News -08-07-08 High Hopes for Yao Ming (MSNBC News) "In the National Basketball Association, Yao Ming is a strong player in a star-studded league. Averaging 19 points per game during his six-year career with Houston, the Chinese center is often overshadowed by LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and others, who are flashier on and off the court.' "But as the summer Olympics open in Beijing, among thousands of athletes from around the world, Yao is the biggest star on his home stage of China." 08-08 08-14-04 Michael Phelps Attempts Eight Gold Medals (USA Today) Phelps may win eight gold medals in swimming, the most ever. 8-04 08-15-04 Phelps Fails to Gain Gold in 400 Free Relay (Sports Illustrated and CNN News) "His quest to win eight gold medals is over, doomed by America's worst showing in the 400-meter freestyle relay." 8-04 08-15-04 Puerto Rico Beats USA in Basketball (Sports Illustrated and CNN News) "Whatever remained of America's aura of invincibility slipped away, too, in a shocking, lopsided loss that left their coach embarrassed and angry." 8-04 08-15-04 U.S. Wins in Beach Volleyball (Sports Illustrated and CNN News) "Top-ranked American beach volleyball duo Misty May and Kerri Walsh, teammates for just the second time in two months, defeated Japan's Chiaki Kusuhara and Ryoko Tokuno 21-9, 21-16 in preliminary pool play Sunday." 8-04 08-17-04 Phelps Not to Equal Spitz This Time (Washington Times) "He is still a masterful swimmer, arguably the world's best, and a likely candidate for enshrinement on a Wheaties box. But there will be no equaling of Mark Spitz's record, no million-dollar bonus, no transcending the sport that he has worked so hard to lift from relative obscurity." 8-04 08-17-04 Phelps Wins Second Gold (Sports Illustrated) "Michael Phelps, denied in his bid to win seven gold medals, picked up his second victory of the Athens Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night in Olympic-record time." 8-04 Olympics 2002 News (CNN and Sports Illustrated) Provides news on the 2002 Olympics. 12-01 Olympics 2002 News (ESPN) Provides news on the 2002 Olympics. 12-01 Olympics 2002 News (International Olympic Committee) Provides news on the 2002 Olympics. 12-01 Olympics 2002 News (NBCOlympics.com) Provides news on the 2002 Olympics and biographies of athletes (under "Athletes.") 12-01 Olympics 2002 News (USA Today) Provides news on the 2002 Olympics. 12-01 Olympics 2006 News (Olympic.org) Provides news on the 2006 Olympics. Associated with Turin or Torino. 02-06 Olympics 2008 News (Beijing 2008) Provides news on the 2008 Olympics. 02-06 Papers Apolo Ohno Lands Silver (Washington Post) Describes the race that ended with a collision, leaving the gold for the slowest skater in the finals, Australia's Steven Bradbury. Visitors sometimes misspell as Apollo, Appollo, or Appolo Ono. 2-02 Gold for Hughes in Big Upset (Buffalo News) Describes the final event in women's figure skating, with America's Sarah Hughes, 16 years old, achieving gold. Her performance "was enough to leapfrog Kwan, Slutskaya and American Sasha Cohen en route to the gold medal in perhaps the biggest upset in figure-skating history." 2-02 Gold for Hughes in Figure Skating (NewsDay.com - Howard) "Make no mistake, Hughes won this last night. Kwan, Slutskaya and Cohen didn't just lose it." 2-02 Olympic Torch Route (CNN Sports Illustrated) Provides the dates and locations for the Olympic torch route in the USA. 12-01 Olympics News 1996 (New York Times) Provides coverage of the 1996 Olympics. 12-01 Paralympics (2002 International Paralympic Committee) Provides news related to the paralympics. 3-02

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