Glory at Junior Olympics is not a big stretch
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WESTWOOD -- Inside the New England Sports Academy, a group of girls gracefully leaped and tumbled across mats. They were dressed in colorful, sparkly leotards, their hair tightly wound in buns. Their practice last week was more than routine. It was the equivalent of a dress rehearsal before the young gymnasts make their national debut.
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The 2008 Olympics are still a long way away but worries are already growing about whether it will become the first genetically enhanced competition in the crown jewel of international amateur sports.
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CONCORD -- As an elementary school student in Ukraine, Yury Klimovitsky was considered, he recalls, a pudgy nonathlete who would never make the grade on the playing fields. But, through perseverance, he would fool them all, becoming a sprinter for that country's junior track-and-field team and later, from 1992 to 1997, head track coach for the Ukrainian Regional Olympic Training ...
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A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.
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BEIJING, Aug. 28 -- In a country eagerly preparing to host next summer's Olympic Games, little Zhang Huimin seemed destined to become an early champion for the Chinese public.
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ATHENS -- Allyson Felix is 18 years old, is missing a week of college classes, and is traveling with parents who are concerned about her diet. Oh, and one other thing: She won the silver medal in the 200-meter dash last night at the Olympic Games.
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As some approach Olympic levels, the question is whether their high-tech limbs give them an unfair advantage
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ATHENS  By the measure of the medal table, the approaching conclusion of the Olympics&#39; first week seems to promise some sense of normalcy, with America again shadowing the top of the ...
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ATHENS -- We'll have to wait until the lab reports come back. This is the modern era of track and field after all, when it can take four years for Olympic results to become final (right, Jerome Young?). But when the last baton crossed the line here last night, the US team had turned in a heck of a meet, ...
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As more nations compete well in the Olympics, the space between each competitor has narrowed.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (CP) - Most of the players on the Canadian junior men&#39;s hockey team were 11 years old when their country last won gold at the world junior championship.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I didn&#39;t need to see Puerto Rico rout the United States to know that the world is playing great basketball, didn&#39;t need to see the United States shoot 35 percent to know that the youngest team we&#39;ve ever sent to the Olympics has no ...
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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When the girl was young, the game was a dalliance. She was all arms and legs and smiles and two-handed set shots, but from one outing to the next it was never quite clear what she would bring to her basketball team.
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Though it's been a little shaky at times, Athens  seems ready for the Olympics
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ATHENS -- Evita Agiasoteli has been counting Greece's Olympic medals. Each one comes with a celebration from the boy next door, who likes to run through their neighborhood in the northern Athenian suburb of Nea Ionia yelling &quot;Hellas!&quot; with each gold. Other neighbors often leave their evening yogurts unfinished so they can join the boy's victory cheer.