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Spain takes Euro Cup

Meant to post these a few days ago, but Spain beat Germany 1-0 to win the Euro Cup last weekend.

Spain's sports daily, Marca, above.

Mexico City's Excelsior, above.

The Olympic Four-Step

The early leader for the infographic of the year award:

We'll just go straight to the story itself:

For anyone who is unsure how to applaud at the Beijing Olympics, China's chief of etiquette has the answer: try the Olympic Four Step. A set of hand gestures and slogans designed by the Beijing Etiquette Academy has been approved officially by the ruling Communist Party and the Beijing Games organisers.

This is actually several weeks old, happening in conjunction with the 57-point list of acceptable behaviors for foreigners issued by the Olympics host country.

An excerpt:

No. 50: How are drunk people handled?

When appearing drunk, if a drunk person poses a threat of danger to himself/herself or to other persons, property or the public safety, public security organs should take protective measures toward [the drunk person] until he/she is sober.

More Eugene pages from 2008 Olympic track trials

The 2008 U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials resume soon but here's a look at the first several days of coverage in the Eugene Register-Guard.

Design by Rob Romig, Adam Sparks and Tom Penix.

Designer Steve Zimmerman has been posting track trials pages (more here) from The Oregonian, which also covers this event in big style.

Charlotte's thinner

There was slight redesign at The Charlotte Observer last week. The paper went down to the 46-inch web and added more information into the page toppers, among other changes.

Unfortunately, designer Lisa Pazdric, who provided these pages, is one of those getting laid off at the Observer.

UPDATE: Pazdric is joining boss Charles Apple as a designer for the new Sporting News PDF project.

C.W.S.S.S.F.

That's College World Series, Swimming and Section Flags. In Omaha, the CWS ended last week just in time for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials to start, and for us to launch new section flags, and for part of it to happen with me hanging folks out to dry, taking off for APSE in Minneapolis.

COLLEGE WORLD SERIES


Credits go to Tim Parks, Dave Elsesser and myself, with assists to Ben Vankat and Mark Davis. Poster photo by Matt Miller.

PDF of the championship cover: Download 4WH01SRC0626.pdf
PDF of championship stats page: Download 4WH09SRC0626.pdf

SWIM TRIALS/NEW SECTION FLAGS

Above, the swim trials preview cover (Ben Vankat) and an inside page (Dave Croy). Below, Our first day cover and sports front, featuring a paper-wide redesign of our old section flags, to add a little more content to the top of pages.