usatoday.com - 10/30/2008
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The names included softball players Jennie Finch and Jessica Mendoza and soccer player Abby Wambach, who broke her leg and missed the Olympic Games. It also included two Paralympians, one athlete who wasn't a member of the 2008 softball team and a top female collegiate golfer. Golf is not an ...
sports.espn.go.com - 10/30/2008
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Concerned about possible demonstrations
during the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government produced a...
list of nine American athletes and one assistant coach it thought might cause problems during the games. The U.S. State ...
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Report: China listed possible U.S. troublemakers at ...
sportsbybrooks.com - 10/31/2008
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sportsbybrooks.com —
Sure, Americans are superficial, but in terms of
national sensitivity, no country is more image-conscious than China,...
and nowhere was it more evident than the 2008 Olympics. Their ceremonies were–to put it mildly–extravagant and the precision and ...
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China Demands Silence From Jennie Finch, Others
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China Had US Olympians Targeted as Troublemakers
The Big Lead —
... was on the list! Why were Chinese officials concerned about a softball pitcher and other US athletes staging a protest in Beijing last summer? “Because ‘many of them’ were ‘apparently associated with Team Darfur,’ an international coalition of athletes committed to raising awareness about the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.” This is where you throw one up to the Big Guy for being born here. (USA Today) ...
Chinese Officials Listed Nine US Athletes As Potential Troublemakers In Beijing
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Filed under: China, USA USA Today is reporting that the Chinese government listed nine United States athletes and one assistant coach as potential troublemakers during the recent Beijing Olympics. Chinese officials felt this group of people posed a threat to ignite demonstrations against the country during the Games.
The names included softball players Jennie Finch and Jessica Mendoza and soccer player Abby Wambach, who broke her leg and missed the Olympic Games. It also included two Paralympians, one ...
Jennie Finch On Beijing Watch List
RightFielders Women in Sports —
American softball star Jennie Finch, who was in the silver medal winning U.S. National Team which took part in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, made it to the watch list prepared by the Chinese Government before the Olympics to keep an eye on those foreign players who might create trouble while the games were going on. National newspaper U.S. Today broke the news this morning saying that they are in the possession of an internal e-mail sent to the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC).“We viewed these concerns as being entirely unjustified and unwarranted,” USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said ...
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reuters.com 10/17/2008 — BEIJING (Reuters) - The most famous fan of a Chinese soccer club has decided to become a monk after the squad withdrew from the country's professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player. Wuhan Guanggu, a club based in the ...
