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The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games).

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Quiet-man Cal eyes record fifth Spanish medal

As the early morning mist rises over Pontevedra on Spain's northwest coast, one of their hottest Olympic medal prospects powers his canoe under the Roman bridge after which the town is named, barely noticed by local passers-by.

David Cal is months away from a shot at winning a fifth Olympic medal, which would make him Spain's most decorated Olympian, but it is hard to tell as he ploughs a lonely furrow in this forgotten corner of the Iberian peninsula.The broad-shouldered 29-year-old is conscious of making it into the history books but disarmingly modest about the task."The simplest thing to do is to think I'm going for my first medal," the softly-spoken Cal tells Reuters at the small marina on the River Lerez where he trains."Every sportsman wants a medal at the Olympics. I am always hungry for success. After I got two medals in Athens, a gold and a silver, I thought now what I wanted was two golds."I got two silvers in Beijing, which was good. There is no Spaniard who has won five Oly...

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