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News Source: The New Vision
| about 1 year ago
The opening ceremony was a marvel of synchronisation and light � the 2,800 participants at the opening had been practising for 10 months. Once the events got under way, one could not help but marvel at the performance after the unbending...
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News Source: Gulfnews.com
| about 1 year ago
August 15, 2008, 23:58 San Francisco: Tensions were high as the Olympic torch made its way to San Francisco this spring for the only North American stop of its troubled world tour. Deepak Advani, head of marketing at Lenovo, the Chinese personal...
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News Source: Time of India
| about 1 year ago
The game of golf found a strong advocate in George W Bush when he reportedly said that the time spent in playing the sport shouldn't be counted in that allotted by the Lord Almighty to each one of us on this earth...That morning, when one returned...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
Olympic Committee is losing General Motors Corp. as one of its five top-tier sponsors but scored a victory last month when Anheuser-Busch renewed through the 2012 London Games. The rest--AT&T, Bank of America and The Home Depot--are still negotiating...
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
So it comes as no great surprise to them that access to the Olympic Green – which dwarfs the Forbidden City – has been severely restricted with road blocks and fences cutting off access to all those without a ticket...At other Olympics, the...
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News Source: The independent
| about 1 year ago
The official version is that it was introduced as a trial sport and proved so popular that games organisers decided to make it a regular feature from 1996. I'm sorry if this sounds like sporting snobbery but I just don't rate beach volleyball as a...
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News Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| about 1 year ago
You wondered if these were swimmers or those reporting on them. Spare tires on an Olympic pool deck aren't the stuff made for NBC highlights, but tucked beneath all the excess beat the same five-ringed hearts as those sculpted in the image of Adonis.
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| about 1 year ago
It happened again watching Jujie Luan, who returned from retirement to compete for Canada in fencing at the age of 50. She won gold for China 24 years ago, then moved to Edmonton in 1989, where she became a coach and raised a family. She didn't do...
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News Source: Arizona Daily star
| about 1 year ago
Men's 50-meter freestyle (7-11 p.m., NBC). The best sprint corps in the world will assemble for this final. Former UA swimmer Roland Schoeman (South Africa) will be in the mix...Go to azstarnet.com/sn/Olympics and click on "Newsletters" in the...