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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- After a setback in the second set, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers of the United States squeezed past Marcio Araujo and Fabio Luiz Magalhaes of Brazil in men's beach volleyball final at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.

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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Anne Caroline Chausson of France claimed the first-ever BMX Olympic gold, winning the women's BMX final at the Beijing Games here on Friday.

The French woman, who used to be a mountain biker, thundered home in the fastest time of 35.976 seconds to take the gold read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Hwang Kyung-seon won the women's 67kg class taekwondo event at the Beijing Olympics on Friday, beating Karine Sergerie of Canada 2-1.

"Because of my injury it was so hard to focus on the game. It was really difficult to win the gold," Hwang said read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Lena Schoneborn of Germany clinched the women's modern pentathlon title in 5,792 points at the Olympic Sports Center here on Friday.

Schoneborn, ranked third in the world, came 20th in the shooting before winning the fencing to top the overall ranking and never read more »
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BEIJING, Aug 22 (Xinhua) -- Maurren Maggi of Brazil claimed the gold medal in the women's long jump by bettering Russian elite Tatyana Lebedeva over one centimeter at the Beijing Olypmics here on Friday.

The champion secured her gold in the first attempt with 7.04 meters, her best performan read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba won her second gold medal at the Beijing Olympics as she took the women's 5,000 meters gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Friday.

Dibaba, 23, clocked 15 minutes 41.40 seconds for her second gold medal at the Games, follow read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's all-conquering women paddlers took a clean sweep of the three medals in the Olympic singles table tennis competition here Friday. World number one Zhang Yining won her fourth Olympic gold, after beating veteran Wang Nan 4-1 in an all-Chinese final of the read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia scored a surprise win in thewomen's 4x100 meters relay at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Friday.

The Russian quartet, including Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, clocked a season best of 42.31 seconds read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- World champions the Netherlands snatched the Olympic women's hockey gold with a 2-0 win over China here on Friday.

It is their first Olympic hockey title since the Los Angeles Games 24 years ago.

Hosts China also picked up their first ever medal at the Ol read more »
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BEIJING, Aug 23 (Xinhua) -- Bryan Clay of the United States, silver medalist four years ago in Athens, finally won the men's decathlon gold at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Friday.

The 28-year-old collected 8,791 points, a new Olympic record. Belarus' Andrei Krauchanka won the silver w read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Steve Hooker from Australia claimed the men's pole vault title with the result of 5.96 meters at the Beijing Olympics on Friday night.

Evqeny Lukyanenko from Russia took the silver with 5.85 meters, and Denys Yurchenko from Ukraine got the bronze with 5.70 meter read more »
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BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Argentina repeated its victory in the final of men's soccer at Beijing Olympics here on Saturday, as striker Angel Di Maria scored the only goal to help the team edge Nigeria to seal the title.

Watched by a crowd of 89,102, Di Maria, already h read more »
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