China topple world champions
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Yao Ming led China to one of the biggest upsets in men&#39;s Olympic basketball on Tuesday, netting 27 points as his team beat Serbia and Montenegro 67-66 to knock the world champions out of the tournament.
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China grabbed its first-ever men&#39;s Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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China look set to surpass their gold-medal haul from last year&#39;s worlds as Yang Wei fired the 2008 Olympic hosts into pole position ahead of the Hiroyuki Tomita-inspired Japanese during men&#39;s qualifying at the world gymnastics championships on Monday.
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Great Britain chiefs have proclaimed the Paralympics in Athens as a success after another superb medal haul. Team GB finished second in the table behind China with 94 medals, including
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A victory in taekwondo late Sunday marked China&#39;s 32nd gold medal and highlighted the Chinese storm that has swept over Athens.
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SHANGHAI, China -- Rubens Barichello won the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix today to clinch second place in Formula One while Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher had a rare rough race -- spinning out and finishing 12th, more than a lap behind.
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Ecuador&#39;s 1-0 win over Brazil has ended the world champions&#39; unbeaten run in the region&#39;s World Cup qualifying competition.
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Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era on Sunday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post -- giving a new generation a freer
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Former world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China won won the short program at Skate Canada with 66.48 points Thursday night.
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China turned out a great surprise in the 12-day-long 12th Paralympic Games which closed here on Tuesday, topping the gold medal tally with 63.
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Russian Mikhail Youzhny reached the final of the China Open with a surprise win over Paradorn Srichaphan. The sixth-seeded Thai struggled to find his rhythm and dropped his serve in each set to lose 6-4 6-4.
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off a championship point before claiming a gritty 4-6 7-5 6-4 victory over Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final of the China Open on Sunday.
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Christine Ohuruogu leads a British one-two in the World Championships with a stunning victory in the women's 400m.
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World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya regained Grand Prix Final titles Saturday while a Chinese pair won before home fans.
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Led by world champ Paul Hamm, the team battles powerhouses Japan and China Monday night.
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Rubens Barrichello beats Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button in the Chinese Grand Prix.
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Third overall with 63 medals, 32 of them gold, and significant breakthroughs in sports in which China hadn&#39;t been a big factor, with medals in boxing, tennis, canoeing, cycling, fencing, sailing and wrestling.