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BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States continued its dominance at Beijing's Water Cube on Tuesday, pocketing three golds and leaving one to Australia. American s...

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Wang Xin/Chen Ruolin won the women's synchronized platform diving gold medal with 363.54 points at the Olympic Games on Tuesday. Au...

By sportswriter Bai Xu BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Monday was a big day for India, when shooter Bindra nailed the gold medal in the men's 10-meter air rifle at the Beij...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini broke the world record for women's 200m freestyle in the heats here on Monday. Pellegrini said she did n...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Giulia Quintavalle outpowered Dutch Deborah Gravenstijn to take the women's 57kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Monday. The...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Elnur Mammadli of Azerbaijan beat South Korean Wang Kichun by ippon to take the men's 73kg judo gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Mon...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Australia's golden girl Libby Trickett won a heated race in the women's 100-meter butterfly on Monday, snatching her first individual Olympic g...

By Sportswriter Yan Hao BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Before tonight, none of Chinese won an Olympic gold medal after she had a baby and none of Chinese judokas had ever succ...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The gold quest of U.S. swimmer Katie Hoff in Beijing met another setback Monday morning as Britain's Rebecca Adlington touched the wall first at th...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. swimming prodigy Michael Phelps began with a bang his quest for an unprecedented eight-gold at an Olympic Games, winning the men's 400m indivi...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Masato Uchishiba won the title of the men's light-weight class judo at the Beijing Olympic Games Sunday evening, giving the firs...

Gold medalist Guo Wenjun (C) of China, siver medalist Natalia Paderina (L) of Russia, and bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze (R) of Gerogia wave to spectators at the awarding ceremony...

by sportswriter Wu Chen BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak of Thailand claimed the title in the women's 53kg category weightlifting at Beijing Ol...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez became the first winner on the second day of the Olympic tennis event after blitzing Australian Alicia Molik as qu...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese strongman Long Qingquan lifted the gold medal of the men's 56kg category at the Beijing Olympics Games here on Sunday. This is the s...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra totaled 700.5 points to win the men's 10-meter air rifle title after a hot chase in the final on Monday, winning Indi...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Yu Zaiqing of China was elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice president at the 120th IOC session here on Thursday. IOC president Ja...

BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- When Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894, people in some countries then viewed the Olympics almost as a joke. ...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese basketball player and NBA star Yao Ming has been picked to hold the national flag at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- On the first day of autumn under the lunar calendar, Beijing was wrapped in a persistent haze with cloudy skies on Thursday. The humidity made it feel s...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Dong Fangzhuo scored China's first ever Olympic men's soccer goal to make it 1-1 in Thursday's game against New Zealand in the Beijing Games...

Photo taken on 12:00 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2008 shows the National Stadium, 8-hour countdown to the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Gam...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic host city on Thursday reopened one of its oldest commercial areas as the latest cultural and tourist attraction, one day prior to the start ...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Thursday was doubly significant for the Chinese - not only marking just one day to go for the Olympics but also an ancient festival, often dubbed the Ch...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Double Seventh Festival, known as the Chinese Valentine's Day, falls on Thursday. Here are basic facts about major traditional festivals ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The State University of New York (SUNY) will enroll 150 undergraduates from southwest China's Sichuan Province this autumn as part of the universit...

BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The women's soccer tournament of the Beijing Olympics kicked off at 17:00 Beijing time on Wednesday. It was the first Olympic event starting tw...

TIANJIN, North China, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China edged European powerhouse Sweden 2-1 in front of some 38,000 home fans in their opening match of the Olympic women's soccer tourn...

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As of 19:00 July 27, tickets for all events hosted in Beijing are sold out. Tickets for football events hosted outside Beijing are still on sale. --------------------------------...