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Tough as steel Metallurg Magnitogorsk made the home crowd proud when it skated to a 3-1 victory over the Finnish team Karpat Oulu in Russia. The victory clinched a spot in the Champions Hockey League semifinals.
The closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Games, replete with spectacle, pageantry and parades. An on-the-scene account ...
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Nine of the eleven team sport head coaches leading the United States are first-time bosses on the Olympic stage. Instead of experiencing rookie jitters, however, these sideline-roamers succeeded at an impressive rate.
Golden era
1,000: Number of all-time Olympic gold medals USA reached after women's soccer team's win on August 21. 922 of those gold medals have been won at Summer Games. (Source: USOC)
Magical margins
0.2: Number of seconds gap between Usain Bolt and 2nd place finisher Richard Thompson in the 100m dash final. (Tied for largest winning margin in the event)
0.66: That gap between Bolt and official runner-up Shawn Crawford in the 200m dash final. (Largest ever.)
108: Margin of victory, in pounds, for Korean super-heavyweight weightlifter Jang Mi-ran, over nearest competitor, Ukraine's Olha Korobka.
World records
25: Number of world records set in swimming in Beijing
In the numbers
5.12 14:28: Official date and time of devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province
51 21 28: Number of gold, silver & bronze medals won by China at 2008 Games
“Michael Phelps, SwimmingIt's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim in the morning, don't go.
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