Hidayat fulfills potential with badminton gold
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ATHENS: Taufik Hidayat couldnât stop the tears after winning Indonesiaâs first gold medal of the Athens Olympics. The unheralded Hidayat won the menâs badminton title Saturday, beating seventh-seeded
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OSAKA, Japan  - Bernard Lagat, Jeremy Wariner and Allyson Felix will look to add gloss to successful world championships with more gold medals on the final day of competition on Sunday.
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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Hu Jia, Sydney silver medallist from China, was crowned in the men&#39;s 10m platform final here on Saturday, finishing the competition with 748.
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Athens: With a strong kick down the stretch and a kiss of the ground once across the finish line, Hicham El Guerrouj finally got what he was after: an Olympic gold medal.
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MADRAS, India  - Top Asian player Paradorn  Srichaphan is hopeful his hiring of a coach for the first time  to work alongside his father would re-ignite his career after a  subdued 2004 season.
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Britain's golden night on the track help the nation's Olympians surpass their success in Sydney four years ago.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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ATHENS As they lunged and lobbed with astonishing skill on Thursday, it was difficult to know whose personal journey had made them the worthier Olympic women&#39;s badminton champion.
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In volume and variety, the Bay State Games series annually is the most intriguing amateur sports competition in Massachusetts. Among the hundreds of local athletes -- from ages in the single digits to the 70s -- competing last weekend and this week in a variety of sports, here are a few whose stories stand out: Badminton
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Local boxer Gary Russell  Jr. inches closer to qualifying for next year's Beijing Olympics with win at the World Boxing Championships.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Ryu Seung-min beat China&#39;s Wang Hao in six games, becoming the first South Korean to win the men&#39;s table tennis gold medal since 1988.
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Watching the joyful interaction of America's two medal-winning eights yesterday, it would have been easy to assume both were gold.
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Iraq's footballers get a morale-boosting chance for gold at the Asian Games in Friday's final against Qatar.
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Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand could not beat Swede Joachim Johansson in Athens, but he got the job done in Long Island. Srichaphan, who lost in straight sets to Johansson in the first round of the Olympics
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Day six of the Olympics will see Great Britain's Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms go for gold in badminton.
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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.