Para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu makes history by claiming gold in the 50m backstroke S3 at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. ... Divers and open water swimmer qualify for Olympics.

Ben Askren is now on the lung transplant list, according to his wife Amy, and is waiting for a match in the hospital. Askren ...

Ben Askren was transported from Nevada to Wisconsin but remains in the hospital per Chael Sonnen. The former UFC title ...

6. First participation in the Olympics as an independent nation (1968) – For the first time as an independent nation, ...

"I told him I hadn’t brought a guitar and he sent me to borrow one from a woman who turned out to be Sarah Lee Guthrie, Arlo ...

Co-organized by the Greek embassy in China and the Beijing Olympic City Development Association, the exhibition, traces over ...

Beijing unveils Olympic symbols for 2008 Games By Cruz Fang (www.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2006-08-07 12:47 . The pictographs for the 2008 Beijing Olympics include 35 icons, representing each of ...

Also encouraging, as was the case before the Games, the class of 2008 might, again ‘on paper,’ have the best professional potential of any U.S. Olympic team since 1996.

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One of the great leaps leading up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was the remarkable change in China between its near-miss bid in 1993 and the successful bid eight years later.