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NEWS ABOUT: Olympic Games

Olympic Games stories: 65 news summaries

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 The Best 
 Athlete on 
 the Planet 

WSJ panel picks Czech decathlete Sebrle to represent Earth at Intergalactic Games

Jun 20, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Earth could only send one guy to a galactic Olympics, who would it be? The Wall Street Journal had a panel of sports experts hash it out, and its top 10 might surprise:
  1. Roman Sebrle: Czech decathlon champion wins on versatility.
  2. LeBron James: What can’
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LeBron James • Sidney Crosby • Floyd Mayweather Jr. • Roger Federer • Alex Rodriguez • list • athlete • LaDainian Tomlinson • Ronaldinho • Olympic Games • Liu Xiang • Roman Seberle • Jeremy Wariner

Obituary

 Jim
 McKay
 Dead at 86 

ABC sportscaster was first to win Emmy

Jun 7, 08 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Veteran sportscaster and TV journalist Jim McKay has died at age 86 of natural causes, ESPN reports. McKay is most famous for hosting ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and for covering the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, which were marred by the Black September attack on Israeli athletes. McKay... More »

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Sports Emmy • obituary • Olympic Games • Munich • sports journalism

Ballroom Dancing
Seeks to Step Into Olympics

TV success leads to push for IOC bosses to take on the tango

Jun 7, 08 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosion in the popularity of ballroom dancing has got fans hoping it can quickstep its way past golf, bridge and bowling to the top of the waiting list for new Olympic sports, the Wall Street Journal reports. Olympic honchos place a lot of importance on big audiences, and the... More »

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sports • Dancing with the Stars • dancing • dance • Olympic Games • International Olympic Committee

 NBC's Olympic Ad Sales Lag   

Network up to $300M behind targets as protest fears, economy slow demand

Jun 4, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the Beijing Games just more than two months away, NBC is still well short of Olympics advertising sales goals, the New York Post reports. Though the network says sales are strong, sources say it's between $150 million and $300 million off, with pro-Tibet protests and the slow economy keeping... More »

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China • NBC • advertising • 2008 Beijing Olympics • TV networks • Olympic Games • advertising sales

Harding
Skates Back
Into Spotlight

Disgraced Olympian not party to Kerrigan mess, says tell-all book

May 23, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - What read like a closed book in 1994 is falling open in a Tonya Harding tell-all, reports Newsweek in an interview with the fallen figure skater. The Tonya Tapes argues that Harding wasn't just uninvolved in Nancy Kerrigan's knee-whacking—she planned to rat out her ex-husband to the... More »

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crime • Olympic Games • book • Nancy Kerrigan • Tonya Harding • figure skating • innocent

 Torch Changes Keep 
 Protesters Off Balance 

San Francisco's bait-and-switch approach keeps Olympic flame's tour mainly peaceful

Apr 9, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Throngs of pro- and anti-China demonstrators in San Francisco forced drastic changes in the Olympic torch's tour of the city, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Officials bused the flame and relay runners from the bayside opening ceremony miles across town; after heading west toward the Golden Gate Bridge, the convoy... More »

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China • San Francisco • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • Tibet • Olympic Games • Olympic torch • political protest • political demonstrations • Olympic protests

 China Blasts Dalai Lama 
 'Suicide Plots' 

Monks amassing arms, planning to disrupt Olympics, Chinese charge

Apr 2, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities are accusing the Dalai Lama of organizing suicide attacks, building an arsenal of weapons and explosives in Tibetan monasteries, and plotting to disrupt the Beijing Olympics. The fresh allegations come in the wake of last month's raging protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and China's violent response. More »

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China • protests • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Olympic Games • Tibetan independence • Lhasa • Tibetan Youth Congress • Chinese Communist party

 Olympic Flame Lit 
 Amid Brief Protest 

Torch lit in grand style at Olympia

Mar 24, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Olympic flame was lit this morning in Greece, in a ceremony briefly interrupted by human rights protesters. As the Chinese Communist Party secretary—also the head of the Beijing Olympics—spoke, three demonstrators evaded massive security to run onto the field at the stadium in Ancient Olympia. One managed... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • Greece • Olympic Games • Olympic torch • Tibetans

Marion Jones Reports to Jail

Former Olympic medalist starts 6-month sentence

Mar 8, 08 6:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Marion Jones has entered a federal prison in Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The disgraced former sprinter is beginning a 6-month sentence for lying to investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and about her role in a check-fraud scam. She has already returned her Olympic gold medals and... More »

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steroids • sentencing • probation • athletics • federal prison • Olympic Games • Marion Jones

Indian Athletes Aim for Gold on Billionaire's Buck

Trust seeks to boost Indian medal count

Mar 7, 08 8:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Young Indians are training for this summer’s Olympics with the backing of a London-based billionaire steel magnate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Lakshmi Mittal was dismayed by India’s poor showing at Athens in 2004—where the burgeoning superpower earned only a single silver, while archrival China won 32... More »

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India • 2008 Beijing Olympics • billionaire • Olympic Games • Bangalore • Lakshmi Mittal • archery • Mittal Steel

Brit Olympians Hit With Gag Order on China

Can't go unless they sign contract to keep mum on issues

Feb 10, 08 9:04 AM CST
(Newser) - British athletes headed to the Beijing Olympics are being required to sign a controversial document barring them from criticizing the Chinese government, reports Britain's Daily Mail. They must promise "not to comment on any politically sensitive issues," said a spokesman for the British Olympic Association, which wrote the... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Olympic Games • British Olympics Association

Freeze of Century Grips China

Millions still still stranded in winter chaos

Feb 4, 08 4:56 AM CST
(Newser) - First it was the snow, now it's the cold wreaking continued havoc in China, leaving millions stranded and millions more without power in the coldest winter in a century. President Hu Jintao chaired an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss rescue efforts in the nation where scores have died, as desperate... More »

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China • Beijing • Hu Jintao • Shanghai • Olympic Games • winter storms • Guangzhou • Chenzou

China Shines Image for Olympics

Bureaucracy in full spin mode with Games less than 200 days away

Jan 30, 08 2:29 PM CST
(Newser) - With less than 200 days to go before the Summer Olympics, Der Spiegel takes an in-depth look at China’s feverish preparations and finds a sprawling bureaucracy working overtime to project the perfect image to the world. But while Beijing might clean the smog, and even prevent rain, making communist... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Communist Party • Olympic Games • Chinese athletes • Olympians

Judge Sends Jones to Slammer

Disgraced runner draws maximum sentence recommended in plea deal

Jan 11, 08 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge threw the book at Marion Jones today, sentencing the disgraced Olympian to 6 months in prison for lying about steroid use and participating in a check-fraud scam. Jones begged the judge not to separate her from her family, and prosecutors said they were okay with a zero-month... More »

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steroids • track and field • Olympic Games • Marion Jones • BALCO

'Bowman the Showman' Found Dead

Figure skating champ's body in LA motel, overdose suspected

Jan 11, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Former US figure skating champion Christopher Bowman was found dead yesterday in a Los Angeles motel room, AP reports. Authorities suspect a drug overdose. Bowman, 40, won US figure skating titles in 1988 and 1992 and wowed the crowds at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. His flamboyant personality and... More »

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skating • overdose • Olympic Games • figure skating

Gatlin Gets 4-Year Ban

Olympic sprinter thinks vengeful massage therapist may have framed him

Jan 1, 08 10:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin won't be competing this year in Beijing—or in any other track and field meet—after receiving a four-year ban for a failed drug test in 2006. The sprinter had been arguing his case, saying, for one thing, that a prior doping charge shouldn't count... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • testosterone • track and field • Olympic Games • Justin Gatlin

Nazi Architect's Son Has His Own Designs

Father's shadow hasn't kept Albert Speer from worldwide impact

Dec 22, 07 6:14 AM CST
(Newser) - It’s hard to make a name for yourself when you share a name with your father, harder when the father was a famous Nazi architect and friend of Hitler. Urban planner Albert Speer constantly battles the association, keeping a low profile, and, though he has made his mark worldwide,... More »

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architecture • Germany • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Olympic Games • urban revitalization • Albert Speer • Munich

Kerrigan Plotter Dies at Age 40

Ex-bodyguard changed name, 'died a long time ago,' brother says

Dec 16, 07 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - A plotter in the 1994 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan died this week of natural causes at age 40, the AP reports. Brian Sean Griffith, ex-bodyguard to figure-skating Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding, confessed to helping organize the attack on Kerrigan days after it happened. Griffith served 14 months and... More »

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skating • obituary • attack • assault • Olympic Games • Nancy Kerrigan • Tonya Harding • figure skating • scandal

Marion Jones Falls Further

Shamed sprinter's records to be taken off books

Nov 24, 07 2:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones will have her results in races dating back to September 2000 wiped from the record books, reports the AP, under orders from track and field's world governing body. She's also been ordered to give back $700,000 in prize money. The IAAF council decided to retroactively... More »

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steroids • athlete • athletics • track and field • Olympic Games • Marion Jones • performance-enhancing drugs

Italian Soccer Fans Riot After Shooting

Cops call shooting "tragic error" after mob attacks police barracks

Nov 11, 07 7:11 PM CST
(Newser) - The police shooting of an Italian soccer fan sparked riots and police clashes across the country today, the BBC reports. Hundreds in Rome torched a bus, smashed cop cars, and attacked a police barracks. In Milan, one game was stopped when angry fans tried to storm the field; more violence... More »

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police • Italy • Tuscany • Rome • soccer • protests • Milan • riots • Olympic Games

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