Beijing Olympics Blog http://chinaolympicsblog.com The 2008 Beijing Olympics Unofficial Blog Site Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nicolas Kiefer announces retirement – UK Net Guide http://chinaolympicsblog.com/2011/01/01/nicolas-kiefer-announces-retirement-uk-net-guide/ http://chinaolympicsblog.com/2011/01/01/nicolas-kiefer-announces-retirement-uk-net-guide/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:38:33 +0000 http://chinaolympicsblog.com/2011/01/01/nicolas-kiefer-announces-retirement-uk-net-guide/
UK Net Guide
Nicolas Kiefer announces retirement
UK Net Guide
The German also teamed up with Rainer Schuttler to win a silver in the men's doubles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and reached the final of the 2008 …

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Olympian Liz Yelling sets sights on London 2012
BBC Sport
Yelling, who has taken part in two Olympic games, finishing 25th at Athens 2004 and 26th at Beijing 2008, admits qualification for the event is always …

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Our 4x200m crown looking wobbly
Courier Mail
Raleigh said triple Olympic champion Rice and Barratt had both made their post-surgery comebacks at the recent Queensland championships. …

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Freire postpones retirement until London 2012 Games
Cycling Weekly
Freire, 35 in February, competed in the last three Olympic Games. He helped his team-mate Samuel Sánchez win the road race in Beijing in 2008. …

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A modest wish list for 2011
National Post
You gave us the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, which were a rousing success for Canada both on and off the ice, track and jumps. Sure the games were an …

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2010 proved a year of winter storms in sports
Daily Item
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver gave many US athletes a chance to shine. Among them was skier Lindsey Vonn, who became the first American to win …

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JOHN Steele has only been the chief executive of the Rugby Football Union for …
Croydon Advertiser
… previous job as the chief executive of UK Sport, overseeing Britain's best-ever return of medals from a foreign-based Olympic Games at Beijing in 2008. …

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Beijing 2008 Olympics marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru charged with attempted …
Fox Sports
… released on bail until February 9, 2011, when the case will be heard. Wanjiru became Kenya's first Olympic champion when he won at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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TV-radio notebook: Greenspan loved his work
Houston Chronicle
I was an Olympics rookie, and Greenspan was decades into his career as the world's foremost film documentarian of the Games. But he was as eager to tell …

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Queen Elizabeth a great grandma
Chicago Sun-Times
11, 2008 file photo of Britain's Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Buckingham Palace said Thursday Dec. …

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