The Beijing Games have now closed. The final medals were awarded to the men’s marathon competitors at the start of the closing ceremony. This games has been one of the most exciting games for a long time. Some of the longest standing records were broken in swimming and running. Also an emergence of new nations [...]

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The Beijing Olympic Games have come to a close, and these games were the most successful games for Great Britain, who will be hosting the 2012 Games, in almost a century. During the Beijing closing ceremony a red London bus drove into the Bird’s Nest Arena, and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page performed the classic rock [...]

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James DeGale won Great Britain’s 19th gold at the Beijing Games with a 16-14 win over Cuba’s Emilio Correa Bayeaux in a bad-tempered middleweight final.
In the quarter finals he beat a former Olympic gold medallist from Athens (Bakhtiyar Artayev) and in the semi-final once again beat the Irishman Darren Sutherland (prior to this latest meeting [...]

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