6 hours ago by illwill30

While different cities have different tastes, America as a whole generally shows favor to professional sports and college events over say a track and field race or a Bobsled event. In New York, we care more about Baseball Hot Stove and the health of Sanchez’s knee than (insert random Olympic Figure ...

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18 hours ago by Greg Forbes

I recently read a letter in the People’s Daily from what is supposed to be an ordinary Chinese citizen. The writer points out the dilemma for both China and the US at Copenhagen. To pass a climate treaty, one of the two countries will have to sacrifice significantly and leave Copenhagen unhappy. The ...

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1 day ago by Jing Daily

Top Chinese Sportswear Maker Set To Open First US Store Next Month; Will Partnership With Ziba Help Brand Compete With Nike And Adidas? Shaquille O'Neal signed a sponsorship deal with Li Ning in 2006 Li Ning, the sportswear brand founded by one of China’s most famous athletes, has set out to become ...

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1 day ago by Shawn Douglas

A Chilean Olympic weightlifter who didn’t know she was pregnant gave birth to a baby boy while training. Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete, 22, was training at a gym in São Paulo on December 8 in an effort to move up from the 75 kilogram weight class to the 85 kilogram weight class. Pob ...

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2 days ago by Paul Oberjuerge

From the other side of the world, it looks as if the Dodgers and Angels are sort of melting away. The Angels let free agents Chone Figgins (Seattle) and John Lackey (Boston) join key rivals. The Dodgers have allowed Randy Wolf and Orlando Hudson to walk. But the Dodgers did something right today. Ad ...

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2 days ago by Jing Daily

Zhang Joins Other 2010-2011 Mentors, Choreographer Trisha Brown, Record Producer Brian Eno, Writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Artist Anish Kapoor And Stage Director Peter Sellars Zhang Yimou (Photo © Henning Harms) Zhang Yimou, arguably China’s top filmmaker, has been named as one of an elite group o ...

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3 days ago by Alex Bhaswara

At the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, the German IAAF Member Federation, DLV, in cooperation with the IAAF is carrying out a major Biomechanics Project. The project presented the reaction times and splits for all the finalists from the 100 metersemifinals and the final at the 2009 IAAF World Ch ...

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3 days ago by wtdevflnt

Look at my comments below about the odd logo for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Well, they have topped it, look at this creepy logo for the Worlds fair in Shanghai in 2010. YOu know how in Chinese each character is a word, well if this were a word, it would be vomit… something like [...]

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3 days ago by wtdevflnt

You remember that Chinese Olympic logo from 2008, it was odd. I you don’t, then here it is… Yeah it is quite odd, the design seems like an afterthought, like a child’s rendering of his parents. Anyway. I had this feeling that I had seen this image elsewhere. I knew I didn’t like the Olympic logo, lo ...

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8 days ago by Hector Castro

Blue Chip prospect Ben Askren signs with Bellator Fighting Championship. Askren is a U.S. Olympian who competed in the 2008 Beijing Games in freestyle wrestling. While wrestling at the collegiate level at the University of Missouri, Askren won two NCAA Division I titles. Since announcing his plans t ...

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