London :: CA :: USA
| 3 days ago
Biology professor Mark Denny, who himself has been a marathon runner, came to this conclusion after scrutinising the running performances of humans and two other famous racing species-dogs and thoroughbred horses-to find how close modern runners are to...
Tags: athlete, record, athletes, world, olympics, olympic
Beijing :: China
| 8 days ago
During the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in August, residents of the Chinese capital were impressed by the blue sky over the city; many of them had almost forgotten the sky could look so clean. Part of Beijing's efforts to control its notorious air...
Tags: olympics, athletes, sports, Liu Xiang, Communication University of China, Beijing
Davis :: CA :: USA
| 29 days ago
UC Davis on Sunday, the Cal Poly mens soccer team set up huge stakes for its rematch with UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday. After a 1-0 double-overtime loss to the Gauchos earlier in the season, the Mustangs will head into the rematch with a shot at winning...
Tags: athletes
Quanzhou :: China
| about 1 month ago
Following are some of the traditional sports events but have different ways to compete at the ongoing 6th Chinese Peasants' Games here: Basketball: It is quite different from the NBA three-point shootout game during the All-Star weekend.
Tags: athletes, olympics, sports
Vancouver :: Canada
| about 1 month ago
Island athletes dominated the B.C. cross-country championships yesterday at Brockton Oval in Vancouver. The men's championship race was 10 kilometres and Jon Brown of Victoria's Prairie Inn Harriers, fourth-place finisher at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics...
Tags: olympics, athletes, Vancouver Outgames, Vancouver Pride Society, war, Victoria
London :: United Kingdom
| about 1 month ago
T was a chance to reflect on the golden days of summer and forget, for a moment, the gathering storm. The credit crunch and looming recession were both smothered under Union flags and buried by ticker-tape of red, white and blue as Britain celebrated...
Tags: olympic, olympics, gold, china, sports, costs, mayor, bear, athletes, athlete
Bali :: Cameroon
| about 1 month ago
Sun, sea, sand and a healthy dose of rivalry are on the agenda in this tourist playground from Saturday (tomorrow) as athletes from 45 countries descend for the inaugural Asian Beach Games. It is a concept never tried on this scale before, with some 3,000...
Tags: games, asian, olympic, olympic games, ian, athletes, athlete, sports, asian beach, beach games
Beijing :: China
| about 1 month ago
Olympic all-round gymnastics champion Nastia Liukin was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation on Tuesday. Liukin, who won five Olympic medals in Beijing with her elegant routines, joined a list of former winners including golfer...
Tags: sports, athletes, gymnastics, olympics, Nastia Liukin, Sports Foundation, Individual Sportswoman, London, Beijing
New Delhi :: India
| about 1 month ago
Billed as a dress rehearsal of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, the CYG will see the participation of 71 teams from all Commonwealth countries across a gamut of events, from shooting to swimming and badminton to wrestling, over the next seven...
Tags: olympics, sports, athletes, Suresh Kalmadi
Pune :: India
| about 1 month ago
Dhaka, Oct 9 (bdnews24.com) An 11-member Bangladesh contingent headed by Bangladesh Olympic Association deputy general secretary Anisur Rahman Dipu left here Thursday morning for India to take part in the 3rd Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in Indian...
Tags: badminton, athletes, Commonwealth Youth Games
