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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Raushee Warren is 5-foot-4, 112 pounds and anything but flashy, but he might be the United States' best hope for a boxing medal in Beijing.
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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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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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OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) - If Mike Weir&#39;s putter was any better on Saturday, his final round at the Bell Canadian Open would be more of a coronation than a competition.
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A cold snap brought snow to the Chinese capital this week, but the freezing temperatures did nothing to slow the frenzied preparations for the Beijing Olympics as the 200-day countdown approached.
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CHENGDU, China - Americans get up for the big events - the Olympics, for instance, or the Super Bowl.
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American Troy Dumais is in contention for a diving medal after today&#39;s preliminaries in the men&#39;s three-meter springboard competition.
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BEIJING  - A group of as many as 18 people entered the Canadian Embassy on Wednesday, using ladders to scale a wall of the compound, a police officer said.
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Chen made the remarks yesterday when meeting a group of Canadian officials. The group was led by David Kilgour of Canada's Liberal Party, who is a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
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Now that he made the Olympic boxing team last weekend in Houston, Providence welterweight Demetrius Andrade has to earn his trip to Beijing, which he can do by finishing in the top eight at the October World Championships in Chicago. If not, he'll have two more chances at next year's continental qualifiers.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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Justin Morneau was promoted to the big  leagues before the Olympics and didn't travel to Athens but a  bobblehead bearing his likeness was with the Canadian baseball  team Wednesday when they beat Greece 2-0.
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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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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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OTTAWA - A Canadian judge, who raised his marks in an Olympics gymnastics final, said he was under intense pressure from a crowd that âwas out of controlâ and an official who wanted him to do something about it.