Athens Paralympics ends with China on top
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China turned out a great surprise in the 12-day-long 12th Paralympic Games which closed here on Tuesday, topping the gold medal tally with 63.
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Chinese second seeds Wang Nan and Zhang Yining have defeated South Korean third seeds Lee Eun Sil and Seok Eun Mi to win the Olympic women&#39;s doubles table tennis gold medal.
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ATHENS, 22 August - Shooters from China and Italy have won the last gold medals in shooting events at the 2004 Olympic Games. The Men&#39;s 50m Rifle 3 Positions final finished in high drama as China&#39;s JIA Zhanbo
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Four gold medals and three world records in the swimming pool featured a weekend of China while three golds from track and field events brought the country to an insurmountable lead at the 12th Paralympic Games Saturday in Athens.
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The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals &#151; its best showing ever and the leading edge of a surge by Asian teams. The American team amassed 103 total medals, topping its target of 100, and won 35 golds to 32 for China and 27 for Russia.
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China finished sixth in the synchronized swimming team event last week, which is not usually good news. But when your country is using an entire Olympics as a tuneup, sixth is perfectly acceptable.
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American Justin Gatlin won the Olympic 100 metres Sunday night, and China, in a race almost as close, picked up four gold medals to edge ahead of the United States after nine days of competition at the Athens Olympics.
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Calls of "cut it out" and "give it back"  competed with a hot United States-vs.-China medals race  Thursday as the 28th Olympiad in Athens went into its final  days with over 70 medals still to be won.
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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Greek papers are happy and relieved at the successful conclusion to the Athens Olympics, while the Chinese press looks forward to hosting the 2008 Games
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ATHENS - The 2004 Olympic Games officially came to an end in Athens with a spectacular closing ceremony yesterday. Greek music and dance kicked off an evening of celebration before the flame was extinguished and the flag lowered.
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A third gold medal for Chui Yee Yu  rounded off a rewarding day for Hong Kong at the Paralympics as  they emerged as the dominant force in wheelchair fencing.
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With the United States suffering its worst day at the Athens Olympics, China took center stage as sporting superpowers on a night to remember on the athletics track.
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Tragedy marked the closing of the Paralympics in Athens, when seven Greek schoolchildren were killed in a car accident Monday on their way to the competition.
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With an outpouring of joy, pride and some relief, Athens marked the completion of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games with a closing ceremony full of spectacle, fireworks and music.
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ATHENS (CP) - Canada had its biggest one-day medal haul at the Athens Olympics on Saturday, picking up a medal of every colour on the eve of the Games finale.
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ATHENS, Greece - Under a well-timed full moon to conclude a near-cloudless three weeks, the 2004 Summer Olympics came to an end Sunday night with music, dancing and the last of nearly 1,000 medals.