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GMA News
| 10 months ago
A ticket holder in Britain has won a record 190 million in the Euro Millions lottery, the Francaise des Jeux announced on Friday. Agence France Presse We welcome healthy discussions and friendly debate! Please click Flag to alert us of a comment that...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
It was already hard for Maris Strombergs to go unnoticed in the tiny Baltic nation of Latvia after winning his first Olympic gold medal.
Imagine what it'll be like now that he has two.
Strombergs defended his BMX title...
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Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Rating When Team Kenya went for the Olympics, expectations were high that the team would exceed the performance of the Beijing Olympics four years ago. These hopes faded fast as the top prizes of the races that have been our domain for a long time...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Police are briefed at the Olympic Park on the first day of the London 2012 Olympic Games July 28, 2012. British police vowed on Friday no let up in vigilance at the Olympics with only three days to go, saying their low visibility security had...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Decathlon gold medallist Ashton Eaton says he was embarrassed of winning because of the close relationship he has with his fellow competitors. The American scored a total of 8,869 points across the 10 events, with Trey Hardee and...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
American taekwondo fighter Paige McPherson knocked out British world champion Sarah Stevenson in the first round of the women's 67-kilogram division at the London Olympics. The 21-year-old McPherson controlled the fight from the start and scored...
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BDNews24
| 10 months ago
London, Aug 10 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) World champion Christian Taylor produced this year's biggest jump to take gold in the men's triple jump in an American one-two at the London Olympic Games on Thursday. Taylor's season's best mark of 17.81 metres...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
India will take on South Africa on Saturday in the playoff to decide the 11th and 12th sports, a match-up similar to that of the 2006 World Cup in Monchengladbach, where India managed to put it across the Southern African rivals to finish 11th. The...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Brazil have so far fully justified their favourites' tag in the men's football tournament playing ... by Gareth Purnell 10 August 2012 12:01 AM As title fight fever hits Denver we preview this weekend's UFC 150, find out who has stepped up to f... by...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have offended the British during his visit to the London Olympics by questioning whether they were ready for the Games. But one of his potential vice-presidential picks, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, has managed...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
9 August 2012 Usain Bolt won the men's 200m in emphatic style tonight, earning his title as the world's greatest ever sprinter...Having repeated his feat from Beijing, Bolt is the only man to have won both the 100m and 200m at two successive Olympics...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Liam Phillips earns spot in BMX semi-finals Britain's Liam Phillips ignored the chaos around him to make smooth progress to the semi-finals of the men's BMX competition. The 23-year-old from Somerset finished safely behind hotly tipped American...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Great Britain's Liam Phillips is through to the semi-final of the men's Olympic BMX competition after three consecutive second place finishes in the quarter-final phase. Phillips, who was seeded 12 th for the quarter final after Wednesday's time...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Phillips Idowu today insisted he had not broken off contact with his coach Aston Moore in the build-up to his unsuccessful bid for Olympic triple jump glory. Idowu opted to arrange his own treatment on a trapped nerve in London rather than attend UKA'...
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The Observer
| 10 months ago
Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Today's key events: Please note all times are in BST (EDT+5) Swimming: 12noon at Hyde Park Keri-Anne Payne won silver in the gruelling women's 10k open water marathon in Beijing. Boxing: 4.30pm at the ExCel Arena The...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
August 08, 2012 Most people want to go for the gold just like Olympic athletes. Looking at the athletes could help in the pursuit. Olympic athletes don't leave anything to chance. They use the number one coaches, top level equipment and best...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 11 months ago
36 p.m., Aug. 8, 2012 In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, United States' LoLo Jones, right, crosses the finish line to place fourth in the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics,...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics Triple world champion Shanaze Reade heads into tomorrow's BMX final with a morale-boosting top-five place in the seeding round, while the Team GB men's entry Liam Phillips placed 12th in his seeding race. Reade, the winner of the...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Bolt's stroll sets up a date with destiny The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, last night cruised to victory in his 200m semi-final after barely having to make any effort at all in the second half of the race. The performance set up the tantalising...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
The Olympics may last only a few weeks but for some of those who have been in London for the Games, having a life-long reminder of them is worth a few minutes of pain. Olympic athletes, games volunteers and tourists are lining up at London's many...
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Gawker
| 11 months ago
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece Wednesday profiling the odd guild of house elves whose job it is to wipe up sweat left behind by athletes in court sports like badminton, volleyball, handball and basketball...Here's what they can teach us: Any...
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LA Times
| 11 months ago
The five members of the U.S. women's gymnastics team are coming home from the London Olympics with gold medals. Their success has also unwittingly touched the burgeoning career of "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips , as NBC has numerous times...
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Daily Nation
| 11 months ago
Rating The winds that are blowing from the London Olympics 2012 are not for the wider East Africa. East African countries like Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, the two Sudans, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, usually don't win anything at the Olympics. It is left...
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Frederick News-Post
| 11 months ago
Vikas Gowda pursed his lips, exhaled upward and shook his head in disappointment. With an Olympic medal at stake Tuesday at Olympic Stadium, the Frederick High School graduate just didn't have what it took. The men's discus competition ended with...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
A stamp marking Britain's gold medal win in the Olympic men's cycling team pursuit. Photograph: Royal Mail/PA Royal Mail has defended the decision not to create individual stamps for Paralympic gold medallists. It is releasing individual stamps to...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
All three U.S. runners entered in the 5,000-meter run, including 10,000 silver medalist Galen Rupp, advanced through qualifying on Wednesday into Saturday's Olympic final. Rupp ran 13 minutes, 17.56 seconds to advance out of the same preliminary race...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Maurice Mitchell of the United States looks on during the men's 200-meter round 1 heats. Jonathan Silva of Brazil competes in the men's triple jump qualification. Fernanda Silva, left, of Brazil shoots over Goril Snorroeggen of Norway during the...
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The Herald Times
| 11 months ago
If Londoners need inspiration on how to ensure that the Olympic legacy lives on long after the Summer Games, they may want to throw a glance at Helsinki. Helsinki's Olympic Stadium was on duty just last month hosting the European Athletics...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Great Britain's Tim Brabants lost his Olympic finished K1 1000m title after Norway's Eirik Veras Larsen sprinted to victory at Eton Dorney. The defending Olympic gold medallist from Beijing had overcome injury to reach Wednesday's final, but only...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Maurice Mitchell of the United States looks on during the men's 200-meter round 1 heats. Jonathan Silva of Brazil competes in the men's triple jump qualification. Fernanda Silva, left, of Brazil shoots over Goril Snorroeggen of Norway during the...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
The British track cyclist, built like a block of marble with a deep Scottish brogue, stood at the podium with his second gold medal around his neck...He had closed out the Olympics' track cycling competition Tuesday night with the country's seventh...
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Times of Oman
| 11 months ago
World champion Sally Pearson won the women's 100 metres hurdles in a blanket finish to give Australia their first gold medal in athletics at the London Olympics yesterday. The dominant sprint hurdler of the last two years, Pearson led from the start...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
It was casualty time in the unforgiving crucible of London 2012's main arena yesterday morning. Liu Xiang, the fall guy of the Beijing Olympics, smashed the first barrier in his 110m hurdles heat, then hopped down the apron of the track and departed...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Cameroon athletes missing from Olympics Olympic team members from Cameroon march in the parade of nations on July 27, 2012 in London. Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Cameroon Olympic officials told their government Tuesday its seven missing athletes, missing from...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Great Britain's Shara Proctor made swift work of qualifying for the final of the long jump at the Olympic Stadium tonight. The Anguilla-born athlete leapt out to 6.83 metres with her first attempt of the night to secure automatic qualification. The...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics The soap opera came to an end in little over an hour. Phillips Idowu, the Beijing silver medallist who virtually disappeared in the run up to the Games following a row with his coach and doubts about his fitness, failed to qualify...
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BDNews24
| 11 months ago
The agony and the ecstasy of the Games were on show at the Olympic stadium on Tuesday as sprint champion Usain Bolt delighted fans with another victory on the track after Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang had exited it in a wheelchair.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Chinese icon Liu Xiang suffered fresh Olympic Games heartbreak today when he crashed out of the 110m hurdles while double 100m champion Usain Bolt cruised casually through his 200m heat. Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 18:24 IST Describing Saina Nehwal as a '...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
The Beijing silver medallist struggled to make an impact, failing to qualify as he slipped to 14th place. Despite strong support from the home crowd, he looked out of sorts on all three of his jumps...His second ended in a no jump and he managed only...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Great Britain equal Beijing gold medal haul at London 2012 Britain have equalled their total of 19 gold medals from the Beijing Olympics after Alistair Brownlee's triumph in the triathlon on day 11 of London 2012. His brother Jonny took bronze and...
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India Abroad
| 11 months ago
Renjith Maheshwary crashed out of the men's triple jump competition at the London [ Images ] Olympics [ Images ] after fouling all three attempts in the qualification round on Tuesday. Maheshwary, who won a bronze in the 2010 Commonwealth Games [...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
One former Olympic champion lasted only a few meters while another ran leisurely down the track in his first steps towards a second straight golden sprint double. Fortunes couldn't have been more contrasting for Liu Xiang and Usain Bolt at the...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Idowu fails to make triple jump final Phillips Idowu out of London 2012 Olympics triple jump Phillips Idowu has been eliminated from the men's triple jump at London 2012. The 2008 silver medallist recorded 16.47m with his first jump before stuttering...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Topics Britain's Phillips Idowu reacts after jumping in his men's triple jump qualification at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 7, 2012. Britain's former world triple jump champion Phillips Idowu crashed out in qualifying...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Phillips Idowu was unable to qualify for the finals of the triple jump after crashing out at the very first stage of the competition with a best jump of just 16.53m. There had been much speculation about the fitness of Idowu and it certainly seemed...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics Phillips Idowu's bid for an elusive Olympic gold medal ended with a whimper this morning as he crashed out in triple jump qualifying. The East Londoner, whose fitness has been the focus of so much frenzied speculation in the build-up...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Monday was an action-packed day for India ns at the London Olympics with medal hopefuls in action but Tuesday is going to be a dull day with no big names in the fray. The biggest attraction of the day is Vikas Gowda, who has qualified for the men's...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Sort by: Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: All this sporting prowess is beginning to rub off on me...And since there's no squash in the Olympics, I'm calling...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics The time has come for the Invisible Man to stand up and be counted. More importantly, for his hopping, stepping and jumping to be counted. It is nine weeks now since Phillips Idowu was last seen in competitive action, landing...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
After a much talked about disappearing act, the invisible man of Team GB Phillips Idowu has finally made it to the athletes village. Great Britain's 33-year-old former world champion triple jumper didn't travel to Portugal with the rest of the UK...
