Matthews and Zavozin Claim Gold at JGP Long Beach
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It's the second gold they have won in the JGP Series this year; they also won gold in Courchevel, France, at the end of August.
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Lonnie Nielson became the third consecutive golder to pick up his first Champions Tour victory at the Commerce Bank Championship on Long Island.
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OSAKA, Japan  - American Tyson Gay became the third man in history to win the world championship sprint double when he powered to victory in the 200 meters final on Thursday.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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.    Fighting in the last bout of the games, Ward found his mark with quick inside punches in the third round to win the first boxing gold for the United States since David Reid in 1996...
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Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva  Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to  win the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal on  Thursday.
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Japan's Mao Asada took the women's gold medal at the Four Continents championships yesterday in Goyang, South Korea, by recording a season-best total score of 193.25, defeating world champion compatriot Miko Ando.
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ATHENS - Dwight Phillips of the United States completed a hat-trick of global long jump titles when he crushed the field with his opening leap in Thursday&#39;s final to win Olympic gold.
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Dwight Phillips of the United States proved he is the best long jumper in the world this year, winning the men&#39;s final tonight with a massive first leap of 8.59 meters at the Olympic Games here on Thursday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Paul Hamm overcame a fall on the vault to become the first American to win an Olympics men&#39;s all-round gymnastics gold medal.
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Jeremy Bloom defeated fellow American Travis Cabral in dual moguls yesterday at Inawshiro, Japan, for his fourth straight World Cup victory. Bloom, who won Saturday's moguls, beat Cabral, 23-12, in the final to solidify his lead in the overall standings. Hiroki Nonogaki of Japan defeated Nathan Roberts of the US in the race for third. Bloom, the reigning world champion ...
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ATHENS, 23 August - Brazil&#39;s Ricardo SANTOS and Emanuel REGO squeezed past Switzerland&#39;s Patrick HEUSCHER and Stefan KOBEL 2-1 (21-14, 19-21, 15-12), to earn a berth in the final of the Men&#39;s Olympic Beach Volleyball Tournament.
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Kathrin Kellenberger of Switzerland and Mattias Blomberg of Sweden won the snowboard cross events at the U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix Sunday at Mount Bachelor.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American Dwight Phillips won the gold medal in the men&#39;s long jump Thursday night at the Olympics.
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Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram won Israel's first Grand Slam doubles tennis title with victory over Wimbledon champions Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra at the Australian Open on Saturday.
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Daisuke Takahashi hits a quad and eight triples to win the men's event and pace another Japanese sweep of the figure skating medals in the NHK Trophy in Nagano, Japan.
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American swimmer Michael Phelps grabbed a fourth gold at the Athens Olympics Thursday with a clear victory in the 200 meters medley and gold for 16-year-old gymnast Carly Patterson leveled the US with China at 14 each.
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ATHENS - After suffering a stunning 4-1 overtime loss to Kazakhstan&#39;s Georgiy Tsurtsumia in the men&#39;s Greco-Roman super heavyweight semifinals, defending champion Rulon Gardner came back to win the bronze medal today by defeating Sajad Barzi of Iran, 3