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Liukin, Johnson become first U.S. women to finish 1-2Miami HeraldFriday 15th August 2008 BEIJING - Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson are teammates, roommates and friends. A year ago they hatched a plan to finish 1-2 in the all-around gymnastics final at the Beijing Olympics. It didn't matter what order, as long as the duo won gold and silver together in their U.S. leotards.
Cuba outlasts U.S. team, 5-4, in hotly contested gameMiami HeraldFriday 15th August 2008 The United States and Cuba are political adversaries and fierce baseball rivals, so the preliminary-round game between the teams had the feel of a gold-medal showdown. Cuba needed nearly four hours, 11 innings, and a new tiebreaker rule to shake off the Americans, 5-4.
Swimsuits slow swimmers; Perez makes wrong splashPhilippine Daily InquirerFriday 15th August 2008 BEIJING--Blame it on the high-performance swimsuits. Ripped swim gear made it such a drag for Christel Simms and Ryan Arabejo as the two tankers missed national records and bowed out of the competition Friday at the Beijing Olympics here.
THE TWO OF U.S.New York PostFriday 15th August 2008 BEIJING - An American pixie took gold last night, but it was not the one with all the endorsements and hype entering these Olympics. Nastia Liukin topped teammate Shawn Johnson to win the women's gymnastics all-around gold with a dramatic finish...
I'm singin' in Beijing, just singin'. . .The Santa Rosa Press DemocratFriday 15th August 2008 Did you realize the Chinese Communist Party was that much into cute' The world knows now that the adorable little girl we saw warbling "Ode to the Motherland" at the Olympics opening ceremony was not really singing. She was a Potemkin performer. A Trojan tyke. Lin Miaoke, 9, was fronting for Yang Peiyi, 7, the girl with the best voice but...
