Chinese athletes cash in on gold
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How much is an Olympic gold medal worth? For China's newest sports stars, fresh from triumph in Athens and idolized by a sports-crazy public, the country's ongoing rush to capitalism means they can cash in like never before.
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STUTTGART, Germany - Nastia Liukin fell short of an individual gold medal again. Maybe the Chinese can give her one of theirs.
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China&#39;s Olympic gold medallists visited Hong Kong this week generating adoring crowds and conveying an unspoken but unmistakable message -- vote for pro-Beijing candidates in Hong Kong&#39;s legislative election on Sunday.
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China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
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China grabbed its first-ever men's  Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night  of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth  consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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Norway, Germany, France, Britain,  Romania, New Zealand and Australia all looted the gold-medal  chest in the Athens Olympic rowing basin on Saturday, as Greece  counted the cost of the Games in national pride and cash.
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Third overall with 63 medals, 32 of them gold, and significant breakthroughs in sports in which China hadn&#39;t been a big factor, with medals in boxing, tennis, canoeing, cycling, fencing, sailing and wrestling.
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STUTTGART, Germany -- China powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday, and now the questions are: Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing, and if so, how?
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Norway, Germany, France, Britain  Romania, New Zealand and Australia all looted the gold-medal  chest in Athens's Olympic rowing basin on Saturday, as Greece  counted the cost of the Games in national pride and treasure.
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Friendship is one thing, competition quite another. That was apparent when reporters asked Juwan Howard and Liu Wei about playing against friends, Chris Webber and Yao Ming, in the China Games.
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As its Olympic Games approach, the plight of  many of the country's retired sports stars, uneducated and impoverished, is drawing attention
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The Olympic diving competition came to a close Saturday night with the men&#39;s 10-meter platform final, and China increased its medal take to nine with a gold and bronze medal.
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China led the Olympic medal race going into the fourth day of competition on Tuesday with 10 golds.
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Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia gave China gold and silver Thursday night in the Olympic women&#39;s springboard diving event. China ran its diving medal total to seven.
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A victory in taekwondo late Sunday marked China&#39;s 32nd gold medal and highlighted the Chinese storm that has swept over Athens.
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Greece are quick out of the blocks when it comes to making money out of their Olympic medal winners.
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Up to 1.85 million tickets for the Beijing Olympics will go on sale to people in China next week, officials say.