Great Britain, which took gold in the team show jumping event this week and its first ever dressage team gold Tuesday, could only manage equal fifth for rider Nick Skelton, disappointing the home crowds.
Soon after, the jumping monkey became the team's rallying cry.
Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.
The Fox payroll was soon packed with potential 2012 contenders like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, with the latter two jumping from Rupert Murdoch's team into the presidential primaries.
To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit.
Eventing, like dressage and jumping, offers two Olympic titles in the individual and team disciplines.
The curve jumping creates discontinuity and oftentimes, open up expectation chasm among the leadership team.
Dennis Kucinich, a short congressman from Ohio and sometime presidential candidate who claims to have seen a UFO, added a touch of levity by jumping manically up and down at the podium, but Mr Obama's team reportedly censored his punchiest line.
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The team that produced the popular viral video "We Con The World" will be jumping from computer screens to television screens.
Since then, he's covered some major sporting events: England winning the Ashes in 2005, the return of the England World Cup Rugby Team in 2003 to their Surrey hotel, the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth, Show jumping at Hickstead, World Championship Darts at Lakeside, Derby Day at Epsom, Tennis at Eastbourne, Farnborough playing at Highbury in the FA Cup, to name a few.
Dutch midfielder Van der Vaart got Spurs off to a flying start when he finished off a stunning counter-attack before his team were reduced to 10 when Defoe was sent off for the use of a leading arm when jumping with Collins.
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