6 Jan 2009 at 2:54pm Guo Jingjing, China's most celebrated diver with four Olympic gold medals, will join a star-studded mainland team when the East Asian Games are staged in Hong Kong later this year. A top mainland swimming official yesterday promised China would be ...
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6 Jan 2009 at 7:52am BEIJING, China, January 6. MICHAEL Phelps continued his victory lap by scoring another record sponsorship deal. According to the Daily News , Phelps picked up a $1 million deal from Mazda in China, which is "the largest single sponsorship for a ...
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4 Jan 2009 at 8:32pm It barely needs saying, but Beijing is an absolutely fascinating city. There is a proud ancient history demonstrated by monuments and museums, juxtaposed against the impressive modern structures const...
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2 Jan 2009 at 2:06am Michael Phelps had just finished his work at the Water Cube, still wet but his place in history secure, when he walked up to his longtime coach. "Good job," Bob Bowman said. C'mon, coach, couldn't you come up with something a little more memorable ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 10:45pm The world's fastest man Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva have been voted the International Sports Press Association's 2008 Athletes of the Year in an online poll which attracted the votes of 571 journalists from 96 countries and ...
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31 Dec 2008 at 6:58pm Vietnamese weightlifter Hoang Anh Tuan, who brought the country the second medal in Olympic history at Beijing Games, was selected as the "sportsman of the year" , the local online newspaper Vietnamnet reported on Wednesday. Tuan won a silver medal ...
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30 Dec 2008 at 5:54pm Ian O'Connor is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry," which Kirkus Reviews calls an "exemplary sports history." An archived collection of Ian's columns at The Record (N.J.) can be ...
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