Chinese team at the opening ceremony of Athens Paralympic
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Members of the Chinese Paralympic team parade during the opening ceremony of the 12th Paralympic Games at the Athens Olympic stadium, Greece, September 17, 2004.
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Chinese officials are treating the Games as proud confirmation of their country's emergence as a global force to be reckoned with.
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For the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the team standing atop the podium for the gold medal ceremony won't be wearing red with its white and blue.
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Athens is slowly warming to the idea of hosting the Paralympics after at first trying to get out of staging the event. Soon after Sydney had hosted the 2000 Olympics and Paralympics, the Athens 2004 organising
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China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
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Athens - Runner-up to the United States by a handful of gold medals at the Athens Olympics, China was the big winner at the Paralympics.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - World records, personal-best times and other athletic achievements were secondary at the Athens Paralympics on Monday.
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GB's men's wheelchair basketball team win a bronze on the final day of the Paralympics.
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China embraced its first volleyball Olympic title in 20 years, beating Russia 3-2 in the women&#39;s final in Athens on Saturday. After trailing two sets down, China came from behind to trounce Russia 28-30, 25-27, 25-20, 25-23 and 15-12 to claim the title.
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The first demolition work to pave the way for the 2012 Olympic Park began on Thursday, with three Paralympic archers marking the occasion by firing arrows into a target on the derelict site in east London.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The Chinese duo of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining overpowered Seok Eun Mi and Lee Eun Sil in a four-set sweep to win the gold medal on Friday at the Olympics.
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InfoWorld - The 2008 Summer Olympics is going to be China&#39;s coming out party, a chance for the country to show its modern face to the world.
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The lights at Athens&#39; Olympic stadium turn red to signify the handover of the Paralympic Games to the host city, Beijing. Photo: AFP.
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HELSINKI, Finland, September 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At a ceremony today in Helsinki, Finland witnessed by Chinese Premier Mr. Wen Jiabao and Finnish Premier Mr.
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The curtain finally fell on Greece&#39;s two-month sporting spectacle, with a low-key but emotional closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
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A spectacular opening ceremony for the XII Paralympics took place in front of a sellout 60,000 crowd at the Athens Olympic Stadium on Friday.
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ATHENS - Fireworks exploded, dancers streamed around a giant tree, and the crowd roared &#39;Hellas, Hellas&#39; as the 12th Paralympic Games opened with a party of thudding drums, lights and flowing costumes on Friday.