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Basketball-U.S. Outgun Brave Spain For Gold
BEIJING, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Hot favourites the United States won Olympic men’s basketball gold by outgunning valiant Spain 118-107 in a final of hard fouls and flying elbows on Sunday. The American players whooped with joy at the final buzzer before forming a huddle and dancing around the centre circle as the crowd of 18,000 erupted with chants of “USA, USA.” Athens champions A...

Olympic Closing Ceremony To Feature 7,000 People
NEW YORK (AP)—Olympic closing ceremonies usually offer less of a spectacle than opening nights, and the Beijing finale will have less than half the participants—but that’s still about 7,000 people. NBC Sports executive David Neal said Thursday he traveled 90 minutes west of Beijing to see a rehearsal of the ceremony conducted in secret on a college campus. Chinese filmmaker Zhan...

Extra-time Strike Helps USA Win Gold
BEIJING (TICKER) —Goalkeeper Hope Solo helped extend the match past regulation and the United States women’s soccer team took advantage. Carli Lloyd scored in the sixth minute of extra time as the U.S. won its second straight gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Brazil on Thursday. Since the Olympics started carrying women’s soccer in 1996, Team USA has now claimed three gold and...

Jamaica Goes 4-for-4 In Individual Olympic Sprints
BEIJING (AP)—The Jamaican national anthem has become as popular at the Bird’s Nest as reggae music is back on the island. It’s what happens when so many sprint gold medals go to one country. Veronica Campbell-Brown won the women’s 200 meters Thursday to make Jamaica 4-for-4 in the Olympic sprints. Usain Bolt won the 100 and 200—both in world-record times—while S...

Basketball-Australia Crush China To Reach Beijing Final
BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - World champions Australia overpowered China 90-56 on Thursday to reach the final of the Olympic women’s basketball tournament. Belinda Snell and Kristi Harrower scored 30 points as Australia set up a showdown with fierce rivals the United States in Saturday’s gold medal game. Australia were missing 2006 world championship MVP Penny Taylor with damaged ankl...

Russia, Italy, US, Brazil Advance In Volleyball
BEIJING (AP)—The U.S. men’s volleyball team came from behind to beat tenacious Serbia in five sets to advance to the Olympic semifinals against Russia. The United States remained undefeated in Beijing with the dramatic 20-25, 25-23, 21-25, 25-18, 15-12 victory Wednesday night. Brazil will play Italy in the other semifinal match on Friday. The U.S. team overcame tragedy to win all fi...

Johnson Says Bolt Can Break 400m Best Too
BEIJING, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Michael Johnson lost his 200 metres world record to an extraordinary run by new Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt on Wednesday and predicted the big Jamaican could now take his 400 mark too. Johnson, who won the 200m and 400m double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was as impressed as anyone in the 91,000 capacity Bird’s Nest crowd when Bolt shaved two hundredt...

Olympic Roundup: BoltÂ’s Double Vs. PhelpsÂ’ Feats?
BEIJING (AP)—Move over, Michael. Make way for Usain. The Beijing Olympics will no longer be remembered only for what Michael Phelps did in the pool. Usain Bolt made sure of it on the track Wednesday night. Already the champion at 100 meters, Bolt whizzed through the 200, too, making him the first winner of both Olympic sprints since Carl Lewis in 1984. Yet Bolt one-upped Lewis, Jesse Owen...

JamaicaÂ’s Bolt Breaks 200 Mark, Gets Sprint Double
BEIJING (AP)—Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke the world record by winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds Wednesday night, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at an Olympics. Bolt is the first man ever to break the world marks in both sprints at an Olympics. Not even Lewis or Jesse Owens managed that. Showing what he can do when he runs at full s...

RussiaÂ’s Silnov Wins High Jump Gold
BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Russia’s Andrey Silnov won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s high jump on Tuesday with a jump of 2.36 metres. Britain’s Germaine Mason took silver, his country’s first athletics medal at the Beijing Games, and Russia’s Yaroslav Rybakov took bronze. Sweden’s Stefan Holm, the gold medal winner in Athens four years ago, finished four...

World Champion Germans Ousted In MenÂ’s Handball
BEIJING (AP)—The reigning world men’s handball champions won’t get a chance to add Olympic gold to their haul. Denmark defeated Germany 27-21 on Monday to qualify for the quarterfinals and eliminate the 2007 world champs. Denmark (2-1-2) led 23-21 before scoring the last four goals of the match. Germany (2-2-1) lost out to Russia on goal differential. Quarterfinal games will be...

Americans Keep Up Bid For Medal Round
BEIJING (TICKER) —An explosion of offense has the United States feeling a lot better about the medal round. Nate Schierholtz had three hits and drove in three runs as the Americans beat China, 9-1, on Monday to improve their chances of moving out of the preliminary round. Taylor Teagarden added a two-run double for Team USA (3-2), which remained tied with Japan for third place in the stand...

Teams Search For Ways To Beat U.S
BEIJING (Reuters) - Time is running out on teams searching for a crack in the U.S. amour as the mighty Americans continued their march towards a fourth consecutive Olympic softball gold medal on Monday. In eight years and three Summer Games, no team has discovered the Kryptonite to neutralize Americans’ superpowers on the Olympic diamond. The U.S. steamrolls into Wednesday’s sem...

ChinaÂ’s He Wins Gold In Trampoline
BEIJING (AP)—China’s He Wenna has won the gold medal in women’s trampoline, wowing the home crowd with her flips and twists. He went last after leading the qualifying round, and the sound of cameras clicking could be heard with each bounce. When her score of 37.80 came up, the flag-waving fans erupted into a frenzy of cheers. Karen Cockburn of Canada scored a 37.00 to get her s...

Shawn Johnson Gets 1 Last Chance At Gold
BEIJING (AP)—She came to the Olympics favored to grab every gold medal in sight. Three events in, Shawn Johnson is still looking for something more than silver. Johnson, predicted to be America’s darling of the Beijing Olympics, gets her final shot at a title when she competes on the balance beam. NBC will feature her last chance as part of Tuesday night’s prime-time coverage. ...

Brazil Duo Make Beach Volleyball Final 4
BEIJING (AP)—Marcio and Fabio, the second Brazilian beach volleyball team to qualify for the Olympics, is the first into the final four after beating Austria in straight sets. The fourth-seeded Brazilians won 22-20, 21-17 on Monday to end the Olympics for Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst, who were the No. 24 seed in the 24-team men’s field. Marcio and Fabio will play whoever wins th...

Bolt Advances In 200m; US Woman Wins Discus
BEIJING (AP)—Usain Bolt served up a speedy reminder Monday night that despite losing one of the Beijing Games’ biggest attractions, there’s still plenty to look forward to in Olympic track and field. The Jamaican sprinter easily won his quarterfinal heat in the men’s 200-meter race Monday night, jogging down the stretch to finish in 20.29 seconds and still topping defendin...

Aramnau Wins Weightlifting Gold, Breaks 3 Records
BEIJING (AP)—World champion Andrei Aramnau of Belarus broke three heavyweight world records Monday to win his country’s first Olympic gold in weightlifting. Aramnau lifted a total of 436 kilograms (961.2 pounds) in the 105-kg category. Russians Dmitriy Klokov and Dmitry Lapikov took silver and bronze. At first the competition looked to be a duel between Aramnau and former world champ...

Brazil Crush Germany To Make Olympic Final
SHANGHAI (AFP) - Brazil came from a goal down to stun Germany 4-1 Monday and book a place in the women's Olympic decider, avenging their painful defeat to the European powerhouse in last year's World Cup final. Formiga, Marta and a Cristiane brace did the damage, cancelling out a Birgit Prinz strike to set up a gold medal match against either defending champions the United States or Japan...

The Medal Stand: Dream Team Or Redeem Team?
A few links to get you through the day ...Personally I think the Dream Team would beat the Redeem Team by at least 20 points. (For the record, I can't stand the Redeem Team nickname, can somebody please come up with something else) The '92 squad was the best team I have ever seen, and I don't think there will ever be another one like it. Joe Posnanski will take Dream Team as well, be...

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