BEIJING 2008

Brown, Broun score first series wins

AAP - January 6, 2009, 9:26 pm

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Graeme Brown and Australian champion Kirsty Broun have won the Jayco Bay Classic cycling series for the first time. ...Read More

Skater's Olympics in doubt

AAP - January 6, 2009, 7:13 pm

Australia's hopes of skating glory at the 2010 Winter Olympics may have been dashed after a change in citizenship laws caught out Tatiana Borodulina. ...Read More

Youth Olympics kick off next week

AAP - January 6, 2009, 3:32 pm

A record number of Australian athletes look set to dominate the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January. ...Read More

Out of the Bird's Nest into the lion cage

Reuters - January 6, 2009, 11:03 am

PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - French athlete Djamel Mastouri, who won an 800 metres bronze medal at last year's Paralympics, is now far from Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium, taming lions at a Paris circus. ...Read More

Big Sav puts the boot into Vikings

AAP - January 6, 2009, 10:01 am

FORMER AFL star Sav Rocca is two matches away from a dream appearance in the NFL Super Bowl. ...Read More

Bolt set to go even faster, says coach

AAP - January 6, 2009, 8:43 am

Glen Mills, coach of triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, has identified three major things to fix in the sprinter's starting for the forthcoming season. ...Read More

China arrested almost 1,300 in Muslim west last year: report

AFP - January 4, 2009, 4:47 pm

China arrested almost 1,300 people for terrorism, religious extremism or other state security charges in the country's Muslim-majority western Xinjiang region last year, state press said Sunday. ...Read More

Olympic gold medallist Roy Saari dies

AAP - January 3, 2009, 12:49 pm

Roy Saari, a former world record-holding swimmer and gold medallist at the 1964 Olympics, has died. He was 63. ...Read More

Rice not off the boil: swim coach

AAP - January 2, 2009, 11:39 am

Stephanie Rice's coach admits swimming's glamour girl struggled to overcome her post-Olympic hangover but he's confident living the high life won't cost her. ...Read More

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BEIJING 2008 MEDAL TALLY

Position

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total
1 China 51 21 28 100
2 United States 36 38 36 110
3 Russia 23 21 28 72
4 Britain 19 13 15 47
6 Australia 14 15 17 46

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