Late Friday night in Beijing, Bryan Clay won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon, the first such victory for the United States since Dan O'Brien in 1996. It was immensely deserved and not altogether surprising: Clay was a silver medalist in 2004, a... ...full story at digg
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| 04 Jul 08 |
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Bryan Clay - 110m Hurdles Decathlon U.S. Olympic Trials 2008 »
YouTube video Bryan Clay runs 13.71 in the 110 meter hurdles in the second day of the decathlon at the United States Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Trey Hardee and Tom Pappas look a little sloppy in their form but they make it to Beijing after 10 events. The NBC... |
| 25 Aug 08 |
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Beijing Olympics golden for China » Shanghaiist On the final day of competition, China took two gold medals and a silver in women's rhythmic gymnastics to end up with a total of 51 gold medals and 100 medals overall—its best Olympic medal haul to date. Number two United States and number three Russi... |
| 12 Aug 08 |
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Predictable gold medals » James Reynolds There are some gold medals in these Olympics which are so easy to predict that it's surprising that the medal ceremony isn't held before the Games begin so as to get it all out of the way. There are four medal events in the table tennis - and China... |
| 22 Aug 08 |
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‘This bronze medal is bigger than gold’ » NBC World Blog By Petra Cahill, msnbc.com editor and reporter As China and the United States battle to claim the most Olympic medals – with gold-medal and all-medal counts being frantically tallied and talked about – many other countries' athletes are overjoyed to ... |
| 17 Aug 08 |
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Singapore’s Medal-Round Finish Sparks a Party » China Journal Singapore has never won an Olympic gold. The last time this nation of four million people won an Olympic medal of any kind was in 1960 — a silver in weightlifting. So win or lose, Singapore’s face-off against China for the gold in... |
| 10 Jun 08 |
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Hu Jia out of running for Olympic gold » Danwei Hu Jia: gold medal bellyflop • Chinese media reports say diver Hu Jia, who won gold in the men’s 10-meter platform at the 2004 Olympics, will not compete in Beijing due to injuries (see full report). • Liu Xiang didn’t run in either of two e... |
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