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Vanity Fair
| 10 months ago
Rafalca Romney, wealthy horse and girl , did not, in the end, win the gold in the Olympic dressage competition. (At least this means she steers clear of the Olympic tax !) In today's performance with Jan Eberling, human rider and boy, Rafalca didn't...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
Anna Meares is the Olympic sprint queen after defeating Victoria Pendleton in two dramatic races that drew the curtains on a rivalry that kept giving until the end. Australia's best track sprinter was a demoralised figure after finishing second last...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
Sir Chris Hoy defended his keirin crown Tuesday to claim a sixth Games gold and become Britain's most successful Olympian. Germany's Maximilian Levy finished second to take the silver with New Zealand's Simon Van Velthooven and Dutchman Teun Mulder...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 10 months ago
Listening to her speak, you could be convinced this is her time, at her second Olympics. She's waited four years to shake the awful memories of Beijing when she went in with huge expectation as a 20-year-old and was overawed and emotional, finishing...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Meares has won Olympic gold, stunning British sprint queen Victoria Pendleton in a superb display of speed and tactics. The Queenslander thumped Pendleton 2-0 before dissolving into tears in the arms of coach Gary West. The Athens 500m time trial...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Rafalca Does Not Advance in Olympic Dressage Alex Livesey/Getty Images Jan Ebeling rides Rafalca in the team dressage event on Tuesday. As he rode into the ring on his horse, Rafalca, the equestrian Jan Ebeling blew a kiss to a few women in the...
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Wellington Dominion
| 10 months ago
Keirin rider Simon van Velthooven has powered to New Zealand's second bronze medal on the London velodrome. Van Velthooven finished in a dead-heat for third with Teun Mulder of the Netherlands, behind Chris Hoy, who won to become Britain's most-...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Meares beats Victoria Pendleton to sprint gold Victoria Pendleton loses to Anna Meares in last ever race Victoria Pendleton's career ended in disappointment as she was beaten by Anna Meares in the women's individual sprint final in her last ever race.
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
7 August 2012 Laura Trott has won gold in the women's omnium after a breathtaking final in the Olympic velodrome. The 20-year-old cyclist claimed her second gold of London 2012 when she recorded the fastest time in the 500m time trial, the final of...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
Team GB Hits Golden Milestone Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has won his sixth Olympic gold medal in what is already Team GB's most successful Games in more than a century...Sir Chris first became Olympic champion in Athens in 2004, with victory in...
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The Dish Rag
| 10 months ago
Ann Romney's horse eliminated from Dressage competition With the Presidential race and the Olympics both dominating headlines this summer, one news story continues combining the two worlds: Ann Romney 's dressage horse, Rafalca. On Tuesday morning (...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Chris Hoy competes in the men's keirin at London 2012 Olympics cycling: Sir Chris Hoy wins sixth gold with keirin win Sir Chris Hoy claimed a British record sixth Olympic gold medal, with a trademark surge to victory in the keirin. Having won gold on...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
The look on Javier Gomez's face after a morning's brutal racing over 54.5 kilometers of swimming, cycling and running around central London on Tuesday was one of grudging acceptance. He had given it his all, but for a second Olympic Games, the...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Brazil's Emanuel (L) block a spike from Latvia's Martins Plavins during the men's beach volleyball semifinal match at Horse Guards Parade during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 7, 2012. World champions Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti of...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Australia's Anna Meares overcame arch rival Victoria Pendleton to win the Olympic track cycling women's sprint title on Tuesday but the event ended on a sour note for the Briton, who was relegated in the first leg. Pendleton was adjudged to have left...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton was denied a golden goodbye and a third Olympic title in dramatic fashion as her perennial rival Anna Meares claimed sprint gold at the London 2012 velodrome. After watching Laura Trott become a double Olympic...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Dutchman Epke Zonderland showed off a flamboyant gravity-defying routine to snatch the Olympics horizontal bar title on Tuesday. Zou Kai had been the favourite to win the gold medal as China had won every Olympic and world title on the apparatus...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
The clash between track cycling's most fierce rivals will take place on the biggest stage, and with the highest stakes. The Australian and British champions required just two races each to move through their semi-finals, where they defeated China's...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Women's wrestling was added to the Olympics for the first time in 2004. In the four weight classes, the United States won one silver and one bronze medal in Athens. After failing to win a medal in Beijing in 2008, this year's team hopes to return...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Sir Chris Hoy remained on course for a British record sixth Olympic gold after advancing to the keirin final on a climactic final day of competition at the London 2012 velodrome...After watching team-mate Jason Kenny win the sprint title Hoy won in...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Great Britain's Laura Trott has won her second gold of the London 2012 Olympic Games with victory in the women's omnium. The velodrome was the day's hot ticket, with everyone from London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe and Prince Harry to...
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The independent
| 10 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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The independent
| 10 months ago
Great Britain's dressage riders won gold today and landed their first title in Olympic history. Barely 24 hours after the British showjumping team clinched a first gold medal for 60 years, the dressage trio of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Victoria Pendleton advanced to the final of the women's sprint as the 31-year-old aimed to finish her career on a high with Olympic gold in the London 2012 velodrome. Pendleton claimed a comfortable 2-0 victory in her best-of-three sprint semi-final...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 10 months ago
In each event the winner gets one point, the second placed rider gets two points, the third three points, and so on. At the end of all six events the rider with the lowest total score is the winner. Britain's Laura Trott Pendleton watch Having been...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 10 months ago
Guardian staff British fans cheer their team to victory in the London 2012 dressage at Greenwich Park. Photograph: Steven Paston/Action Images Great Britain have won their 20th gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics beating their haul from the 2008...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 10 months ago
Epke Zonderland's acrobatic high bar routine earned him an equally lofty prize: an Olympic gold medal. The gold was the first by a Dutch man in artistic gymnastics, and only the second for the country...When Zonderland saw his mark of 16.533 -- a...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Team GB won their first ever medal in the equestrian dessage event at the 2012 London Olympics today, taking out gold to push them over the edge and boast one more than they achieved in the entirety of the Olympics in Beijing. Carl Hester achieved a...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Great Britain won a 20th gold medal of London 2012 inside the dressage arena, surpassing Beijing 2008 for the team's best tally in more than a century. Laura Bechtolsheimer, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin took team gold ahead of Germany inside...
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The Sun UK
| 10 months ago
Olympic triathlon champion with brother Jonny grabbing bronze in an historic day for Team GB. Brownlee's stunning victory meant we have equalled our gold medal tally for Beijing with the best part of SIX days of Olympic competition remaining. It was...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Story All penalties are 15 seconds and the athlete must literally stand in a small square as the seconds tick down. The time must be served during the 10-kilometre run and the athlete can decide when to head to the box...The issue came up Tuesday...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
13 In the run up to the Olympics, I was dreading the whole affair, dreading the journey to work, dreading the disruption to my life...I've been watching it night and day, even forfeiting my lunch to sit in the restaurant and watch it on tv.
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 10 months ago
New Zealand 470 sailors Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie found perfection on the waters of Weymouth today as they moved into gold medal position with three races remaining...The two bullets (race wins) have them on 21 points, four ahead of the Brits who were...
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Dutch News
| 10 months ago
The Dutchman won the competition on Monday having won six of the nine races with just two more to go. He had accumulated 23 points at that stage, with a maximum of 18 points still available. Van Rijsselberghe had to take part in the final race or...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Britain's Shanaze Reade is among the favorites to win the women's BMX event at the London Olympics, but she knows all too well that it can be all over in just a heartbeat. Reade, who was also among the top contenders in Beijing four years ago,...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 10 months ago
Alistair Brownlee became the first Briton to win a medal in an Olympic triathlon when he took gold with an emphatic front-running display around Hyde Park in central London today. Brownlee, 24, became the 19th British gold medallist of the London...
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E! Online
| 10 months ago
Lolo Jones, Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells will represent the red, white and blue during the women's 100-meter hurdle qualifiers, while sprinters Wallace Spearman, Maurice Mitchell, Isiah Young; Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake will take on the men's 200-...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Great Britain's Nick Dempsey has won windsurfing silver in the men's RS-X class after finishing third in the medal race in Weymouth. The bronze medallist from Athens went into the final leg of the RS-X event having to hold on to the silver medal...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
August 7, 2012 TriBrowns149930120 Alistair Brownlee of Great Britain, Javier Gomez of Spain and Jonathan Brownlee of Great Britain compete in the Men's Triathlon on Day 11 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images) Great Britain's...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
British star Alistair Brownlee is the new Olympic triathlon champion while his little brother, Jonathan, is a bronze medallist. The brothers were hoping for a gold-silver finish, but that came unstuck during the run leg when Jonathan was given a 15-...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
With five golds in the bag at the London Games, and perhaps three more to come on Tuesday, Britain's track riders have humiliated their rivals and left them lost for an explanation. France came into the Olympics as favorites for the men's team sprint...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
On the Olympics' eleventh day, artistic gymnasts will go for their last big batch of medals...Here are some of the highlights of the day's action: Gymnastics 9:00a Men's Parallel Bars Final 9:47a Women's Beam Final 10:37a Men's Horizontal Bar Final...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Alistair Brownlee became Great Britain's first Olympic champion in triathlon with a brilliant performance in front of a huge crowd in Hyde Park while his brother Jonny picked up a bronze medal. Britain had never even won a medal in the sport before...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Sir Chris Hoy started his campaign today to become the greatest British Olympian ever with an impressive win in the first round of the keirin. The Scot is attempting to win his sixth gold a haul that would take him above rowing legend Sir Steve...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Great Britain's Nick Dempsey today secured a windsurfing silver medal at London 2012. The Athens 2004 bronze medallist came into the medal race knowing a top six finish in the men's RS:X class would assure him of second place.
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Britain's Alistair Brownlee prepares to compete in the men's triathlon final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Hyde Park August 7, 2012. Alistair Brownlee became the first Briton to win a medal in an Olympic triathlon when he took gold...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Britain's Jason Kenny (red helmet) competes with France's Gregory Bauge during the track cycling men's sprint gold finals at the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 6, 2012.
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Jan Ebeling of the U.S. riding Rafalca laughs after competing in the equestrian dressage individual grand prix special at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park August 7, 2012. The rider of Rafalca, the horse that launched a thousand...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
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The Observer
| 10 months ago
Britain's Alistair Brownlee celebrates with the Union flag while crossing the finish line to win the men's triathlon. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images Alistair Brownlee won Team GB's 19th gold medal of the London 2012 games on Tuesday...
