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Phelps again attempts to make Games history
Mon,30 Jul 2012 06:23 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - All eyes will be on the swimming pool later on Tuesday when Michael Phelps could make history by becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time and the first man to win the same event on three occasions. If he succeeds, however, his achievement faces being overshadowed by Chinese sensation Ye Shiwen, 16, who is chasing a second London Games gold medal after setting tongues wagging with an eye-popping swim for her first. China are top of the medals table on nine golds with the United States second on five. ...
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Gymnastics: Britain take place at top table at last
Mon,30 Jul 2012 06:23 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Kristian Thomas picked the perfect moment to nail the difficult vault that had given him so much trouble - team final day at a home Olympics with more than 15,000 fans cheering him on. Nail it he did, to get Monday's best vault mark of 16.550 to help win Britain's first team gymnastics medal in a century. "That was the first time I had actually managed the landing without taking any steps," said Thomas, a bronze medal hanging round his neck. ... Full Story | Top |
Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control
Mon,30 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - It took Jason Legate, a Walnut Creek, California-resident, all of 10 minutes to connect his computer to a London-based server and access BBC's coverage of the Olympics Saturday, thereby circumventing NBC's lock on coverage in the United States. The 31-year-old system administrator said he has watched at least 12 hours of live BBC coverage (his favorite sport so far - judo) since he set up a virtual private network (VPN) connection to send all his Internet traffic to a server in London. ...
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Man Utd sets IPO terms, valued at as much as $3.3 billion
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:49 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - English soccer team Manchester United set the terms for its U.S. initial public offering on Monday saying it will offer 16.67 million shares at between $16 and $20 each, which values the club at $3.3 billion at the top of the range. Manchester United has been struggling with a hefty debt burden ever since being acquired by the family of Florida-based businessman Malcolm Glazer and his family in 2005. The club and the Glazers each will be selling half the IPO shares in an offering that will raise as much as $333 million. ... Full Story | Top |
Sweet Dreams 20-years later as U.S. rolls
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:44 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - It was 20-years ago that the original Dream Team was introduced to the world with the 116-48 destruction of Angola. The United States women's basketball team got their shot at the African nation at the London Olympics on Monday, and were no less charitable. While Sue Bird will never be mistaken for Larry Bird or Diana Taurasi with Michael Jordan, coach Geno Auriemma believes this could be the finest collection of talent the U.S. women's basketball team has ever put on Olympic hardwood as the Americans rolled to a 90-38 win to remain on course for a fifth straight gold medal. ...
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White pushing for Olympic skateboarding
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:44 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Dressed all in black, snowboarder Shaun White looked out through his reflective designer sunglasses at the Olympic rings floating on the Thames on Monday and pondered the idea of becoming a crossover Olympian. A double-Winter Games gold medalist and a global brand, American White liked the idea. One problem. Skateboarding, his summer sport of choice is not an Olympic sport. At least not yet. ...
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Twitter suspends reporter's account for NBC tweet
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc and NBC Universal's move to suppress a British reporter's tweets related to the network's Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday. The microblogging service suspended Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for London-based daily The Independent, after he sent a tweet on Friday revealing NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel's email address. ...
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Cardiff camp helps set Afghani Faisal free
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Afghan boxer Ajmal Faisal did not think he would make it to the London Olympics - his training sessions were prohibitively expensive and more often than not restricted by Taliban or political party opposition. Yet on Monday Faisal became Afghanistan's sole representative at the boxing arena and only its second Games fighter since U.S. forces began bombing the country in retaliation against its Taliban rulers' refusal to hand over the al Qaeda leaders responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...
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U.S. women outclass Angola
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. women's basketball team, evoking memories of the men's Dream Team of 1992, put on a hoops masterclass in routing African champions Angola 90-38 at the Olympics on Monday. It took a little while for the Americans to get in synch, but once they did the reigning four-times Olympic champions put on a fastbreak show to extend their Games winning streak to 35 in a row. The last time the U.S. ...
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U.S. stun lethargic Brazil in final re-run
Mon,30 Jul 2012 05:14 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - An almost robotically focused United States women's team proved revenge is a dish best served cold when they got their own back on 2008 champions Brazil with an emphatic Olympic volleyball pool victory on Monday. The Americans lost out in the Beijing final to their yellow and blue clad foes but prevailed 3-1 in one of the ultimate grudge matches of these London Games to lay down a marker for later in the tournament when the pair could meet again. As the teams rattled through the points and pop music blared out every other minute to tire out the cheerleaders, the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Shemyakina wins gold in women's epee
Mon,30 Jul 2012 04:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina caused an upset by winning gold in the women's individual epee with a nail-biting 9-8 extra-time victory over defending champion Britta Heidemann of Germany at the London Olympics on Monday. Twelfth seed Shemyakina, who was 18th at the Beijing Games four years ago, worked her way through the preliminaries here with two key victories over top-ranked Romanian fencers. She beat fifth seed Ana Maria Branza and then knocked out another Romanian in fourth-ranked Simona Gherman. ...
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Water polo: American teen shines in Games debut
Mon,30 Jul 2012 04:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - American Maggie Steffens made the most of her Olympic debut on Monday as the 19-year-old Californian scored seven goals in a 14-13 win over Hungary on the opening day of the women's water polo tournament. Steffens's talent and poise in front of goal stood out on a day that otherwise contained few surprises, with the favored U.S. and Australian squads, the 2008 Beijing Games silver and bronze medalists respectively, securing wins. ...
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Shades of Barcelona as U.S. women rout Angola
Mon,30 Jul 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. women's basketball team, evoking memories of the men's Dream Team of 1992, put on a hoops masterclass in routing African champions Angola 90-38 at the Olympics on Monday. It took a little while for the Americans to get in synch, but once they did the reigning four-times Olympic champions put on a fastbreak show to extend their Games winning streak to 35 matches. The last time the U.S. ...
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Beach volleyball: China, Brazil win as popularity soars
Mon,30 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - China's Beijing bronze medalists put a nightmare start to the Olympic women's beach volleyball behind them on Monday while the Brazilian favorites cruised to a second win as the sport's popularity in Britain soared to new heights. In the day's finale, American Misty May-Treanor celebrated her 35th birthday with team mate Kerri Walsh as the double Olympic champions booked their place in the knockout phase with a 21-14 21-19 victory over the Czech Republic's Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova, watched by several members of the U.S. men's basketball team. ...
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Lithuanian girl, 15, star of heroics in the pool
Mon,30 Jul 2012 04:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Lithuanian swimmer Ruta Meilutyte struck Olympic gold on Monday in the women's 100 metres breaststroke aged just 15, capping a dramatic day in the pool where Frenchman Yannick Agnel also beat an American favourite to win the men's 200 metre freestyle. On the third full day of competition in London, Swiss football player Michel Morganella was expelled for an abusive message on Twitter after his team's defeat by South Korea. ...
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