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9th September 2007

Indian swimming event added as qualifier

The Senior National aquatics championship to be held in Panaji, Goa has been recognized as a qualifying event for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

It is the first time for an Indian aquatic event to be recognized as a qualifying event for the Olympics.

Unitl now only Virdhwal Khade has qualified for the Olympics in swimming in the 200 meters freestyle.

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Beijing Olympic radio through a cap

People attending the Olympic Games in Beijing will be able to get all of the latest event and weather information through a radio equipped cap.

People attending the Olympic Games would wear a cap to take shelter from summer sunlight anyway, if the cap happens to be a radio for the Olympic events, how can they refuse?” Xinhua quoted Xu Jun, director of the Olympic Radio of the China Radio International (CRI), as saying.

The broadcast will be available in Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and German.

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Torch route overcomes Taiwan political concerns

Taiwan has accepted the Beijing Organizing Committee’s torch route through Taiwan. The route was initially rejected not because of the path not because of the direction, but the way that Beijing said that Taiwan was the first “domestic” stopover for the torch.

China views Taiwan as a state of its country, while Taiwan generally see itself as an independent state.

“The two sides are only one step away from signing an agreement [on the torch route], but that step may be one step too far if side issues are raised,” Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Chen Ming-tong said.

Read more: Olympic torch relay route `acceptable,’ Premier Chang says

Nastia Liukin just misses out on gold

American gymnast, Nastia Liukin just missed out on a gold in the uneven bars at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Russian, Ksenia Semenova beat the American by just 0.05 points. Her father and coach Valeri questioned the score from an Australian judge who gave her 8.8 points while the other judges gave a score of 9.1.

“It’s cheating, and it’s been going on this whole competition,” Liukin said. “Even when she’d stick it, the scores were bad. So, I don’t know. There’s something going on. Everybody was pointing at her.”

American Alicia Sacramone, won a bronze for the vault.

Read more: Liukin Wins Silver in Uneven Bars

Australia disappointed with athletic results

Danny Corcoran, chief executive of Athletics Australia, was disappointed with the results of the Australian team at the recent athletics meet in Osaka. Jana Rawlinson in the 400m hurdles and Nathan Deakes in 50km walk both won gold medals, other medal hopes did not fair as well.

Medal hopes included: pole vaulters Steve Hooker, Paul Burgess and Kym Howe, long jumper Bronwyn Thompson, 1500m runner Sarah Jamieson, 400m runner John Steffensen and 5000m runner Craig Mottram all finished out of the medals.

“I think there was an enormous wake-up call for the sport”, said Danny Corcoran.

“We don’t want to have the same feelings walking away (from) the Beijing Olympics.

“Beijing will be the defining moment for a lot of athletes’ careers. We have to be a darn sight wiser there and this time they have to get the preparation right. The underlying sentiment is there won’t be second chances for a lot of them after Beijing.”

Read more: Last chance saloon for Olympics

Hu in invites Australian opposition leader to Olympics

China’s President Hu Jintao at the recent APEC meeting in Sydney, Australia invited the opposition and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) Kevin Rudd, to the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Rudd is one of the few Mandarin speakers from a western country in his level of position. Hu and Rudd spoke together for about 30 minutes in Mandarin.

8th September 2007

Bad luck for Yamazaki

Yuki Yamazaki from Japan who competed in the 50-kilometer walk in Osaka was mistakenly led into the stadium by an official. He still had 2 kilometers to complete.

Unfortunately for for Yamazaki he was listed as “not finished” for the race. He was coming in ninth place at the time and a finish in the top eight would have seen him clinch a spot in the Beijing Olympics.

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7th September 2007

Ryoko Tani (Tamura) - Women’s Judo

Born: September 6, 1975

Sport: Judo - Women’s - 48kg

Country: Japan

Ryoko Tani (mainden name Tamura) is a popular Judo champion in Japan who won her first Olympic medal (silver) at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 when she was just 16 years old.

She has won the International Women’s Judo Championships every year since 1990. She won gold medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Athens Olympics in 2004. She appears on television in Japan often and in 2003, she married Yoshitomo Tani a professional baseball player.

It is still uncertain if she will compete in the Beijing Olympics, but she will have the whole Japanese population hoping she will.

China’s police get in line for Olympics

Wanting to show a clean view of China to the world, the Chinese government is requesting it’s police force to shape up for the Olympic games. They could land themselves in trouble for spitting, smoking or eating in public.

“We will spare no effort to do a great job for the Games and beyond,” Beijing traffic officer Zeng Qinghui was quoted as saying by the official China Daily newspaper.

The government is also encouraging its citizens to refrain from spitting, littering and driving wrecklessly.

Read more: China Police to Shape Up for Olympics

Bush accepts Olympic invitation

United States President, George Bush has accepted Chinese President Hu Jintao’s invitation to attend the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

“He extended an invitation to me and Laura and our family to come to the Olympics and, of course, I was anxious to accept.” George Bush told reporters in a public statement.

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