China wins eighth and ninth diving medals
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The Olympic diving competition came to a close Saturday night with the men&#39;s 10-meter platform final, and China increased its medal take to nine with a gold and bronze medal.
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Hu Jia, Sydney silver medallist from China, was crowned in the men&#39;s 10m platform final here on Saturday, finishing the competition with 748.
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With her third-place finish Thursday night in women&#39;s 3-meter springboard diving, Yulia Pakhalina now has a matched set of Olympic medals - one gold, one silver, one bronze â-o show for trips to Sydney and Athens.
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China&#39;s Wang Xu captured gold in the 72-kilogram category, defeating Russian Gouzel Maniourova in the final Monday. Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan took the bronze.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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American swimmer Michael Phelps won an  Olympic record-equaling eighth medal at the Athens Games when  the U.S. team took gold in the men's 4x100 meters medley relay  Saturday.
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Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe beat  arch-rival Michael Phelps in the men's 200-meter freestyle on  Monday as the United States trailed China, Australia and Japan  in the medals table on day three of the Olympic Games.
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Chinese Hercules Liu Chunhong of China lifted three world records on her way to winning the women&#39;s 69kg category gold medal at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday.
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wins gold in the 3 metre women&#39;s springboard at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 26, 2004. Guo won the women&#39;s 3m springboard diving gold medal, her compatriot Wu Minxia (L) took
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Chinese second seeds Wang Nan and Zhang Yining have defeated South Korean third seeds Lee Eun Sil and Seok Eun Mi to win the Olympic women&#39;s doubles table tennis gold medal.
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Floods and typhoons in China this year have killed at least 800 people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, state media and government officials said Wednesday.
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Chantelle Newbery became the first  Australian to win the Olympic women's platform diving title  with a clearcut victory in the final on Sunday.
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Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 8 Feb.
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TWENTY years after China won their only women&#39;s volleyball gold, the team did it again today, winning a hard-fought battle with Russia today.
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ATHENS The remarkable Chinese surge up the Olympic medal table spread to the track Friday as Liu Xiang won the men&#39;s 110 meter hurdles and Xing Huina won the women&#39;s 10,000 meters.
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China embraced its first volleyball Olympic title in 20 years, beating Russia 3-2 in the women&#39;s final in Athens on Saturday. After trailing two sets down, China came from behind to trounce Russia 28-30, 25-27, 25-20, 25-23 and 15-12 to claim the title.
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Hungary extended its dominance of Olympic water polo yesterday, winning an eighth gold medal after rallying to beat Serbia-Montenegro, 8-7, in the final.