Skelton&#39;s hopes of medal turn to dust
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the man who came back from a broken neck to compete in Athens - saw his hopes of an Olympic medal slip away after a disastrous final round in the individual showjumping.
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ATHENS -- Cael Sanderson couldn't have gotten a bigger scare on his first day as an Olympic wrestler. Kerry McCoy couldn't have been more disappointed on his last day.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after testing positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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HERE in the land of myth, that familiar god of sports -- karma -- threw a bolt of lightning into the Olympic stadium yesterday. Marion Jones lunged desperately with her baton in the 4 x 100m relay final, but couldn&#39;t reach her target.
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ATHENS, Greece - A botched relay handoff doomed Marion Jones&#39; chances of winning even a single medal at the Athens Olympics, a disastrous ending to her summer of turmoil and disappointment.
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ATHENS - After a disastrous landing on the vault that nearly sent him crashing into the judges&#39; laps, Paul Hamm thought his night was over.
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Lindsey Kildow whooshed a long sigh of relief after earning her first major championship medal. Bode Miller shrugged after finishing 24th and losing his super-G title, then fled the scene.
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The first impression Martins Karsums hoped to make didn't go the way he expected last season.
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Ian Thorpe&#39;s Olympics are over after the men&#39;s 4 x 100m medley relay team failed to qualify for the finals today.
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Maybe this is the end of an era. Dawn Staley has called it quits as an Olympic player. Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes can&#39;t imagine playing without her.
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American Matthew Emmons fired at the wrong target on the verge of victory in the Olympics men&#39;s 50-meter rife three-position target event to surrender an almost certain gold medal to China&#39;s Jia Zhanbo on Sunday.
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Rulon Gardner&#39;s bid for a second consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling&#39;s super heavyweight division fell to the mat with a resounding thud yesterday along with the big man himself.
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Lost in the happy ending that Paul Hamm is the rightful owner of the Olympic men&#39;s all-around gold medal instead of South Korea&#39;s Yang Tae-Young was the reality that justice was only partially served.
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ATHENS -- They'd known heartbreak before, four years earlier to be precise, when potential gold turned to silver in the final second of a crushing loss to the Aussies in Sydney. There was a mutual weep-athon after that one; it was hard to tell which team had won.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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The wave of joy that swept through Israel as windsurfer Gal Fridman won the Jewish state&#39;s first ever Olympic gold medal crashes onto the pages of the press.
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It would've been understandable if American Matt Emmons had a bad first Olympic experience. The way things had been going, he seemed destined for that.