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Taking a hit: US Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps reacts after hitting his knee on the table during a press conference at the 3rd Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.

Phelps suspended over pipe photo

USA Swimming have suspended Michael Phelps for three months following the publication of a picture apparently showing the multi-Olympic champion using illegal drugs.
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Inside Olympics

Boris promises free hand-held TVs for Olympics

Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Hand-held electronic devices that would show action replays and give live updates would be given to every spectator at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the London Mayor Boris Johnson suggested yesterday.
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Derek Malone takes a shot at goal in the Seven-A-Side Football match between Ireland and Iran in Beijing on Monday.

Irish paralympic hero 'is not disabled enough' to play

Friday, 12 September 2008

Ireland's Derek Malone has been excluded from the Paralympic Games seven-a-side football tournament after a ruling by the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association.
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Boxer Paddy Barnes

Dominic Walsh: Invest in our athletes

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

The spectacular Beijing Olympics has further inspired Dominic Walsh, chair of Sport Northern Ireland, as he strives for more Government funding for local athletes and a better sporting infrastructure, including a stadium
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Wendy Houvenaghel greets the crowds  Upperlands

Olympic hero Wendy rides into town on open top bus

Thursday, 4 September 2008

Former Olympic gold medal winner Dame Mary Peters joined hundreds of well wishers who packed into a Co Londonderry village last night to welcome home Beijing medal winner Wendy Houvenaghel.
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Olympic organisers are planning something special for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2012

Revealed: London's plan to top Beijing

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Olympic organisers are considering holding the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Games across the whole of the capital rather than just in the main Olympic Stadium, the Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, has revealed.
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Paddy Barnes was not awarded a single point in his semi-final bout against China's Zou Shiming

Jack Magowan: Olympic scoring system was an insult to boxing

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Let's not beat about the bush. Any scoring system that says an Olympic semi-finalist failed to land a single punch in four frenetic rounds is not only an insult to boxing fair-play, but dumb, idiotic and seriously flawed. And refereeing standards in Beijing weren't much better.
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Scottish Olympic stars get a heroes’ welcome

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Olympic hero Chris Hoy made a triumphant return to his home city this morning, joining his fellow Scottish Beijing stars for an official reception at Edinburgh Castle.
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Former World champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Barry McGuigan believes the time is right for the Belfast light-flyweight to leave the amateur vest behind and join the paid ranks.

Barnes can be a top pro says Barry McGuigan

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Paddy Barnes returned home to Belfast yesterday an Olympic hero following his Beijing adventure.
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Triumphant homecoming for North Belfast Olympic Bronze Medallist Paddy Barnes with his mum Ellen as thousands welcomed the twenty-one year old hero home following an open top bus tour around the area. He was one of Ireland's three Olympic boxing medallists at Beijing.

Olympic medallist Paddy overwhelmed by Belfast reception

Thursday, 28 August 2008

It was clear from the moment Paddy Barnes made it into the Irish Olympic squad over a year ago he was going to be considered a hero in north Belfast
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After Olympic bronze Barnes targets Euros

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Paddy Barnes will return home today proudly showing off his bronze medal from the Olympics and with his sights on more success.
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Double Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Rebecca Adlington smiles as she is given gold Jimmy Choo shoes by Mayor Tony Eggington

Mansfield succumbs to Beccymania as town welcomes home its golden girl

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

If Gordon Brown needed an object lesson in how sport can divert the nation from its present preoccupation with economic gloom, he could have done worse than get himself down to Mansfield's Market Square yesterday evening.
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Murray shrugs off Beijing low to set sights on Llodra

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Michael Llodra once prepared for a match in Miami by sitting naked in Ivan Ljubicic's dressing room locker. "I'm trying to get positive energy from you because you're winning a lot of matches this year," he told a bemused Ljubicic, who had returned from a shower to find the Frenchman lurking and his own clothes strewn over the floor.
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Australia may follow British lead on Olympic funding

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

For years, Britain has envied the efficiency with which the Australian sporting structure turns out elite athletes who excel on the international stage. Now, following Britain's historic success at the Beijing Olympics, the boot is, so to speak, on the other foot.
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Welsh sports fans defy the rain to hail heroes back from Beijing

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

The celebrations for Wales' homecoming Olympic heroes continued into a second day yesterday. In Cardiff, more than a thousand flag-waving fans defied persistent rain to welcome home their competitors. Nine athletes, including four medallists, were given an open-top bus tour through Cardiff Bay.
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Mansfield succumbs to Beccymania as town welcomes home Adlington

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

If Gordon Brown needed an object lesson in how sport can divert the nation from its present preoccupation with economic gloom, he could have done worse than get himself down to Mansfield's Market Square yesterday evening.
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Chinese ridicule London's part in closing ceremony

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Chinese press and bloggers have been less than favourable about London's contribution to Beijing's Olympic closing ceremony – criticising contributions from the London Mayor Boris Johnson and David Beckham.
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Kenny Egan haunted by missing gold

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Silver medal winning boxer Kenny Egan last night admitted that he is still haunted at letting the gold title slip away.
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Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes kisses the bronze medal he picked up in his Beijing bout.

Belfast to give Paddy a hero’s welcome home

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Hundreds of people are expected to line the streets of north Belfast tonight to welcome home Olympic medalist Paddy Barnes.
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Eric Waugh, Belfast Telegraph

Eric Waugh: How Olympics prove we can’t all come first in the race of life

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

I must confess I did not see much of the Olympics. Blame the clock. But the bits and pieces I saw in the news I liked.
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IABA’s sights are on London medals

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Irish Amateur Boxing Association chief Dominic O'Rourke believes the sport will bring even more medals back to the Emerald Isle in four years time.
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Beijing Olympics in pictures

  • Anna Tunnicliffe of the United States of America competes on her way to overall victory in the Laser Radial class event following the medal race held at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center during day 11 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
  • Guo Shuang of China falls during the Women's Sprint Semi Finals against Anna Meares of Australia in the track cycling event at the Laoshan Velodrome on Day 11 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
  • Henry Cejudo (red) of the United States competes against Shingo Matsumoto of Japan for the gold medal in the men's 55kg freestyle wrestling event at the China Agriculture University Gymnasium on Day 11 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 19.

All the action from the Games

Yell-bow: Hungarian weightlifter's terrifying elbow injury

  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Janos Baranyai dislocates elbow in competition

Beach boy Bush at the Olympics

  • U.S. President George Bush watches a practice as U.S player Kerri Walsh warms up at the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008.
  • U.S. President George Bush watches as U.S. team of Misty May Treanor, left, and Kerri Walsh warm up at the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008.
  • President Bush gestures toward the back of Misty May Treanor as he visits the practice of the U.S. beach volleyball team the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. At right is Treanor's teammate Kerri Walsh.

US President finds time for some volleyball fun

Ulster athletes compete in Beijing

  • Andrew Bree, from Helen's Bay, will be swimming in the men's 200m breastroke event as part of the Irish team.
  • Paddy Barnes, from Belfast, was bronze medallist at the Olympics
  • Melanie Nocher, from Belfast, will be swimming in the women's 200m backstroke event for the Irish team.

Northern Ireland stars in search of the Olympic dream

Columnist Comments

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Lawton: Wimbledon still not home for Andy

It might be different if Andy Murray had been born in Bromley or Tunbridge Wells, or his great grandmother was an innovative over-arm server in Victorian Wimbledon, like Tim Henman, or he had renounced his Scottish blood the first time he crossed Hadrian's Wall.

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The Punter: We just didn’t get to Sea

The victory by Fame And Glory in the Irish Derby poses the question as to whether or not he would have taken his revenge on his Epsom conqueror Sea The Stars?

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