Another Bad Handoff Dooms US Relay Team
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Maurice Greene grabbed the baton and accelerated toward the finish, blowing past a Nigerian and reeling in Britain&#39;s Mark Lewis-Francis.
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The loss dropped the Americans into third place in Group A with a 2-2 record. The US team will face Sweden in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
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Blood streaming from a gash on top of her head, Abby Wambach came off the field. For 10 minutes, the United States played shorthanded while she got stitches.
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The United States suffered their worst  day of the Athens Olympics on Friday when their basketball  "Dream Team" were humiliated and Marion Jones flopped, leaving  the world's top sports nation almost starved of gold medals.
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The instant replay official whose failure to overturn a bad call led to a narrow victory for Oregon over Oklahoma said he feels like he is under siege after receiving menacing phone calls and a death threat.
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ATHENS -- From soaring heights to missed opportunities, the feel-good ride of the United States track and field team hit a couple of potholes last night even as another gold medal was added to its 2004 Olympic collection.
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China grabbed its first-ever men&#39;s Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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ATHENS, Greece - Stymied by a sloppy handoff in the middle of the race, the United States lost to Great Britain by a hundredth of a second Saturday night in the 400-meter relay - a race the American men usually dominate.    U.S...
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In an upset as historic as it was inevitable, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson and the rest of the U.S. basketball team lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico on Sunday, only the third Olympic defeat ever for the Americans and first since adding pros.
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The United States outtouched Australia to win the men&#39;s 800-meter freestyle relay after Michael Phelps withdrew from the World Short Course Championships because of a back injury Friday night.
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PERTH, Australia  - The United States' hopes of  winning a third consecutive Hopman Cup were left hanging by a  thread Thursday after it suffered a surprising defeat to  Slovakia.
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The Americans won a couple of better-ball matches and halved another before losing to the most unheralded European team in the final match Saturday morning.
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Britain took a shock gold in the men&#39;s Olympic 4x100 meters relay Saturday, pipping favorites the United States by one hundredth of a second.
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One more loss and it could be auf wiedersehen for the U.S. World Cup team.
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An attempt by world gymnastics officials to find an easy ending to the Paul Hamm medal saga has backfired and turned the whole thing into an even bigger mess.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull out another gold-medal victory...
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ATHENS, Greece  -- A botched relay handoff doomed Marion Jones' chances of winning even a single medal at the Athens Olympics, a disastrous ending to her summer of turmoil and disappointment. Hoping to win a pair of golds Friday, Jones was shut out instead. An hour after she finished fifth in the long jump, Jones was unable to make the handoff in the 400-meter relay when Lauryn Williams left too early.