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Sir Clive Woodward: Beijing Olympic Games success is only the start

Great Britain must improve on its record gold-medal haul at the Beijing Games and create a world-class sports system that delivers success beyond 2012, the Government's funding agency for elite athletes said yesterday.
As the curtain comes down on the best Olympic performance by a British team for a century, the demands are already being made on sports administrators to cut dead wood and focus on genuine medal contenders at the London Games.

Heavy Lifting Over, China Is Rolling in Gold

But China, as it turns out, did not require the services of Liu or Yao to make this the country’s most successful Olympics.
With 47 gold medals through Friday night, China led the gold-medal count by 16 over the United States and by 39 over Michael Phelps.

Reuters

Argentina beats Nigeria for soccer gold

BEIJING (Reuters) - Argentina beat Nigeria 1-0 under a strength-sapping midday sun to take a second consecutive Olympic soccer gold on Saturday and avenge defeat by the Africans in the 1996 final.

The Independent

Daley through to final

Teenage diving sensation Tom Daley has promised he has more to come when he appears in his first individual Olympic final later today.
The Plymouth 14-year-old produced a performance of maturity in the 10metre platform to finish eighth in the morning semi to comfortably progress to the last 12.

US Hoops Shows How to Win Ugly

Argentina was the model. Ginboli, Scola, Oberto, Nocioni. NBA-caliber players, meshed together from the time they were toddlers, playing for national pride. In Athens in 2004, it was basketball that became the beautiful game for the Argentines, as they whipped passes no D could disrupt, and stroked threes with frightening ease. They flattened the U.S. with precision, and won gold. Maradona and Messi would be

Five-ring circus

China bristles at comparisons between the Beijing games and the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Yet its government-run news agency, Xinhua, could not resist a boastful comparison of its own when describing an auction of Olympic torches held in Beijing on August 15th. A Beijing Olympic torch (as used in a protest-plagued global relay before the games began)

Will the Olympics Boost China Human Rights?

As the Olympics enters its final weekend, China's leaders probably feel they deserve gold medals of their own. The country has certainly had its fair share of problems. Terrorists took advantage of the global spotlight on China to launch deadly attacks (BusinessWeek.com, 8/4/08) in the western part of the country.

Baseball: U.S. Finds Enough for Bronze (Updated)

The Americans bounced back 15 hours after a demoralizing 10-2 semifinal loss to defending champion Cuba, finding an answer on offense each time Japan took a lead. Brett Anderson pitched eight solid innings for the U.S. (6-3), manager Davey Johnson's roster of top minor leaguers and one college standout in pitcher Stephen Strasburg of San Diego State.