Tag: live from beijing
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Ali not very entertaining in Olympic boxing defeat
BEIJING • Sadam Ali said he wants to entertain the world. Boxing is his instrument. It’s his song. It’s his act. Ali, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Yemeni immigrants, is the first boxer of Arab descent to compete for the United States. Monday night at the Workers Arena Ali had his first huge chance to…
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Ramsey: Games and death are bad mix
BEIJING • Death and games don’t mix. We make a huge fuss about our games, but deep down we know they don’t amount to much. They entertain us. They divert us. They help us forget the grim and troubling corners of life. One of those corners is death. Pity the U.S. women’s indoor volleyball team.…
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Phelps’ timing seems golden
BEIJING • That is three down, five to go. Another final for Michael Phelps, another world record. Clockwork. Tick. Tick. What Phelps is doing to the swimming world is nothing short of phenomenal. No athlete is ever bigger than the sport that made him. It’s impossible. But Phelps is as close to impossible as any…
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Family attacked in Beijing thankful for support
BEIJING • The mother-in-law of U.S. men’s indoor volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon remained in serious but stable condition Monday at a Beijing hospital as details emerged about the attack in which her husband was killed. Barbara Bachman, 62, of Lakeville, Minn., was walking Saturday with her daughter, 2004 Olympic volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, at…
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U.S. overwhelms China in women’s basketball
BEIJING • Reminded about her last trip to the Chinese capital, Sylvia Fowles grimaced like a little girl who just had her lunch money stolen by a bully. “You never forget,” she said of the 84-81 loss the U.S. women’s basketball team suffered against China in April inthe championship game of a pre-Olympic tournament. “That…
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Bryant: Beach volleyball seeding rule is dumb
BEIJING • Beach volleyball has to have the dumbest rule of dumb rules. If a team from the host country is ranked in the top five on the qualification list then simply because it is the host country, simply because the matches will be played on its sand, it’s granted the No. 1 overall seed…
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Fingertip win keeps Phelps on track for eight gold medals
BEIJING • Michael Phelps’ quest for eight gold medals remains intact thanks to an inspired anchoring effort by Jason Lezak. Team USA entered the final leg of the men’s 400-meter freestyle relay almost a full body length behind the French team. When Cullen Jones, the third leg, touched the wall, French swimmer Alain Bernard already…
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OTC wrestler wants chance to knock off champ again
BEIJING • If one win over Japan’s most accomplished women’s wrestler was enough, Marcie Van Dusen wouldn’t have bothered coming to the Olympics. The Olympic Training Center resident wants more. “Let’s do it again,” Van Dusen said of a potential rematch Saturday with 2004 Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion Saori Yoshida in the…
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Wrestling coach says program has detected medical problems
BEIJING • Two U.S. boxers have had “life-threatening medical problems” and three others have had “major” operations since the formation of a residency program at the Olympic Training Center last year, American coach Dan Campbell said. Campbell maintains the uncovering of the health issues is evidence the revamped program, the first for boxers at the…
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U.S. men’s volleyball team wins in coach’s absence
BEIJING – The U.S. men’s indoor volleyball coach has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the Olympic team following the murder of his father-in-law and near-fatal stabbing of his mother-in-law at a Beijing tourist site. Hugh McCutcheon left the No. 3-ranked American squad Sunday before its Beijing Games opener, a 3-2 win over Venezuela,…