Zuyev dry-shod into heavyweight final as Egyptian quits
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Viktar Zuyev of Belarus was awardeda final spot in the Olympic boxing heavyweight event here on Friday as his semifinal opponent Mohamed Elsayed of Egypt withdrewdue to an undeclared injury.
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HEAVYWEIGHT contender Mark Latham lost the biggest fight of his life but his ladder of opportunity still lives in the career of Kostya Tszyu.
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After playing second fiddle at the last two World Championships, Georgia&#39;s Zurab Zviadauri finally shook off his choker tag.
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British boxer Amir Khan outpointed Kazakhstan&#39;s Serik Yeleuov to reach Sunday&#39;s Olympic lightweight (60kg) final. The 17-year-old Khan found it hard to get past the 23-year-old Kazakh&#39;s high guard and took several left crosses as he came in.
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Carlos Moya of Spain eased past Argentina&#39;s Gaston Gaudio 6-3 6-4 on Wednesday, ending the French Open champion&#39;s hopes of picking up the Masters Cup title.
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US heavyweight Rulon Gardner lost his Olympic title Wednesday after being beaten in the semi-final stage of the 120kg Greco-Roman wrestling event by Georgiy Tsurtsumia of Kazakhstan.
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Under pressure from Andrew Golota and under siege from referee Randy Neumann, Ruiz considered that life as World Boxing Association heavyweight champion just might not be worth the effort.
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NEW YORK -- For a time Saturday night, John Ruiz was ready to give up.
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Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the 12th round Saturday night with a dramatic last-minute rally to win the WBC heavyweight title.
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Rafael Nadal, fatigued from a nearly four-hour match the previous day, is routed by fourth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 6-0, 6-1, in the final of the Chennai Open.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - Russian challenger Sultan Ibragimov outpointed America's Shannon Briggs to claim the World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title on Saturday.
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Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset &#151; his own. One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match.
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Even with a performance that lacked his usual ease and electricity, Evgeni Plushenko took the gold.
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Greco-Roman wrestler Karam Ibrahim won  Egypt's first Olympic gold medal in 56 years on Thursday,  crushing Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia in just over three minutes to  lift the 96kg title in Athens.
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ATHENS -- Erik Vendt's Olympics ended in the morning yesterday, when he ran out of gas in the preliminaries and failed to qualify for tonight's final of the 1,500-meter freestyle, where he's the world bronze medalist.
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Fifteen-year-old Nicole Vaidisova of the Czech Republic upset second-seeded Meghann Shaughnessy 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (1) Saturday to advance to the Tashkent Open final.
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Russian Mikhail Youzhny reached the final of the China Open with a surprise win over Paradorn Srichaphan. The sixth-seeded Thai struggled to find his rhythm and dropped his serve in each set to lose 6-4 6-4.