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AP - In one of the wildest games of the season, Kevin Youkilis’ go-ahead homer sent the Boston Red Sox to a 19-17 win after the Texas Rangers fought back from a 10-run first inning Tuesday night that included a pair of three-run homers by David Ortiz.
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NBC’s Olympics coverage has attracted viewers in record numbers, but the network hasn’t done a good job using technology to explain obscure sports to all the new fans.
Take the men’s gymnastics competition: analyst Tim Daggett repeatedly said that the Chinese gymnasts performed far harder routines on nearly every piece of equipment than their counterparts from other countries.
Given today’s high definition video and powerful video editing programs, it would have been easy for Tim and his producers to put together comparisons that illustrated how Chinese routines differed from, say, American routines and why they were more difficult.
It would’ve also been easy to show split-screen pictures of different people attempting the same moves and using those two pictures to illustrate which was better and why.
But NBC didn’t do that, so we just have to take Tim’s word for it that the Chinese did harder routines and did them better than the competition.
The same problem has occurred again and again during the games.
I don’t even really know why Michael Phelps swims faster than other people.
I’ve heard he has huge feet and is double-jointed, but NBC has never superimposed his strokes against the competitors so I could see how his flexibility leads to more powerful strokes.
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Reuters - American swimmer Michael Phelps became
the most successful Olympian of all time by winning two more
Beijing gold medals on Wednesday to take his career tally to an
unprecedented 11 victories.
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Russia said Tuesday that it has ended its five-day assault against Georgia and agreed to a French peace plan by which most Russian forces would return home and international mediators would work to settle the conflict between Georgia and Russian-backed South Ossetian separatists. “The aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses,” said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking to his defense minister in a meeting aired on state television. “If there are any emerging hotbeds of resistance or any aggressive actions, you should take steps to destroy them.” Georgian authorities and foreign journalists reported that Russian forces continued to attack after Medvedev’s words were broadcast, bombing the city of Gori inside undisputed Georgian territory. There were reports of South Ossetian paramilitary fighters killing Georgian civilians, unrestrained by Russian troops.
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AP - Scrambling to find ways to punish Russia for its invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United States and its allies are considering expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and have scrapped plans for an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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AP - The Bush administration may have ceded mediation duties between Russia and Georgia to Europe but is holding firm to its support for Georgia’s pro-Western leadership and demands that Moscow withdraw its troops from the former Soviet republic.
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AP - Scrambling to find ways to punish Russia for its invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United States and its allies are considering expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and have scrapped plans for an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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BEIJING — Michael Phelps has become the winningest Olympic athlete ever, earning his fourth gold medal of the Beijing Games with a world record in the 200-meter butterfly. The American touched in 1 minute, 52.03 seconds, breaking his old mark of 1:52.09 set at last year’s world championships in Australia.
It was Phelps’ 10th career gold medal, breaking a tie with Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and two others for most golds. He is 4-for-4 so far, setting world records in each of his events.
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Michael Phelps has become the winningest Olympic athlete ever, earning his fourth gold medal of the Beijing Games with a world record in the 200-meter butterfly. The American touched in 1 minute, 52.03 seconds, breaking his old mark of 1:52.09 set at last year’s world championships in Australia. It was Phelps’ 10th career gold medal, breaking a tie with Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and two others for…
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Reuters - Georgia and Russia agreed in principle
to an EU-brokered peace plan over South Ossetia on Wednesday as
the U.S. showed disapproval of Moscow’s attacks on its neighbor
by cancelling a joint naval exercise.
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