With the Olympics Games about to begin in Beijing, I found it relevant to show you the greatest dunk I've ever seen! It was in Sydney in 2000, during a game pitting the Team USA and the French National Team. Maybe you've already seen this, but you never get tired of it, huh?

At the time, I watched it live! I remember it vividly, I started to yell and leaped out of my chair! Even if I was naturally rooting for my country, I was amazed by this dunk.

Vince Carter just humiliated the French Center. His name is Fred Weis, and the guy is a seven footer! His exact size is 7"2. How in the world did Carter manage to jump above Weis?! His jumping skills are just mind-blowing.

As for the French center, rumor has it that after this humiliation he never really get over it. He became mentally weak, and lost confidence in his game. He was drafted by the NY Knicks a year before, but never made it to the NBA. Was he afraid to run into Vince Carter one more time?

Take a look at this squad: Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets), Carlos Boozer (Utah Jazz), Chris Bosh (Toronto Raptors), Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers), Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic), LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers), Jason Kidd (Dallas Mavericks), Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets), Tayshaun Prince (Detroit Pistons), Michael Redd (Milwaukee Bucks), Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat), Deron Williams (Utah Jazz).

You can notice that none of the Celtics' big three will attend this competition. Garnett said a long time ago his time with Team USA was over, and I guess Allen and Pierce are knackered after playing 26 play-offs games in the postseason. They definitely need some rest!

I think you'll agree with me when I say that at first sight this team looks incredible. There's a bunch of all-stars (or former all-stars), and physically they'll be superiors to their opponents.

However, I think this team is unbalanced. There are too much exteriors players, and not enough insides players on this team. Only 3 insides players (Chris Bosh, Carlos Boozer et Dwight Howard) is just ludicrous, with Howard being the only center. What if one of of them gets injured, or is in foul trouble?

Plus, this squad desperately lacks some "role-players", one who can perform the dirty work. All those guys are used to get the ball all year long in their team, and they ain't used to work for the team (stuff like setting screens, playing some defense without getting many shots and playing few minutes without bitchin' about it...).

To be efficient, a basket-ball team must have some sort of chemistry on the court, and the 1st step to get this chemistry is to have a hierarchy inside the team. And when you only have superstars in your own team, please tell me how you get a hierarchy!

The lack of hierarchy was one of the main downsides in Athens '04, and in Japan two years ago. Team USA hit rock bottom against this Greek team mainly because of it. Every American players wanted to take care of the ball, and be the leader on the court.

I can't blame them: it's just what they're used to do in the regular season with their own team. But it just doesn't work this way in International competition : you gotta play as a TEAM.

One last thing: I hope this time, Mike Krzyzewski and his staff will scout their opponents!

Head of Interpol Ronald Noble has warned that there is a "real possibility that the Beijing Olympics will be attacked by terrorists. He said security services in Beijing must be prepared "for the possibility that al-Qaeda or some other terriorist group will attempt to launch a deadly terrorist attack at these Olympics''.

He added that "These activities could range from disruptive behavior, like blocking major transportation routes or infrastructure or interfering with competitions, to more violent acts like assaulting Olympic officials or athletes or destroying property.''

Chinese officials have said that terrorism is the biggest threat to the August Olympic Games and have called for closer international co-operation to prevent possible incidents.

See previous articles - UPDATED - Sabotage Of Beijing Games? - Kidnapping And Suicide Attacks - What's Next?

[Adapted from International Press Reports]

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Acho que todos estão acompanhando as manifestações PRÓ-TIBET que estão acontecendo nos países em que a maldita Tocha Olímpica está passando. Eu agradeço o apoio de todos.

Não publiquei nada antes pois estava muito empolgado no meu exílio, acompanhando os noticiários.

Agora, a maioria desses fanfarrões nem são budistas, nem sabem onde fica o Tibet... mas não interessa, se estão apoiando a causa, tá valendo. Mas isso me lembra o Impeachment do presidente brasileiro Fernando Collor... os tais "caras-pintadas" na época, só queriam saber de farra.

Bom, esse foi só um post pra dar as caras... ando muito ocupado preparando bombas caseiras chás e orações e em breve ponho as fotos da Mulher-melancia (essa sim, uma Budista de verdade).

Saudações Tibetanas

Habituellement en "contact" avec le peuple, le symbole des Jeux parcours notre planète de façon protégé... Jamais de façon ultra-surveillé, accompagné de centaines de CRS, policiers, des motards, un hélicoptère, etc... Je vous laisse observer le schéma du Figaro... No comment et pour tout dire assez flippant !

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Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú Yùlíng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. She became known after starring in the television series Ally McBeal (1998-2002) and has also appeared in several notable film roles, including Kill Bill and Charlie's Angels.
Liu began acting in 1989, after auditioning for a role in the University of Michigan's production of Alice in Wonderland during her senior year. Liu was cast in the lead role, although she had originally only tried out for a supporting part.[1] Liu had small roles in films and TV (including the Hell Money episode of The X-Files) before landing a role on Ally McBeal. Liu originally auditioned for the role of 'Nelle Porter' (played by Portia de Rossi), and the character "Ling Woo" was later created specifically for her. Liu's part on the series was originally not meant to be regular but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress' 'feisty' Ling Woo secured Liu as a permanent cast member. It also earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Liu cemented her reputation playing bad girls by portraying "Pearl" the sadistic dominatirix/hit woman for the Chinese mafia in the film Payback (1999).

Liu became better known with her turn as Alex Munday in the Charlie's Angels movie, alongside established Hollywood stars Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The film became a hit, earning more than $125 million in the U.S., and a worldwide total of more than $258 million. The sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, opened to poor reviews but was a box-office hit again, earning more than $252 million. In between the two films, Liu starred with Antonio Banderas in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a critical and box-office failure.

Liu next played O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth), one of the major villains in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Best Movie Villain" for the part. Subsequently, Liu appeared on several episodes of Joey with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie's Angels movies. She also had smaller roles as Kitty Baxter in the smash hit Chicago, and as a psychologist opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino. In 2006, she played leading lady and love interest to Josh Hartnett in the popular crime thriller Lucky Number Slevin. Other appearances include a cameo on the animated show Futurama and recently, The Simpsons.

Liu caused a stir when she posed for photos in the April, 2007 German edition of O magazine.

In April 2006, the documentary Freedom's Fury premiered, with Liu as executive producer. The film dramatizes the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, climaxing with the infamous water polo showdown between Hungary and the Soviet Union at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, known as the 'Blood In The Water match'.

Her film 3 Needles was released on December 1, 2006. In the film, she plays Jin Ping, an HIV-positive Chinese woman. Liu agreed to star in the film for lower than usual pay because she wanted to spread awareness about the way AIDS is improperly treated in China and Thailand. Liu's other recent roles include Code Name: The Cleaner, an action comedy released January 5, 2007 and, Rise, a supernatural thriller co-starring Michael Chiklis in which Liu plays an undead reporter, Watching the Detectives, an independent romantic comedy co-starring Cillian Murphy, and Kung Fu Panda, an animated film scheduled for 2008 in which she will voice a snake. Liu has also signed on to star in Beautiful Asian Brides and a new version of Charlie Chan which has been in pre-production since 2000; she will produce both films.

Liu has guest starred as lawyer Grace Chin on Ugly Betty episode 16 Derailed and episode 17 Icing On The Cake.

She is due to star in the upcoming Sex and the City inspired TV show, Cashmere Mafia on ABC.

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Her voice is better than a lot of the "pop" singers in the Cpop industry nowadays.

She won 3rd place in the "Super Girl Singing Competition"

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She performs:

The Power Of Love - Celine Dion
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
When You Believe - Mariah Carey + Whitney Houston

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Here you will see highlights from Justine's run to her gold medal victory, including her famous semifinal match against Myskina when she came back down from 1-5 in the final set (one game away from losing) to win it 8-6. Justine wins the final against Amelie Mauresmo and wins Belgium's only gold medal in the 2004 Olympics. Justine's run to the gold medal is all the more impressive considering that she hardly competed in 2004 due to her struggles with a fatigue-inducing virus.

Also shown in this video are Mary Pierce (FRA), Anastasia Myskina (RUS), Amelie Mauresmo (FRA), and Alicia Molik (AUS).

CScout is a global Trend Consultancy with offices in New York, Munich, Beijing and Tokyo. During a recent TrendTour we visited the Olympic Media Center in Beijing, China. Beijing is preparing for the Olympic Games in 2008 and our local Team is reporting about the newest developments to keep our customers on the pulse. This is the TrendTour Documentation Video with Interviews and Backgrounds about the preparations for the Olympic Games 2008.

De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

Las pruebas anti-dopaje fueron introducidas en los Juegos Olímpicos desde México 1968. Hasta la fecha han resultado positivo a estas pruebas 72 atletas.

El caso más conocido de dopaje es el del canadiense Ben Johnson quien resultó positivo durante los Juegos Olímpicos de Seúl 1988, fue despojado de la medalla de oro que había conseguido en la prueba de 100 m y fue sancionado por dos años. Tras regresar a los deportes, dio positivo nuevamente y terminó excluido de por vida de las competencias deportivas.

Son también considerados como positivos los atletas que se niegan a realizar una prueba cuando ésta le es solicitada. Tal fue el caso del húngaro Adrian Annus en Atenas 2004, quién dio negativo dos veces, pero de quien se sospechó una manipulación de muestras de orina. Al negarse el atleta a un tercer contol fue despojado de sus resultados.

La ciclista colombiana María Luisa Calle dio positiva en las pruebas. Si bien ella argumentó nunca haber consumido el producto detectado y que éste solo podría estar en su cuerpo como resultado de una transformación de otras sustancias no prohibidas, se consideró que cada atleta es responsable de todo aquello que consume y de sus eventuales consecuencias.

Prácticamente ningún país está excluido del dopaje en la actualidad, pero la mejora en la calidad de las pruebas hace cada día más difícil que un atleta consuma sustancias prohibidas y no sea descubierto.

• México 1968

1. Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall (SUE) Pentatlón moderno

• Munich 1972

1. Bakhaava Buidaa (MGL) Judo
2. Miguel Coll (PUR) Básquetbol
3. Rick Demont (USA) Natación
4. Jaime Huélamo (ESP) Ciclismo
5. Walter Legel (AUT) Halterofilia
6. Mohamad Nasehi Ar Jomand (IRA) Halterofilia
7. Aad van Den Hoek (HOL) Ciclismo

• Montreal 1976

1. Blagoi Blagoev (BUL) Halterofilia
2. Mark Cameron (USA) Halterofilia
3. Paul Cerrutti (MON) Tiro Olímpico
4. Valentin Hristov (BUL) Halterofilia
5. Dragomir Ciorosian (RUM) Halterofilia
6. Phillip Grippaldi (USA) Halterofilia
7. Zbigniew Kaczmarek (POL) Halterofilia
8. Lorne Leibel (CAN) Vela
9. Arne Norback (SUE) Halterofilia
10. Petr Pavlasek (CHECOSLOVAQUIA) Halterofilia
11. Danuta Rosani (POL) Atletismo

• Los Angeles 1984

1. Serafin Grammatikopoulos (GRE) Halterofilia
2. Vesteinn Hafsteinsson (ISL) Atletismo
3. Tomas Johansson (SUE) Lucha
4. Stefan Laggner (AUT) Halterofilia
5. Goran Pefferson (SUE) Halterofilia
6. Eiji Shimomura (JAP) Voleibol
7. Mikiyasu Tanaka (JAP) Voleibol
8. Ahmed Tarbi (ARG) Halterofilia
9. Mahmoud Tarha (LIB) Halterofilia
10. Gianpaolo Urlando (ITA) Atletismo
11. Martti Vainio (FIN) Atletismo
12. Anna Verouli (GRE) Atletismo

• Seúl 1988

1. Alidad (AFG) Lucha
2. Kerrith Brown (GBR) Judo
3. Mitko Grablev (BUL) Halterofilia
4. Angel Genchev (BUL) Halterofilia
5. Ben Johnson (CAN) Atletismo
6. Fernando Mariaca (ESP) Halterofilia
7. Jorge Quesada (ESP) Pentatlón moderno
8. Kalman Scengeri (HUN) Halterofilia
9. Andor Szanyi (HUN) Halterofilia
10. Alexander Watson (AUS) Pentatlón moderno

• Barcelona 1992

1. Madina Biktagirova (BLR) Atletismo
2. Bonnie Dasse (USA) Atletismo
3. Jud Logan (USA) Atletismo
4. Nijole Medvedieva (LIT) Atletismo
5. Wu Dan (CHN) Voleibol

• Atlanta 1996

1. Natalya Shekhodanova (RUS) Atletismo
2. Iva Prandzheva (BUL) Atletismo

• Sydney 2000

1. Ivan Ivanov (BUL) Halterofilia
2. Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) Halterofilia
3. Izabela Drganeva (BUL) Halterofilia
4. Andris Reinholds (LAT) Remo
5. Andreea Raducan (RUM) Gimnasia
6. Fritz Aanes (NOR) Lucha
7. Ashot Danielyan (ARM) Halterofilia
8. Alexander Leipold (GER) Lucha
9. Oyunbileg Purevbaatar (MGL) Lucha

• Atenas 2004

1. Andrew James Brack (GRE) Béisbol
2. Derek Nicholson (GRE) Béisbol
3. David Munyasi (KEN) Boxeo
4. Aye Khine Nan (BIR) Halterofilia
5. Sanamacha Chanu (IND) Halterofilia
6. Viktor Chislean (MDA) Halterofilia
7. Zoltan Kecskes (HUN) Halterofilia
8. Sule Sahbaz (TUR) Halterofilia
9. Pratima Kumari (IND) Halterofilia
10. Wafa Ammouri (MAR) Halterofilia
11. Olga Shchukina (UZB) Atletismo
12. Albina Khomich (RUS) Halterofilia
13. Leonidas Sampanis (GRE) Halterofilia
14. Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) Atletismo
15. Robert Fazekas (HUN) Atletismo
16. Aleksey Lesnichiy (BLR) Atletismo
17. Olena Olefirenko (UCR) Remo
18. Zoltan Kovacs (HUN) Halterofilia
19. Anton Galkin (RUS) Atletismo
20. Ferenc Gyurkovics (HUN) Halterofilia
21. Mabel Fonseca (PUR) Lucha
22. María Luisa Calle (COL) Ciclismo
23. Adrian Annus (HUN) Atletismo

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Español: Halterofilia, Levantamiento de pesas en East Coast Classic, 2007

English: My 6 attempts (3 snatch, 3 clean and jerk) at the 2007 East Coast Classic in Moorestown, NJ. I total 211kgs with 4 successfull lifts. My form is really improving. Compare this video with the 2005 Keystone State Games for form differences.

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Español: Puente Río Antirio - Construcción finalizada justo antes de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2004 en Grecia, también uno de las más dificultosos de construír.

English: Do you know the Rio-Antirio bridge? Its construction was finished in Greece just before the Olympic Games of 2004. It was one of the most difficult works ever made in the world. Admire it just before the end of the contruction!

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