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2008 Beijing Olympics - Coverage Page | Photos | TV Schedule | Beijing Olympic Page | Recent Olympic Vids (have you missed any of the new vids??) | Finally, some videos from NBC, video from Day 1 (1500s start at 20:00)
Photos Opening Ceremonies | Day 1| 2 | 3 (Victah Sailer/Photorun.net)
Live Olympic Stream (For European Viewers)
**Play-by-play account of Liu Xiang's DNS in Round 1 of the 110H
**Deena Kastor, x-rays confirm broken right foot
Day 4 (morning session)
Terrence Trammell, pulls hamstring after 1st hurdle, DNF's 110H 1st Round
Liu Xiang fails to advance, DNF 110H prelims, inflamed achilles too much
Men's Olympic Marathon News | Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot pulls out of Olympic marathon
Goucher's moment of weakness
Day 3 (evening session) | Results & Start Lists
10k Bekele sets OR (27:01); last 1k in 2:27 | Geb 6th | Rupp 14th in 27:36.99, Abdirahman 16th 27:52.53, Torres 27th 28:13.93
BERNARD LAGAT OUT OF 1500 (ran 3:37 and failed to qualify by .02 | 15 guys run 3:37)
Lomong & Manzano both last in their 1500 semis | Willis thru to final
Sanya Richards (49.90) fastest into final
Jamaica 1-2-3 in the W100 Final! | L.Williams 4th; Muna Lee 5th; T.Edwards 8th
New WR in WSteeple!! Russia's Samitova-Galkina (8:58); wins by 9 secs
Barringer 9th (9:22 New AR) | Willard 10th (9:25)
All 3 Americans thru to next round of W400H
Day 3 (morning session)
Women Marathon - Deena Kaster and Lewy Boulet DNF, Dita takes Gold | Splits
Day 2 | Saturday Results | Mark's Journey & Recap
M100 - 9.69 WR !!! Bolt takes the field by storm! | VIDEO | NCAA Champ Richard Thompson 2nd (9.89), Dix 3rd (9.91) | Powell a disappointing 5th (9.95) | Patton 8th | Tyson Gay out of 100m Finals, finishes 5th in semi, Quotes from Tyson after not qualifying
400H - A Taylor, B Jackson, K Clement all thru to 400H Final; Taylor looked good @ 47.94
Jelimo thru to 800 final (1:57); Mutola still in it (1:58), Article on Mutola in her 5th Oly Final
W100, all Americans and Jamaicans thru to semis
USA's Hyleas Fountain wins BRONZE in Hep (was in 2nd going into last event)
FAM only thru to final | lead from the gun, set PB (8:17)
Day 1 | Crack Recap
W10k Final, Shalane Flanagan wins Bronze Medal, sets new American record 30:22.22
(Dibaba wins in OR time (29:54); Kim Smith 9th (30:51); Goucher 10th but sets PB 30:55; Begley 26th (32:38))
Flotrack EURO Adventures
European Meet Results/Coverage:
2008 Herculis Super Grand Prix RESULTS (Monte Carlo 7/29/08) | Flotrack Interviews
Morton Memorial Meeting (Dublin, Ireland) | RESULTS
Memorial Léon Buyle | RESULTS (Oordegem, Belgium 7/26)
Aviva London Grand Prix RESULTS (7/25-7/26)
Brasschaat (Flander's Cup) | RESULTS (in Belgium 7/23) | All Interviews and races up
DN Gala Super Grand Prix RESULTS (Stockholm, Sweden 7/22)
KBC-Nacht @ Heusden | Results | Interviews & Races ALL UP | **Womens Steeple AMERICAN RECORD race video
