BEIJING (AFP) - Yao Ming and many of China's other top athletes pledged "glory to the motherland" on Friday as the nation's biggest-ever Olympic team was unveiled for the Beijing Games.
At a ceremony in Beijing to unveil the squad of 639 athletes, basketball star Yao, reigning 110m Olympic champion Liu Xiang and dozens of others vowed in unison to do the nation of 1.3 billion...Read more
Hi again and welcome to my world as the Beijing Games get ever closer.Last weekend's World Cup race in Kitzbuehel in Austria was an important hit out in my build-up to the Games.If there's one part of this sport that I never get bored of having to deal wi..Read more
The smarts, grey matter, nous, the top four inches. However you or I want to refer to brains, I'm certain the team that uses their collective capacity to think the best is almost certain to win the first Bledisloe clash of the year.And putting bias and lo..Read more
Here's a question for you.How many of you look at sporting champions and wonder if they're using drugs to help them achieve their results?With the Olympics just around the corner I guarantee the thought will cross your mind even more.Drugs in sport is an..Read more
There is no mistaking the rapidly-increasing admiration club which is welcoming Robbie Deans with open arms into the Wallaby fold.And there is also no mistaking the size of the challenge that awaits the All Blacks when they land in Sydney late this week t..Read more
Position |
Country |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 35 | 39 | 29 | 103 |
| 2 | China | 32 | 17 | 14 | 63 |
| 3 | Russia | 27 | 27 | 38 | 92 |
| 4 | Australia | 17 | 16 | 16 | 49 |
| 24 | New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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