Olympic medal winners go home with cash rewards, even new cars - Miami Herald
BEIJING How much is an Olympic medal worth? If you’re a U.S. gold medal winner, the answer is $25,000 courtesy of the U.S. Olympic Committee plus millions more in potential endorsement deals. A silver medal comes with a $15,000 prize, and a bronze

Phelps, Bolt, Home Team’s Haul Highlight `Exceptional’ Olympics - Bloomberg
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — The $70 billion Beijing Olympics concluded with host China topping the gold-medal standings for the first time and record-setting swimmers and sprinters overshadowing pre-Games fears about doping and pollution. China won 51

BBC apology over Olympics ‘fakery’ - Western Telegraph
The BBC has been drawn into a new fakery controversy - this time over the Olympics. Live coverage of Chinese hopeful Liu Xiang was manipulated on this week’s Ten O’Clock News. The BBC said it regretted broadcasting the misleading footage, after

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