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B bird watching

8.18pm News in from Kelly Sotherton. And she' not exactly upset about Blonska's potential ban...'I've been saying all along that she got caught doping when she was scoring 6300, how can she not be doping and scoring 6700? I have not seen any of her ...

Bird's Nest view - live minute-by-minute report! - Guardian Blogs

A night of tropical heat in the beautiful stadium currently at the centre of the known universe. Here was day five of the athletics, the beating heart of the Olympic Games. And, as the climax of the day’s entertainment, here was perhaps the ...

Athletics malaise leads to apathy - Financial Times

BEIJING - Welcome to the rest of the Beijing Olympics — the Summer Games of 2008, A.P. After Phelps. The games continued Monday in search of a new headliner now that Michael Phelps has toweled off for the last time. The Bird’s Nest seemed the ...

Trafton wins discus for USA - Beatrice Daily Sun

Canada's dramatic second-half turnaround continued at the Beijing Olympics as another multi-medal performance by Canadian athletes helped the team eclipse its overall performance from four years ago in Athens. Triathlete Simon Whitfield, trampoline ...

Beijing medal rush - Globe and Mail

After a fairly bleak round of recent movie going that included Kiefer Sutherland battling against crazy mirror-demons through more gory effects than you can shake a blood-soaked stick at, I was feeling kind of down on movies; it's not that I don't ...

Rocchi's Retro Rental: Watch the Skies - San Francisco Gate

BEIJING • Two lanes to Dawn Harper’s left at the Bird’s Nest National Stadium on Tuesday night, Lolo Jones was loping to her anticipated victory in the 100-meter hurdles when she inexplicably smacked the second-to-last hurdle. While Jones was ...

Harper wins gold - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1.26pm: Blanco is the world silver medallist, Jim tells me. It was 11-1 in the end to Sutherland. He battered him. James DeGale comes him now, 1.21pm: Diving Now it's Powell's turn to zoom up the board. She lies in 15th after a third dive of 75.20 ...

Olympics: day 12 - live! - Guardian Unlimited

BEIJING (AP) — Welcome to the rest of the Beijing Olympics — the Summer Games of 2008, A.P. After Phelps. The games continued Monday in search of a new headliner now that Michael Phelps has toweled off for the last time. The Bird’s Nest seemed ...

Olympic roundup: China's Liu out; Bolt eyes double - Daily Journal

11.24pm So I really wasn't going to get sucked into the whole missed drugs test debate, but I just want to point out an inaccuracy- or flippancy of language. It is not that Christine did not 'bother' to go to a drugs test. Drugs testers come and meet ...

Bird's Nest view - as it happened - Guardian Blogs

The word hasn't surfaced in the public Blabbospehere yet but I suspect it will eventually: Iredenta! Or, in Italian, Irridenta. Some will recognize it as the term for restoring formerly held countries or regions, usually under the rubric of common ...