Saturday, May 31, 2008
Spider menace
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saving earth
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olympic free press
Hong Kong media strut independence with Olympic coverage
This does not seem to have abated in this special administrative region of China even as anger grows across the country over what is seen as unfair criticism in the Western media, and as the mainland press pumps out glowing, patriotic reports of the Olympic efforts.
Although local television spent hours with live broadcasts of the torch relay on Friday, not all media played along. That morning, local newsstands were covered with photos of a local bus crash, not the Olympics. The government-linked China Daily was alone in running with a shot of marching Chinese troops, and a several-page-long photo essay with headlines like "Keep Olympic Joy Flowing."
HONG KONG: The place where the Chinese concept "one country, two systems" is most obviously played out in Hong Kong is in its boisterous media. Daily papers and local TV reports here regularly carry photos and reports that would be banned on the mainland.
olympic surgery
clipped from news.yahoo.com
Hamm's recovery designed with medals in mind
Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm's recovery from hand surgery is being accelerated so he'll be able to contend for a medal at the Beijing Games.
"I'm not getting him ready just to go," Dr. Lawrence Lubbers said Wednesday. "I want to see a medal. And I want it around his neck."
Lubbers repaired the broken fourth metacarpal in Hamm's right hand Tuesday, inserting a thin plate and nine screws to return the bone to its original alignment. The surgery at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, went "very well," Lubbers said, and the gymnast could be doing resistance exercises within a week.
mali dreams
Keita looks to kick-start Mali's Olympic dream
In the early 1960s, Taekwondo Master Kim Young Tae travelled to Ivory Coast to bring the Korean martial art to Western Africa; at the end of the 1960s, one of his students took it upon himself to spread the word in neighbouring Mali. Forty years later, taekwondo is the most popular sport in that country, and Daba Modibo Keita has a realistic chance of winning Mali's first-ever Olympic medal in Beijing this summer.
Hopes of a nation
With over 150 clubs and 500 black belts among 15,000 exponents, taekwondo's popularity has taken on phenomenal proportions in a country that is Africa's seventh largest but one of the world's poorest. Keita knows he carries the hopes of a nation into the Olympic arena, but breaking new ground for his country should hold few fears for him as last year, despite a torn back muscle, he became Mali's first ever world champion.
lenovo torch
clipped from 40.gmodules.comLenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch
Since its inception in 1936, the olympic torch has come to represent the history and culture of its host country and city.
The Lenovo-designed Olympic torch follows this tradition with a torch that represents the universal spirit of the Olympic games, while drawing on traditional Chinese symbols and concepts.
Olympic swim
clipped from blogs.mercurynews.comCalifornia swimmer earns Olympic spot
Two-time U.S. champion Chloe Sutton of Roseville won the 10K Olympic open water test event in Beijing on Saturday to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
"On the final lap, I knew I was ahead of the pack," Sutton told USA Swimming. "I just tried to keep going fast. I sprinted the whole way at the end."
Sutton, 16, will join Mark Warkentin of Santa Barbara as America's open water swimmers. She currently trains with Bill Rose at the Mission Viejo Nadadores.
Posted by Elliott Almond on May 31st, 2008 Categorized as Uncategorized
