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          <title>Another return possible for skier Jeremy Bloom</title>
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Bloom traveled to Switzerland last month, where he was on skis for the first time since ending his freestyle career after the Turin Olympics           ]]></description>
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          <title>Former ODU star sails into U.S. Olympic history</title>
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Former Old Dominion University star Anna Tunnicliffe has won the Olympic gold medal in Laser Radial sailing after coming from behind in the final medal race to finish second and secure the top spot on overall points.            ]]></description>
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Videos, photos, stories, TV listings, local athlete tracker, medal count and more!           ]]></description>
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          <title>Queen Harrison fails to qualify in 400 hurdles</title>
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Virginia Tech star Queen Harrison today failed to qualify for the Olympic finals in the women&#8217;s 400-meter hurdles.            ]]></description>
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Goran Nava competed for Serbia Friday morning in the men&#8217;s 1500 meter run.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Michael Phelps Wins Third Gold Medal</title>
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Michael Phelps wins his third gold medal Monday night in the 200-meter freestyle.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Salem All&#45;Stars take on Olympic softball team at Kiwanis Field</title>
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Cat Osterman started on the mound for the National team, while Danville&#8217;s Ashley Taylor pitched for Salem.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Local softball team takes on Olympians</title>
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They&#8217;re from Galax, Danville, Roanoke, and Christiansburg, to name a few, and they&#8217;re gearing up to take on the best in the world.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Coventry Commonwealth Games Open In Roanoke</title>
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&nbsp;  The 19th Annual Games opened in Roanoke with a rousing opening ceremony at the Roanoke Civic Center.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UVA assistant coach bound for Beijing</title>
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Student, coach, reporter, world-class athlete and (soon) father.&nbsp; Adam Nelson has a lot of labels &#8212; a lot of balls in the air, so to speak.&nbsp; But right now, the Virginia assistant track coach has only one 16-pound ball on his mind.           ]]></description>
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          <title>VT&#8217;s Queen Harrison to skip 100&#45;meter hurdles Olympic trials</title>
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Harrison made the U.S. Olympic team earlier this week in the 400-meter hurdles           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia Tech&#8217;s Fanning advances in 5000, Botzum falls in Swim&#45;off</title>
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&nbsp; A mixed bag of news for Virginia Tech Fans as the Olympic Trials march on.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hokies Harrison Makes USA Olympic Team</title>
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&nbsp;   It was an improbable finish from Lane 8, But Virginia Tech&#8217;s Queen Harrison is headed to Beijing.           ]]></description>
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Queen Harrison is ranked second and first in the NCAA in the 100 meter and 400 meter hurdles, respectively           ]]></description>
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          <title>New swimsuit making a splash</title>
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Since Speedo introduced the LZR Racer to the elite swimming world in February, 37 world records have been eclipsed by athletes wearing the suit Speedo has spent more than three years - and millions of dollars - designing and perfecting.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Column: Give double amputee benefit of the doubt</title>
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I have a hard time believing anyone born without fibulas, and who later has both legs amputated below the knee, possesses an &#8220;unfair&#8221; advantage over anyone.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Former William Fleming wrestling star carries Olympic dreams</title>
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His workouts at &#8216;The Edge&#8221; Sports complex come with equal parts intensity, brutality and pain.&nbsp; Keno Shepard has taken his dedication to another level in hopes of securing his Olympic dreams at Beijing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hokies Return Home after Historic Softball Victory over Olympic Team</title>
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&nbsp;  Angela Tincher and the rest of the Hokies made a national statement with a win over the US Olympic Team.           ]]></description>
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          <title>German Olympic Sports union rejects calls for Beijing boycott, pledges to send team</title>
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The German Olympic Sports Union (DOSB) said it was following the events in Tibet with &#8220;great attention and concern,&#8220; and added it was aware that the human rights situation in China was still &#8220;unsatisfactory&#8221; despite improvements in the last few years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Olympic marathon runner expects more athletes to bow out of Beijing</title>
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Haile Gebrselassie expects more athletes to follow his lead and drop out of some events at the Beijing Olympics because of the air pollution.&nbsp; The two-time Olympic 10,000-meter champion said Monday he was disappointed about not competing in the marathon, but that there was no way he would run the race at the games in August.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Olympic official says analysis of Beijing air quality finds some risk to athletes</title>
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Arne Ljungqvist, the chair of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s Medical Commission, said endurance events lasting more than an hour could expose participants to breathing problems, but the overall findings showed that &#8220;conditions will be good for athletes during the games.&#8220;
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          <title>Director boils down 5,000 years of history to 50 minutes for Beijing Olympics opening ceremony</title>
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Zhang Yimou, the director general of the opening and closing ceremonies, has never faced an editing job quite like this one.&nbsp; &#8220;Fifty minutes is not enough time to feature the quintessence of a Chinese culture that has been running for 5,000 years,&#8220; Zhang said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Beijing Athletes Village opens doors for sneak preview</title>
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Female gymnasts will find apartments at the Athletes Village downright spacious. Male weightlifters, however, may seem a bit cramped.
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          <title>From pollution to food, USOC hopes for best, plans for anything in Beijing</title>
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One of the first times Steve Roush went to Beijing, he got off the plane, looked around and asked a local what time the milky fog that enshrouded the city normally lifts.&nbsp; &#8220;They told me, `That isn&#8217;t fog,&#8220;&#8216; said the U.S. Olympic Committee&#8217;s chief of sport performance, who has made 17 trips to Beijing since 2002 in preparation for the upcoming Olympics.
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          <title>Getting the air clear for Beijing Games will require a little help from Mother Nature</title>
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Beijing is hoping for some rain during August - the city&#8217;s hottest and most humid month - to clear the air. Officials are also counting on favorable winds to blow away the smog. August, however, usually isn&#8217;t windy.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics update</title>
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The world&#8217;s best skiers come to British Columbia this week.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a pre-Olympic test race, the only one they and Games organizers will get for the high-profile Alpine skiing event.           ]]></description>
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          <title>American athletes not expected to be agents of change at Beijing Olympics</title>
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U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth views American athletes as invited guests to the Beijing Olympics, not China&#8217;s would-be reformers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Beiing will not reschedule Summer Olymics marathon</title>
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Marathoners from around the world had complained that the late start to the race will force runners to compete in extreme heat and humidity.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Beijing unveils Olympic basketball venue</title>
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Construction workers completed the Beijing Olympic basketball gymnasium last month, and opened it to foreign press today.&nbsp; The 18,000 seat arena is alongside the olympic baseball site in the Wukesong culture and sports center.           ]]></description>
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Russia was awarded the games last year, with an ambitious plan to build almost all facilities from scratch at the Black Sea resort           ]]></description>
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The Asian and international handball federations have agreed to take their dispute over replays of Olympic qualifying matches to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an Asian federation official said Tuesday           ]]></description>
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Katie Hoff set her second American record in as many days yesterday when she and six-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps each cruised to a pair of victories at the Missouri Grand Prix.
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Philip Dunn of San Diego won the U.S. men&#8217;s 50-kilometer Olympic racewalking trials Saturday, moving closer to what would be his third trip to the Summer Games.           ]]></description>
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Mazeika, who coached the team that won the silver medal in Athens, was also the coach of last year&#8217;s world championship team, which finished fourth after a 13th-place finish the year before.           ]]></description>
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Birgit Fischer, a kayaker who won eight Olympic gold medals, will skip the Beijing Games because she hasn&#8217;t trained enough.           ]]></description>
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The former Olympic and world champion cited nagging injuries for his decision, making the announcement halfway around the globe           ]]></description>
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 Beijing has begun shutting down blast furnaces in the city&#8217;s biggest steel company to improve air quality. It is also expected to enact temporary traffic restrictions during the games to ease traffic and reduce vehicle exhaust.
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The capital&#8217;s only Kosher restaurant opened 10 months ago, drawing the small Jewish expatriate community, tourists, curious Chinese and even a few Muslims. Business has been so good at Dini&#8217;s Kosher Restaurant, that part-owner Lewis Sperber is talking about setting up a second branch closer to the Olympic venues in northern Beijing.           ]]></description>
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