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Boxing: U.S. handed lifeline after defeat overturned
Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:43 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The United States men's boxing squad were handed a dramatic lifeline late on Friday when a defeat that appeared to condemn the team to their worst result at an Olympic Games was overturned. The Americans were facing an embarrassing exit after their last two fighters went out of the tournament, making it look like the once-great amateur boxing nation had failed to win a medal for the first time. Officials, however, later overturned Errol Spence's defeat, meaning the team still have a chance of bettering the solitary bronze they won at Beijing four years ago. ... Full Story | Top |
Australian Densham ready to stop hosts in triathlon
Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:13 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Australia's Erin Densham is determined to prevent Britain dominating the triathlon at the Olympics by showing the spirit that saw her recover from cardiac surgery in 2009 for a life-threatening condition. Densham must beat the favorite, Britain's Helen Jenkins, women's world champion in 2008 and 2011, on a flat course in London on Saturday, starting with a 1,500-metre swim in the Serpentine lake and finishing with a 10km run around Hyde Park. ... Full Story | Top |
Boxing: Lost lenses and bout for American
Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:57 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - With his contact lenses lying somewhere across the ring, American flyweight Rau'shee Warren trudged out of the London Games for the professional ranks on Friday with the ignominy of an eight-year Olympic losing streak. The 25-year-old, the first American boxer to compete in three Olympics, lost a narrow decision 19-18 to Nordine Oubaali of France, who moved on to the quarter-finals and one victory away from securing at least a bronze. After first round losses at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Games, defeat was tough to take for the 2007 world champion. ... Full Story | Top |
Basketball: U.S. women tear up Czechs to stay perfect
Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:13 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The Czech Republic made a perfect start but the U.S. women's basketball team enjoyed the happier ending as they extended their Olympic winning streak to 37 games with an 88-61 victory in Group A action on Friday. The Czechs scored the first 10 points of the game and continued to rain down three-pointers for the rest of the first quarter before the U.S. ratcheted up their defensive pressure to take control of the contest. "We started 10-0, which was a perfect start for us," Czech forward Michaela Zrustova told reporters. "For the first quarter, we were happy. ...
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Boxing: U.S. handed lifeline as Spence defeat overturned
Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:11 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Boxing officials decided to overturn Errol Spence's defeat on Friday, handing the United States a lifeline after the original result seemed to cap the worst-ever Olympic showing by their men's team. Spence originally lost his second-round welterweight bout to world amateur bronze medalist Krishan Vikas of India 13-11, meaning all nine American fighters had been eliminated. ...
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Athletics: Bolt taster for fastest women on day two
Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - After a rip-roaring first day of action in the athletics, the London Olympics gets its first glimpse of the biggest name in the sport on Saturday when Usain Bolt takes to the track for the 100 meters heats. The Jamaican defending champion has a chance to lay to rest any doubts about his fitness before the title of fastest woman in the world is decided later in the evening in the women's 100 meters final. ...
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Games welcomes Bolt, says goodbye to Phelps
Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt begins the defense of his 100 meters title at London 2012 on Saturday and Michael Phelps will have one last chance to add to the biggest Olympic medal haul of all time. Bolt, the charismatic Jamaican who lit up the 2008 Beijing Games with three golds and his trademark lightning bolt celebration, will run in the heats of the shorter sprint, the most anticipated event of the Games. ...
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Nationals reel in Marlins to pad division lead
Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The Washington Nationals cruised to a 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins to extend their lead at the top of the National League East division in the first leg of a doubleheader on Friday. First baseman Adam LaRoche drove in three runs to increase his team-leading total to 67 on the season while John Lannan improved to 2-0 after striking out four batters and limiting Miami to four hits in six innings. With the win, the Nationals improved their division lead over the Atlanta Braves to three games. ... Full Story | Top |
Gymnastics: There's no stopping Gabby, says Comaneci
Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:58 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants an audience with her, Oprah Winfrey is "flowing happy tears" for her and spookily her surname is an anagram of 'USA gold' - no wonder Americans cannot get enough of Gabby Douglas. Games sweetheart Douglas tumbled her way into the hearts of her compatriots after joining Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin as the only American women to win the coveted Olympic all-round gymnastics crown. ...
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Basketball: Late-game heroics give France OT win over Britain
Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - France's Celine Dumerc broke British hearts on Friday with a three-pointer to force overtime and another with under a second remaining for an 80-77 win that deprived the hosts a maiden Olympic women's basketball victory. The French captain's two miracle threes kept France unbeaten atop Group B at 4-0 and Britain winless after wrenching losses to Australia, Canada and Russia that had the Olympic Basketball Arena fans roaring but deflated in the end. ...
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Swimming: Adlington ready to take a break
Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Rebecca Adlington looked forward to clambering on her bicycle and pedaling off to a new adventure in Africa after failing on Friday to repeat the golden exploits of four years ago in the Olympic pool. The golden girl of British swimming swapped her two Beijing golds for two bronzes and left the Aquatics Centre with the emotions swirling around her head and a realization that time has moved on. ...
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Swimming: Ledecky quizzed about doping
Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:14 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - American teenager Katie Ledecky got a rude introduction to the cost of success at the London Olympics on Friday. After blitzing the host-nation's best hope for a swimming gold medal with an astonishing victory in the 800 meters freestyle final, the 15-year-old climbed out of the pool and walked straight into a storm. Ledecky was not expected to win the gold medal, but that was not the least surprise. It was the way she won it that set tongues wagging as soon as she touched the wall. ... Full Story | Top |
Cycling: Team GB know when to peak - Brailsford
Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:01 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's track cyclists are showing their rivals exactly how to win gold medals, gaining the experience to peak at just the right time. Winners of seven out of ten possible titles in 2008, Team GB so far have three wins out of four and could well repeat that feat even if the opposition has improved in recent years. Team leader Dave Brailsford told Reuters the secret lies in building up towards each Games. ...
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Jamaica transfixed as its sprinters storm the Olympic stage
Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:59 PM PDT
Reuters -  KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaicans crowded around a giant television screen in the busy Half Way Tree section of Kingston on Friday, anxious to witness the highly anticipated 100-meter races at the Olympic Games in which the Caribbean island's men and women are the favorites. "Jamaica's girls look good," said a beaming Bridgette Plummer after watching women sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser and Veronica Campbell Brown win their respective first-round races. Three Jamaican men also hope to make history at the Olympics on Sunday, equaling a feat by the island's women sprinters in Beijing four years ago. ...
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Swimming: London marks redemption for rebel sprinter
Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:55 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - From the Shakespearean references in his post-race comments, to his thick-rimmed glasses and tattoos covering both his arms, Anthony Ervin is not your average U.S. Olympic swimmer. Not many of his U.S. team mates have worked in a tattoo parlour, played guitar in a band called Weapons of Mass Destruction or had a near-death experience on a motorcycle while trying to evade the police. Twelve years after he won gold and silver in Sydney and a decade after quitting the sport, the 31-year-old sprinter staged an unlikely comeback by qualifying for the London Games. ... Full Story | Top |
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