Jade Goody left India after a cancer diagnosis from her doctor in London, amid speculation that it was just a publicity stunt. But the reality show star, who’s back in London, fears she may never live to watch her two sons grow up.
   In an interview to a UK tabloid, Jade broke down, admitting, “I am fighting for my life.” She is now preparing herself to tell her sons – Bobbie, 5, and Freddie, 3, of her health. “Bizarrely enough, I want to take the boys to a third world country to make them appreciate what they have. I’d like them to see how lucky they are to have so much compared to others. I’m so desperate to see them but I know I won’t be able to stop the tears flowing and they are both sensitive little boys and it will only distress them.”
   She says she wants to battle the disease if that’s the last thing she does. “At the end of the day, I am going to bloody beat this thing because I’ve got two amazing kids to live for. And there’s no way I’m gonna let them down,” she said. Jade left India after she was told she had cancer. A large tumour in her womb may have spread to her bloodstream,putting major organs such as her liver and kidneys at risk. She will undergo a hysterectomy next week.
   She recalled the moment in Mumbai when she received a call from her doctor.“The blood drained from me as my doctor said,‘We have looked again at your biopsy,and there are severe abnormalities. You need to fly home immediately.’ I looked at the phone in disbelief as he said, ‘You have cancer, Jade, it’s real and it’s serious.’ I collapsed to the floor,thinking,‘My boys.Oh my God,I’m going to die’.”
   Her consultant, Dr Ann Coxon, said, “She has serious second stage cancer and needs surgery as soon as possible. The cancer is in an advanced stage and was diagnosed in the nick of time. The bottom line is, if she’d stayed in India for the next three months, she wouldn’t be here.”
Jade revealed that four previous tests to detect cervical cancer revealed pre-cancerous cells in her womb – but she was given the all-clear. “Always, the medics told me there was nothing to worry about. I feared I was becoming a hypochondriac,” she said. But then, three weeks ago, Jade collapsed at her home in the UK. Paramedics rushed her to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex, where she stayed almost a week.
Jade recalled, “The doctors still insisted they couldn’t find anything wrong with me, so I insisted on an ultrasound scan. But nothing showed up. I just got on with my life. I thought about cancelling the India trip. But they had offered me £100,000 (more than Rs 80 lakhs), which will go towards bringing up my kids. People think I’m a multi-millionaire from telly, which couldn’t be further from the truth.”
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Record Spread A record 87 countries won medals. 5 were first-time medal winners — Bahrain (1 gold), Tajikistan (1 silver, 1 bronze), Sudan (1 silver), Afghanistan and Togo (1 bronze each)

Faster, Higher, Stronger 43 world records were broken at Beijing, 10 more than at the 2004 Games

Rising Asia won 90 gold, 56 silver and 86 bronze for a total of 232 medals, almost 1 in every 4. S Korea getting its 2nd highest tally ever of 31 helped. India chipped in with a record 3 medals

American Pie The US may be 2nd behind China, but its haul of 110 medals is its highest since St Louis 1904 and Los Angeles 1984, which was boycotted by the Soviet bloc

Soviet Power Russia slipped, but the countries of the former Soviet Union put together won 43 gold, 45 silver and 86 bronze — 171 medals in all, which would have put it behind only China

Britain Rocks, Germany Rolls Britain climbed from just 15 medals in Atlanta 1996 to 47, including 19 golds, the most since London 1908. In contrast, Germany has gone steadily downhill from 82 medals in Barcelona 1992 to 41 here

LOW BLOWS
Chinese authorities admitting that ‘smiling angel’ Lin Miaoke, who sang at the opening ceremony, was only lip-syncing for a less charming girl
Allegations of Chinese gymnasts, including double gold medallist He Kexin, being underage. IOC probe cleared the gymnasts
Games hailed as dope-free, but 6 athletes caught using banned drugs—Ukranian weightlifter Igor Razoronov, heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska, Greek hurdler Fani Halkia, N Korean shooter Kim Jong Su, Spanish cyclist Isabel Moreno and Vietnamese gymnast Thi Ngan Thuong Do
Cuba’s Angel Valodia Matos expelled from international taekwondo competitions for kicking ref

STARS
Beijing 2008 will always bring to mind the awesome
feats of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. But many others too lit up the arena. Here are 8 of the best
Chris Hoy (Great Britain) | The 32-year-old cyclist became the first Briton in 100 years to strike triple gold in a single Olympics
Stephanie Rice (Australia) | The swimming sensation who once posed in underwear ads shattered two world records and won three gold medals
Elena Isinbayeva (Russia) | The glam girl set her 23rd pole vault world record with a new height of 5.05m

Ma Lin (China) |
Became the ping pong king of China
by trouncing world champion Wang Ho to win gold
Zou Kai (China) | The most successful gymnast in Beijing scooped up three golds in floor exercise, horizontal bar and men’s team
Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) | The double world champion bagged a rare Olympic double — winning gold in both the women’s 5000m and 10,000m. Her countryman Kenenisa Bekele achieved the same feat — the first man to do so at the Olympics since 1980
Guo Jingjing (China) | Became the most successful female diver in Olympic history with six medals
Most Touching Moment 10m air pistol shooting gold medallist Nino Salukvadze of Georgia embracing runner-up Natalia Paderina of Russia even as their countries’ armies fought in Georgia

QUOTE OF THE GAMES

Eww, that’s nasty. I have never, ever hooked up with Michael Phelps… Come on, I have really good taste AMANDA BEARD