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This file photo taken on April 29, 2008 shows a Chinese student (C-red cap) kicking a South Korean who was protesting against the Beijing Olympics during the Beijing Olympic torch relay at the Olympic Park in Seoul

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Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu pushes his opponent, Kakuryu, out of the ring to win their bout on the second day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka, Japan

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Liu Haicia of China lifts the bar to win the gold medal in the women's 63kg snatch at the world weightlifting championships in Chiang Mai.

Boys hang on a bar for five minutes as part of a training session at the Gymnastics Hall of the Shanghai University of Sports. Students of the Youth Sports School are aged 5 to 9. China's future Olympic hopefuls train at one of the thousands of provincial sports schools around the country.

A high school marching band from the U.S. performs at a section of the Great Wall of China, north of Beijing. About 2,000 performers from 15 international marching bands performed as part of the Olympic Cultural Festival, organised to promote the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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Mongolian sumo grand champion Hakuho, right, forces Takekaze to the ground during a four-day bout of the Nagoya grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya city, Japan.

An Indonesian football fan watches the team before the start of the Asian Cup 2007 Group D match between Indonesia and Bahrain at the Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta.

Rowers compete in the Dragon Boat races in Hong Kong. According to Chinese legend, the sport dates back some 2,000 years when Qu Yuan, a well-loved poet, drowned himself because of corruption. Local fishermen tried to save him by beating paddles to keep fish away and today's boat racing is an attempt to re-enact this.

Champion Mongolian sumo wrestler Hakuho holds the Grand Sumo Tournament cup and smiles at his wife Sayoko Wada

Champion Chiyotaikai grabs the leg of grand champion Asashoryu before defeating the Mongolian sumo wrestler during their bout at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.

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NBA legend Glen Rice is greeted by students at Yangpu District Xinxing Migrant School in Shanghai, China. Rice attended the ground breaking ceremony as part of NBA's Basketball without Borders' community program in Asia.

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Japan's Hozumi Hasegawa sticks out his tongue to provoke South Africa's Simpiwe Vetyeka during their World Boxing Council bantamweight title bout in Tokyo.

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New champion Takefumi Sakata of Japan raises his arms after defeating former champion Lorenzo Parra of Venezuela in their World Boxing Association flyweight title bout in Tokyo.

An Indian cricket fan flies kites displaying pictures of Indian cricket players during the Cricket World Cup in Ahmadabad, India.