• Smith: David Stern and the NBA players expanding the game globally and in partnership with the Olympic movement, the game has grown so much versus 1998.

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  • The debacle has prompted wide debate on social media, with opinion divided on whether the players were exercising tactical nous within a poorly designed system or were guilty of failing the Olympic spirit and bringing the game into disrepute.

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  • The 2016 Olympic Games will include the seven-man game as an official Olympic sport.

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  • In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.

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  • Nicklaus also believes golf's becoming an Olympic event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016 will give the game a boost, especially in countries like China and Brazil that are relatively new to the sport.

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  • Some clubs in England and France have questioned the rate of financial growth, McGrath says, and are encouraged by the potential for rugby's global expansion, particularly following the inclusion of rugby sevens, a shorter form of the classic game, in the 2016 Olympic Games.

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  • It was kind of fun to watch Maria Sharapova struggle to win a single game in the Olympic singles final.

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  • Mexican gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas used the arrangement for her Olympics routine, quite possibly marking the first time a video game soundtrack has been used in the Olympic games.

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  • The Rugby World Cup is being held in England in 2015, and the following year the sevens shortened version of the game makes its introduction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • At a recent group exhibition of wildly inventive chess sets (Sellers's nod to the London Olympic Games), she sold a paper version of the classic game for next to nothing.

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  • The Italian club Lazio will also play to empty stands on March 14 when it hosts Stuttgart at the Olympic Stadium in Rome in the Europa League and for its following European home game, whether it comes this season or not.

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  • Perry and Getzlaf came into the NHL together and have played on the same line for nearly every game of their careers, winning the Stanley Cup in 2007 and earning Olympic gold medals for Canada together in 2010.

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  • Ultimately, the Americans were able to extend their 40-game Olympic winning streak and secure a spot in Saturday's gold-medal game against either Russia or France.

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  • The game of badminton dates back centuries but has been an Olympic sport only since 1992.

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  • With the Olympic Games approaching, The Wall Street Journal set out to answer this parlor-game question: If Earth had to send one man to the Intergalactic Olympics, who should go?

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  • In the first of the Tuesday matches under scrutiny, Wang and Yu played South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na in a game in which "neither side seemed to be exerting themselves, " the official Olympic news service said.

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  • In the first of the Tuesday matches that prompted the uproar, Wang and Yu played South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na in a game in which "neither side seemed to be exerting themselves, " the official Olympic news service said.

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  • The company pounced when the South Korean flag was shown next to North Korean players on a big screen before an Olympic football game in Glasgow in July and when Chelsea's Eden Hazard clashed with a ball boy in Swansea in January, taking out newspaper ads.

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  • Gilbert , inventor of the Erector Set, was also a professional magician, Yale Med School grad, Olympic athlete and big-game hunter.

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  • And he will be up against Australian Mitcham, the Olympic champion, who is an amazing diver: fit, on form and at the top of his game.

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  • Described by Journal golf columnist John Paul Newport as having "the slightly slouchy gait of an adolescent, " Hossler brought both a steely game and a guileless charm to Olympic.

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