The message to a distraught Chinese public, still reeling from withdrawal of the nation’s biggest sporting hero, could not have been clearer.
This time he remembered to do his shoelaces up. This time he ran hard all the way to the finish, looking neither right nor left.
Jamaica made a clean sweep of Olympic sprint golds on Thursday with victory in the women’s 200m to complete their domination over the United States.
Zhao Xiaojun may not have won a gold medal, but the Shanghai architect who helped create the iconic Water Cube is already reaping the rewards.
Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt should show more respect for his rivals, says International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge.
Chinese authorities have sentenced two women in their 70s to a year’s ”re-education through labour” following their application to hold a protest.
Usain ”Lightning” Bolt roared to gold in the 200m on Wednesday to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double.
Ukraine’s Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Liudmyla Blonska has failed a drugs test, the IOC confirmed on Wednesday.
Britain notched their highest gold medal tally in a century on Tuesday with four victories in running, cycling and sailing for the 2012 hosts.
Representatives of the SA government will discuss the country’s progress in preparing for the 2010 Soccer World Cup at a briefing in Beijing.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has taken the art of flirting with the crowd to new heights. Others have simply taken their clothes off.
”I want to help the Olympics. It is just a small thing, but I want to make a contribution” says one of the cheerleaders bussed in to fill empty seats.
Long jumper Khotso Mokoena grabbed SA’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics when he won silver in his event with a jump of 8,24m on Monday.
Australian Emma Snowsill has swept to a devastating victory in the Olympic triathlon, leaving two South African competitors behind.
Chinese superstar Liu Xiang sensationally pulled out of the Games injured on Monday, putting a dampener on China’s success thus far.
The ID has slammed the ”completely unnecessary wastage” of R11-million on a failed publicity project to showcase South Africa at the Beijing Olympics.
The South African men’s hockey team did what the women’s team still have to achieve by scoring their first points of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
Juan van Deventer cut it fine, but was helped to qualify for the 1 500m final by the speed of his A semifinal at the Bird’s Nest on Sunday night.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal adds Olympic gold to his glittering season collection as he destroys Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the men’s singles final.
Michael Phelps completed his stunning display of swimming supremacy with an historic eighth gold medal at the Beijing Games on Sunday.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.
Novak Djokovic claimed Serbia’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal on Saturday while the giant-killing run of China’s Li Na came shuddering to a halt.
World-record holder Usain Bolt scorched into the men’s 100m final of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, but Tyson Gay crashed out.
South Africa’s men’s rowing pair Ramon di Clemente and Shaun Keeling had to settle for fifth place in their Olympic final on Saturday.
On the sunniest day so far of the Olympics Games, South African fortunes took a turn for the better.
Iraq’s Dana Abdulrazak, who braved sniper fire and bombs in order to train, was a winner just by starting the women’s 100m opening heats on Saturday.
Sport and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile has asked his staff to explain why a marketing centre in Beijing has not been operational.
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
Children from China’s dominant Han population represented Tibetan and other ethnic groups in the Olympic opening ceremony, an official said.
Roland Schoeman became the fifth South African swimmer to make a final after he finished third in his semifinal of the 50m freestyle on Friday.
He’s only 20 years old, but Jean Basson has shown clear signs of greater things to come, finishing just outside of the medals at his first Games.
Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has not only given her politically beleaguered country something to smile about.