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SummaryThe 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony beginning at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginóbili , who helped lead Argentina to a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics, will need surgery to repair a ligament i
HONG KONG -- The Chinese gold-medal winning gymnast at the center of an Olympic age dispute isn't upset by the controversy.
SYDNEY, Australia -- Mistakes by his rivals helped American Michael Phelps win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, world record-breaking Austra
Olympic heptathlon runner-up Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine has received a lifetime ban after failing a doping test at the Beijing Games.
Usain Bolt will run the 4x100-metre relay in addition to the 100 metres at Friday's Weltklasse meet in Zurich, his first competition since winning thr
INDIANAPOLIS -- Tamika Whitmore scored 15 points and the Connecticut Sun raced out to a big early lead in an 84-58 victory over the Indiana Fever on T
When rower Krista Guloien led a contingent of 100 Canadian Olympians returning from Beijing down the escalator at Vancouver International Airport Mond
Angel di Maria has fired Argentina to its second Olympic football title in a row in a 1-0 victory over Nigeria.
Shirvani Muradov, taking the place of one of the world's most successful wrestlers over the last four years, has won the Olympic ...
Her Sept. 8 season opener will feature more than 150 U.S. Olympic winners
British number one Anne Keothavong gives Olympic champion Elena Dementieva a scare before bowing out 6-3 6-4 in the third round of the US Open.
Gold medalists Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin and Kobe Bryant, along with 150 other U.S. Olympic team members, will be on the ...
Record-setting Olympian Michael Phelps continues whirlwind of appearances
Zimbabwe's top Olympic swimmer is given a $100,000 dollar reward by the country's president, Robert Mugabe.
Sir Alex Ferguson is the favoured choice to coach a British football team at the 2012 Olympics, says Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe.
China hands Olympic torch to England during spectacular closing ceremony.
The 2008 Summer Olympics kick off today in China. The opening ceremony is at 8 a.m. ET. The Olympic torch relay will conclude at 11:30 a.m. ET when it
China parades the Olympic torch along its famous Great Wall through the morning mist, on the eve of the Beijing Games.