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| In Hiroshima's Shadow |
| AUGUST 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction
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| US-CHINA TRADE-OFF |
| WHEN you talk to Chinese officials lately, it doesn't take long before they express concern about America's "rebalancing" of forces – the prospect that we'll shift more troops from the Middle East, where they are containing instability, to Asia, where they would contain China...
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 | Phelps wrests 17th gold medal LONDON MICHAEL Phelps recalled past glories with a 100m butterfly triumph on Friday as world record-setter Missy Franklin, Katie Ledecky and Florent Manaudou showed Olympic swimming's future has arrived....
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| | Dibaba, Majewski defend titles; Ennis takes lead | | LONDON BEIJING champions Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba and Poland's Tomasz Majewski defended their titles to lend athletics programme a thrilling start during the Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on Friday.
Dibaba put injury woes behind her by retaining her Olympic women's 10,000m crown in majestic style in the first track title to be decided.
Majewski became the first thrower in almost 60 years to keep the shot put crown.
Dibaba, 26, has hardly competed at the longest track event since winning the 5,000m and 10,000m double in Beijing but put her injury hit years behind her to take gold in 30 minutes, 20.75 seconds.
Known as the "baby-faced destroyer", Dibaba burst clear at the bell and quickly put distance between herself and chasing Kenyan duo Sally Kipyego and Vivian Cheruiyot.
... | | | Vijay shoots silver in 25m rapid fire pistol | | UNHERALDED Army shooter Vijay Kumar produced a surprise silver medal in the men's 25 metres rapid fire pistol event to provide a big boost to India's Olympic campaign while another unfancied shooter Joydeep Karmakar came very close to a bronze medal, on Friday.
The 25-year-old Vijay, who is a subedar with 16 Dogra Regiment, took the spotlight with a stunning display of precision shooting to fetch India's second medal in the ongoing Games and the fourth shooting medal in Olympic history.
While Vijay managed a podium finish which not many had predicted, Karmakar also came up with an impressive performance in the men's 50m rifle prone event in which medal contender Gagan Narang fell by the wayside, failing to even reach the final.
... | | | Nada finishes with personal best at London | | QATARI swimmer Nada Arkaji produced her personal best in the 50m women's freestyle qualifying competition before bowing gracefully out of the London Olympic Games on Friday.
The 17-year-old posted a healthy time of 33.89 secs to finish fourth in a group of eight swimmers in heat 3 out of the 10 planned at the Aquatics Centre.
Nada, 17, is one four female athletes representing Qatar for the first time at the Olympic Games.
The heat was won by Karin Clashing of Antigua with a time of 30.01secs. In second spot was Vitiny Hemthon (30.44) while Rwanda's Alphonsine Agahozo finished as third fastest swimmer the heat (30.84).
Nada was timed just 0.88secs off the pace set by Clashing.
"I am happy with the way I performed today. I didn't win but it wasn't a bad day.
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