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Visiting iconic Glasgow soccer stadium to start the London Games

Summer sky framed by famous stadium in Glasgow   GLASGOW, Scotland – We’ve arrived in the north, the farthest outpost of the 2012 Summer Olympics. I’ve dragged videographer Karl Mondon with me for a...

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Bay Area author Ann Killion discusses upcoming Hope Solo book

Former Merc columnist has been covering the U.S. women's soccer team for her upcoming book on goalkeeper Hope Solo. GLASGOW, Scotland – Marin writer Ann Killion is spending the 2012 Summer  Olympics...

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Missy Franklin: Considering Cal but drops Stanford as possible college

LONDON – Stanford’s loss could be Cal’s gain in the recruiting war for burgeoning swim star Missy Franklin. Franklin, 17, told reporters Thursday that she has scheduled recruiting visits to Cal, USC...

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Cal grad Milorad Cavic talks Phelps and politics

LONDON — Cal graduate Milorad Cavic has been Serbia’s sportsman of the year three times. But Americans remeber him as that guy who almost spoiled Michael Phelps record eight gold medal haul in Beijing....

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Women’s Road Race: Scenes from start in Central London

LONDON – Rain, well, at least a rain drop or two, finally fell on London this morning at the start of the women’s road race. It feels like a blustery spring day in the Bay Area. And fortunately it is...

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Sights and Sounds from a trek through Olympic Park

LONDON – I finally had my first chance to walk around Olympic Park in between morning and evening swimming events Saturday. I toured the entire sprawling grounds on the east side of London in...

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Cal swimmer Lauren Boyle has Olympic highlight far from spotlight

LONDON – Far from the glorification of medals and Phelps and the rest of it the true nature of the Olympics can be found from the voice of swimmer Lauren Boyle, a 2010 Cal graduate. Boyle, 24, finished...

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Matt Biondi looks back, ahead at his life as famous Olympic swimmer

LONDON –Catching up with Olympic swim star Matt Biondi always is interesting. Biondi, 46, came out of Campolindo High in Moraga to become an 11-time Olympic medalist and the star of the Seoul Games in...

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Cal swimmer Milorad Cavic: ‘Being competitive is the biggest poison of all’

LONDON – Milorad Cavic is retiring from swimming after the London Games. Few talk about his departure in the same breath as Michael Phelps, though the Olympians are forever linked because of their...

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Cyclist Shelley Olds still flattened by Olympic result 1 week later

LONDON – Shelley Olds hasn’t gotten over the flat tire that sabotaged her Olympic aspirations. “I am still a little upset every time I think about it,” she said from her home in Girona, Spain. “But I...

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