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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 - Liu Xiang withdrew from the Olympic 110 metres hurdles race at the Beijing Olympics with an Achilles tendon injury in a massive blow for host China on Monday.
China's athletics team coach Feng Shouyong told a news conference that the recurring injury in his right leg appeared again on Saturday and that Liu was in massive pain on Monday ahead of the race.
Liu, 25, nonetheless showed up for the race in the packed Birds Nest stadium.
But he realized after a false start that running was impossible. He took two strides out of the starting block, limped to the first hurdle,...
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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 - Maria Mutola was 15 when she had the honour of being the flag-vbearer for her native Mozambique at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
At the Beijing Games 20 years later, she finally crossed the finishing line of an outstanding athletics career.
The three-times world champion was one of the fastest in the
women's 800 metres final on Monday evening, narrowly missing out on a medal.
"I gave it everything I had," the 35-year-old said a quarter-of- an-hour after the race won by Kenya's Pamela Jelimo in 1:54.87 minutes. "For an...
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Beijing - The golden world record glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to Chinese faces on Monday, just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Beijing Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night and thrilled the crowd when she claimed her 24th career world record in the pole vault with 5.05m. "The whole stadium was there just for me, that was just so cool," said Isinbayeva. "I felt that I could not go out with the world record because of the support the crowd gave me."
Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase...
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