Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Earlier today, sports activities and European athletes were given pride of place at the Champ de Mars which was transformed into a huge sports arena for 'Vivre
Beijing Olympics 2008 Live (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Ishii Satoshi from Japan, has won the gold medal in the men�s 100kg plus judo event at the Beijing Olympics. He beat Abdullo Tangriev from Uzbekistan with a yuko. Oscar Brayson of Cuba and Teddy Riner of France won the bronze medals. 1 Vote(s)
uzbekistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Abdulla (Abdullo) Tangriev, a 27 year old heavyweight judoist from Uzbekistan, won the silver medal in XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Tangriev is one of the outstanding sportsmen of Uzbekistan winning in several international competitions. He has already been a prizewinner in world’s and Asian championships. Tangriev’s path to his medal was very difficult. [...]
MSNBC.com: Sports (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
The United States takes on Chinese-Taipei in round-robin softball action.Women's team bronze-medal bracket eliminations, winner advances to bronze-medal contest.. PLAYING LIVE: men's doubles bronze-medal match Denmark's Paaske/ Rasmussen plays Korea's Lee/Hwang. Update: Maria Kristin Yulianti beats China's Lu Lan for the bronze medal in badminton singles. Quarterfinals, semifinals and classification...
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Japanese Satoshi Ishii won a gold medal in heavyweight judo after beating Abdullo Tangriev of Uzbekistan. But many had expected a final against the teenage world champion, Frenchman Teddy Riner, who clinched the bronze medal.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Beijing - Satoshi Ishii took judo gold in the men's +100- kilogram division Friday while in the women's event China's Tong Wen prevented a Japanese double by beating Maki Tsukada in the +78kg category. The 2004 junior world champion Ishii defeated Uz...
Region Freiburg (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
BEIJING (AP) -- Teddy Riner has taken a liking to Beijing, where people have started calling him "The Great Wall.'' The French media are building ...
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The French Judo team has touched down in Beijing led by Teddy Riner, a former World and European Champion in the Heavyweight class, hoping to extinguish memories of Athens where they failed to bring back a single gold medal.
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A fierce man-mountain on the competition mat, but a soft-spoken teenager who still lives with his parents off it,......
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
France's Teddy Riner is one the country's best hopes for a gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games and the youngest world champion ever. His main competition for the gold will be the Japanese national champion, Satoshi Ishii.
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Pic: Victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre (CP photo) French officials slam Chinese torch securityPARIS (Reuters) - French officials criticized Chinese security staff on Tuesday for the way they handled the Olympic torch relay in Paris a day earlier, scrapping several planned stages and frequently putting the torch on a bus. The Chinese officials, who included tracksuit-wearing security operatives...
