Fridman gets Israel&#39;s 1st ever gold
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ATHENS - Windsurfer Gal Fridman won his country&#39;s first gold medal since Israel began competing in the Olympics at Helsinki in 1952 when he captured the men&#39;s Mistral sailboard title at Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre on Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- A wave of excitement swept through Israel on Wednesday as windsurfer Gal Fridman won the Jewish State&#39;s first ever Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s Mistral event in Athens.
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Paul Hamm of the United States won the gold medal Wednesday in all-around gymnastics.
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Eirik Veraas Larsen of Norway, 27, added a bronze in men&#39;s K2 1,000m to his gold in K1 1,000m won earlier in Athens Olympic regatta here on Friday.
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ATHENS - Australia won the Olympic men&#39;s hockey title for the first time in history on Friday, beating defending champions the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.
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Mariel Zagunis won the first fencing gold for the United States for 100 years when she beat Xue Tan of China 15-9 in the inaugural Olympic women&#39;s sabre final on Tuesday.
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Russian teenager Mikhail Ignatyev gave his nation their first medal of the Olympic track cycling competition on Tuesday, winning gold in the men&#39;s points race.
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ATHENS   India's Rajyavardhan Rathore won the country's first medal at the Athens Games by winning silver in the men's double trap shooting event on Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Brendan Kingman&#39;s sixth-inning single sent Australia to a stunning 1-0 victory Tuesday over Japan, putting the Aussies in the gold medal game.
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Gymnast Paul Hamm became the first-ever American to win the men&#39;s all-around title in one of the closest-ever Olympic competitions.
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Windsufer Gal Fridman won Israel's first-ever Olympic gold medal, sending waves of emotion through his country, joy and pride and great relief.
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Paul Hamm (U.S.) won the men's  gymnastics individual all-around gold medal at the Olympics on  Wednesday.
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Israel won their first Olympic gold  medal since the Jewish flag was raised at the Games 52 years  ago when windsurfer Gal Fridman sailed to victory on Wednesday.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.
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The first of 18 gold medals to be awarded Wednesday, on the 12th day of the summer Olympics in Athens goes to Kate Allen of Austria.
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Greco-Roman wrestler Karam Ibrahim won  Egypt's first Olympic gold medal in 56 years on Thursday,  crushing Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia in just over three minutes to  lift the 96kg title in Athens.
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New Zealander Sarah Ulmer broke the world record in winning the women&#39;s 3000-meter individual pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Sunday.