Weightlifting accident - Beijing 2008

Apolo Anton Ohno won two more individual events Sunday at the U.S. Short Track Speedskating Championships to capture his eighth consecutive national title.
Ohno, the defending world champion and a five-time Olympic medalist, won the 1,000 and 3,000 meters to win the overall title with 4,140 points — nearly 300 more than J.R. Celski in second. Ohno has won every national title since 2001 and has 10 overall.

Hundreds of millions of television viewers across the world saw China for the first time in August, or at least they saw a new side of the vast nation of 1.3 billion people. The extravagant opening and closing ceremonies and the perfectly organised Olympic events at spectacular venues won heartfelt praise from international Olympic officials and spurred deep national pride in many ordinary Chinese citizens.

The Austrian city of Innsbruck was chosen on Friday to host the inaugural 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, beating Finland's Kuopio, the only other candidate on the shortlist. IOC President Jacques Rogge (pictured) pulled the name out of an envelope in a brief ceremony at the International Olympic Committee's Lausanne headquarters, hosted by two teenage presenters.