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At the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games, the world's two superpowers took the Cold War to the playing fields. At the 1980 Moscow Games, the U.S., under orders from President Jimmy Carter, boycotted the Olympics. The Soviets retaliated by boycotting the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Aside from [Lauryn Williams], Detroit Pistons forward Tayshaun Prince is a member of the heavily-favored U.S. men's basketball team. At the 2004 Olympic Games, the U.S. finished a disappointing third and had to settle for bronze. DETROIT PISTONS forward Tayshaun Prince is a member of the heavily-favored U.S. men's basketball team. At the 2004 Olympic Games, the U.S. finished a disappointing third and had to settle for bronze medals. Mexico City-also was the stage for American sprinters Tommie Smith and John C...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee agreed Tuesday to allow Iraq to participate in the Beijing Games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel. The decision followed last-minute talks between Iraqi officials and the IOC ahead of today's deadline to submit competitors' names for track and field events. The Olympics begin Aug. 8.
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North Bergen native Steve Mocco will be going to the Beijing Olympic Games. Lyndhurst native Donny Pritzlaff will not. Mocco defeated Tommy Rowlands, 1-0, 1-0, in the third round of the 120 kg/264.5-pound weight class final at the U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Trials on Sunday in Las Vegas.
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China spent far more on the 2008 Olympiad than any previous host country. A retrospective assessment of the benefits of the 2008 Games to the Chinese economy will not be possible for several years. We use an adaptation of event study methodology that has been employed by studies of previous Olympiads to analyze the expected benefits of the 2008 Games. We show that the announcement that Beijing would host the 2008 Games led to a brief rise in the Shanghai exchange, but the euphoria quickly dissipated. We find that there was no corresponding decline in the stock exchanges of Beijing's closest rivals for the 2008 Games. There was a longer lasting impact on specific sectors of the Shanghai exchange, but this impact was not always positive.
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Beijing -- Eight years ago, Lopez Lomong knew nothing about the Olympic Games. He was 15, and his knowledge of the world extended only to the perimeter of the largest refugee camp in Kenya. He knew hunger. He knew heartbreak. He knew isolation.
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It is a contrast of Olympian proportions. Organizers of the Winter Olympic Games next month in Turin, Italy, have scrambled to sell tickets, find sponsors and close a budget shortfall of nearly $100 million.
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To the boys of Beijing, the children of China's Cultural Revolution, we were the bad guys. The Americans were the keepers of an evil empire, a morally bankrupt society that needed to be contained if it could not be destroyed. Joseph Cheng believed everything he read in the government- regulated press and everything he saw on the government-regulated TV. Long before he became a Roman Catholic priest at Holy Trinity in Hackensack, long before his hometown was a flicker in the International Olympic Committee's eye, Cheng was an impressionable kid who thought the United States was a nation rotting at the core.
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The historic moment we have long awaited is arriving," President Hu Jintao said earlier Friday at a luncheon with visiting heads of state, including President Bush. "The world has never needed mutual understanding, mutual toleration and mutual cooperation as much as it does today. "Anyone who tries to disturb the Olympics now by arousing social instability should be severely punished," said Ma Jie, 53, a taxi driver. "What could be more despicable than that?" "I came to Beijing last night to celebrate the Olympics, even though I don't have a ticket," Mr. [Yang Bin] said. "China is never more glorious than today. The whole world is watching us."
