An athlete's golden redemption
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US gymnast Paul Hamm's victory brought some of the most absorbing theater of the Olympics' first week.
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ATHENS - Paul Hamm flew off the high bar and stuck the landing as if he had been wired right into the floor. Immediately, he knew. He had secured a bronze medal.
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It&#39;s in the nature of athletes to imagine themselves immortal, if not impervious to harm, as though they live by a different set of rules from ordinary people.
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American gymnast Paul Hamm can keep his Olympic gold medal, despite a scoring error at the Olympics.
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Perhaps Amado Guevara, who became the first MetroStar to earn the Golden Ball as MLS Most Valuable Player, can turn some of that gold into real money.
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World record holder Asafa Powell made an impressive comeback from injury by winning the 100 meters in 9.90 seconds at a Golden League meeting on Friday.
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It was not easy for Nikolay Kurmakov to leave the country where he was a national champion rower, enjoying as good a life as there was to be had in the old Soviet Union.
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Reggie White was one of the few truly great athletes who transformed his game and changed the people around him.
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Sooner or later, every professional basketball playerâs career comes to an end. For Todd MacCulloch, that day came earlier than expected.
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Athens, Greece -- In pictures beamed around the world Thursday, Dwight Phillips is soaring through the air, spraying sand while landing in the long jump pit or grinning with an Olympic gold medal around his neck.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Wouldn&#39;t that have been great? Paul Hamm, the man with the tarnished gold medal in the gymnastics all-around event earlier this week, coming out Sunday night and saying, &quot;The right and honorable
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Miikka Kiprusoff is carrying the weight of a small European country aching for athletic success.
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Craig Mottram knows what he&#39;s got to do to mix it with the likes of Olympic gold medallists Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele.
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For those who believe the adage "all Olympic athletes are winners," a Canadian man has dedicated the past 10 days to proving you wrong.
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When the world's greatest sporting and marketing event crosses paths with one of the best economic growth stories ever, the result could be the opportunity of a lifetime for corporate sponsors of the Beijing Olympics.
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout.
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A serious BMX accident left Ryan Nyquist paralyzed. His condition has caused other athletes to consider the life-altering consequences of what happens when things go wrong in action sports.