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People are only just realising This Morning legend Dr Chris Steele has a famous son ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
The 4x400 metre relay runner won gold in the British Championships in 2007, and came fourth in the men’s 4x400m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, with the team then brought up to third place ...
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How This Morning legend Dr Chris Steele's famous son has been following in his footsteps ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
The 4x400 metre relay runner won gold in the British Championships in 2007, and came fourth in the men’s 4x400m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, with the team then brought up to third place ...
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New Jia Zhangke film: 20 years of footage to capture a changing China

Asiatimes 25 Mar 2025
We see excitement in the streets when Beijing is announced as the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games, before cutting to a montage of young people dancing in strobe-lit underground nightclubs.
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UNI's Schwab named NWCA National Coach of the Year

Oelwein Daily Register 24 Mar 2025
The Panthers also reached a fourth-in-the-nation team ranking, its highest mark since 1988 ... He also won titles at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and U.S. Nationals and represented the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China ... .
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College wrestling: Northern Iowa's Schwab named national Coach of the Year

Daily Gate City 24 Mar 2025
The Panthers also reached a fourth-in-the-nation team ranking, its highest mark since 1988 ... He also won titles at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and U.S. Nationals and represented the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China ... .
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Fencing champions celebrate 20th anniversary of i-Fencing Alliance Club

Hong Kong Standard 23 Mar 2025
Among the distinguished guests were Zheng Zhaokang, Head Coach of the Hong Kong Fencing Team; Zhong Man, the 2008 Beijing Olympic men's saber individual gold medalist; Lei Sheng, the 2012 London ...
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Shawn Porter to Artur Beterbiev: The 15 losses of Usyk

WBN 23 Mar 2025
From 2008, Usyk focused on world heavyweight honors, which proved to be a masterstroke ... On his way to qualifying for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Usyk lost to Zuyeu in the 2008 European Olympic Qualifier Final.
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Feature: Youngest sprinter learns through competition at Nanjing 2025

China.dot.org 23 Mar 2025
by sportswriter He Leijing ... "It was truly a dream to compete alongside them.". 24-YEAR AGE GAP ... Meredova, who represented Turkmenistan at the Paris 2024 Olympics, had competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Chen was at first unaware of the huge age gap ... .
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Luoping Extends Tourism Industry Chain by Leveraging Flower Economy

Pressat 23 Mar 2025
Sunday 23 March, 2025 ... A traditional craft refreshed via mobile games ... Gradually, he learned to make kites himself ... His kites were also showcased in the cultural exhibitions of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2011 Shanghai World Expo.
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View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
On 7 September 2018, Coventry found out, along with the rest of Zimbabwe, that she had been appointed as the country’s minister for sports, art and recreation ... Kirsty Coventry after winning 200m backstroke Olympic gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ... .
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IOC president-elect hails Beijing's Games legacy

China Daily 22 Mar 2025
Always a proud representative of her native continent, Coventry remembered vividly how excited she was after defending her Olympic gold in the 200-meter backstroke at Beijing 2008 to cement her status as one of Africa's most celebrated Olympians.
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Daley: 1.6 Seconds, a look at icon's life

Inside The Games 22 Mar 2025
From his Olympic debut at Beijing 2008, aged just 14, to his ... That 14-year-old at his first Olympics in Beijing in 2008 has been on quite a journey, and I’m so grateful for every moment, good and bad.".
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Kirsty Coventry inspiring the world

Independent online (SA) 22 Mar 2025
winning seven Olympic medals, more than anyone else from Africa, including one gold and three silvers medals earned at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ... “Beijing has a warm place in my heart.
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Armed robbers ransack new Olympic president Kirsty Coventry's parents' home and steal £46,000 of jewellery, ...

The Daily Mail 22 Mar 2025
Among the items stolen were swimming costumes worn by Coventry, 41, when she won gold medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Games in Beijing ... Coventry shows off her second gold medal at the 2008 Games in Beijing ... Olympics. .
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Nikhat Zareen eyes a big comeback after Paris low

Hindustan Times 22 Mar 2025
Greater Noida. Some defeats take longer to heal ... (PTI) ... I did that in Hyderabad ... Away from the ring, Nikhat enjoys the spotlight on her, feeling proud and blessed sitting with 2008 Beijing Olympics medallist Vijender Singh, Manoj Kumar and Sarita Devi.
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