Dirrell loses bout, settles for bronze
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American middleweight Andre Dirrell lost his semifinal bout to Kazakhstan&#39;s Gennadiy Golovkin on Friday, missing an opportunity to advance to the gold medal match.
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ATHENS -- Leon Lawson was watching over Andre Dirrell's shoulder last night, literally and figuratively, as the US middleweight tried to box his way into the medal rounds at the Olympic Games.
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Ron Siler had just taken a beating, and now it seemed like the whole US boxing team was down for the count. Fighters weren&#39;t following directions, medal hopes were slipping
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Vic Darchinyan retained his International Boxing Federation flyweight title by stopping game challenger Victor Burgos of Mexico in the 12th round.
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That question now faces Roy Jones Jr. after being knocked out in the ninth round on Saturday night by Glen Johnson in a fight for Johnson&#39;s IBF light-heavyweight title.
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&quot;I wanted him to stay outside,&quot; US boxing coach Basheer Abdullah would say later, &quot;and use his speed.&quot;. But when it mattered most Friday night - in the closing seconds of the Olympic light-heavyweight
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Former champion Mary Pierce lost to Dally Randriantefy of Madagascar 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Wednesday in the second round of the SEAT Open.
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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Gary Russell Jr. won his bout in the 119-pound division and Raynell Williams won at 125 pounds yesterday to earn the final berths on the United States Olympic boxing team in Houston.The winners in the other nine Olympic weight classes were decided Saturday night: Luis Yanez (106 pounds), Rauâshee Warren (112), Sadam Ali (132), Javier Molina (141), Demetrius Andrade (152), Shawn Estrada (165), Christopher Downs (178), Deontay Wilder (201) and Michael Hunter (201-plus).The world championships will be Oct. 23-Nov. 3 in Chicago. The top eight finishers in each division will qualify for Beijing.
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Or maybe he simply is unfamiliar with the preferred code of behavior following a boxing match: you lose, you whine. Dirrell would be no good at it, however.
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Even if Evander Holyfield is not ready to leave boxing, most of his skills have already departed. Losing for the fifth time in his last eight bouts, Holyfield (38-8-2) was beaten by Larry
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ATHENS, Greece - Andre Ward won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division Sunday, beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus to claim a bit of redemption for an American team that took a beating at the Olympics. Standing on the medal podium, Ward looked upward and blew a kiss, a gesture of honor for his late father...
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Andre Dirrell already honored his grandfather by getting a tattoo of his face on his back. Pretty soon he&#39;ll be able to share an Olympic medal with him, too.
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Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport of the  United States advanced to the finals of the Cincinnati Open on  Saturday when her scheduled semifinal opponent, Marion Bartoli  of France, withdrew with a hand injury.
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Middleweight Andre Dirrell boosted the  United States' slim hopes of winning an Olympic boxing title by  booking a place in the semi-finals with a narrow victory over  Cuba's Yordani Despaigne Wednesday.
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ATHENS - Calling all Andres. Maybe that&#39;s what&#39;s wrong with the US boxing team. Not enough Andres. Only two US boxers reached today&#39;s medal round, middleweight Andre Dirrell and light heavyweight Andre Ward.
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The US boxing team sucked on sour grapes after being left with just one gold medal prospect in the Olympic boxing tournament Friday.