Watching China

(Hammond resident Erica Bartolina is in Beijing to compete in the Summer Olympics. Here is her latest postcard from the People's Republic).

NBC Universal wrote a loss on the Beijing Olympics in the third quarter, executives of parent company General Electric said Friday.

LONDON (AP) — Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn’t rest easy. The drug police are coming back.

Nearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug tested outside of competition.

Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn't rest easy. The drug police are coming back. The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it will retest samples from the games to search for a new blood-boosting drug at the center of the latest Tour de France scandals. The move reflects the IOC's aggressive attempts to nab drug cheats not just during ...

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG , the biggest overseas carmaker in China, posted a 4.2 percent decline in third-quarter sales in the country as the Beijing Olympics and a stock market slump deterred drivers from buying new automobiles.

Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn't rest easy. The drug police are coming back.

A Canadian tour operator is being sued by a group of Americans for breaking a deal to provide tickets to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Hamburg, Oct 8 : The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will have all samples from the Beijing Olympics retested for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator).

Hamburg - The International Olympic Committee will have the samples from the Beijing Olympics retested for forbidden substances, most notably the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator). The IO...

Hamburg, Oct 8 (DPA) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will have all samples from the Beijing Olympics retested for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator).

BLOOD samples taken at the Beijing Olympics are to be re-analysed for the banned blood booster EPO using a new detection system developed for the Tour de France, the International Olympic Committee announced last night.

All doping samples from the Beijing Olympics will be retested by the IOC to check for traces of new blood-boosting drug CERA

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee will retest all doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug. The unprecedented move, announced today, is designed to search for a banned substance that was only recently detected during retesting of samples from the Tour de France. The Beijing samples -- across all sports -- are being sent to ...

The International Olympic Committee will retest samples taken during the Beijing Olympics in order to screen for a new drug that didn't show up in the previous round.

The International Olympic Committee will retest all doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug.

Blood samples taken at the Beijing Olympics are to be reanalyzed for a new variant of the banned blood booster EPO using a new detection system developed for the Tour de France, the IOC announced Wednesday. The retroactive controls are designed to seek out the presence of the new generation of EPO known as CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator). The IOC's announcement comes 48 hours ...

Hamburg - The International Olympic Committee will have all samples from the Beijing Olympics retested for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator). The IOC intends to retest the samples col...