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| Olympic moments: Day 11 |
| Even as China's gold medal fest is under threat of a slow down, gymnast Li Xiaopeng performs on the parallel bars to claim the prized gold. |
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| Olympic moments: Day 10 |
| China was unprepared for the shock that they recieved when Liu Xiang was out of the men's 110-meter hurdles first round heat due to the injury. |
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| Olympic moments: Day 9 |
| Michael Phelps proved that he is the best swimmer as he won the eighth gold of Beijing Olympics to create a new record. The Williams' sisters, too, gathered a gold in doubles. |
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| Olympic moments: Day 8 |
| Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz's record and Indian boxer Jitender Kumar entered quaterfinals as Beijing celebrated another day of Olympic Games. |
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| Grand welcome for champion Bindra |
| Gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra is congratulated by his family members after he arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Thursday morning. |
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| Mixed-bag for India on Day 5 |
| While Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati eased into the quarter-finals of the men's tennis doubles, Saina Nehwal lost to Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti during the quarters of the women's singles badminton. |
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| Olympic moments: Day 4 |
| Dola Banerjee and L Bombayla Devi crashed out of the women's individual archery event at the Beijing Olympics after losing their respective opening round matches. |
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| The golden eye |
| Abhinav Bindra wins India's first ever individual gold medal at the Olympics, winning the 10m air rifle event at the 2008 Games. |
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| Beijing ball gets rolling |
United States' Michael Phelps set the ball rolling for Beijing Olympics as he created a new world record in the men's 400-meter individual medley final.
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| India's special Olympians |
The world's second most populous country with over a billion people has only won eight Olympic golds in the last 80 years.
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| India
gears up for Olympics |
| With steadily growing population of the athletes in the Indian contingent, the nation can hope to end the medal drought that has prevailed. India has a bank of shooters and Lee-Hesh are pairing again in tennis. |
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| Tibetans
protest in New Delhi |
| Tibetan refugees hold largescale demonstrations in the capital to coincide with the Olympic flame run, including taking out a parallel torch relay to protest against alleged Chinese atrocities in Tibet. |
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| Olympic
torch-ure |
| Thousands of Tibetans, along with their international supporters, protest along the route of the Olympic torch relay that began in Athens. They are demanding Tibet's independence from China and a boycott of the Beijing Olympics. |
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