Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Officials from the International Gymnastics Federation have ruled that China's gold medal gymnasts were old enough to compete in the Beijing Olympics but two members from the Chinese squad that competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics — Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun — remain under scrutiny.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The dreadlocked free-spirt of the Dodgers’ Manny Ramirez is one side of baseball in Los Angeles and the clean-shaven, clean-cut Mark Teixeira of the Angels is the other.
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Wireless value-added service provider KongZhong (Nasdaq: KONG) currently sends 30,000 news items to handsets daily and has recorded 500,000 users submitting comments per day, reports Hexun quoting company vice president Li Yang. KongZhong exceeded 1 million peak concurrent users for its mobile broadcasts...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) “Beijing is a lucky place for Indian athletes” - is what Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Abhinav Bindra, who got the only individual gold India has won in the Olympics so far, when he met the ace shooter Monday night. Addressing a gathering of diplomats, experts and journalists [...]
Guide Bulgaria (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Bulgaria`s tennis phenomenon Grigor Dimitrov reached the US Open junior final. In the semi finals he defeated first-seeded Tsung-Hua Yang 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The match was played at the Sound Shore Indoor Tennis Center, because of the stormy weather in New York...
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
That’s the Giants’ Nate Schierholz — born in Reno but schooled in baseball at San Ramon Valley High and at Chabot College in Hayward — kicking the ass of China’s catcher Yang Yang in yesterday’s Olympics win by the US team over China. Schierholtz has labored all year in the minor leagues — though he’s [...]
Wisdom Weasel (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Crazy Bela is up in arms about the Olympics gymnastics scoring. Go tell it to Yang Tae Young, Bela. And ask Paul Hamm to give back his stolen gold medal from Athens. Meanwhile, I am stunned by the performance of Team GB, stunned and delighted. They must have prepared for the Beijing smog and the mass of humanity by going to smoky restaurants and on British public transport (Bam, those are for
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
THIS IS the last round up for baseball at the Summer Games. Something about the game's leisurely pace, or the failure to attract major league stars has condemned the sport as a space hog and ratings failure among the people who matter, large American TV companies.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The picture made the rounds in the Giants' clubhouse before Monday's game. Players and coaches took turns staring at the computer-screen image of Nate Schierholtz taking out China catcher Yang Yang at the Beijing Olympics. Bodies colliding, helmets flying,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The picture made the rounds in the Giants' clubhouse before Monday's game. Players and coaches took turns staring at the computer-screen image of Nate Schierholtz taking out China catcher Yang Yang at the Beijing Olympics. Bodies colliding, helmets flying,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The success of He Kexin and Yang Yilin in the final of the uneven bars apparatus has stirred up controversy over whether either is old enough for international competition
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Yordan Yovchev, Bulgaria's best gymnast and medal hopeful in the Beijing rings final ranked eight Monday with a score of 15,525 points. Yovchev started his routine well, but made two mistakes, which led to a lower than expected score. Chen Yibing from China won the gold with 16.600 points, Yang W...
KABOBfest (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
This has been talked about to death in some circles, I know - fortunately this isn't one of them. As the Beijing Olympics roll on and the Michael Phelpses and Nastia Liukins (or the Cheng Feis and Yang Weis, if you prefer) win medal after medal, it's almost too easy to forget those left out of the Olympics. No, I'm not talking about the North Korean women's artistic gymnastics team; although MENA countries...
Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover. Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
BEIJING -- China's Yu Yang and He Hanbin have won the bronze medal in mixed doubles badminton at the Olympics, defeating Indonesia's Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa.
