Ryu remain modest and hard-working after Olympic victory
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Newly crowned men&#39;s table tennis champion Ryu Seung Min never expected he became the man who created history at the Olympic Games.
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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.
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Two Russians, an Azerbaijani and a  Hungarian won Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling gold Wednesday as  the main attraction, American Rulon Gardner, a bronze medal  winner, shed a tear and stepped off the mat for the last time.
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He was supposed to uphold the tradition of Michael Johnson and Baylor University. He was to break cultural barriers. He was to restore the 400 meters.
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The controversy over the scoring of the men&#39;s gymnastics all-around final just won&#39;t die despite the fervent desire of the US team that it do just that.
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They'd already won another set of global gold medals during the summer, but there still was a bit of unfinished business here from last year's victory.
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Russia's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko, stripped of her gold medal after a drugs test,  said Tuesday she was determined to keep her medal because she  is innocent.
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Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge on Sunday gave top marks to Athens for organising a superb Games. &quot;I am an extremely happy President of the IOC,&quot; he told reporters on the day the Games wrap up.
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Mavlet Batirov of Russia wins the gold medal Saturday in men's 121-pound (55 kg) freestyle wrestling, beating Stephen Abas of the United States, 9-1.
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ATHENS, 26 August - Comments from Dwight PHILLIPS (USA), John MOFFITT (USA) and Joan Lino MARTINEZ (ESP). &quot;I think I was ready to go as far as I needed to win.
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Just taking part in the Olympics was a  victory for Iraqi boxer Najah Ali and he could yet write  another chapter to his fairytale adventure by winning a medal.
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ATHENS -- Some guys learn from their mistakes. Andre Dirrell didn't. America's middleweight medal hopeful followed the same pattern against Gennady Golovkin yesterday that he fell into during his quarterfinal victory over Cuba's Yordani Despaigne two days ago but this time he paid a more costly price than he had two days earlier, when he escaped with a 12-11 victory ...
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Russian star wrestler Buvaysa Saytiev, a five-time world champion, eased to win the men&#39;s 74kg freestyle Olympic gold in Athens on August 29 afternoon.
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is Olympic gold medal safe in his parents&#39; Wisconsin farmhouse, lovingly tucked into a white gym sock, the gymnast Paul Hamm had one goal in mind when he boarded a plane for Europe last week: to remain the Olympic all-around champion.
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Some champions make the toughest challenge look easy. Count American Tyson Gay and Russian Yelena Isinbayeva among them.
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The results of the Olympic gymnastics all-around final will not change, leaving Paul Hamm of the United States with the sole gold medal.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The last battle of the Athens Summer Olympics is over. The dispute over who won the men&#39;s all-around gymnastics Gold Medal has been resolved, at least officially.