Sweet three-peat for US women
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ATHENS, Greece -- There were 17 seconds left, and it was finally time for the change. The US women&#39;s basketball team had clinched the Olympic gold medal Saturday for the third time in a row.
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ATHENS  The USA women&#39;s basketball team sailed through their first three games as though they were on a Mediterranean cruise, trouncing opponents by more than 30 points a game.
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Center fielder Ellen Estes scored three  goals including the decider to help the United States beat  Australia 6-5 Thursday in the Olympic women's water polo bronze  medal game.
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She played her way into the US Open finals with a lollipop, side-armed serve. Three top-10 players -- Vera Zvonareva, Amelie Mauresmo and Jennifer Capriati -- couldn&#39;t take that club-level slicing
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It&#39;s easy to understand why. After almost a solid year of basketball that included a third straight NCAA championship, an Olympic gold medal and now WNBA Rookie of the Year honors, she plans to take three days off.
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Sheryl Swoopes produced a late run to  lead the United States to a 66-62 women's basketball victory  over Russia Friday and into their third consecutive Olympic  gold medal game.
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ATHENS -- Preliminary-round elimination would have been a disaster for the United States women. Desperate for a victory, the Americans avoided embarrassment by finally playing like a gold medal contender -- and like a team.
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The United States women bounced back from mistakes that could have cost them gold and they bested defending champion China a year ahead of the Olympics in Beijing.
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PITTSBURGH - Abby Wambach had a goal and an assist as the US women&#39;s national soccer team beat Iceland 3-0 Wednesday night in the second game of its 10-game Olympic gold medal victory tour.
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ATHENS -- LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and a couple of their Olympic teammates made it over to watch last night's women's game between the United States and China. They saw a team shoot well, pass well, rebound well, and dominate -- everything they are not doing so far.
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ATHENS The United States women&#39;s team completed an almost flawless romp through the Olympics, winning the gold medal with a 5-1 victory over Australia - another dominant performance by the best softball team America has ever built.
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The Danish women&#39;s handball team, defending Olympic champions for the past eight years, won a third straight gold in Athens Sunday, in a rematch of their final against South Korea at Atlanta in 1996.
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Deep into overtime, the breaks were going against the US women&#39;s soccer team. First came a last-gasp goal that stole victory in regulation, then came a wide-open shot that bounced off the goalpost.
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Tairia Flowers homered, Crystl Bustos added a two-run double and Cat Osterman was all but unhittable Monday night as the United States beat Japan 3-0.
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Sasha Cohen finished second and 15-year-old Kimmie Meissner took third place after hitting the first triple axel by any U.S. woman since 1991.
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The U.S. women took their third  consecutive gold medal in Olympic basketball on Saturday,  breaking open a close game in the fourth quarter to beat  Australia 74-63.
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ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. women's basketball team got just what it wanted against Spain - a victory and a test...