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China posts greatest Olympic gold haul ever
BEIJING (AFP) - China on Sunday ensured its home Olympics will go down as its greatest ever after its women's table tennis team won the hosts' 33rd gold of the Games to overtake its previous best tally at Athens in 2004.
Nations:Bulgaria Romania Australia People:Zhang Yining Hu Jintao Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AFP)
2008-08-17
China's backup is women's 72-kg mat gold medalist
BEIJING - Wang Jiao has won the women's 72-kilogram wrestling gold medal for China.
Nations:Japan Bulgaria Poland Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AP)
2008-08-17
US Army trains its own Olympians to be all they can be
Colorado Springs, Colo. - The day Dremiel Byers turned down a college football scholarship to enlist in the Army he thought his athletic career was finished. In reality, it was just beginning.
Nations:U.S. Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2008-06-24
Ultimate fights expand to include kids
Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV.
Nations:U.S.
2008-03-27
Ken Kesey's family fights for wrestling
Before Ken Kesey wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," or stocked a psychedelic school bus with LSD and the Merry Pranksters to look for America, he was a wrestler.
Nations:U.S.
2008-02-22
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