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Shocking exit – Liu Xiang unable to overcome injury
18 August 2008 - This morning’s Athletics session here at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest had been expected by the whole Chinese population as the day Liu Xiang would begin his acclaimed campaign to retain the Olympic title he had taken four years ago at the Athens Games.

Men's 3000m Steeplechase - FINAL

What was supposed to be a Kenyan cakewalk turned into anything but thanks to one Mahledine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France.



Men's 400m Hurdles - FINAL
After three days of competition at the Olympic stadium in Beijing, the United States of America had yet to secure their first Athletics gold medal of the Games.  While the women’s Discus Throw gold came as a big surprise, they were confident, as the fourth evening session unfolded, the biggest prize of all would not elude them in the men’s 400m Hurdles.

Men's 400m - Round 1
Jeremy Wariner’s quest to become only the second two-time Olympic 400m champion began this morning without a hitch.

Women's 800m - FINAL

Continuing one of the most spectacular rises from obscurity that the sport has witnessed in recent years, Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo ran away with the Olympic 800m title tonight in Beijing.



Beijing 2008 – Day 4 PREVIEW

18 August 2008 - Beijing, China - Another big day, with six finals but it is on the qualification round of one event that 1 billion Chinese will be concentrating, and that’s because of the presence of Liu Xiang.



Shelly-Ann Fraser runs her mother’s dreams for her
18 August 2008 - Beijing, China -  Jamaica waits 50 years for an Olympic 100m sprint champion; and, like London buses, two come along in quick succession. And as in the men’s sprint, it was the ‘baby’ of the team, Shelly-Ann Fraser who prevailed, with her two colleagues finishing equal second, the first ever women’s sprint ‘clean-sweep’ at the Olympic Games.


For Bekele, another big step forward
18 August, 2008 - Beijing – It is one thing trying to follow in the footsteps of Haile Gebrselassie as arguably the greatest distance runner of all time but another entirely seeking to do it with matching personality. Kenenisa Bekele, Gebrselassie’s fellow Ethiopian, took a big step forward in both endeavours last night.

NEWS FLASH - Isinbayeva 5.05m World Pole Vault record in Beijing!!

18 August 2008 - Beijing, China - For the second straight Olympic Games, Yelena Isinbayeva set a new World record in the Pole Vault. The Russian defended her title with a third attempt clearance at 5.05m, adding a centimetre to her own 5.04m record set last month at the Herculis Super Grand Prix in Monaco. It was the 26-year-old’s 24th World record.



Women's 100m Hurdles - Semi-Finals
In what turned out to be a cursed day for hurdlers, World Indoor record holder Susanna Kallur was the third athlete after Liu Xiang and Terrence Trammell this morning, to experience drama.

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