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Beijing - Usain Bolt won the men's 100 metres final with a stunning world record while fellow American Michael Phelps continued his medal surge by equalling Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at one Olympics on a scintillating day of action in Beijing Saturday.
Bolt ran away from his rivals into a new 100m dimension when he gave Jamaica its first ever Olympic gold in the blue riband race in in a world record 9.69 seconds.
Bolt, 21, looked around far before the finish line and clutched his fist on his chest as the capacity crowd of 91,000 in Beijing's Bird's Nest roared its...
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Beijing - Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday.
Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria Gabriela Diaz in one of the newcomer sports of the Beijing Olympics.
BMX is a young, spectacular cycling discipline. Protected with helmets and knee and elbow pads, eight cyclists race frantically through a dirt circuit, complete with bumps and...
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Beijing - The fans came early this time around, ran to their seats even three hours before the race, and the concourse outside the Bird's Nest was soon completely deserted.
Inside, the 400 metres heats, with world and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner, and the 200m heats, with 100m champion and world record holder Usain Bolt, served as a support act for the grand start into the second week for high-flying Olympic hosts China.
The 91,000-strong crowd grew more and more silent as the 110m hurdles heats approached. Soon you could have heard a pin drop, the only sound coming from the...
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Beijing - Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault.
World champion Chen proved too strong for compatriot and newly- crowned all-around Olympic champion Yang Wei in his speciality rings discipline at the National indoor stadium, securing gold with a total of 16.6000 for his routine.
Yang had to be satisfied with silver after scoring 16.425 while Oleksandr Vorobiov of Ukraine took bronze with a score of 16.325.
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Beijing (dpa) - Some countries competing in the Beijing Olympics have worked years to get here and for them, while no medals are in the picture, just being here makes them proud.
The Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, for example, are two small countries in the Pacific which are participating in the Olympics for the first time.
"For us, it's taken half a century to get here," said Anthony Muller, chef de mission for the Marshalls. "You have to be at all the regional, subregional and world tournaments."
His country's Olympic committee sent five athletes, while...
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