ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — The Olympic swimming competition opened with a bang yesterday with world records from Michael Phelps and the Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team, not to mention
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Japan’s Olympic judo campaign got off to a flying start yesterday when Tadahiro Nomura became the sport’s first triple Olympic champion and compatriot Ryoko Tani also broke
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — China grabbed the first two gold medals of the Olympic Games yesterday when Wang Yifu rallied to defeat Russia’s Mikhail Nestruev on the final shot in the men’s 10-meter air
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Pakistan’s hockey team is focusing on its potentially-explosive clash against world champions Germany knowing that the outcome of their Pool A opener would impact on their
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Australia’s bid to win a third successive Olympic women’s field hockey title stumbled at the first hurdle yesterday when they crashed to a 2-1 defeat by Germany. The
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Italy’s team captain Paolo Bettini outsprinted Portugal’s Sergio Paulinho to win the gold medal in the Olympic men’s road cycling race here yesterday. The 30-year-old
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Paul Hamm underlined the United States’ Olympic gold medal prospects with a dynamic all-round performance in the men’s gymnastics team qualifying yesterday. European
ATHENS, 15 August 2004 — Andre Dirrell gave the American team desperate for gold a nervous but winning start to their Olympic boxing campaign yesterday. The middleweight, one of the Americans’
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greece’s 1996 windsurfing gold medalist, was overjoyed being handed the honor of lighting the Olympic flame in the opening ceremony. “It was an unbelievable feeling that comes
NEW YORK, 15 August 2004 — JT Snow belted three homers and scored five runs while Barry Bonds recorded his 689th career homer to power the San Francisco Giants to a 16-6 hammering of the host Philadelphia
COLOMBO, 15 August 2004 — Rain gave South Africa a glimmer of hope as they looked to escape with a draw in the second and final Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here yesterday.
LONDON, 15 August 2004 — Liverpool found a new goalscorer on the day Michael Owen was unveiled as a Real Madrid player when France striker Djibril Cisse scored in a 1-1 season-opening draw at Tottenham
MANCHESTER, England, 15 August 2004 — Graham Thorpe’s unbeaten 89 was the cornerstone of an England fight back in the third Test against West Indies at Old Trafford here yesterday. England
MANCHESTER, England, 15 August 2004 — Graham Thorpe’s unbeaten 89 was the cornerstone of an England fight back in the third Test against West Indies at Old Trafford here yesterday. England
BUDAPEST, 15 August 2004 — World champion Michael Schumacher set himself up for a record 12th victory of the season in today’s Hungarian Grand Prix when he claimed his 62nd career pole position here
