice on his 90 metre shots.  Well, it has obviously...

Bhupathi-Knowles in finals of Pilot Pen Tennis tournament

Second seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles notched up a win over Italians Simone Bolelli and Andreas Sippi in three sets to advance to the finals of Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament.Read full article

Bhupathi-Knowles in semis

Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles eased into the semi-final with a straight-set victory in the Pilot Pen tennis tournament.Read full article

Men's Javelin: All Three Finns Through to the Final!

All three Finnish javelin throwers are through to the Finals on Saturday 23rd August.  They are:  Tero Pitkämäki , who finished third in today's qualifying round, Tero Järvenpää, fourth and Teemu...

Norway's Thorkildsen Qualifies for Men's Javelin Final

Norway's Thorkildsen has qualified!  (As expected!)  Latvia First  - Vasilevskis - 83.51,  Russia - Korotkov - Second - 83.33m and Pitkämäki Third - 82.61.  Thorkildsen managed...

Finland's Javelin World Champion Pitkämäki Gears up for Encounter with Norw...

Scandinavian eyes will be on the Men's Javelin qualifying rounds tomorrow (Thursday 21st August 2008, Final: Friday 23rd August 2008, times below), when World Champion Finland's Tero Pitkämäki squares up to...

New instruments could provide advanced earthquake warnings

"Although measurement methods have improved enormously over the last few decades, it has remained very difficult to measure changes in the crust that could enable earthquake prediction. Now, the field has been...

Euro 2008: Sweden 1-2 Spain

" Sweden 1-2 Spain BBC Radio 5 Live commentary Innsbruck, 14 June 2008 606 debate | Blog Live text Player Rater Photos Match stats whichTab(); ...

Girl's twin found inside her stomach

"ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they...

EU to discuss flight ban on Indonesian airlines in July

""They (EU) said they will possibly discuss the flight ban in July when the European Commission holds a meeting. It is impossible for them to discuss it next April 17," the minister said here on Wednesday.The minister made the statement after receiving the European Union`s...

Detta är vad jag kallar för att vara ansvarsfull...

"Family tragedy, waist deep snow, and the North Sea were not enough to keep Andreas Bäck from answering a summons to appear in a Scottish court this week."

Hewitt sleeps in after 4.30am end at Aust Open

The local media are abuzz this morning with Hewitt's win, more about the finishing time than anything. Seems Hewitt is back on course after changing coach last year.Will an Australian finally win the open after Australia's Casey Dellacqua beat former champion Amelie Mauresmo...

Transparent Concrete: Now you can see through walls!

"Remember the dear little ghost, Casper, who could walk through walls? Now you can too have close to similar powers! Yes, although you will have to wait a while before you can walk through walls, for the time being,...

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