Disqualified player Yu quits badminton
LONDON, England ● Disgraced Chinese Yu Yang has decided to quit badminton while national officials have told their Olympic...
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Day 5: Badminton scandal takes gleam of Wiggin’s gold
LONDON, England ● Just 10 days after triumphing in the...
Ancient dopers got their kicks from raw testicles
LONDON, England ● Forget anabolic steroids in easy-to-swallow tablets, or EPO in clean syringes. Ancient Olympic dopers...
Announcer narrowly avoids Korean gaffe
LONDON, England ● A diplomatic gaffe was narrowly avoided at the Olympic men’s individual all-round gymnastics final...
Anti-doping lab to become research centre
LONDON, England ● The anti-doping laboratory being used to test athletes at the London Olympics is to...
Bad(minton) players expelled from Games
LONDON, England ● The disqualification of eight women badminton players from the London Olympics for ‘throwing’ their...
Triple jumpers hopes friend Zuckerberg will ‘like’ Haiti
LONDON, England ● Haitian triple jumper Samyr Laine is determined to give something back to his...
Winning or losing for NKoreans ‘a matter of life and death’
LONDON, England ● It’s still only Day Five at the London Olympics but one early surprise is that North...
Phelps reaches summit Mount Olympus
LONDON< England ● Four years after he climbed to the top of Olympic achievement, Michael Phelps took...
Ye continues gold rush despite finger pointing
LONDON, England ● Weighed down by the tide of suspicion or maybe just a little tired after...