Carly Patterson, Paul Hamm help define these Games
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Quick, what athlete defines the Olympics more than any other? Bruce Jenner? Maybe. Carl Lewis? Possibly. Jesse Owens? Could be. Mark Spitz? Nice choice.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel and Wall Street Journal sports writer Stefan Fatsis, reporting from Athens, talk about some of the highlights of this week&#39;s Olympic Games events.
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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 -- US gymnast Paul Hamm won the Olympic all-around gold medal five days ago. At least he thought he did. But with the South Koreans still insisting that bronze medalist Yang Tae Young was robbed, Hamm feels that he has to remind the world who the winner was.
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HERAKLIO, Greece -- It&#39;s almost as though their careers are intertwined, one just beginning, the other only a gold-medal match away from retirement.
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When the US women&#39;s national team won the gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games, it was the swan song for legends Mia Hamm, Joy Fawcett, and Julie Foudy.
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ATHENS - The game is poker. The stakes are gold. The US Olympic Committee plainly holds the stronger hand in the Paul Hamm case. So why is it willing to split the pot?
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ATHENS When Carly Patterson of the United States stepped onto the mat for the floor exercises that would close the women&#39;s all-round gymnastics competition on Thursday, the name of Svetlana Khorkina glowed golden at the top of the scoreboard above the ...
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Being a tumbling expert certainly comes in handy these days for gymnast Paul Hamm. Almost two weeks after he won his Olympic all-around gold medal, the controversy over a scoring error in the parallel bars
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The moment when Paul Hamm hit his high bar routine was one of the most electrifying sports moments Iâve ever seen. I canât recall seeing something that I immediately felt was so outstanding
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva  Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to  seize the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal on  Thursday.
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Friendship is one thing, competition quite another. That was apparent when reporters asked Juwan Howard and Liu Wei about playing against friends, Chris Webber and Yao Ming, in the China Games.
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Competitors are still going at it in Athens, but this time the teams are trying to write the most elegant code. By Michelle Delio.
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PIRAEUS, Greece -- It was a good two hours after FIFA president Sepp Blatter put an Olympic gold medal around the neck of US forward Abby Wambach and the significance of winning the final hadn&#39;t truly sunk in yet.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- American Carly Patterson, runner-up in the 2003 Worlds, took the women&#39;s individual all-around gymnastics gold medal with 38.387 points at the Athens Olympics here Friday evening.