First Olympic champ makes plea for peace
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As the flag of Israel kept going up, higher than it has ever gone before in the Olympics, Gal Fridman stood on the top of the podium, looking at the flag and the Saronic Gulf beyond.
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Sport: Athletics: Dwain Chambers is attempting to qualify for World Indoor Championships as dispute rumbles on
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Paul Hamm appeared before the sports world's highest court Monday to argue why he should he keep his Olympic gymnastics gold medal.    The Court of Arbitration for Sport convened to hear the appeal from a South Korean gymnast who believes he was unfairly deprived of the gold in the men's all-around event in Athens last month because of a scoring error...
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At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic games last night Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, issued the traditional invitation to &quot;the youth of the world&quot; to reassemble in four years&#39; time.
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The World Cup hero speaks for the first time of the rift that separated him from his brother Jack.
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The occasion was clearly too much for Kristin Heaton, the first athlete for 1,611 years to compete at the original Olympic Games venue of Olympia. The American opened the women&#39;s shot put competition yesterday, but could not ...
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ATHENS - His cousin rules Dubai and his family owns some of the top racehorses in the world. Now Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum stands out on his own as the United Arab Emirates&#39;s (UAE) first Olympic champion.
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ATHENS -- There's only room for one Cinderella in a boxing ring. That was the sad lesson Andre Berto learned last night as his long road to the Olympic Games came to an abrupt end at the Peristeri Boxing Hall in his first fight in the welterweight division. First fight, that is, unless you understand what it took for him ...
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The Jewish State's first gold medal is hailed as a salve for the pain of the Munich massacre
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Reports from the Olympics Saturday, say Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens games has twice tested positive for illegal substances, and could lose the bronze medal he won for weightlifting.
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is Olympic gold medal safe in his parents&#39; Wisconsin farmhouse, lovingly tucked into a white gym sock, the gymnast Paul Hamm had one goal in mind when he boarded a plane for Europe last week: to remain the Olympic all-around champion.
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ATHENS -- For many Israelis, the Olympics evoke memories of a terrorist massacre and political boycotts, but windsurfer Gal Fridman provided his countrymen an historic and celebratory remembrance yesterday after he won the first gold medal in the Jewish state's 56-year history.
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ATHENS, 21 August - Following his apology to the IOC&#39;s Disciplinary Commission, the Greek lifter Leonidas SAMPANIS, bronze medallist in the 62kg category, issued a statement.
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Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge Sunday  offered gold medals all round to Athens for organizing a superb  Olympics after years of doom and gloom leading up to the  opening.
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Olympic champions have their parents to thank for their physiology&#151;but no one is born a world-record holder. That also requires training, nutrition, desire, and determination.
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THE struggle for the soul of the Olympics is still not won, not in a thousand years and more. On Wednesday, token events took place on the sacred site where the original Games took place in Ancient Olympia hundreds of years before Christ.
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Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge on Sunday gave top marks to Athens for organising a superb Games. &quot;I am an extremely happy President of the IOC,&quot; he told reporters on the day the Games wrap up.