Tag: live from beijing
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American beach volleyball duo as good as advertised
BEIJING • Ho-hum. America’s mighty beach volleyball duo, Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, pulverized Brazil’s Talita Rocha and Renata Ribeiro on Monday night to earn a spot in Wednesday’s gold-medal match. The victory was, as usual, dominating. That’s what the volleyball world has come to expect from Walsh and May-Treanor. “We didn’t lose to any…
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Discus winner first American woman to do so since 1932
BEIJING • Stephanie Brown Trafton was a bit surprised to find herself atop the podium after the discus competition at the National Stadium. “There are expert throwers here that have a lot more experience than I do,” Brown Trafton said Monday. “I’m 27 years old, which is young compared to the field. I don’t have…
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Bryant: Losing Liu to injury saddens Chinese
BEIJING • We don’t have a national sports hero, at least not the way China has Yao Ming. Likewise we don’t have a Liu Xiang either. It will be difficult for us to understand what happened to Chinese citizens when injury took their hero before he had a chance to don his cape. Houston Rockets…
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Local triathlete Kemper satisfied with 7th
BEIJING • Looking at Hunter Kemper’s face after Monday’s triathlon, it would’ve been easy to think the three-time Olympian finally had reached the podium. Kemper didn’t reach the podium, but the Colorado Springs resident was almost jubilant after covering the 1.5-kilometer swim, 40-kilometer bike ride and 10-kilometer run in 1 hour, 49 minutes, 48.75 seconds.…
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Volleyball coach’s return has helped U.S. men to 5-0 streak
BEIJING • Hugh McCutcheon could have gone home. Nobody would have blamed him. Nobody would have questioned him. Nobody would have muttered a word. The U.S. men’s indoor volleyball coach grudgingly stayed at the Beijing Games in the wake of the murder of hisfather-in-law and near-fatal stabbing of his mother-in-law, and the decision is paying…
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Liukin ties for first in uneven bars, awarded silver on tiebreaker
BEIJING • There are no ties in Olympic gymnastics. Nastia Liukin learned the hard way Monday in the uneven bars final of the Beijing Games, losing a gold-medal tiebreaker to China’s He Kexin before admissions of confusion over rules, allegations of unfair judging and questions about gymnasts’ ages. Neither Liukin, 18, of Plano, Texas, nor…
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Lomong fails to make finals in 1,500-meter run
BEIJING – One dream is over for Lopez Lomong. Another is just beginning. Lomong ran the 1,500-meter race in 3 minutes, 41 seconds to finish 22nd of 24 and miss the finals of the event. In several ways, the semifinal race surprised Lomong, starting with the beginning. One would’ve thought the start was a standing…
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Williamses dominate in women’s doubles final
BEIJING – Venus and Serena Williams probably didn’t break a sweat in their championship defeat of Spanish duo Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual. The Williamses are formidable enough alone, though that was rarely shown here at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre, together they have been unbeatable in Olympic play. They are undefeated in…
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Ramsey: Heavyweight Wilder lone U.S. boxer left in controversial competition
BEIJING • Deontay Wilder can’t believe he’s the only bridge between America’s glorious Olympic past and its shaky present. He’s thrilled and infuriated at the same time. He shouldn’t be the only American boxer left standing, he said. He can’t believe the injustice of a ridiculously complex scoring system. He seeks relief by looking to…
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Bryant: Jamaicans take sprint crown away from the U.S.
BEIJING • The commercial is as lucid as the decisivevictories. Hello world. Let us introduce ourselves. We are Jamaica. We’re faster than you. You know it. We know it too. Hello Americans, your dominance on the track is no more. We are here, and we are here to stay. Get used to us. Close your…