American Women Step Into Olympic Spotlight
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Picture an Olympic day where America's top women athletes all get a chance to star: Mia Hamm in a win-or-go-home soccer game. Two-time winner Gail Devers running the 100 meters. Laura Wilkinson defending her diving gold. Lisa Fernandez leading her unbeaten softball squad. Grab your remote and click. That day has arrived.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States women&#39;s water polo team took a giant step toward a getting a medal Friday, with a victory over previously unbeaten Russia, 8-4, at the Summer Olympics.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - A mixture of daring and dynamism sent the United States above holders China to the top of the women's team standings in qualification at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - American gymnasts dominated the women's events at the world championships this week to give China a clear message that they have plenty of work to do if they want to win Olympic golds on home soil next year.
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ATHENS, Greece - A US women&#39;s sprinting corps missing some of its biggest names got off to a strong start Friday on the first day of Olympic track competition, with three Americans  including 37-year-old Gail Devers  advancing from their ...
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STUTTGART, Germany  - A mixture of daring moves and dynamic choreography sent the United States to the top of the women's team standings in qualification at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.
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Athens -- If there is a more obscure Olympic 100-meter champion than Yuliya Nesterenko, let her step forward and identify herself.
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ATHENS -- They wanted each other. They got each other. One more time. The United States women's basketball team survived a grind-a-thon against Russia yesterday and will go for the gold today against Australia. It's a rematch of the gold medal game from the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, which the US won, 76-54, in a game also remembered for Aussie ...
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Nike was among the first organizers of womenâs athletic events to award jewelry to participants and age-group winners instead of medals or plaques, and now the idea is catching on.
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ATHENS, Greece - This country has long been seen as a patriarchal society. But the critical role played by two women in the success of the Olympic Games shows how much that society is changing.
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ATHENS -- In the weeks leading up to these Olympic Games, American Nia Abdallah wasn't even on the radar screen of international taekwondo.
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ATHENS, Greece - Terin Humphrey and Annia Hatch got silver. Courtney Kupets got bronze...
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Julia Mancuso has moved atop the World Cup overall standings for the first time this season as she bids to become the first American woman to win the title in nearly a quarter-century.
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ATHENS, Greece - The woman who scored the gold-medal winner playfully jumped in the back row to get noticed as NBC television cameras gathered in front of the US women&#39;s soccer team after beating Brazil.
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The older the violin, the sweeter the music. And the Athens Olympics is proving the lyrics right as Martina Navratilova, Merlene Ottey and company are demonstrating the endurance of women with middle-aged ladies defying perceptions about age and competition in nearly every sport.
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ATHENS, Greece - At first glance, it would seem to be the perfect matchup - a dream draw, if you will. All the United States has to do to claim a third straight gold medal in women's basketball on Saturday is beat Australia, which is 0-12 against U.S...
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ATHENS, Greece - They are America's newest golden girls - powerful and just a shade from perfection. The U.S...