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Gold in basketball is especially important to American sports fans because they consider basketball a U.S. iconic game, along with baseball and American football.
03:59 Apr 24, 2008 PST
Dr. Rogge noted that 'by choosing to award the Games to China in July 2001, one fifth of humanity would be hosting the world's biggest sporting event.'
12:49 Apr 23, 2008 PST
The U.S. Shooting Team earned two medals April 15 at the 'Good Luck Beijing' 2008 International Sport Shooting Federation World Cup, which is the test event for the 2008 Olympic Games.
15:56 Apr 19, 2008 PST
The IOC is scheduled to announce a short list of city-candidates in June and name the 2016 host city in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2009.
10:15 Apr 19, 2008 PST
The summer games index consists of all 37 of the publicly traded companies that have signed on as official Olympic sponsors or partners.
07:58 Apr 17, 2008 PST
I've represented the United States in competitions for many years. But now, to represent the United States as an envoy - it's incredible.
06:47 Apr 17, 2008 PST
Janet Evans is a true legend in women's sports. Considered the greatest female distance swimmer of all time despite her small size, she is a four-time Olympic gold medalist.
06:31 Apr 15, 2008 PST
Is there anybody out there who seriously thinks the Chinese will sit down and talk to the spiritual leader they have called 'evil', and who THEY are trying to demonise in international opinion?
19:03 Apr 13, 2008 PST
Make no mistake about it, in 20, or even 10 years from now, China will be the world's undisputed economic and military power. Will China be a benevolent or a malevolent empire?
17:02 Apr 13, 2008 PST
Olympic Watch welcomed the comments made by IOC president Jacques Rogge in Beijing today as 'an important step in the right direction' but said more was needed.
18:04 Apr 10, 2008 PST
Speakers at San Francisco vigil will call on the International Olympic Committee and the Chinese government to cancel plans to take the Olympic Torch through Tibet.
16:34 Apr 8, 2008 PST
Desmond Tutu, actor and activist Richard Gere join thousands of Tibetan-Americans and Tibet supporters for a peace rally and candle-lit vigil for Tibet in United Nations Plaza, San Francisco on April 8, 2008,
15:55 Apr 8, 2008 PST
30 monks in Tibet's most sacred temple, the Jokhang, spoke to foreign press about the crackdown in Tibet's capital and the 'lies' of the Communist Party were captured on film.
10:32 Apr 3, 2008 PST
Group Members and Other Activists to Rally inWashington, DC on February 11 Calling on President Bush to UrgeChina to Advance Human Rights
22:03 Feb 11, 2008 PST
Every athlete's dream is to make the Olympic team. My identical twin, Nikos, and I had that dream. For me, I dreamt the Olympic dream deferred.
08:24 Mar 17, 2007 PST
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