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German long jumper Kofi Amoah Prah, who was fifth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has been banned for two years after a positive test for cocaine.
The German Athletic Federation said Friday that Prah, who competed for LG Nike Berlin, tested positive for cocaine and Methylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at the German championships on...
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Chen Ruolin claimed victory in the final of the women's 10-metre platform Thursday to pick up China's seventh Olympic diving gold out of seven at the Beijing Games.
Chen secured the win with a total of 447.70 points with silver going to Canada's Emily Heymans, who amassed 437.05. Xin Wang also took bronze for China with 429.90 points.
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Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday.
Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria...
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Twin brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner of Slovakia claimed their third successive Olympic gold medal in the men's canoe C2 doubles event Friday, beating the Czech Republic into second place.
The Hochschorners won with a time of 190.82 seconds while Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek got silver with a time 2.07 seconds slower...
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American swimmers scored a hat-trick of victories and set three world records at the Beijing Olympics on Friday as superstar Michael Phelps took his tally of gold medals to six.
Germany's Britta Steffen broke the US domination with a remarkable comeback in the women's 100 metres freestyle to give her country its first Olympic swimming...
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Amid great political and military tension between Russia and Georgia, two Brazilian-born women took Georgia to a 2-1 victory over Russian in the beach volleyball competition at the Beijing Olympics.
Andrezza Chagaz, 31 and Cristine Santanna are naturalized as Georgian in order to have a greater chance of development in their...
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Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and American Kristin Armstrong added Olympic road racing time trial gold medals to world titles won earlier in their cycling career on Wednesday.
The two-time reigning world champion Cancellara underlined his supremacy in the race against the clock with a big win on the hilly 47.5-kilometres between...
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Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan successfully defended her Olympic title Tuesday when she beat France's Lucie Decosse in the final of the women's 63-kilo judo event at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Tanimoto secured Olympic gold by ippon with 3 minutes 34 seconds remaining.
In the first bronze medal match,...
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An armoured personnel carrier and heavily armed paramilitary police took up positions on one of the main roads into the Olympic Green on Tuesday as security increased following weekend attacks in north-west China and the murder of a US citizen in Beijing.
The armoured vehicle partially blocked the road, which runs behind the main...
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Federica Pellegrini of Italy bettered the women's 200 metres freestyle world record in the Olympic semi-finals at the Beijing Games on Monday.
Pellegrini clocked 1 minute 55.45 seconds, shaving seven hundreds of a second off the 1:55.52 minutes Laure Manaudou of France swam at 2007 worlds in Melbourne.
It was the fifth world record...
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