Olympic Summer Games News Archives

TABLE Tennis player Howard Tomlinson has been selected to represent Great Britain at next summer's European games, which take place in Warsaw, Poland in September.

European football leaders have unanimously backed a proposal to limit football's participation in future Olympic Games to players under the age of 21.

Ten journalists and nearly 50 officials are facing prosecution after a State Council probe found they allegedly took bribes to cover up a mine disaster in Hebei province.

The Olympic flame began its first of a 13-day stint in Quebec on Sunday and brought with it a Canadian medal hopeful who made his hometown of Riviere-du-Loup stand up and cheer.

One of the Polo Ralph Lauren outfits U.S. Olympic athletes will wear at the Winter Games in Vancouver.

Australia striker Grant Schubert scored three first-half goals as the titleholders beat the Netherlands 7-2 on Sunday, remaining the only undefeated team after two rounds of the Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament.

While you're eating your Thanksgiving turkey today, a prestigious international meeting will be going on downtown.

Lu Yong of China competes in the men's 85kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships in Goyang, north of Seoul, South Korea, Nov.

MELBOURNE: Olympic champions Germany are aiming to protect their top world ranking in the men's field hockey Champions Trophy, getting underway here on Saturday .

A woman, whose child died from drinking tainted milk, holds a sign reading 'Give me back my child' outside Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court on Thursday.

NO PRIVATE jet ushered Samuel Wanjiru into Essendon Airport late last night; no TV helicopters followed his tollroad journey to a city hotel.

Ticket prices for the opening and closing ceremonies fo the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou will range from 1,600 yuan to 6,800 yuan .

Badminton and rhythmic gymnastics will be staged in Wembley Arena during the 2012 Olympics, according to London organisers who said yesterday that they had agreed in principle to relocate the sports as a cost-cutting measure.

Europe's football chiefs have backed a proposal to limit the age of players featuring at the Olympics to under 21.

Olympic gymnast Louis Smith yesterday sprang into action and went head over heels - literally - at the opening of the region's first adizone outdoor multi-sports arena and gym.

India's hopes of hosting an Olympics in the near future was dealt a blow by the country's sports minister Manohar Singh Gill, who said the country was far too poor to even consider the idea.

IT'S the Pit Bull against the Rocket. Harry Matthews' next opponent should promise to give the Pocklington fighter a bit more bite after taking a Beijing Olympian the distance last month.

Two men have been executed in China for selling hundreds of tonnes of contaminated milk that resulted in the deaths of six babies and sickened 300,000. The scandal that erupted in September last year highlighted the poor safety standards of food in China and the readiness of the authorities to hush up problems that could have cast a shadow over the ...

JOHN JOE JOYCE impressed on his move into the welterweight division when he outpointed Golden Gloves champion, Quintin Fortune of the NYPD, at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Saturday night, where a Garda/Rylane Boxing Club selection hosted team from the New York Police Department at a sell-out dinner show.

A week ago, I wrote an open letter to the Union Cycliste Internationale and International Olympic Committee regarding potential changes in the track-racing schedule at the 2012 Olympic Games in London - especially the proposed elimination of the individual pursuit.

Gordon Campbell wears the sky-blue Olympic scarf, and he carries around the Canadared Olympic mittens -- get used to seeing those, since there are going to be several million in circulation by February -- and he smiles an Olympic smile.

China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, the only two people sentenced to death in a scheme to water down infant formula with an industrial chemical that left at least six children dead and sickened more than 300,000. The contamination of the milk power with melamine was one of China's worst-ever food safety scandals, and Beijing ...

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A giant of New Brunswick sport and the pride of the coastal town of Shediac made his way to centre stage once more on Monday as the Olympic torch arrived in New Brunswick, its eighth province on this cross-Canada, 45,000-kilometre journey.

The photo taken on Sunday November 22, 2009 shows Beijing Olympic Games' "Crystal Piano" in Beijing.

Liao Hui of China claimed the gold medal in the men's 69kg category at the world weightlifting championships here on Sunday.

Joy Gallant was pleasantly surprised by the waves of emotion that swept through her at the sudden appearance of a tall yellow flame cutting through the pounding music of the Olympic torch relay event in Charlottetown Saturday night.

Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica and 400-meter runner Sanya Richards of the United States have won their second IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards.

The company that operates China's National Stadium, or "Bird's Nest", says on Sunday designs for its mascot and logo should combine regional characteristics and Chinese cultural elements.

Cool under pressure: Meares was uncertain of her form before Melbourne but her cycling spoke for itself.

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Today is Sunday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2009. There are 32 days left in the year.

Matthew Caseley of Kensington, P.E.I. carries the 2010 Winter Olympics torch off the Northumberland Ferries Confederation Saturday afternoon as the torch began the Prince Edward Island leg of its journey across Canada.

STUDENTS from Weymouth College are setting sail for China as part of an Olympic ambassadors project.

The Australian track cycling team capped their domination of the Melbourne World Cup round with two stunning gold-medal rides.

Detroit fans may be denied yet another chance to watch the Lions on television. Team spokesman Bill Keenist says that as of Wednesday afternoon, more than 7,000 tickets remained available for Sunday's game against Cleveland at Ford Field.

Vancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, says British Columbia's highest court.

The elite among the figure skaters competing at HomeSense Skate Canada International this weekend have come here with something to prove ahead of the fast-approaching 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver in February.

Rome, Nov 18 : The Dalai Lama Wednesday denied reports that he is suffering from cancer, but admitted that his eventual passing would represent a blow for the Tibetan cause.

International Equestrian Federation members voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a new anti-doping program to clean up their sport after a series of Olympic scandals.

France qualified for its fourth consecutive World Cup when officials missed an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry that led to William Gallas' overtime goal in a 1-1 tie against Ireland.

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby ran about 300 yards before passing the torch to someone else.

In this Aug. 9, 2008 file photo Italy's Davide Rebellin stands on the podium after clinching the silver medal of the Men's Road Cycling Race, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing,China. The Italian Olympic Committee has been asked by the International Olympic Committee Tuesday, Nov.

The Italian Olympic Committee has rejected a bid by Bari for the 2020 Summer Games.

After years of working with national teams, Davey Johnson is returning to the Nationals .

Australian cycling star Anna Meares trains in Melbourne yesterday. Photo: Wayne Taylor Armstrong tipped to improve in 2010 ANNA Meares has applauded the imminent correction to ''sexist'' Olympic programming of women's track cycling events, and believes the changes could boost her chances to win multiple medals at the 2012 London Games.

Oscar Pistorius has been cleared to compete against able-bodied athletes by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

China sent one of the strongest weightlifting teams including five Olympic champions to take part in the upcoming world championships in Goyang, South Korea.

Triathlete Emma Moffatt and swimmer Brenton Rickard have been named the Australian Institute of Sport's Athletes of the Year.

In this Aug. 9, 2008 file photo Italy's Davide Rebellin stands on the podium after clinching the silver medal of the Men's Road Cycling Race, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing,China. The Italian Olympic Committee has been asked by the International Olympic Committee Tuesday, Nov.

Molesey Boat Club captain Andy Triggs-Hodge reckons not being an Olympic champion will be the motivating factor over the next three years after labelling last season a failure.

Recent pictures taken of former major-leaguer Sammy Sosa show him with a different skin tone than he had when he played.

Germany s Paul Biedermann celebrates establishing a new world record in the 200m freestyle finals in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.

It is late fall in New York with the trees sporting almost no leaves. The breath of early spring, however, could be smelled at Carnegie Hall over the last three weeks.

Police detained dozens of activists and petitioners in Beijing and elsewhere in China as President Barack Obama arrived on his first state visit to the country, friends, family members and a human rights group said Monday.

Newfoundland bid farewell to the Olympic flame on Sunday as it boarded the gulf ferry for mainland Nova Scotia.

BERLIN : Olympic gold medallist Leisel Jones finished the weekend with two new world records after adding 200m breaststroke success on Sunday to her 100m triumph at the shortcourse World Cup meet here.

Betty Fox, next to a statue of her late son Terry, is a possible contender to be the final Olympic flame torchbearer at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

From Kim Yu-na's record-setting performance to Evan Lysacek's powerful free skate, it was a great Saturday night for world champions at Skate America.

Russia's Inga Abitova has won the inaugural Yokohama Women's Marathon, a race that featured the top two finishers from the Beijing Olympics .

Thousands of people scored tickets to the Olympic Games on Saturday following a computer error that left would-be buyers frustrated last week.

To the American old lady, Confucius is more like a symbol. "Confucius says, a boy, a girl and moonlight make wedding bells ring out in month of May," said 91-year-old Eunice Brock.

The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics are the "greatest security challenge" Britain has faced since the Second World War, Home Office minister Lord West has warned.

Michael Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is not expecting to produce any eye-popping displays at this weekend's World Cup event in the German capital.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by women ski jumpers to force Vancouver 2010 organizers to let them compete in the Winter Games.

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre says he may take a crack at making the Canadian Olympic wrestling team for the 2012 Summer Games.

"Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971.

With Federer a shock loser to Frenchman Julien Benneteau on Wednesday, a win for Nadal in Sunday's final would leave him just 305 points adrift of his arch rival with the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals to come in London later this month.

Idaho officials plan to designate the mountain road where cyclist Kristin Armstrong trained for her gold-medal ride in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the "Kristin Armstrong Bikeway." The designation in honor of the 36-year-old Boise resident will cover the first eight miles of Bogus Basin Road, or about half of the winding stretch leading to the ski ...

Athens Olympic champion Liu Xiang achieved a feat of hat-trick in his specialty of 110m hurdles at the Asian Athletics Championships after clocking a 13.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 KINGSTON, Jamaica: Reigning world and Olympic double individual sprint champion and world record-holder Usain Bolt is back at work in Jamaica ahead of next week's return to training.

Some people who have never been to Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside say that reports of the neighborhood must be grossly exaggerated.

Cuban Olympic champion of 110m hurdles, Bayron Robles, said the return of Chinese Liu Xiang to the international competition will bring spark to the sport, local press said on Monday.

Michael Phelps catches his breath after the 200 medley in Stockholm. Michael Phelps finished second in the 200-metre medley final at the short-course World Cup in Stockholm on Wednesday, struggling in the old-style swimsuit that will become standard next year.

A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.

A Quebec task force has been launched with the goal of drawing the 2022 or 2026 Winter Olympics to Quebec City.

Visa has taken its "Go World" Olympics campaign celebrating Olympic spirit global this week, with spots running in the U.S., Canada, China, Russia and Japan.

London Olympic organizers are working to reduce the travel time for athletes in the two sports whose venue for the 2012 Games is being changed to save money.

Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet.

Jim Boeheim stood at the center of the Carrier Dome court that bears his name, smiling broadly following his 800th victory.

Benfica star Angel Di Maria has cooled reports of an imminent move to the Premier League following reports linking him with both Manchester City and Chelsea.

Larry Probst needs to be the U.S. Olympic Committee chairman for at least eight years.

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson spent the day in Council Bluffs Sunday to speak at the Hy-Vee Whole Health Experience.

'Ambush marketers' fuel Olympic ad concerns Roots, not an official Olympic sponsor, insists its new clothing line has nothing to do with the Olympics, but the Winter Games was invoked as a reason to buy the Canada Collection.

This weekend is the last chance for whitewater slalom kayakers and canoers to qualify for the Olympic team trials, from April 2 to 4 in South Bend, Ind.

The bright lights and razzle-dazzle of Toronto's winning bid for the 2015 Pan Am Games hasn't fooled everyone.

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A1GP racer and ex-Williams F1 test driver, Dong Hebin, has been crowned the inaugural ROC China champion on Monday, after defeating crowd favorite Han Han in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest in Beijing.

Brent Hayden of Canada looks at the scoreboard after swimming in his men's 200 meters freestyle heat at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Aug.

International hockey star Alex Danson inspired some potential stars of the future on a visit to Bognor Regis Community College.

Jamaican Glen Mills has resigned as head coach of the national athletics team, local media reported on Friday.

China plans to hold a robot Olympics next June with events including combat, dancing and track and field, state-run media said late Wednesday.

When the Olympics hosted by Beijing ended, a collector snapped up the 5,000 condoms left over from the 100,000 distributed free to athletes.

This is an Aug. 15, 2008, file photo showing Taylor Phinney, of the United States, competing during a cycling men's individual pursuit qualifying event, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Toronto gets its Pan Am games face on Mayor and officials involved in Pan Am Games bid en route to Mexico, cautiously hopeful of success, but wary of long legacy of disappointment Jennifer Lewington Published on Thursday, Nov.

Melanie Oudin has the bright lights on her again. Oudin surged from nowhere to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

Main Category: Sports Medicine / Fitness Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance advantage over counterparts who ...

The expected tourist boom from the 2012 Olympic Games in London could turn into a visitor slump, tour operators have warned.

Two-time world champion Emma Carney has called on Triathlon Australia to step up the heart testing of its best athletes.

Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver - complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.

Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Beijing's blood bank has seen dramatic decline in storage as fewer people visit the street blood donation buses due to the cold weather and A/H1N1 flu epidemic.

The Scottish Rugby Union has told the International Rugby Board that it is interested in submitting a bid to host the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013.

BEIJING'S Bird's Nest stadium has been transformed into a motor racing track, with some of the world's top drivers gearing up to compete in the 2009 Race of Champions here on Wednesday.

The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes.

Britain's top sports body has turned to the International Olympic Committee to resolve a dispute with Vancouver 2010 organizers over what the U.K. officials consider unfair restrictions on video cameras to be used by their athletes for analyzing tactics and ice conditions during February's Winter Games.

Bejing Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Terras claimed the men's skeet title at the ongoing ISSF World Cup Final here on Monday.

"Swoosh!" describes the sound heard over China as Nike reorganized itself in August to better exploit opportunities it sees there.

The little city with the big cheering section did it again on Sunday as the Olympic flame continued across Vancouver Island on the third day of a 45,000-kilometre trek.

Otley's Lizzie Armitstead won two gold medals and set a new world record as Great Britain's cycling team proved their thirst for glory remains undiminished with a dominant display at the Track World Cup in Manchester.

The crowds in Central Park have become accustomed to watching Paula Radcliffe celebrating with a Union Jack stretched around her shoulders but on Sunday they witnessed another kind of drama as she crossed the finish line in fourth place before dissolving into tears.

San Diego High School alumnus Meb Keflezighi today became the first American man since 1982 to win the prestigious New York City marathon, continuing a dominating year of distance running.

Police in the van had no idea who Sir Chris Hoy was when they knocked him off his bike when turning right at traffic lights in Manchester.

The U.S. Olympic Committee is back in crisis mode five years after major reforms, four years after stabilizing its leadership, and three weeks after Chicago's first-round rejection in the bidding for the 2016 Summer Games.