The focus of the world has been on the Olympics, and on its host city Beijing. MPR's Melody Ng has been journaling her return to the Chinese capital city 15 years after living there.
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Two St. Paul men won a bronze medal in the rowing competition at the Beijing Olympics, but two other athletes with Minnesota ties are out of the games.
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Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won
his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to
become the grandest of Olympic champions.
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One week after Barbara Bachman's husband
was killed in a random knife attack in China that also hospitalized her with life-threatening injuries, she is back in Minnesota, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, to continue her recovery.
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Under other circumstances, Nastia Liukin would've
been the star of the Olympics for the U.S. delegation Friday. After all, she was crowned the all-around champion of women's gymnastics and has a heck of a backstory about overcoming the exact obstacle that stopped her father 20 years ago.
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So, it's come down to this for Michael Phelps: The only guys likely to stop him from taking down the ultimate Olympic record are wearing red, white and blue.
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