Canada's Eric Lamaze jumping at Beijing chance
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After missing the 1996 and 2000 Olympics over failed drug tests, Canadian show jumper Eric Lamaze believes he is finally heading for his Olympic debut in Beijing.
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Zhuang Zedong is highly unlikely to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, but there was a time when he would have been the natural choice.
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Kyle Shewfelt won the men&#39;s floor exercise Sunday night, giving Canada its first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Marian Dragulescu of Romania finished with the same score as Shewfelt, a 9.787, but a series of tiebreakers dropped him to second place.
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As the widespread coverage of Yi  Jianlian&#39;s NBA move reaffirmed China&#39;s love affair with  basketball, a first-round pick from the 2004 NFL draft was in  Beijing on Friday to promote &quot;America&#39;s favorite sport.&quot;
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The NBA flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China this week. Chinese-born star Yao Ming was there with the Houston Rockets for games against the Sacramento Kings.
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After little-known Pyeongchang nearly upended Vancouver in the last Winter Games vote, nobody's betting the palace on how the International Olympic Committee will vote tomorrow when it chooses its 2014 site in Guatemala. "I expect it to be as close as Singapore," reckoned president Jacques Rogge, referring to the session two years ago when London outpolled favored Paris by four ...
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Before flying to the United States to pursue his NBA dream in April, Yi Jianlian said he wanted to step out from the shadow of Yao Ming and carve out a career in the world's top league in his own way.
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As the widespread coverage of Yi Jianlian's NBA move reaffirmed China's love affair with basketball, a first-round pick from the 2004 NFL draft was in Beijing on Friday to promote "America's favorite sport".
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The Canadian government is negotiating to secure passage out of China for 44 North Korean refugees currently seeking asylum at the embassy in Beijing, a foreign
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PARIS : Canada&#39;s Alexandre Despatie held his lead after the men&#39;s Olympic three-metre springboard semi-finals. The 19-year-old scored 772.
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When she landed her aerial leap last week in a World Cup freestyle skiing event in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, there were tears of joy from and for Emily Cook, who grew up in Belmont, Mass., and graduated from Carrabassett Valley Academy.
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Charlie Sifford was still six years away from playing in his first PGA tournament in the United States, but they let him compete in Canada in 1955.
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CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the
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When Zhi Lijiang first signed up to be an Olympic volunteer for the 2008 Beijing Games, she could hardly have imagined she would be playing the role of a Canadian tourist in English and etiquette classes.
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Tourists seeking their own Olympian challenge while attending the Beijing Games this August might be tempted to get behind the wheel of a rental car and take a spin on the roads of the Chinese capital.
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SCHINIAS, GreeceâFor a few anxious moments, not knowing the colour of the Olympic medal he had just won was the best part of these Games for Canadian rowing star Barney Williams.
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(CP) - There will be more than passing interest in Canada when British Olympic hero Matthew Pinsent steps to the microphone in London on Tuesday.