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3 hrs ago | Forbes.com

Asia's Youngest Billionaires

At this summer's Olympics, Michael Phelps scored in the pool, Usain Bolt on the track and Ma Huateng at the bank.

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Michael Phelps, Cheng Fei

11 hrs ago | People's Daily

Jelimo wins Golden League jackpot

Kenya's Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo took away the IAAF Golden League's one-million-U.S.-dollar jackpot Friday night in Brussels, after winning women's 800-meter race in one minute 55.16 seconds.

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Related Topix: Miguel Pate, Marshevet Hooker, Jeremy Wariner, Delloreen Ennis-London, Kerron Clement, Summer Sports

Fri Sep 05, 2008

Palestine Herald-Press

My thoughts on what the Olympics considers a sport

The Olympics - or "the games of the twenty-ninth Olympiad," as the networks covering the event liked to so dramatically call them - are finally over.

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Related Topix: Sports, Summer Sports, Olympics, Olympic Diving, Michael Phelps, Opinion

Sports Network

Appeal sent to CAS for Martina to get back 200m silver medal

The Olympic committee for the Netherlands Antilles has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try and get back the silver medal that was taken away from Churandy Martina in the men's ...

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Churandy Martina, Wallace Spearmon, Shawn Crawford

Daily Pilot - Newport Beach & Costa Mesa

Q&a with Aaron Chaney:Referee reflects on Olympic experience

Aaron Chaney has been girls' water polo coach at Corona del Mar High for seven years, but that's not the only way he gets his feet wet with the sport.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Swimming, Aaron Chaney, Summer Sports

R O O T S..

DJ Bolt for JA Artists 'Big Up Beijing Puma Party'

Performing at the Puma Jamaica Olympic party in Beijing, China, provided valuable experience and exposure for two Jamaican entertainers of Chinese descent - Tessanne Chin and Jessica Yap.

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell-Brown

Thu Sep 04, 2008

Ledger Dispatch

Relaying observations about the Olympics

TIME FRIEND and fellow distance runner, Lester Mina, was fortunate enough to witness the recent Olympic Games in Bejing in person.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Summer Sports, Michael Phelps, Olympic Track And Field, Yelena Isinbayeva

Clarks Hometown News Patriot

The Olympics Masked China's Disdain for Human Rights

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered for the stellar performances of Olympic athletes, from Michael Phelps to Usain Bolt.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Summer Sports, Michael Phelps

International Herald Tribune

Vlasic vs. Jelimo for Golden Jackpot

BRUSSELS, Belgium : High jumper Blanka Vlasic and 800 runner Pamela Jelimo face off at the Van Damme Memorial on Friday to win the Golden League's million-dollar jackpot, the richest prize in athletics.

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Related Topix: Pamela Jelimo, Summer Sports, Blanka Vlasic, Sports, Olympics

Daily Times

Rafael Nadal declared the crown prince of sport

MADRID: Spain's men's tennis world number one Rafael Nadal was awarded the Prince of Asturias prize for sport, the jury announced on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Sports, Tennis Players, More Sports, Rafael Nadal, Tennis, Summer Sports, Rafael Nadal (2008 Beijing Olympics), Roger Federer (2008 Beijing Olympics), Roger Federer, Yelena Isinbayeva

Wed Sep 03, 2008

Electronic Chronicle

After the Olympics, it's all eyes on World Cup 2010

The background to the Olympics was not good, but after the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China, the world can expect the same from South Africa, come 2010.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Swimming, Amanda Beard, Summer Sports

The Mercury

The Olympians you remember

Usain Bolt: never has a sprint king been so aptly named as the streak of yellow lightning from Jamaica who pulled off an unprecedented double-triple of world records and titles in winning the 100m, 200m and ...

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Sports, Olympics, Chen Xiexia, Olympic Summer Games, Michael Phelps

KCTV Kansas City

Jamaican Track Athletes Linked To Doping

Two members of the 2008 Jamaican Olympic track and field team received shipments of performance-enhancing drugs, Sports Illustrated reported.

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Related Topix: Delloreen Ennis-London, Summer Sports, Olympic Track And Field

San Jose Mercury News

Azinger completes Ryder Cup roster

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger completed the American team on Tuesday, adding Chad Campbell, Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan and J.B. Holmes to a team that will have six Ryder Cup rookies and no Tiger Woods.

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Related Topix: More Sports, Golf, PGA Golf, Sports, NASCAR, Nascar Drivers, Dario Franchitti, Racing, Olympics, Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports

Tue Sep 02, 2008

The Detroit News

McWilliams-Franklin acquisition rates highly with her, and guard likes team's position in East.

The joke came quickly to Katie Smith. She had just won a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics when the mischievous glint flashed in her eyes.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Katie Smith, Summer Sports, Katie Smith (2008 Beijing Olympics)

The Economist

The Caribbean and the Olympics:

MAIL circulating in Jamaica states that international sporting authorities have banned cassava on the grounds that it is a performance-enhancing substance.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Olympic Taekwondo, Summer Sports, Olympic Basketball

Sports News from Times Online

Gateshead provides a damb squib after Beijing

All that passion for athletics that we television viewers found in ourselves during the Olympics - it can't have just disappeared out of the back door of the Bird's Nest on board Boris Johnson's magic bus, can ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Asafa Powell, Summer Sports, Phillips Idowu, Tasha Danvers, Olympic Summer Games, Opinion

Dos Mundos

Good, bad and ugly from Peking 2008

Goodbye, Peking! Hello, London 2012! With a rain of fireworks that illuminated the "Bird's Nest," China recently said goodbye to an Olympic Games in which 43 records were set.

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Related Topix: Sports, Swimming, Summer Sports, Olympics, Chris Hoy, Michael Phelps, Bradley Wiggins

Mon Sep 01, 2008

Rivals.com

A New Appreciation

As the 2008 Summer Olympics began the second weekend of August my plans of viewing were limited to men's basketball and little else.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Summer Sports, Sanya Richards, Tyson Gay, Lolo Jones, Shawn Johnson

GameDaily

Sonic Unleashed at the Olympics

As August draws to a close, so to do the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. More commonly referred to as 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the international competition was a success despite initial concerns and ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Summer Sports, Michael Phelps

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Olympic Medal Count

    Total
1 China 51 21 28 100
2 United States 36 38 36 110
3 Russian Fed. 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47
5 Germany 16 10 15 41
6 Australia 14 15 17 46
7 Korea 13 10 8 31
8 Japan 9 6 10 25
9 Italy 8 10 10 28
10 France 7 16 17 40

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