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America refuses to accept defeat in Olympic medal count

As the memories of a sensational Games faded into memory, the Chinese nation was left to celebrate achieving its ultimate aim of heading the Olympic medals table for the first time in history.Unless you are in the U.S. where, strangely, you will discover... ...full story at digg

from digg on Mon, Aug 25 2008

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