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SCMP Reporter

'It's the hardest thing I've ever tried in my life'
US swimming star Michael Phelps says his record-breaking achievement of winning eight gold medals at a single Games is nothing compared with  learning Putonghua.
'This is a strong violation of the spirit of taekwondo'
Public address announcer does not pull his punches after Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos was expelled from international competition for kicking the referee in the head after he was disqualified in a bronze medal bout.
'I wanted to put out the biggest throw in the first round and obviously it worked, because then the pressure was right on them to try and kick my butt, which they didn't do'
New Zealand shot-putter Valerie Vili explains how she won  gold.
'We have done nothing wrong. They won't let me protest, then they sentence me to a year in a labour camp. I am really mad. But we are not afraid. We will go on protesting, you can see this is not fair, do you understand that?'
Wang Xiuying, 77, after she and her 79-year-old friend Wu Dianyuan were sentenced to one year of re-education through labour for applying to protest during the Olympics.
'Chris Hoy thinks that the day Chris Hoy refers to Chris Hoy in the third person is the day that Chris Hoy disappears up his own a***'
The British track cycling star, who won three golds in Beijing, responds to the question, 'What does Chris Hoy think of Chris Hoy?'
'The gold medal has confirmed the fact that I am an outstanding sportsman'
China's fiery badminton star Lin Dan is a picture of modesty after his final win
'It might change my life, but I won't change'
Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt after winning the 100 metres and 200m gold medals, both in world record times.
'The only way I could win here is if the judges got knocked out'
Ireland's Paddy Barnes after he failed to earn a single point in a loss to China's Zou Shiming during an Olympic boxing tournament beset by repeated rows over the quality of judging.
'The four cases tested positive for the same substance. I don't know if we can say it's a trend'
Sven Holmberg, head of the jumping committee of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) after four horses (and their riders too) were thrown out of the show-jumping event in Hong Kong because of doping offences.



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