Games close on sombre note
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Athens - Six weeks of sporting celebration ended on a sombre note on Tuesday as the closing ceremony of the Paralympics was cut back because of a deadly school bus crash.
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TORONTO -- Precious few professional athletes leave their sport on their terms. Even fewer depart having won a championship in their final game. Injuries, diminished skills, and burnout can cut short careers.
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The Connecticut Sun had an off game last Saturday, when they dropped the opener of their WNBA Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Washington Mystics. But the Sun came back to even the series Monday, and it was the Mystics who had the off game.
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With just two warm-up games prior to the Tests, Michael Vaughan and his men have had little time for relaxation. But for the supporters out here the opening games at Randjesfontein and Potchefstroom
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It was supposed to be the end of one-sided matches in the Champions Trophy. The final round of group games in the &#39;mini World Cup&#39; was when the big guns faced each other in a shoot-out for a semi-final berth.
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The flag flew at half-mast, spectators observed a minute&#39;s silence and festivities planned for the Athens Paralympics closing ceremony were scrapped after seven teenagers died on their way to the Games.
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For a while it seemed that all the talk of the phoney war being over, and the real Champions Trophy action starting today, was rather misplaced.
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Athens stages a low-key but emotional Paralympics closing ceremony.
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By Zeus, Greece did it! With the Olympic flame now snuffed out after burning brightly for two weeks, the 28th Summer Games should be remembered for those amazing Greeks who pulled together at the last minute
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Dead end? You bet. The game is going nowhere? Oh baby, you got it, and in a hurry.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The 2004 Athens Paralympics didn&#39;t finish with a dazzling fireworks display like its Olympic predecessor, but with a dignified and sometimes solemn Closing Ceremony.
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Darkness drove the players from the field with just over an hour left to play Thursday at Kingsmead Stadium as South Africa salvaged a draw on the final day of the second of five Tests against England.
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AFTER an extraordinary game, and an amazing Celtic fightback, all that could be heard in the San Siro last night was the late, crashing collapse of Celtic&#39;s resolve.
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Soccer fans have to get through two days of withdrawal before the games resume on Friday. Next up are the quarterfinals with Germany facing Argentina and Italy taking on Ukraine on Friday. Saturday&#039;s games are England vs. Portugal and Brazil against France.
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The curtain finally fell on Greece&#39;s two-month sporting spectacle, with a low-key but emotional closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
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The team&#39;s final game in Montreal on Wednesday brought sadness and a flood of memories back for Canadians and former players, who had long ago resigned themselves to saying goodbye to the country&#39;s first major-league team.