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BBC
| 10 months ago
The teacher who won Iran's first Olympic medal 28 July 2012 Last updated at 20:33 ET In 1948, Iran sent its first Olympic team to the London. The nation's young Shah, who had set the country on a course of modernisation, saw the '48 games as an...
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Inquirer.net
| 10 months ago
Michael Phelps, shockingly shut out of the medals in the 400m medley, will try to bounce back in an event he has long dominated when he launches his Olympic 200m butterfly title defence on Monday. Ryan Lochte, for one, thinks Phelps will come back...
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Denver Post
| 10 months ago
The first time Missy Franklin jumped in an Olympic pool for a race, she emerged from the water with a medal...And this bronze medal won't be the last for the Colorado teenager. "Missy the Missile" is going to need a bigger trophy case. "You guys have...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
I'm excited for the 200m," Rice said. "The 200m and the 400m are completely different and I know the training I have done has been more geared towards the 200m just because I haven't been able to get in the kilometres and fitness stuff for the 400m. "...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Friends they may be, but after Saturday`s showing they may not now be rivals. Lochte powered home to gold, ahead of Brazil`s Thiago Pereira and Japanese swimmer, Kosuko Hakino, with Olympic Champion and 14-time gold medal winner Michael Phelps...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
The Swiss star, who won a gold medal in the men`s doubles with his teammate Stanislas Wawrinka in Beijing four years ago, had to overcome a second set slump to defeat Falla 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in almost two hours. "I was part of the Olympics in the Sydney...
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Fitsugar
| 10 months ago
Share the stories that interest you with our PopSugar Social Reader. Activity Published! × You are logged in to Facebook We've built a new social app for Facebook so now it's never been easier to share and discover our insanely addictive content...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
American swimmer Ryan Lochte made the biggest splash of the London Games so far by obliterating his compatriot Michael Phelps, the greatest swimmer in Olympic history, in the first of their eagerly awaited duels...Sun Yang powered to China's first...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
Reigning women's volleyball champions Brazil prevailed in a late-night thriller against newcomers Turkey at Earls Court to complete a sizzling opening day of preliminary round action at the London Games on Saturday. Brazil eventually edged home 3-2...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
A teenager with an irregular crop of hair and an uncertain smile, China's Ye Shiwen showed no sign of awkwardness in the pool as she powered to gold in the 400 metres individual medley on Sunday. Both Ye and her compatriot Li Xuanxu, who won the...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
American swimming great Michael Phelps looks to win his opening medal of the London Olympics on Sunday after suffering his first finish outside the top three in a Games final since he was 15. The U.S. face a tough task in the 4x100 meters freestyle...
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Just Jared
| 10 months ago
00 pm Ryan Lochte proudly shows off his American Flag Grill and his Gold Medal during the Medal Ceremony for the Men's 400m Individual Medley on Day 1 of the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Aquatics Centre on Saturday (July 28) in London, England.
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
The London Olympics kicked into high gear, but the acting skills of Queen Elizabeth were still the talk of the town. The 86-year-old monarch made her acting debut alongside 007 Daniel Craig at the Opening Ceremony, drawing rave reviews from mere...
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Pop Crunch
| 10 months ago
Natalie Coughlin earns 12th Olympic Medal The US Women had the lead into the third leg of the Women's 400M Relay on Saturday but fell to a Bronze Medal finish behind Australia and the Netherlands. Missy Franklin and Jessica Hardy swam the first two...
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Hollywood insider
| 10 months ago
Viewers slammed the broadcaster for choosing to delay the telecast of Michael Phelps' dramatic men's 400-meter individual medley race until primetime. The Saturday midmorning race concluded with Ryan Lochte winning the gold medal and Phelps...
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The Orange County Register
| 10 months ago
The race she spent a lifetime dreaming about, the night she spent four years fighting for had finally arrived and Jessica Hardy was an emotional mess. The doping suspension that kept her out of the 2008 Olympics , the ruling by two panels that the...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
A bloke with a microphone constantly exhorted the crowd, which included men in togas starting the wave. Women dancers in bikinis entertained fans by gyrating and rolling in the sand. Funny thing happened to me on the way to an Olympic event: I...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Tameka Catchings, Sue Bird and the rest of the U.S. women's basketball players couldn't help but notice how NBA stars LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant were treated as they marched together in the Olympics' Opening Ceremonies on Friday night.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
U.S. archer Brady Ellison has called Lord's Cricket Ground the toughest place on the planet to fire arrows at a 70-meter target...The wind swirls, it picks up, it dissipates, it switches direction. So as Italy's Michele Frangilli stood alone on the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
28 July 2012 Few women would pass up the chance of being whisked away in a helicopter by 007 star Daniel Craig even the Queen could not resist such an invitation. A great-grandmother and octogenarian, she is probably too mature now to be called a...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
As the Olympics have evolved over the years, however, its organizers have added and subtracted sports that were considerably less resonant among fans. Even baseball got the ax this time around, but America's national pastime is still more popular...
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The Dish Rag
| 10 months ago
Lochte beat out Phelps in their very first London race, the 400 IM, after Phelps just barely qualified for the event. The 2008 champion -- and world record and Olympics record holder -- didn't even medal, while Lochte brought home the gold for the U.
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
July 28, 2012 Ryan Lochte of the United States reacts after winning the Final of the Men's 400-meter Individual Medley on Day 1 of the London 2012 Olympic Games, July 28, 2012 in London, England. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) American Ryan Lochte...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Natalie Cook and partner Tamsin Hinchley have begun their Olympic campaign with a narrow loss in London. After two close sets, reigning Games champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh eventually prevailed 21-18, 21-19. Americans Walsh and May-...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Kerri Walsh Jennings of the U.S. rests on her teammate Misty May-Treanor as they celebrate their victory over Australia's Nat Cook and Tamsin Hinchley after the women's beach volleyball preliminary match at the Horse Guards Parade during the...
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Beauregard Daily News
| 10 months ago
Day 1 of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was full of surprises. Some of them happened during competition, while others happened off the field of play. he Michael Phelps vs. Ryan Lochte rivalry was perhaps the biggest storyline leading to the 2012...
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The Indianapolis Star
| 10 months ago
It somehow doesn't look or feel like an Olympic event without Phelps standing on the highest podium, pawing at yet another gold medal. It was startlingly surreal Saturday night, when he finished fourth to American gold medalist Ryan Lochte in the...
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The Star
| 10 months ago
The opening of the Olympics in London was filled with wit, humour, creativity and popular music. IT was already 2.30am when I finally made it back to my hotel room. Paul McCartney's hauntingly iconic hit Hey Jude was still ringing in my ears. What a...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Today All eyes on Adlington Rebecca Adlington defends the 400m freestyle gold she won in Beijing...There's a domestic dust-up on the cards as Nicola Cooke goes head to head with Team GB rival Lizzie Armitstead in the women's cycling road race...Great...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics It was an evening that opened to the sound of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' echoing around the London Aquatics Centre but it was a night that belonged to China, emphatically so. In less than half an hour two stunning swims produced two...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
29 July Swimming Women's 400m freestyle Heats: 11.33am, final 8.15pm Rebecca Adlington defends the first of her two Olympic titles in what should be a close race against the Italian world record holder Federica Pellegrini. Sailing Men's finn From...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
No gold at the end of this rainbow, only bruised egos and disbelief. Faces that had earlier shone with hope and expectation returned smeared in dirt and grime, the dream team splintered by the essential meritocracy of sport. Mark Cavendish was a...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 10 months ago
Natalie Coughlin's historic 12th Olympic medal rested in a black box held by her longtime coach Teri McKeever. Coughlin didn't receive it during the medal ceremony Saturday night at the Aquatics Center after the United States set an American record...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
There was a shocking result in the very first swimming race at the London Olympics. American swimmer Ryan Lochte won the men's 400-meter individual medley (4:05.18) by an impressive margin of more than three and a half seconds, capturing the gold...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
The reign of Olympic gold medal record holder Michael Phelps was interrupted Saturday and China made its presence known as a potential world swimming power. Ryan Lochte brought an end to Phelps' Olympic winning streak on the first day of swimming...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
13.33, qualifying for the last spot in the final. July 28 (UPI) -- The Olympic showdown between America's star swimmers turned out to be a dud Saturday, symbolizing a host of missed chances at the start of the London Games.
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Two-time defending gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh survived a difficult first match Saturday in women's Olympic beach volleyball. The Americans defeated Australians Nat Cook and Tamsin Hinchley 21-18, 21-19 in group play.
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
AP There are some who think bikini-clad women throwing themselves around a super-sized sandpit is an absurd pursuit to find at an Olympic Games to begin with. But when Big Ben is ticking towards midnight in the near distance, and the weather more...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
German fencer Nicolas Limbach is looking to go one step further at the Olympic men's saber competition Sunday after collecting a string of second places at major championships in recent years...International Fencing Federation, won the world...
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Inquirer.net
| 10 months ago
China's Ye Shiwen set a new world record with a time of 4:28:43. Sun Yang propped himself up on the lane rope, posed for the cameras and let out a big roar as he pounded his fists into the water. It was the start of a big night for a Chinese swimming...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 10 months ago
The Sports Network Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps to win the 400-meter individual medley on Saturday night...Phelps finished fourth, off the Olympic medal podium for the first time since he was 15. But the American teammates might be on the same...
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Telegraph India
| 10 months ago
The hilariously quirky Olympic opening ceremony was a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful; the conventional and the eccentric; and the frankly off-the-wall. The self-mocking spectacle helped Britain present itself as something it has...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony took me straight back to this time four years ago when I covered the Beijing games for The Independent ...I just knew that, since watching the Montreal Games on a fuzzy television somewhere in...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Mark Cavendish in flying form, British morale at an all-time high after Bradley Wiggins's victory in the Tour de France, four out of five riders stage winners in the Tour and an Olympic team regularly touted as the strongest in the...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
They will begin their final journey from the same place, waiting in the call rooms beneath the steeply rising stands of the London Aquatics Centre. Then their paths will separate once again; Tom Daley will turn left and walk down to the deep blue of...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Opening ceremony reviews Writers, critics and campaigners give their view of Danny Boyle's spectacular curtain-raiser to the sporting spectacular Fireworks illuminate the sky during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photograph:...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Let's build on the triumph and hope of Danny Boyle's night The opening ceremony showed the nation in a great light and gave us inspiration Editorial Four years ago in Beijing, you feared for the worst. Rumpled Boris, old Becks and a London bus, for...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
The swimmer crushed the field and flirted with a world record for about 350 meters and won the first gold medal for the United States at the London Olympics. Only it was Ryan Lochte , not Michael Phelps , taking center stage after a punishing win in...
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Just Jared
| 10 months ago
00 pm Serena Williams , Roger Federer , Andy Roddick , Andy Murray , Jamie Murray , and John Isner all hit the tennis courts on the first day of the 2012 Summer Olympics on Saturday (July 28) in London, England. Both Roger and Serena qualified to...
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Gawker
| 10 months ago
Swimmer Ryan Lochte predicted that 2012 would be his year, and he's off to a great start. Lochte won the 400-meter individual relay , while teammate Michael Phelps didn't even make it onto the podium. When asked about Phelps, Lochte answered, "I know...
