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(China’s Yao Ming (13) reacts to a score in the first half of play against New Zealand during their men’s basketball game in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 17, 2004. At left is New Zealand’s Kirk Penney and at right is China’s Yi Jianlian. REUTERS/Adrees Latif) (Reuters) – Yi Jianlian said China’s national basketball [...]
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(Reuters) – The chairman of the London 2012 Olympics said on Thursday that the Olympic committee needed to encourage more inclusiveness by countries that failed to send women to the games but cautioned that “sport is not the panacea for all ills.” “I think you can use sport in a way to encourage social change [...]
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John Orozco of the USA competes in the Horizontal Bar final during day ten of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo 2011 at Tokyo metropolitan Gymnasium on October 16, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. (October 15, 2011 – Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images AsiaPac) (PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Gymnast John Orozco won the Winter Cup [...]
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(Reuters) – The flame for this year’s London Olympics, scheduled to arrive in Britain on May 18, will land at a military base in Cornwall before starting the torch relay that will end with the Games’ opening ceremony on July 27, documents revealed on Wednesday. In the documents seen by Reuters, Games organizers are planning [...]
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(Reuters) – London marked a mere six months to the start of its Olympic Games Friday by focusing on the minutiae of putting on the show now that the monumental stage has been built. As a host of countdown clocks showed 182 days to go, organizers LOCOG took charge of the Olympic Village site that [...]
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(Reuters) – Jon-Allan Butterworth served with the British armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he lost an arm, but says getting on a bicycle makes him most nervous. The 25-year-old former Royal Air Force (RAF) weapons technician suffered his life-changing injury in a rocket attack on a British base in Basra in August 2007. [...]
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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Anna Tunnicliffe and her team — Molly Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi — beat Britain’s Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Kate Macgregor in four races to win the ISAF Sailing World Championship in women’s match racing. They are USA TODAY’s Olympic Athletes of the Week. This is the first world championship [...]
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ATLANTA (AP) – Missy Franklin took a break from studying for her high school exams to anchor a world-record time in the very first race of the night. With that, the Americans were off to another dominating performance at Duel in the Pool. Led by the 16-year-old Franklin and longtime American stars Ryan Lochte and [...]
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Joao Havelange the former FIFA President and current FIFA president, Sepp Blatter attend an IOC press conference ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 11, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. (February 10, 2010 – Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images North America) (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have refused to confirm media reports [...]
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(Reuters) – Three employees of the International Olympic Committee’s finance department have been sacked following an embezzlement investigation into the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the IOC said on Friday. The three IOC employees were dismissed after a probe into the finances of the museum shop revealed a shortfall of about $1.6 million. “Three employees have [...]
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