Liu Xiang to skip Golden League to focus on Olympics
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China's 110m hurdles world record holder Liu Xiang will skip next year's Golden League series in Europe to continue his preparations for the Beijing Olympics, local media reported on Thursday.
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Hurdler Liu Xiang says he takes each day as it comes, a philosophy that has put him at odds with millions of his Chinese compatriots, who have been projecting Liuâs star turn at next yearâs Beijing Olympics.
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The NBA is considering playing some of  its regular season games in China, commissioner David Stern  said Friday.
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British rower James Cracknell decides to take a year out, but may return for Beijing.
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ATHENS The remarkable Chinese surge up the Olympic medal table spread to the track Friday as Liu Xiang won the men&#39;s 110 meter hurdles and Xing Huina won the women&#39;s 10,000 meters.
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Tourists seeking their own Olympian challenge while attending the Beijing Games this August might be tempted to get behind the wheel of a rental car and take a spin on the roads of the Chinese capital.
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Beijing -- Talk in China has shifted from holding a &#39;green&#39; or &#39;people&#39;s&#39; Olympics to a &#39;frugal Games&#39; as Beijing tightens its purse strings while undertaking massive preparations to play host to the 2008 event.
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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming has slammed local media for savaging under-pressure China coach Jonas Kazlauskas and backed the Lithuanian to take the national team to next year's Beijing Olympics.
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Ai Mondiali di atletica in corso di svolgimento a Osaka, il  cinese Xiang Liu ha conquistato la meda...
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AFTER four Olympics competing for two countries, Irina Lashko ended her diving career in Athens without a gold medal. Melbourne-based Lashko, who owns two Olympic silvers and a bronze, finished seventh in
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Troy Allen was an elite athlete in his day, a baseball player at George Washington University whose pro career was cut short by a shoulder injury. For the past decade he has purposefully avoided exercise, but now he is coming back from his "de-training" with an ambitious goal in view: San Diego's...
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Chinese Wang Hao missed the men&#39;s singles gold in the table tennis tournament of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games Monday.(Xinhua Photo).
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Toronto Raptors point guard Alvin Williams is seeking opinions from specialists on his wonky right knee. Williams, 30, skipped Wednesday&#39;s exhibition game versus Italy&#39;s Benetton Treviso to travel to Boston and meet Dr.
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It will be the Beijing Olympics before US National Basketball Association stars have another chance to reclaim global supremacy after losing Friday to Greece at the World Basketball Championship.
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Like preparations for the Beijing Olympics four years from now, young Chinese Liu Xiang and Xing Huina are well ahead of schedule.
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Olympic champion Liu Xiang became the first Chinese man to win world athletics gold by claiming the 110 metres hurdles title in a pulsating final on Friday.
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China's Xiang Liu equals Colin Jackson's  world record to win the Olympic men's 110m hurdles.