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  • August 2008

    • Britain Bumps Medal Count on Day 11

      Reuters  |  Aug 19, 08 5:19 PM CDT

      Britain Bumps Medal Count on Day 11

      (Newser) - Britain’s Olympic team added a 16th gold medal today, a total not seen since the 1908 Games, Reuters reports. Christine Ohuruogu took first in the women’s 400 meters—the country’s first track victory in Beijing. Bahrain’s Rashid Ramzi won the men’s 1,500 meters, giving the Persian Gulf nation its first ever Olympic medal. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • track and field  • weight lifting

    • The Price of Reaching the Top

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 9, 08 10:27 AM CDT

      The Price of Reaching the Top

      (Newser) - Nearly all of Chin'a Olympic athletes come out of the country’s sports boarding schools—a system that depends on the dismal prospects of the country's poor. "A rich person would never let his child do this," the father of Athens gold medalist Chen Yanqing tells the Wall Street Journal . But "if we didn't send her away to sports school, she would have ended up a farmer." More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Olympics  • Chinese athletes  • weight lifting

  • June 2008
  • January 2008

    • Lift Weights, Reap Hefty Benefits

      Boston Globe  |  Jan 21, 08 7:45 PM CST

      Lift Weights, Reap Hefty Benefits

      (Newser) - Pumping iron has long been known to improve strength and prevent injury, but evidence increasingly points to a wide range of other benefits, writes Judy Foreman in the Boston Globe . The findings—decreased heart disease and neck pain, improved metabolism and balance—are driving groups such as the American Heart Association to bump weight training to the forefront. More »

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      health  • public health  • heart disease  • exercise  • blood pressure  • American Heart Association  • calories  • metabolism  • weight lifting  • strength training

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