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...past four years, China's Olympic Waterloo has haunted the men's gymnastics squad. Consistent world champions, China's tumblers disintegrated at the Athens games, finishing a shocking fifth, with Japan's gymnasts snatching the gold...
...leader, and eventual gold medal winner, by 9.475 points and occupied a medal-distant sixth place. Yet the unexpected does tend to occur at the Olympics, and the American men ultimately found themselves accepting bronze medals in the men's team finals Tuesday, behind the heavily favored China and Japan...
...have made quite a few accomplishments in our relations with the mainland, the United States and Japan in the last two and a half months. [After] many, many years, now the U.S., Japan and Southeast Asia can rest assured that hostilities or even confrontation is unlikely in the Taiwan Strait. This is the reason why when I will transit in the U.S. I don't want to do things not compatible with the purpose of transit. Why? There is no need for me to do that. I don't have to do things that will hurt the high level...
...Kuala Lumpur's Azizul Abdul Latif, 31, and Izham Fazely, 25, felt similarly when, two years ago, they established PopMalaya. As Latif tells it, they were tired of clothing designs "ripped off" from the U.S., Europe and Japan. So they created their own, melding Jawi, the country's adapted Arabic script, with images of Bas Mini (KL's minibus service) and Tunku Abdul Rahman, the revered father of independence. "We hope that through our designs, people will start to become more observant of themselves and realize that our local culture is rich and colorful in its own right," Latif says...
...American gymnast Shawn Johnson. Four athletes from Iraq, which in July had been banned briefly from the Games because of a tiff with the International Olympic Committee, got one of the night's biggest cheers, after the hosts. Even China's historical rival Japan received polite applause. The Olympics may be composed of nations, but its spirit transcends nationalism...