Sports News - Disappointment for athlete Parker - Kings Lynn News
Disappointment for athlete Parker - Kings Lynn News
POTT Row athlete Barbara Parker has failed to qualify for the 3,000m steeplechase Olympic final. The 25-year-old had a disappointing race in her heat in Beijing, China, this afternoon (Friday). She said: “It was just a bad day.” See Tuesday’s Lynn
Kamloops athlete just misses medal in shotput - Montreal Gazette
BEIJING - One centimetre. The length of a finger nail. Less than the width of one of his stubby fingers. One centimetre. That’s all that separated Dylan Armstrong from Canada’s first medal at the 2008 Olympics. The 27-year-old shot putter from
Athlete of the day - Miami Herald
If you can stay away from the Internet, NBC will show the men’s 100-meters crown the World’s Fastest Man - Tyson Gay? Asafa Powell? Usain Bolt? - on tape during the 7:30-midnight prime-time show. But if you prefer your sports live - rather than only
Sports News - Man killed in Wicker Park drive-by shooting - Chicago Tribune
Man killed in Wicker Park drive-by shooting - Chicago Tribune
A 27-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting early Friday morning as he stood on the street with a group of friends in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, police said. About 1 a.m., the victim was standing on the street with roughly a half a
Sports News - Daily double: Phelps becomes winningest athlete in Olympic history - Associated Press
Daily double: Phelps becomes winningest athlete in Olympic history - Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — For Michael Phelps, it’s not enough to just set a new standard. He has to demolish the old one. Winningest Olympian ever? He’s two golds past that already and not finished yet, just over halfway to his goal of breaking Mark Spitz’s
Phelps wins 10th, 11th golds of Olympic career - Washington Post
BEIJING — A daily double. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals _ and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games. A day after etching his name alongside Mark
Phelps shatters gold-medal record - Philadelphia Inquirer
BEIJING - Michael Phelps and his astounding performances have so thoroughly dominated these 2008 Beijing Olympics that it seems the Games’ motto ought to be altered to “One World. One Dream. Eight Golds.” Phelps continued his historic medal-mining