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Marion Jones used several different performance-enhancing drugs over a substantial period of time, according to a detailed doping calendar that was part of several pages of court documents released Friday.
Chinese traditional medicines do not contain banned substances, a Beijing Olympics medical official said Tuesday. However, as a precaution they will not be used to treat d athletes during the games.
The Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday issued a series of recommendations for reforming the police department as he reiterated his threat to lobby against the city's Olympic bid if the mayor doesn't respond soon.
The IOC postponed the reallocation of the five Olympic medals returned by Marion Jones following her admission that she began doping before the 2000 Sydney Games.
Rights groups have called on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the International Olympic Committee to confront the organizers of the Beijing 2008 Games over China's media restrictions and human rights record.
China continues to evict 13,000 people each month in preparation for the Beijing Olympics, despite worldwide attention and increased scrutiny, a housing rights group said Wednesday.
Computer maker Lenovo, China's only global Olympics sponsor, will end its top-level support after next year's Beijing Summer Games, the company said.
China said Tuesday it welcomes journalists covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics, responding to complaints by a media rights group that the Communist regime has decided to clamp down on reporting in the run-up to the games.
The International Olympic Committee said Friday it expects Chinese authorities to give the media full freedom to report on the Beijing Games, responding to complaints from a media rights group.
Roman pottery and a coin from the Iron Age have been found on the site of the aquatics center planned for the London 2012 Olympics.
A fire at an east London warehouse that sent a towering column of black smoke over the 2012 Olympics site was an accident, an investigation concluded Wednesday.
Chinese police will deal harshly with social or political demonstrations at the Beijing Olympics, a top security official said Friday.
Future record books may show there was no winner of the women's 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Beijing Olympic organizers angrily disputed allegations of religious intolerance Thursday, saying Bibles and other religious items for personal use will be welcome at next summer's games — except for the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
The U.S. Olympic Committee received confirmation from Olympic officials Wednesday that there will be no restrictions on Bibles being brought into the Olympic village in Beijing next year.
Ticket sales for the Beijing Olympics will revert to a lottery system, organizers said Monday after a first-come, first served process last week attracted so many buyers that the computer system crashed.
Diana Taurasi had 26 points and seven rebounds to lead the U.S. national team to an 83-72 victory over top-ranked Tennessee in an exhibition game on Sunday.
An autopsy of elite runner Ryan Shay was inconclusive Sunday after the 28-year-old collapsed and died in Central Park at the U.S. men's marathon Olympic trials a day earlier.
Watching an online interview of his son Friday night gave Joe Shay the urge to catch a 5 a.m. flight to New York and surprise him at Saturday's U.S. men's marathon Olympic trials. He decided to stick with his original plan, to coach his runners in the Michigan state cross country meet. "God, I regret it," he told The Associated Press on Saturday night. "I just do."
Top distance runner Ryan Shay died during the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials Saturday after collapsing about 5 1/2 miles into the race. He was 28.
Elite distance runner Ryan Shay, who collapsed and died Saturday during the U.S. men's marathon Olympic trials, had been diagnosed with an enlarged heart but cleared by doctors, his father said.
China will not tolerate unauthorized parades, demonstrations or other gatherings during next year's Olympic Games, a police spokesman said Thursday in a warning to groups hoping to use the Games' visibility to publicize their causes.
The International Olympic Committee on Thursday ruled out shifting events away from Beijing during next year's Olympics due to the city's foul air, though it and the United Nations cited pollution as a major concern.
Little by little, the remnants of Marion Jones' once glorious career are being stripped away.
Marion Jones tried to choke back the tears streaming down her face, and bowed her head in a desperate effort to regain the composure that used to be her trademark.
Andy Kay, executive producer of sport for Australian broadcaster Seven Network, reckons that the best Olympic event next year will be watching 17,000 wide-eyed Western media folk arrive at the Beijing airport. "It's not like anywhere else," he says.
This is one human interest story I enjoyed immensely - this one is from my home patch down under in New Zealand: World class sporting rivalry.
Bill Rodgers, a four-time winner of the New York City and Boston Marathons, 1976 Olympian, former American-record-holder in the marathon and winner of an astounding 21 marathons, explains in a new interview why the U.S. should NOT boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The IBM system, called the Smart Surveillance System, or S3, uses analytic tools to index digital video recordings and then issue real-time alerts when certain patterns are detected.
When the 2008 Olympic Games kick off in Beijing next year, organizers will be using a sophisticated computer system to scan video images of city streets looking for everything from troublemakers to terrorists.
Move over, Kermit; it's not just tough being green.
People keep telling me I should take the truck when I go out on trips. It's newer. It's bigger. Probably safer. Blah blah blah. You see, I have this '87 Subaru that I just can't retire. I've taken that poor wagon places most cars would refuse to go, and put it through hell.
China's pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.
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China on Friday appointed a new mayor in Beijing, an ally of President Hu Jintao's and a former party boss in Tibet who will now be in charge of a city scrambling to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Chinese are depriving their people in order to have water for the spectacle of the Olympics.
The flame burning over the 2012 London Olympic Stadium will use a low-carbon fuel, organizers said on Monday.
They clapped, they waved, they chanted in happy unison - and the Olympics does not even start for eight months.
The Chinese government should abandon its crackdown on so-called "fake" foreign journalists in advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
A brief announcement from the Canadian governmet which is,already,upsetting taxpayers.
Our president has announced that he will attend the Beijing Olympics next year as an honored guest of China's Communist government. The president is keen to go because, said a spokesman, "he loves sports."
Lindsey Jacobellis Rocks Her Curls on the Slopes
Reports are emerging of a huge fire at an abandoned bus depot in Stratford, East London, England. A vast, black plume of smoke, visible from as far afield as Fulham and Shepherds Bush in the West of the city.
PJM Roundup: The news came out quietly a few days ago in an Italian sports newspaper, then picked up by the Catholic News Service.
The two leaning towers of the under-construction China Central Television Tower, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, must soon be joined at dawn at a time when sun has not expanded the steel in different proportions of the tower.
China is rushing to get ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics. But for millions of Chinese in the interior of the country, far away from Beijing and the other cities on the east coast, the Olympics will have little relevance to their lives.
Organizes of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have published a list of "prohibited objects" in the Olympic village where athletes will stay. To the surprise of many, Bibles are among the objects that will not be allowed.
I don't understand how an enlarged heart would be detrimental. It seems it would make the job easier and spread the exertion out over the wider surface area. Ryan Shay collapsed 5.5 miles into the race
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