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...surprise win leaves it looking likely that the Chinese women may garner an Olympic medal from tennis, either from women's singles player Li or women's pair Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. Li, hardly a household name overseas, survived a treacherous draw that pitted her against both world No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova and Williams, who won Wimbledon this year. Certainly, the support of a raucous home crowd helped buoy the 25-year-old Chinese athlete, who is ranked No. 42 in the world. "Wow, I don't think you could see that in another country," said...
...Wednesday night, the U.S. Navy was making clear that it had no ships headed toward the Black Sea. On Thursday morning, Gates made it clear that the humanitarian effort - limited so far to a pair of C-17s bringing shelter, clothing and medicine to Tibilisi - wasn't quite as brawny as the commander-in-chief had suggested. In fact, it is all happening "under the direction of the State Department," he noted...
...protests go it was hardly a blockbuster. A pair of demonstrators attempted to unfurl a banner on an overpass. The police stopped them, and as security guards were distracted by this, five people barricaded themselves behind bicycles at a nearby park entrance. But the time and place were symbolic - in Beijing, just a short distance from the Olympic stadium and the Water Cube, where just two hours earlier Michael Phelps became the world's most decorated Olympian...
...Chinese led from the start. In the second of six dives, Lin and Huo racked up five perfect 10s in the synchronicity category. Impressive, but not quite as dominating as in the 2007 World Championships when the Chinese pair won gold by 22 points, an almost unheard of margin. The Chinese men's win came a day after their female compatriots, Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, nabbed gold in the synchronized 3m springboard event...
...victorious male pair on August 11, Huo and Lin, this is their first Olympics. But given the adulation with which Chinese fans shower the country's divers, there's little question that they, too, will soon be splashed across thousands of billboards...