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London weather may help Rupp's allergies (AP)
Olympics - 12 hours 41 min ago
World champion Kirani James of Grenada ran the fastest time this year to win the men's 400 meters Saturday at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. James had a time of 45.96 seconds to edge out America's Josh Scott with 46.54 and Renny Quow of Trinidad with 46.70. Maggie Vessey of the United States outstretched countrywoman Erica Moore at the tape to win the women's 800 meters by four...
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Orozco adds Winter Cup title to resume (AP)
Olympics - 20 hours 13 min ago
If anyone needed a change of luck in Vegas, John Orozco was the man. The three-time junior national champion, a victim of illness and injuries every time the schedule brings him to this small arena just off the Strip, won the Winter Cup Challenge on Saturday night, one of the first key tuneups on the road to the London Olympics.
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US marathoner Hall runs less, rests more (AP)
Olympics - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 4:39pm
When Ryan Hall was starting out as a distance runner, he thought training better meant running more. "I always felt, `That's kind of the American way, right?' You feel like if you're taking time off you didn't really earn it," he said on Thursday. "But if you come out of a rested state, you perform better." Now that he's had some success -- including an...
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Torch to travel from Greece in style (AP)
Olympics - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:31pm
Have flame, will travel. London organizers revealed the first details Wednesday of the Olympic flame's trip from Greece to Britain for the 2012 London Games, offering a brief outline of the start of its journey from ruins of the site of the ancient games to a military base in Britain. The release of the details moves organizers another step closer to the games that begin July 27 and end Aug.
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Brazil wants Jesus statue in London park (AP)
Olympics - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 10:22am
Memo to Brazil: That idea of putting up a giant Jesus statue in a London park to promote the 2016 Olympic Games is not going over well. Brazil's tourist board has floated the notion of erecting a 30-foot (9-meter) replica of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue -- a symbol of peace and a well-known landmark of the city -- on Primrose Hill.
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Cuba's Robles rips training conditions (AP)
Olympics - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 6:13pm
Cuba's best-known Olympic athlete, Dayron Robles, complained Tuesday about terrible training conditions as he prepares to defend his gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles this summer in London. "The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well," Robles said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Regretful Hamm set for comeback meet (AP)
Olympics - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 3:58pm
Paul Hamm wants to be remembered as a great Olympic champion, not the guy in the YouTube video. More than six months after his embarrassing arrest on assault and two other misdemeanor charges, Hamm spoke out Tuesday, saying he regretted what happened and hoped to regain his reputation. His contrite statement came during a conference call with reporters two days before he competes at the Winter Cup...
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Denmark handball wins Olympic berth (AP)
Olympics - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:21am
Mikkel Hansen scored nine goals Sunday to help Denmark win the European handball championship with a 21-19 victory over Serbia. The victory before roughly 20,000 fans at the Belgrade Arena also secured Denmark at spot at this year's London Olympics. The 2008 champions set the pace from the start, scoring first and never trailing throughout the match.
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28 implicated in German doping scandal (AP)
Olympics - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 1:21pm
Germany's national anti-doping agency will investigate 28 athletes to see whether they received blood transfusions from a doctor at the center of a doping scandal. NADA said Monday it will review the court documents from an ongoing case against Dr. Andreas Franke, who worked at a training center run by the German Olympic Sports Confederation for top-level athletes in Erfurt, central Germany.
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East London transformed for Games (AP)
Olympics - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 8:58am
It was called "outcast London" for its squalid slums in Victorian times, has the dubious reputation as the haunt of Jack the Ripper, and one of Britain's most polluted rivers runs through its long-derelict shipyards and warehouses. It's no wonder that for a long time, east London has been all but ignored by tourists who stick to the West End, the home of blockbuster musicals,...
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Shigetomo wins Osaka women's marathon (AP)
Olympics - Sun, 01/29/2012 - 1:57am
Japan's Risa Shigetomo boosted her chances of going to the London Olympics by winning the Osaka International Women's Marathon on Sunday. Shigetomo pulled away at about the 16-mike mark and crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 23 seconds for her first marathon victory. Ukrainian Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko was second, 1:23 behind, while Japan's Azusa Nojiri was third in...
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Lagat plans to run through 2013 worlds (AP)
Olympics - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:09pm
Every time Lolo Jones cried because she could barely walk, every time she dragged herself to two or three workouts a day. "It was all worth it," the American hurdler said Saturday night after winning in her first race since spine surgery. Jones beat a deep field in the 50-meter hurdles in the U.S.
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Chicherova beats Hellebaut in high jump (AP)
Olympics - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:56pm
World champion Anna Chicherova cleared 6 feet, 6 3/4 inches to beat Olympic champion Tia Hellebaut and win the Golden High Jump on Saturday. In Hellebaut's return to top competition after the birth of her second child, she soared over 6-4 3/4, the Olympic qualifying height. She failed three times at 6-6, giving victory in the battle of high jump mothers to the Russian champion.
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Lee to coach US badminton team in London (AP)
Olympics - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 2:09pm
Ben Lee, a 1992 Olympian, will coach the U.S. badminton team in London this summer. USA Badminton announced the move Friday. The Olympic badminton competition is scheduled from July 28 to Aug. 5 at Wembley Arena in London. Lee was the captain of the 1992 U.S. team in Barcelona, the first Olympics in which badminton was a contested sport.
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Media given hints about opening ceremony (AP)
Olympics - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 1:26pm
There's a nod to Shakespeare, a big bell and ... nurses? Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle offered a sneak peek of his vision for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, revealing Friday that he'll ring a massive bell to start festivities that will include thousands of performers and offer a tribute to a British institution, the National Health Service.
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Who will light Olympic cauldron? (AP)
Olympics - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 4:04am
It's the burning question of the London Olympics. Who will -- or should -- light the cauldron for the 2012 Games? With six months to go until the opening ceremony, British bookmakers are taking floods of bets on the issue, while fans, athletes, media and the public at large are speculating on who will get the honor.
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Host British feel pressure to win medals (AP)
Olympics - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 4:04am
With six months until Britain hosts the Olympics for the first time in 64 years, the pressure is cranking up on the athletes expected to deliver a gold rush on home soil. "The gravity and weight of a home Olympics ... it's terrifying and exciting at the same time," Olympic sprint cycling champion Victoria Pendleton said on Thursday.
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London's unemployed seek Olympic jobs (AP)
Olympics - Thu, 01/26/2012 - 12:33pm
The pay isn't great, the job is temporary and you could be a target for terrorists. But when Mabel Cross heard that she might be able to work at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she rushed to get to a London recruitment center early. Immaculate in a navy suit and pink shirt, Cross painstakingly filled out forms Thursday in hopes she could be part of a vast new Olympic workforce.
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Phelps has competition for Olympic buzz (AP)
Olympics - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 3:55pm
Michael Phelps. Missy Franklin. Jordyn Wieber. Ryan Lochte. Any of those athletes could be the defining face of the U.S. Olympic team in the run-up to the London Games. So far, though, none stands alone as "The One To Watch" -- at least not according to people who make a living out of watching the Olympics.
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Charlotte training ground for Olympics (AP)
Olympics - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 2:34pm
For some Olympic hopefuls like American breaststroker Kevin Swander, the road to the 2012 London Games runs through Charlotte. Athletes from around the world will compete in Charlotte this spring in three Olympic sports -- the modern pentathlon, canoe slalom and swimming at various sites. The events serve as precursors and, in some cases, qualifiers for the 2012 Olympics.
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