2008 Summer Olympics

...night in 33.583 seconds, a personal best and the second-fastest time in history. It meant three gold medals at this event for the Beijing Olympics silver medallist, who also took out the match sprint and won bronze with Emily Rosemond...

In this article: Anna Meares, Beijing Olympics, Ukraine, World Cup, New Zealand, Sandie Clair, and Shuang Guo

...but spared a sentence and released after spending five months in custody. The conviction came one day after Beijing won its bid to host the 2008 Olympics. July 2001 - Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang, Chinese academics with U.S. permanent...

In this article: Taiwan, United States, China, Ching Cheong, Cnooc, Rio Tinto, Beijing, and Royal Dutch Shell

...Baseball Classic and guided the U.S. team to the WBC semifinals this year. In between, he led the Americans to a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, where he managed emerging phenom - and Nationals' No. 1 overall draft pick - Stephen...

In this article: Davey Johnson, Washington Nationals, Stephen Strasburg, Florida Collegiate Summer League, 1986 World Series, Dwight Gooden, and Beijing Olympics

...the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday. "The IOC today announced sanctions against five athletes who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for having committed anti-doping violations," the IOC said in a...

In this article: International Olympic Committee, Rashid Ramzi, Beijing, Davide Rebellin, Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Stefan Schumacher, Beijing Olympics, and Kenya

...in the 1,500. Ramzi won Bahrain's first Olympic medal when he beat Kenya's Asbel Kipruto Kiprop to take gold in the 1,500 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. * Doping violation: In April 2009, Bahrain's Olympic Committee announced...

In this article: Rashid Ramzi, Olympic Committee, Bahrain, Hicham El Guerrouj, Bernard Lagat, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Safi, Morocco, and Osaka

...2008, but that was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in May. The CAS ruling cleared Pistorius to compete at the Beijing Olympics, but he failed to run the required qualifying time of 45.95 seconds. His personal best is...

In this article: Oscar Pistorius, 2012 London Olympics, Court of Arbitration for Sport, University of Wyoming, Southern Methodist University, Beijing Olympics, and Blade Runner

Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi celebrates winning the gold in the men's 1500-metre at the Beijing 2008 Olympics on Aug. 19, 2008. Ramzi was stripped of the medal in November, 2009 after drug testing. Mark J. Terrill/The Associated Press LONDON -...

In this article: Rashid Ramzi, International Olympic Committee, Silver, Davide Rebellin, Beijing, Stefan Schumacher, Sebastian Coe, Beijing 2008 Olympics, Bahrain, and 2012 London Olympics

...told Reuters. Moroccan-born Ramzi's positive test for the banned blood-booster CERA was announced in April after frozen samples from the Beijing Olympics were re-tested for that specific substance. The athletes who finished in second,...

In this article: Rashid Ramzi, International Olympic Committee, Davide Rebellin, Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Beijing Olympics, Italy, and Beijing

...but leads all qualifiers in the 200-meter individual medley at a short-course World Cup meet. The winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics clocked 1 minute, 55.92 seconds in the medley on Sunday. Phelps' 1:44.07 was the...

In this article: World Cup, Beijing Olympics, and Berlin

The Beijing Olympics may have been a triumph for Team GB, but for me they were a disaster. My fault totally. I screwed up. And it removed the shine from one of the best results of my career - beating Novak Djokovic in the Cincinnati...

In this article: Beijing Olympics, Andy Murray, Beijing, Cincinnati Masters, Yen-Hsun Lu, Novak Djokovic, Cincinnati, London, and Taipei