Olympics Opener Third-Highest Rated on Record
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The spectacle in Athens lured 56 million viewers to watch at least some portion of NBC's Friday primetime telecast of the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
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Competing under a flawless blue sky in the tree-lined grove devoted to Zeus, the European gold medallist equaled American champion Adam Nelson&#39;s opening mark of 2.16 to capture his first major title on a countback.
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NBC&#39;s Olympic track and field production and announcing unit needed just three days of competition to show it is one of the network&#39;s best groups in Athens.
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Boosted by strong results from US gymnasts and swimmers, NBC&#39;s ratings for the Athens Olympics&#39; first four days have topped the disappointing viewership levels of the 2000 Sydney Games.
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New Zealander Sarah Ulmer broke the world record in winning the women&#39;s 3000-meter individual pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Sunday.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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ATHENS Capping a perfect year, Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand set a stunning world record and won Olympic gold to add to her world title in the three-kilometer pursuit on Sunday.
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On Aug. 8, when the Beijing Olympics begin in promised splendor, a few may reflect on how far or how fast China has come to host this high mark of international prestige.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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Plentiful buses, helpful volunteers, and efficient security have added up to &#39;positive surprises&#39; for the host city. There are many measures by which to judge the success of an Olympic Games: records broken, medals won, dreams fulfilled or dashed.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese Hercules Liu Chunhong Thursday lifted three world records on her way to winning the women&#39;s 69kg gold medal at the Athens Olympics, the fourth of the power sport competition for China.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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NEW YORK: Tickets for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics will cost US$1,500 if New York City win the bid to hold the prestigious sporting event, it emerged on Thursday.
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Vouliagmeni, Greece - Watch Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, think Hermann Maier. Awful crash, unlikely fightback, gold within days. Instant Olympic lore.
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The third meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games began Wednesday and during the next three days the Commission will assess the progress made by Beijing 2008.
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British athletes were not the only ones making history in the Olympic Stadium on the final day of competition. The keenest of track historians, Hicham El Guerrouj entered the record books as