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Castro's 'solidarity' for Cuban taekwondo high-kicker
Fidel Castro has defended the Cuban taekwondo athlete who kicked a referee in the face at the Beijing Olympics, saying Angel Matos was rightfully indignant over his disqualification from the bronze-medal match.
Laporte takes swipe at Britain's Beijing bounty
France will not go down the Great Britain route of concentrating their efforts on a few sports in order to win Olympic medals, according to secretary of state Bernard Laporte.
I didn't cheat, why would I cheat?
If the news for Denis Lynch in Hong Kong on Thursday was shattering, it wasn't much better back in his native Tipperary on Friday.
Furious Olympics boss 'sick and tired' of drugs scandals
IRISH Olympic boss Pat Hickey last night launched a withering attack on the show-jumping industry in Ireland.
Athletics: Record tumbles as Bolt powers to relay gold
Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and was part of yet another world record as Jamaica romped to 4x100m victory with a superb time of 37.10 seconds.
Taxi for Wiggins as Beijing 'high-jinks' get out of hand
Chinese police acted as peacemakers after high-jinks by double gold medal winner Bradley Wiggins saw the Olympic champion roll over the bonnet of a parked taxi.
Idowu struggles to savour second best after falling agonisingly short
There were joyful, flag-trailing laps of honour here last night for the gold medallist Nelson Evora and bronze medallist Leevan Sands of the Bahamas after the highest-quality triple jump the world has ever seen. But for the silver medallist, Britain's Phillips Idowu, celebration was inappropriate.
Ohuruogu has no regrets
Christine Ohuruogu said she could not care less what people thought about her tainted record after winning the women's 400 metres Olympic gold medal yesterday.
What happens when the Olympics leave town
And so the baton is passed. After the giddy celebrations of 6 July 2005 - the day London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics - and a record gold medal haul for Great Britain in Beijing, London must get down to business. Four years from now, all eyes will be on a patch of land in the east of the capital, where the Olympic stadium is taking shape. But already, the talk is not just of sporting glory, but of the "Olympic legacy".
Argentina oust old rivals with Aguero double
reigning Olympic champions Argentina will meet Nigeria on Saturday in a repeat of the 1996 Olympic final after Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero put away two second-half chances to secure a 3-0 win over Brazil, WRITES NICK HARRIS.
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Columnist Comments
• Wenger puts his finger on the 'wretched truth' behind Olympic success
Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger is not xenophobic -- he has proved that in his long years irrigating English football with the finest skill -- but he was maybe the most damning witness of all amid the fanfare which greeted Great Britain's medal haul in Beijing.
• Egan shines so brightly amid Irish 'flap and fuss'
In time, Beijing will recede to memory, sluicing its traffic back onto gasping streets, re-opening its power-plants, restoring the air to a heavy, brown soup.
