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'It's not a big deal to me,' Callahan said. 'It's a non-factor in my performance. To me it's just a stat. I still wanted to compete at the highest level regardless of age.'
06:56 Aug 13, 2008
For example, Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting millions of Chinese by posing for a pre-Games advertisement by making slit-eyed gestures. *
16:32 Aug 12, 2008
'Twenty years ago, I lived in Beijing. Back then, it was a city where you would ride your bicycle to the local produce market and pick up vegetables for dinner that night.
16:15 Aug 12, 2008
All right, Al, we thank you. In a few minutes we'll have more of the women's team qualifying from Sunday afternoon here in Beijing.
14:23 Aug 11, 2008
NBC, get your head out of your rear end and smell the roses - theres a big, wide world out there and you need it more than it needs you.
16:39 Aug 10, 2008
I know that the day before yesterday, you attended the inauguration of the U.S. embassy in China, and the new Chinese embassy in the United States was inaugurated at the end of July.
10:46 Aug 10, 2008
This is the fourth Olympic Games opening ceremony that I have had the opportunity to watch since moving to Folsom, California in 1996.
14:47 Aug 9, 2008
As the 2008 Olympic Games are beginning in Beijing today, Olympic athletes are being asked to adopt China's prisoners of conscience.
17:50 Aug 8, 2008
To achieve that almost impossible goal they have taken the draconian measure of practically banning driving in the vicinity of Beijing.
17:29 Aug 6, 2008
The wave of mainly peaceful protests against Chinese government sweeping Tibet is a result of more than 50 years of Communist misrule. Beijing's Tibet policy is broken at a time when China seeks to convey an image of harmony.
23:44 Aug 4, 2008
China has always been a problematic partner for the United States. Where does the incumbent cabinet stand? The problem is that neither President George W. Bush nor his secretaries can answer this question.
12:08 Aug 4, 2008
The campaigners are asking national Olympic teams to each adopt a Chinese prisoner of conscience or human rights defender and find an appropriate way to express their support.
07:36 Aug 3, 2008
In the clinic at the Olympic Village, some 100,000 high quality condoms are available for distribution along with information on HIV prevention and anti-discrimination in English, French and Chinese.
11:41 Aug 2, 2008
'To speak of human rights is not politics; only authoritarian and totalitarian regimes try to make it so. To speak of human rights is a duty.'
12:46 Aug 1, 2008
The UNDP is providing four electric buses for use during the Games, which will be part of a fleet of 50 that will ferry athletes between the Olympic Village and the sports venues.
07:11 Aug 1, 2008
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