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Real Madrid forward Robinho is reported to be close to completing his desired transfer to English Premier League club Chelsea.
26/08/2008
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China unveiled an extravagant farewell to the Olympics and David Beckham, the world's most famous footballer, said hello by kicking a ball to start the countdown to London 2012.
25/08/2008
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Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele outsprinted his rivals with a stunning last lap to win the 5,000 metres and become the first man to complete the Olympic long-distance double since 1980.
24/08/2008
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The world's fastest man Usain Bolt collected his third Olympic gold medal when he helped Jamaica smash the world record to win the men's 4x100 metres relay final.
23/08/2008
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American LaShawn Merritt obliterated the field including his compatriot the defending champion Jeremy Wariner to win the Olympic men's 400 metres title by the widest margin since 1896.
22/08/2008
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Jamaica has made a clean sweep of Olympic sprint golds with victory in the women's 200 metres shutting out athletics giant the United States.
22/08/2008
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Revazi Mindorashvili of Georgia has won the Olympic freestyle wrestling 84kg championship after defeating the Russian gold medal favourite in an emotional semi-final match and then coming from behind in the final.
21/08/2008
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The second sample from Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska, who has been provisionally suspended from the Beijing Games, has tested positive for steroids.
21/08/2008
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Rashid Ramzi has become the Olympic champion in the mens 1,500 metres amd in doing so gave Bahrain its first ever Olympic track and field gold medal.
20/08/2008
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Germany's Jan Frodeno, who took up triathlon in improve his romantic prospects, won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s triathlon after a dramatic sprint to the finish.
19/08/2008
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Shelly-Ann Fraser surged to Jamaica's first Olympic women's 100 metres gold medal on Sunday and led compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart to the event's first national podium sweep.
18/08/2008
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt scorched to Olympic 100 metres gold, opening his arms wide in celebration 20 metres from the line before clocking a world record 9.69 seconds.
17/08/2008
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Poland's Tomasz Majewski pulled off a major surprise when he won the Olympic gold medal in the men's shot put with a throw of 21.51 metres.
16/08/2008
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Ethiopia's world champion Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time to win the first track gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.
16/08/2008
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Tuvshinbayar Naidan has clinched Mongolia's first Olympic gold, defeating Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan in the final of the men's 100-kg judo competition.
15/08/2008
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