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Court Reveals Extent of Marion Jones' Drug Use Jones
22--Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones used EPO and human growth hormone -- far more than what she admitted in court in October -- according to a sentencing memorandum filed Friday in U ... 5 she admitted publicly to using the performance-enhancing drug ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Court_Reveals_Extent_of_Marion_J-5225-1-4930.htm
Report: China Wants Indian Help in Tibet
As the Tibetan crisis, set off by last week's protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule, threatens to tarnish China's image at the Beijing Summer Olympics, the Communist government wants to use India's clout to resume negotiations with the Dalai ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Report_China_Wants_Indian_Help_-5225-1-16978.htm
Guard Linked to Attack on Kerrigan Dies at 40
(AP) -- Brian Sean Griffith, a former bodyguard to figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts, has died ... Figure Skating Association granted Kerrigan a spot anyway, and she ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Guard_Linked_to_Attack_on_Kerrig-5225-1-4083.htm
EU Sports Ministers, Olympic Committees Strongly Oppose Boycott Over Tibet
" Russia also came out in support for the Games, arguing the Tibetan situation must not affect Olympics ... 8-24 Beijing ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/EU_Sports_Ministers_Olympic_Com-5225-2-16911.htm
GE Stifles Rumors of a Sale for Media Unit
Not before the Olympics, not after the Olympics ... " The statement was clearly meant to address the most prevalent of the recent rumors, which is that GE would wait until after the Beijing Olympics in August, which will be televised on NBC and its ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/GE_Stifles_Rumors_of_a_Sale_for_-5225-3-16169.htm
Olympic Torch Comes to China Amid Concerns
While China has staked its reputation on the success of the Beijing Olympics, its leaders have been stung by the persistence of the Tibetan protests against Chinese rule the past three weeks, which have taken world attention away from the Beijing ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Olympic_Torch_Comes_to_China_Ami-5225-1-18855.htm
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR China, Africa and the West
15) about the film director Steven Spielberg's decision to end his ties with the Beijing Olympics: I am an employee of private Chinese company, working in Europe as an expatriate ... The policy of noninterference in the domestic affairs or other ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/LETTERS_TO_THE_EDITOR_China_Afr-5225-1-13301.htm
Going to the Top of Everest Still the Highlight of the Olympic Torch Relay
" Last week's riots, which the government says killed 16, have cast a larger spotlight on China's human rights record, although there have been no calls by governments or international sports officials for a boycott of the Olympics. Even ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Going_to_the_Top_of_Everest_Stil-5225-1-17240.htm
If We Can't Put Pressure on China Now, When Will We?
By Joshua Dugdale Joshua Dugdale says the Olympics offer the West an opportunity Images of the dozens of deaths in Tibet look as if they will as infamous as those of the crackdown on Buddhist monks in 1989, and will be just as uncomfortable ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/If_We_Cant_Put_Pressure_on_Chin-5225-1-16712.htm
UPI NewsTrack Sports
Innsbruck, Austria, the site of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics, and Lillehammer, Norway, the site of the 1994 Games, were joined by Harbin, China, and Kuopio, Finland, in seeking to be the hosts for the Winter Youth Olympic Games ... The ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/UPI_NewsTrack_Sports-5225-2-15586.htm
Stress Fracture in Left Foot Ends Yao's Solid Season Early
Clanton would not say when Yao could play again but said he doesn't expect the center to miss the Beijing Olympics in August ... "If I cannot play in the Olympics for my country this time, it will be the biggest loss in my career to right ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Stress_Fracture_in_Left_Foot_End-5225-2-14288.htm
Harper Urges China to Use 'Restraint' in Tibet; Declares Solidarity
Others in the crowd carried banners reading "Have Your Olympics, Give Us Tibet ... Bush would not cancel his visit to the Beijing Olympics over China's crackdown in Tibet, insisting Bush is going to the Games for the sport and not for political ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Harper_Urges_China_to_Use_Restr-5225-1-17372.htm
FLAME OF ANGER ; Tibet Olympic Protest at Greece Torch Ceremony
Yesterday activist Yang Chunlin was jailed for five years in China for circulating a letter which declared: "We want human right, not the Olympics ... A RELAY SYSTEM has been used since the Berlin Olympics in 1936 to carry the torch to the ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/FLAME_OF_ANGER__Tibet_Olympic_P-5225-2-18136.htm
Olympic Torch Re-Lit Amid Tight Security at Elaborate Ceremony in Beijing
Hu's participation in the elaborate ceremony in Tiananmen Square in the heart of the capital underlined the importance China places on the Olympics and its hope to display a confident, strong nation to the world when the Games open Aug ... ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Olympic_Torch_ReLit_Amid_Tight_-5225-1-18936.htm
Harper Urges China to Use 'Restraint' in Tibet
But he isn't saying if Canada will consider calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics over China's violent crackdown in the Himalayan region ... But others in the crowd carried banners reading "Have Your Olympics, Give Us ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Harper_Urges_China_to_Use_Restr-5225-1-17376.htm
