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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

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News: "Anglo-Saxon" quote overshadows start of Romney tour North Korea incident overshadows action Games score own goal with North Korea flag faux pas U.S. recover to beat France after bad start Comaneci rues the demise of perfect 10 Exclusive: Man United plans IPO launch within days: sources Martin's bravery could pay dividends Cash-strapped Britain eyes Olympic business bounce Australians out to gatecrash Britain's party Athletes urged to think twice before they tweet NBC sells record $1 billion ads for 2012 Olympics Women's fencer Zagunis named as U.S. flag-bearer S.Korea, Japan vie for best of rest in Asia Women campaigners demand sex equality at the Olympics China to test superpower claims on foreign soil "Anglo-Saxon" quote overshadows start of Romney tour Wed,25 Jul 2012 06:27 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney began a foreign tour on Wednesday forced to disavow a report that an adviser had accused President Barack Obama of not understanding the shared "Anglo-Saxon heritage" of Britain and the United States. As Romney arrived in London for a three-day stay, The Daily Telegraph quoted an unnamed Romney campaign adviser who lauded the special relationship between the two countries. ... Full Story Top North Korea incident overshadows action Wed,25 Jul 2012 05:53 PM PDT Reuters - CARDIFF (Reuters) - A major diplomatic incident marred the first day of competition at the London Olympics on Wednesday when the North Korea women's soccer team walked off after the South Korea flag was mistakenly displayed before their match against Colombia. The error occurred in Scotland at Glasgow's Hampden Park stadium which was hosting one of the day's six matches kicking off the women's tournament and led to a lengthy delay before the game eventually started. ... Full Story Top Games score own goal with North Korea flag faux pas Wed,25 Jul 2012 05:23 PM PDT Reuters - CARDIFF/LONDON (Reuters) - The first day of sporting action at the London Olympics turned into an embarrassing own goal for organisers on Wednesday when the South Korean flag was mistakenly displayed before its sworn enemy North Korea's women's football match against Colombia. The error prompted the North Korean team to walk off the field and caused a delay of more than an hour before the game, played in the Scottish city of Glasgow, eventually started. ... Full Story Top U.S. recover to beat France after bad start Wed,25 Jul 2012 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - CARDIFF (Reuters) - The United States rallied superbly to beat France 4-2 after making the worst possible start to their campaign for a third successive Olympic gold medal at Glasgow's Hampden Park on Wednesday. The U.S., who have won three of the four golds since women's soccer was introduced to the Games in 1996, trailed 2-0 after only 14 minutes as goals from Gaetane Thiney and Marie-Laure Delie put France into an albeit short-lived commanding position. ... Full Story Top Comaneci rues the demise of perfect 10 Wed,25 Jul 2012 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Wearing seven-inch black stilettos, skinny jeans and a black figure-hugging T-shirt declaring "I'm Gold", Nadia Comaneci was still turning heads in London 36 years after producing the defining image of Olympic gymnastics. Yet the Romanian's fashion designer had missed a trick. "(It says) I'm gold... but it should have had 'I'm perfect' on the back," she said dissolving into laughter as she looked down on the bold gold lettering in the front of her T-shirt. She was spot on. "People don't remember how many medals I won, all they remember is the history and the 1.00," she ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Man United plans IPO launch within days: sources Wed,25 Jul 2012 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manchester United is planning to launch the marketing road show for its proposed $300 million U.S. initial public offering within days, after a delay earlier this week, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The British soccer club, which is controlled by the Glazer family, may start the road show as soon as Friday or early next week, according to the sources. The offering is expected to value the team at roughly $3 billion. But sources warned that market conditions could lead to further delays. ... Full Story Top Martin's bravery could pay dividends Wed,25 Jul 2012 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Dragged from a raging fire that killed six other horses, Otis Barbotiere and Neville Bardos could reward the man who risked his life to save them when they compete at the London Olympics next week. Boyd Martin said he did what anyone would have done by racing into an inferno but his bravery could pay dividends if one of the horses he saved on a chaotic night in May 2011 can carry him to a gold medal for the United States in the equestrian three-day eventing. Eleven horses under Martin's care were put into their stalls that night. ... Full Story Top Cash-strapped Britain eyes Olympic business bounce Wed,25 Jul 2012 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will on Thursday use the London Olympics to drum up business opportunities, on the first day of a series of trade and investment events to showcase Britain during the Games. Dignitaries such as International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the heads of global firms such as Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to attend the first of the business events later on Thursday. Britain hopes to seal one billion pounds ($1. ... Full Story Top Australians out to gatecrash Britain's party Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON, July 25 - More than a century of fierce sporting rivalry means there is nothing the Australian team would like more than to add a little more rain to the deluge already threatening Britain's parade at the London Olympics. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) have set themselves the goal of fifth place on the medals table, an optimistic target that would probably require them to approach the 49-medal tally they achieved in Athens eight years ago. ... Full Story Top Athletes urged to think twice before they tweet Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Athletes racing to share their views with fans at the London Olympics may think twice before hitting send following the first expulsion of an athlete for a racist Twitter remark. Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was withdrawn from the London Olympics on Wednesday after causing an uproar in her home nation for a tweet about West Nile mosquitoes and the number of Africans in Greece. ... Full Story Top NBC sells record $1 billion ads for 2012 Olympics Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:17 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - NBCUniversal, which runs the NBC broadcast and cable networks, said on Wednesday it had sold a record $1 billion of U.S. television and digital advertising for the 2012 London Olympics, but remained silent on whether it would turn a profit on the games. The network said the figure, which includes ad sales across all NBCUniversal platforms airing coverage of the summer games that start this week, was some $150 million more than its total for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast Corp, paid $1.18 billion for the U.S. ... Full Story Top Women's fencer Zagunis named as U.S. flag-bearer Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Two-time Olympic champion fencer Mariel Zagunis was selected on Wednesday as the flag-bearer to lead the 529-member U.S. team at Friday's opening ceremony of the London Games. Zagunis, who became the first American fencer in 100 years to win a gold medal when she triumphed at the 2004 Athens Games, was selected as flag-bearer in a vote by fellow members of the U.S. Olympic team. ... Full Story Top S.Korea, Japan vie for best of rest in Asia Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:13 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - While China tussles for top spot in the Olympic medal standings with the United States, the race to be best of the rest in Asia will come down to another battle between bitter rivals South Korea and Japan at the London Games. Sleeping giants India have ploughed money into sport in recent years and have high hopes of more individual success following shooter Abhinav Bindra's gold medal in Beijing, but they are unlikely to break into the top 10 anytime soon. ... Full Story Top Women campaigners demand sex equality at the Olympics Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Women's rights campaigners called on Wednesday for an end to sex discrimination at the Olympics, urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ensure there are equal numbers of sports and medals for men and women. Representatives from various European women's groups met in London for a symbolic burial of the Olympic Charter, saying its principles of condoning any form of discrimination and upholding equality of men and women had been decimated. ... Full Story Top China to test superpower claims on foreign soil Wed,25 Jul 2012 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - China's table-topping gold medal haul at the Beijing Olympics cemented its claim as a sporting superpower but the red-clad army of 396 athletes march into London with little swagger as they renew their battle for supremacy with the United States. China swelled with pride as their 51 titles at Beijing put the U.S. tally of 36 in the shade, dethroning their powerful rivals who had reigned supreme since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The stunning harvest was seen as an inexorable shift in the sporting landscape, with China smashing the duopoly of the U.S. ... Full Story Top

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