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...Britain is awash with precious metal. By the time Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson had grabbed the country's fourth sailing gold of the games on Aug. 21, British athletes - track star Christine Ohuruogu, the only member of the team to win standing up, among them - had bagged 39 medals, including 17 golds - Britain's best haul in a century. Only the far larger countries of China, with 46 gold medals, and the U.S., with 28, have done better in Beijing...
...father of McCutcheon's wife Elisabeth was stabbed to death and her mother critically injured by a deranged and suicidal Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach the semifinals. A win would secure the U.S. its first medal since 1992 and first shot at gold since the Seoul Games of 1988, when the Soviet Union still existed...
...many fans come to beach volleyball for the Carnival-like atmosphere. And at Carnival, clothing tends to be an optional accoutrement. Beach volleyball's female athletes oblige by wearing as little as the cheerleaders. Yes, that means sand - particularly on a rainy day like the Aug. 21 women's final - can sneak its way into uncomfortable places. But the dress code of the athletes helps define the overall ambience. At the table tennis, for instance, the athletes tend to wear shapeless shirts with shorts of a distressingly outdated fashion. Is it any surprise that table-tennis is not a sport...
Ahead of the Games, Beijing's Olympic security chief announced that three parks in the capital would be set aside for protests in August. But would-be demonstrators must first apply with police, and so far no permission has been given to stage demonstrations. On Aug. 18 the state-run Xinhua News Service announced that officials had received 77 applications, but none had been approved. Two were suspended due to lack of information, one rejected because it violated local laws, and the remaining 74 "were properly addressed by relevant authorities or departments through consultations," Xinhua reported. A small number...
Officials from the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and the International Olympic Committee defended the protest zones during a Aug. 20 press conference. "We are actually quite happy to hear that many of the 77 cases have been resolved," said Wang Wei, the executive vice president and secretary general of BOCOG. "Now the resolution of these protests was through dialog and communication. And this is also a part of ...Chinese culture...