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SHOCKING

SPANISH BASKETBALL TEAM poses for racist advertisement

ELBOW. Pop. Ouch.

Chinese fake OPENING-CEREMONY FIREWORKS. Embarrassing, considering they invented them

Wrestler hurls BRONZE MEDAL to ground in typical Swedish rage

Fall of the front runners--LIU XIANG and Tyson Gay

Forty-one-year-old DARA TORRES, 41, swims for three silver medals at 41 but gets no gold. She's 41

Pileup in HUMAN STEEPLECHASE

NBC does its part for China's environment with air-conditioned outdoor studios

Underage CHINESE GYMNASTS?

PREDICTABLE

MICHAEL PHELPS' 12,000-calorie-a-day diet. He consumes entire gymnasts

U.S. OLYMPIANS win gold medal in THURSTON HOWELL III--impersonation event

HUNGARIAN TEAM ingeniously fashions Olympic Village drapes into opening-ceremony uniforms

Mission accomplished! U.S. BOXER assumes premature victory, later discovers he has lost

FULL-BODY SWIMSUITS help smash world records, ruin Games for female viewers

China detains people who apply for PROTEST PERMITS, then gives them dunce caps

PRESIDENT BUSH holds up American flag backward, still iffy on concept of "my left" vs. "your left"

SHOCKINGLY PREDICTABLE