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Blanka Vlasic reigning World Champion in high jump was overthrown by bespectacled Tia Hellebaut of Belgium. Born at Split in Croatia Blanka was named after the Moroccan city of Casablanca where her father competed at 1983 Mediterranean Games...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
made popular Nov 14 2009
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has signed a series of energy co-operation deals with China.
made popular Sep 25 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing Tuesday to meet with top Chinese officials and to discuss the possibility of buying weapons, state-run media...
made popular Sep 24 2008
Yea, we made it at last. Two sparkling gold medals, and another record broken, belatedly though, at the on-going Olympics from the Women’s Shot Put (F54) and the...
made popular Sep 13 2008
HOW quickly would Usain Bolt have run the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics if he hadn’t slowed in celebration before the finish line? A team of physicists have...
made popular Sep 12 2008
Most of the history that happened in Beijing over the past few weeks took place in gyms, in the pool and on the track. But there was also history in the air,...
made popular Sep 2 2008
Following is a selection of the top 10 moments from the Beijing Olympics:
made popular Aug 26 2008
Jeremy Wariner wears sunglasses at night. Dayron Robles sports a chain so thick that Mr. T thinks it’s ostentatious. Gail Devers used to run sprints with her...
made popular Aug 25 2008
It’s enough to make even weather-obsessed Brits forget the dismal summer. They’ve stopped talking, too, about the housing crisis. Even the start of another...
made popular Aug 23 2008
Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar gave Indian sport a double delight Wednesday.
made popular Aug 21 2008
Michael Phelps made history yesterday after winning his eighth Olympic gold in Beijing. Mark Spitz said, “I was the equivalent of the first man on the Moon. He’s...
made popular Aug 18 2008
I don’t know about you but I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week.
made popular Aug 16 2008
Indian boxer Akhil Kumar gave the country the best Independence Day gift stunning world champion Sergey Vodapoyanov of Russia to enter the quarterfinals of the...
made popular Aug 16 2008
Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country’s 56 ethnic groups were in...
made popular Aug 15 2008
Chinese strongwoman Liu Chunhong broke three world records to retain her Olympic title in the women’s 69kg category on Wednesday at the Beijing Olympics
made popular Aug 13 2008
With the Olympics in Beijing in full course there has been more violence reported in the western region of Xinjiang: three security guards were killed and a fourth...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Abhinav Bindra’s solitary gold medal at Beijing has ended an Olympic gold-medal drought for India. He is the only Indian to win an individual gold—the last time...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Abhinav Bindra’s historic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics continues to earn applause and incentives for the ace shooter, who will be conferred with a medal and...
made popular Aug 12 2008
Lessons learnt during the preparations for the Beijing Olympics that opens on Friday can help promote more green initiatives for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New...
made popular Aug 11 2008
Congratulating Abhinav Bindra’s gold winning feat in the 10 M air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics, former Olympian T C Yohannan said India had chances of...
made popular Aug 11 2008
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