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AUG 15, 2008
Table Tennis Legend Averts National Disaster
The Toronto Star
One cannot imagine the horror that beset Peking University Gymnasium in the midst of this improbability yesterday morning – the mighty Wang Liqin struggling to defeat an Australian named William Henzell. It will go down in Chinese history, we have determined after consultation with the finest translators in the business, as "a doozy."
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AUG 15, 2008
Taiwan in Shock After Loss to China
The Guardian
The game was so important that Taiwan's baseball chief had offered to resign if his team, officially named "Chinese Taipei" because of political sensitivities with China, lost. Other heads could roll as well, he said ahead of the Olympics.
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AUG 14, 2008
China Loves Its Soccer. Its Team? Don’t Ask.
The New York Times
In its quest for sports supremacy, China is placing its hopes for winning the medal count on a panoply of athletes honed to near perfection in sports like gymnastics, diving, rowing, table tennis and hurdling. It has shown its athletic prowess by climbing atop the medals table in the opening days of competition. The nation, though, demands much less of its men’s soccer team.
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AUG 14, 2008
Beijing Olympics Enjoys Majority Support in U.S.: Poll
Xinhua
The majority of Americans support China's hosting of the Olympics, and it is a consensus across party and ideological lines, a new poll has found. The survey, released by the Associated Press and survey agency Ipsos Wednesday, showed 55 percent of the respondents support the Beijing Olympics, while two-thirds of them said they are interested in it.
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AUG 14, 2008
A Cutting-Edge Olympics
The New York Times
The Olympic narrative is always about the human effort to excel in athletic competition, a story of grace and stamina under pressure. This year it is also about technology and how it is shaping both the athletes’ performance and the viewers’ experience.
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