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The International Rugby Board doesn't want a football-style club vs. country player row to affect its chances of getting a seven-a-side version of the sport into the Olympics. ...

One day after the US softball team failed to win the gold medal for the first time, the sport's officials pointed to Japan's victory as proof that their game is globally competitive and deserves to return to the Olympics. ...

World champion Maris Strombergs of Latvia won the men's BMX gold yesterday, sweeping to the front at the start of the winner-take-all final and never losing control in the sport's first-ever Olympic finals. ...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown avoided public criticism of the Chinese government's human rights record yesterday as he met the country's leaders in Beijing and prepared to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. ...

Athens gold medallist Steven Lopez of the United States was upset in the quarter-finals of the men’s 80-kilogram taekwondo tournament yesterday, losing in sudden-death overtime to Mauro Sarmiento of Italy. ...

Blonska stripped of heptathlon silver Lyudmila Blonska has been stripped of her Olympic silver medal in the heptathlon for doping. The Ukrainian athlete has been disqualified and kicked out of the Beijing Games ...

Alex Schwazer of Italy won the gold medal in the 50 kilometre walk with an Olympic record yesterday, beating Australia's Jared Tallent. Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia,...

Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser completed an American sweep of the beach volleyball gold medals, beating Brazil in three sets yesterday. Dalhausser rejected four straight shots in the decisive set to turn a tight ...

Zhang Yining of China defeated teammate Wang Nan yesterday to win the gold in women's singles table tennis at the Olympics, completing a medals sweep for the host team. ...