Olympic torch heads off to Beijing
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While celebrating unprecedented success at the Athens Olympics, China has its sights firmly set on the Beijing Games in four years when they hope to present the country&#39;s new face to the world.
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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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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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The Athens Olympic Games debriefing has opened in Beijing, with future Olympic hosts and five bidding cities for the 2012 Games participating.
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Paul Hamm is heading home, and he's taking his gold medal with him, thank you. The gymnastics competition may be over at the Athens Olympics, but the whining about judges might continue all the way to Beijing.
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The technical details of London's bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics are to be unveiled.
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Some 1.85 million tickets for next year's Beijing Olympics will be up for grabs on a first-come, first-serve basis when the second round of domestic sales start on Tuesday.
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The Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan as it makes its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games, officials said Friday, after Taiwanese authorities turned down Chinese proposals on a route because they said it threatened the island's sovereignty.
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They hadn&#39;t even blown out the big Olympic candle here Sunday night when a huge banner was unfurled during the Closing Ceremonies saying, &quot;Welcome to Beijing.
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Basketball superstar Yao Ming marched singularly as he carried China&#39;s flag into the Athens Olympics opening ceremony, several steps ahead of the Chinese delegation, his 7-foot-5 frame towering above the scene.
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After starting an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide, Mia Farrow on Friday pressed China, the host of the 2008 summer games, to help end abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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The eyes of the world are looking towards Beijing for the Olympic Games that will be held here fewer than 11 months from now. But for real China watchers, an event next month will draw much greater attention and have a much greater impact on the country than 16 days of athletics.
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With an Olympics looming in Beijing, the world track and field championships that begin Saturday in Osaka, Japan, are a prologue. A look at some of the most intriguing events.
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A year before Beijing hosts the Summer Games, the country is feverishly preparing for its chance to show it is ready to take its place among the Great Powers  -  on its own terms
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Christmas on the island of Sicily, New Year&#39;s eve at the bay of Naples. Italy mapped out Tuesday a two-month-long journey for the 2006 Winter Olympics torch, which will cross
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Certain horrifying  prospects come to mind as the West gets ready to descend on  Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympic Games.
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The torch relay for the 2006 Turin Olympics will pass by the Leaning Tower of Pisa and go up Venice's Grand Canal in a route that will cover every province in Italy.