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Echoes of China's volleyball golden moment in surprise win in Rio

Huge Chinese TV audience watch as women’s team defeats Serbia after barely scraping into finals. Chinese women's volleyball team won the gold medal in Rio Olympic Games on Sunday. The outstanding performance has inspired many who watched the game to never give up and keep fighting.

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Chinese, but competing under a different flag

In the age of globalization, competing at the Olympics means potentially coming up against former teammates who now represent rival nations — a reality Team China must confront in Rio de Janeiro.

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Vietnam's first-ever Olympic gold, inevitable or accidental?

Vietnamese marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Vietnam on the opening day of the ongoing Rio Olympics' events and in doing so prompted many local sports experts to maintain it was no fluke but the inevitable result of Vietnamese sports development.

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Two secrets of Vietnam's first Olympic gold medalist

The 42-year-old marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh, who has on Sunday won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Vietnam, has two career secrets.

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Rio ready for Olympic carnival as opening awaits

The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party on Friday, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and infrastructure stumbles.

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Rio organizers apologize for robbery towards athlete and tourist, advice to be alert

Rio 2016 organizing committee apologized to the tourists and athletes who suffer robbery in the city and advised them to be alert in order to keep safe.

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Olympics: Gloom and anger for Russian athletes due to miss Rio Olympics

Russian athletes on Thursday (July 21) reacted with a mixture of anger and despair after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dashed their dreams of competing at the Rio Olympics by rejecting an appeal against a ban for doping.

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Foreign coaches expected to add gloss to China's Rio Olympic delegation

As China unveiled its Rio de Janeiro Olympics delegation, 29 foreign names drew attention in the 711-strong roster.

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South Sudan refugee athletes train in Kenya for Rio Olympics

Ten young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries will participate in the August Olympic games in Rio De Jenairo to spread the message of peace, solidarity and hope.

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The truth behind Rio Olympics preparation

With one month to go, Rio de Janeiro is fully occupied with the preparation for the Olympic and Paralymic Games to be held for the first time in South America from August to September.

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Pianist Lang Lang leads six Chinese participate in Rio Olympics torch relay

Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang led six Chinese torchbearers participate in the Rio Olympics torch relay on Thursday in the famous Iguacu waterfall city.

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With Brazil in turmoil, Rio counts down to Olympics

​Brazil’s president is facing impeachment. The country’s economy is in sharp decline. Bodies of water that will be used for Olympic competitions are polluted, and global public health officials are trying to tamp down the Zika virus epidemic.

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Brazil, Rio let the bad times roll

​In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was flying high. Although it had not escaped the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it had suffered less economic damage, and had come back more quickly, than other countries, including the United States. With the economy booming, the federal government felt so flush that its popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had instituted a series of expensive social programs that helped push millions of poor Brazilians toward a better life. The Economist magazine predicted that Brazil would soon be the world’s fifth-largest economy, leapfrogging Britain and France.

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These are the athletes opting out of the Olympics amid zika concerns

​More athletes — nearly all of them golfers — are bowing out of the Summer Olympics in Brazil as concerns over the Zika outbreak continue.

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W.H.O. says Olympics should go ahead in Brazil despite Zika virus

The Olympic Games should go on as planned, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and athletes and spectators, except for pregnant women, should not hesitate to attend so long as they take precautions against infection with the Zika virus.

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W.H.O.'s Zika guidelines don't include delaying olympics

The World Health Organization on Thursday urged athletes and travelers planning to attend the Olympics in Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika epidemic, to take a series of steps to guard against infection, but the agency made it clear that it was not calling for the Summer Games in August to be canceled or postponed.

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Rio Olympics ceremonies tighten budget amid Brazil crisis

The opening and closing ceremonies of Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games will be in low budget, much less than in London Olympics, according to ceremonies' directors.