BEIJING 2008

Olyroos continue search for leadership

Olyroos continue search for leadership

July 5, 2008Getty Images

Football

Kewell's absence leaves vacancy

After months of tussling for spots on Australia's men's soccer team, the attention turns to who will wear the captain's armband. ...Read more

05/07/2008 1:02 PM Beijing
Dwain Chambers

Chambers fight goes on

Dwain Chambers' lawyers launched an appeal to overturn the British sprinter's Olympic ban.
Crowd 'quality' doubts

James Tomkins

Tomkins makes it six

Rowing triple gold medallist James Tomkins was Thursday selected for his sixth Olympic games
Olympic photographs

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The Journal

  • Briony Cole

    Jun 12 5:17pm
    Fine tuning in Germany

    Last week the Australian Olympic Diving Team headed off to Rostock, Germany for the German leg of the FINA Grand Prix. It's a long way to Rostock - three flights and a 2 hour bus ride - all up 35 hours of travelling.We had a few days of training before co..Read more

  • Brenton Rickard

    Jun 16 11:44am
    High altitude training in the Pyrenees

    Bonjour!! Welcome back. I am presently in beautiful, warm Europe doing my last competitive phase before the Olympics. I have been over for nearly 3 weeks now, with most of the time spent at an altitude training facility in the Pyrenees (a mountain range i..Read more

  • Eamon Sullivan

    Jun 13 4:42pm
    Training in Spain

    Hi EveryoneI'm writing to you on my Lenovo notebook from my hotel room in Barcelona.That's right, I'm in Europe at the moment in the middle of a three and a half week training and competition tour.The trip started in Rome with a week of tough training. I..Read more

  • Jared Graves

    Jul 1 12:26pm
    Out of Worlds, but geared up for Beijing

    Hey Guys, got  a few spare minutes here at the moment so I thought I'd send a quick update.I competed at the Mountain Bike World Champs in Italy last week, after winning the previous round of the World Cup two weeks before in Scotland I went in favou..Read more

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Poll

ATHENS '04 MEDAL TALLY

Position

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1 United States 35 39 29 103
2 China 32 17 14 63
3 Russia 27 27 38 92
4 Australia 17 16 16 49
5 Japan 16 9 12 37

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