THE OLYMPICS 2004: MODERN PENTATHLON: HARLAND BRONZED
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GEORGINA HARLAND rescued a bronze medal from the ruins of her modern pentathlon challenge for gold yesterday. Harland lay next to last of the 32-woman field after the first event when she did shooting&#39;s equivalent
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Adam van Koeverden won the K-1 500 metre race after taking bronze in the K-1 1,000 metre. ATHENS -- For the first time in Canadian history, a Canadian has won gold in a singles kayak race.
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ATHENS Andrei Moiseev of Russia won the men&#39;s modern pentathlon on Thursday, finishing so far ahead of his rivals that he was able to stop and collect a flag from a spectator before crossing the line.
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Bothered more by the wind and her wrist wrap than her opponent, defending gold medalist Venus Williams overpowered Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-2 in the opening match of the Athens Games' tennis tournament. Andy Roddick made his Olympic debut with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Flavio Saretta of Brazil, swatting 12 aces and 16 service winners.
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By FRED PEARCE  THE Olympics could be smelly.   A pong over the track, sewage backing up into the athletes' village and water sports suspended by lumpy bits in the river.
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What the US men's and women's gymnastics teams pulled off at the recent World Championships in Germany was nothing short of extraordinary. The men, who were 13th last year and in danger of not qualifying for the Olympics, ended up fourth and just missed medaling in the all-around with Jonathan Horton. And after the women rallied to overtake defending champion ...
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ATHENS - So now it&#39;s official. Right there in black and white and bronze. Well, maybe not even bronze. But the facts of life are now stark and simple for US men&#39;s basketball in the Olympics.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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Advances in training allow some Olympians to continue competing even as they reach beyond 30-something.
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For Lincoln-Sudbury track coach Mel Gonsalves, it was elation, then disbelief, followed by acceptance. After his girls' 4 x 400-relay team won in a meet-record-breaking 4 minutes 2.26 seconds, it appeared the Warriors had come from 9 points down to nip Newton South and Acton-Boxboro for the Division 1 indoor track title yesterday at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic ...
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You&#39;ve surely heard by now that Wyoming wrestler Rulon Gardner is bringing home another Olympic medal. This time it&#39;s a bronze.
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Carolina Kluft takes pentathlon gold ahead of Britain's Kelly Sotherton at the European Indoor Championships.
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Hungary&#39;s Zsuzsanna Voros won the gold medal in the women&#39;s modern pentathlon in Athens Friday to add the Olympic title to her three world championships.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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In 1904 at the St. Louis Olympic Games, Canada won gold in soccer. In 1936 in Berlin, our nation won silver in basketball. That&#39;s it for traditional team sports.
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Georgina Harland comes from 14th place on the final run to win a bronze in the women's modern pentathlon.