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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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Dhaka, Aug 15 (bdnews24.com) - The Bangladesh national cricket team reached Darwin Friday morning on a three-week tour of Australia to play three one-day internationals and five practice matches against the world champions. On reaching, the Tigers went swimming in the hotel pool to relax after the long journey from Bangladesh to Darwin via Hong Kong and Sydney, according to a Bangladesh Cricket Board message received here. |
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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Dhaka, Aug 15 (bdnews24.com) - Swimmer Dolly Akther slightly bettered her time in the international meet when she clocked 30.23 seconds to finish 73rd among 90 competitors in the 50m freestyle heat in the Beijing Olympics Friday. Dolly took part in the Heat 4 along with eight competitors to finish last at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Blackburn say they have rejected an undisclosed bid from Manchester City for striker Roque Santa Cruz, reports BBC. The 26-year-old Paraguay international scored 23 goals last season and has also been linked with Manchester United and Arsenal. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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AFP, MADRID - Brazil international Robinho is determined to join English Premiership side Chelsea but Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon does not want to let him go, Spanish media reported Thursday. The 24-year-old, accompanied by his agent Wagner Ribeiro, met with Calderon on Wednesday to express his desire to join Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari at Chelsea, sports dailies AS and Marca reported. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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City snubbed as they look to land striker Sky Sports Blackburn have rejected a bid from Manchester City for striker Roque Santa Cruz. The Paraguay international was brought to Ewood Park by Mark Hughes last summer, with the Welshman now at the helm of Rovers' North West rivals. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Top seed Roger Federer was knocked out of the tennis men's singles at the Olympics on Thursday, losing 6-4 7-6 to American James Blake. The Swiss produced an error-strewn display after a long rain delay and was outplayed by Blake. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke. France's Alain Bernard won swimming's blue riband event, the men's 100 freestyle, by a whisker from Australia's Eamon Sullivan in a thrilling race, after trailing at the half-way stage. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Gymnast Yang Wei wiped away eight years of frustration to become only the second Chinese man to capture the all-around title at the Olympics on Thursday. After claiming a silver medal in 2000 and drawing a blank in Athens four years later, Yang finally lived up to his reputation of being the greatest gymnast of his generation when he scooped the gold medal with a total of 94.575. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Frenchman Alain Bernard completed his remarkable rise from obscurity when he took the Beijing Olympics 100 metres freestyle gold medal on Thursday, overcoming nerves that left his legs shaking on the starting blocks. Little over a year ago, few outside of swimming's most informed had heard of Bernard, who had switched to freestyle after failing to make the grade in backstroke and medley. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - World 10,000-metre champion Tirunesh Dibaba says she expects to run both the 10,000 and 5,000m events in Beijing, hoping to become the first woman to scoop the Olympic distance double. In 2005 Dibaba became the first woman to win both races at a world championships when she led an Ethiopian podium sweep in both events in Helsinki. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Veronique Girardet of France overcame more than rain in Thursday's Olympic skeet shooting. The former world champion from Saint-Laurent-du-Var, blinded in one eye by cancer from the age of 2, was competing in her first Olympics—at the age of 42. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - United States prodigy Freddy Adu, a player forced to live with the huge expectations created for him in his early teens, sparkled for two soccer games at the Olympics but left before he could make a real impact Adu, who is still only 19 but seems to have been around for years, picked up yellow cards in his first two games and had to watch helplessly as his team mates lost 2-1 to Nigeria on Wednesday and were eliminated. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Taiwan baseball infielder Chang Tai-shan has been suspended after testing positive for a banned substance and sat out his team's opening Olympic win over the Netherlands on Wednesday. The International Amateur Baseball Federation (IBAF) said it had been advised of Chang's failed test and had suspended him pending the results from his B sample. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Liu Chunhong won the Olympic weightlifting gold medal in the women's 63kg class on Wednesday, smashing several world records to defend China's supremacy in a spectacular showdown with Russia's Oxana Slivenko. Liu set a world record in the snatch with 125kg, then broke that record with her next lift, snatching 128kg. Her 158kg lift in the clean and jerk and her combined total of 286kg were also world records. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Athletics finally joins the Olympic party on Friday and wastes little time getting to the most eagerly-awaited event of the Games with the 100 metres final on Saturday. World record holder Usain Bolt, Jamaican compatriot Asafa Powell and world champion Tyson Gay, all sub-9.8 second runners, are heading for possibly the greatest 100 metres final and one that should thrust athletics spectacularly back into the spotlight. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Bernard Lagat will fulfil a pledge he made to his mother and give the United States a golden payback if he wins the Olympic 1,500 metres for his adopted country. The Kenyan-born 33-year-old finished second behind Hicham El Guerrouj in Athens four years ago and received comforting words from his mum. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - China upstaged a hobbling United States team to surge to their first gymnastics women's team title at the Olympics on Wednesday. A dramatic fall by Cheng Fei from the balance beam did not stop China from eclipsing the world champions by 2.375 points, while 2004 champions Romania settled for bronze. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Sean Maguire BEIJING, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - American swimmer Michael Phelps became the most successful Olympian of all time by winning two more Beijing gold medals on Wednesday to take his career tally to an unprecedented 11 victories. The mighty Phelps overtook an elite group including Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis who had won nine golds by breaking his own world record in the men's 200 meter butterfly. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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AFP, PARIS - Dimitar Berbatov's long-anticipated move from Tottenham to Manchester United could be completed in time for the Bulgarian striker to make his debut for the English champions on Saturday. Reports in the British press on Wednesday suggest Spurs have finally agreed to sell their prize forward after United tabled a significantly improved offer now said to be in the region of 28 million pounds. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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John Terry believes Manchester United have reached their peak and Chelsea can regain the Premier League trophy, reports BBC. United were European and domestic champions last term, with Chelsea runners-up, but the Blues' captain believes his side can raise their game. |
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