Reigning Olympic and two-time world champion Jeremy Wariner booked a 400 meters Olympic final showdown with top rival LaShawn Merritt as both US stars won their semi-final heats Tuesday.
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Basketball superstar Yao Ming on Wednesday urged China's hurdling hero Liu Xiang to put his Olympic nightmare behind him and to strive for greater success in the future.
Europe may boast the world's current strongest man, but the balance of power has moved decisively to the east after eight-star China and their neighbours carried off all but three of the gold.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted the low number of positive doping cases announced at the Olympics was proof that they were winning, not losing, their battle against drug cheats.
Ramazan Sahin eased through to the freestyle wrestling finals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday after the Turk defeated two of his most dangerous rivals for the men's 66kg gold medal.
Russia are through to the Beijing Olympic men's volleyball semi-finals after a 3-1 (20-25, 25-16, 25-22, 25-21) victory over Bulgaria in the last eight on Wednesday.
Stuck in Canada nursing his frustrated Olympian ambitions, MacDonald was suddenly ordered to pack his bags to fly to Beijing, after one archer who had beaten him onto the team, John David Burns, fell ill.
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While many athletes are able to parlay their celebrity into successful business ventures, Olympians, for all their tenacity and dedication, by and large don't have the same entrepreneurial edge.
Topping the list of billionaire brands with a presence in Beijing is, no surprise, Nike, the American sportswear icon founded and still chaired by billionaire Phil Knight.
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She kept the entire Bird's Nest stadium enthralled and waiting and in the end, the lovely Yelena Isinbayeva showed everyone why she's the best in the business.
Guo Jingjing is better known as China's diving Princess and she's now the most decorated Olympic female diver with six career medals.
For helping Singapore to its first Olympic medal since the 1960 Rome Summer Games, MSN salutes Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu.
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- Phelps astonishing run in swimming
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17% - Tao Li finishing fifth in 100m fly
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4% - Lee Chong Wei in badminton men’s final
36%
- Phelps astonishing run in swimming
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