Gardner: Mat&#39;s all, folks: Champ retires with a bronze
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Shortly after he had been declared the winner in his bout against Iran&#39;s Sajad Barzi last night, Rulon Gardner returned to the mat at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, sat down, and quietly removed his shoes.
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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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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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John Stockton&#39;s No. 12 will be retired by the Utah Jazz in November, honoring a point guard who spent his entire 19-year career with the team.
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Vitali Klitschko is referring to himself as the &quot;Retire Maker,&quot; he feels he is responsible for sending Lennox Lewis into retirement after their brutal fight for Lennox&#39;s heavyweight title.
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Paul Hamm&#39;s Olympic gold medal for the all-around championship he won last month officially rests with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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GEORGINA HARLAND rescued a bronze medal from the ruins of her modern pentathlon challenge for gold yesterday. Harland lay next to last of the 32-woman field after the first event when she did shooting&#39;s equivalent
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Rulon Gardner is thrown to the mat in overtime by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and loses 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal.
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Controversial Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm is back in the United States and ready to move on. Hamm, in Worcester for the Rock &amp; Roll
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Legs still cramping, head still spinning and body temperature still above normal, world champion Sheila Taormina was already more than a hour into her retirement from world-class triathlon.
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Matthew Pinsent, the four-time Olympic gold medallist, confirmed today that he is to retire from the sport - as reported in The Times yesterday.
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Question: Lennox, you said last week you are happy to be out boxing. What do you do now? How do you spend your day? Lewis: For me, just sorting out my life really.
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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For five minutes, Sara McMann wrestled well enough to get a gold medal. For one final minute, she didn&#39;t. That left a tearful McMann with the silver, and at least four years for the only American finalist
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It didn't matter that she skipped the Grand Prix season again, that she has competed only in a couple of no-stress invitationals since last March. If it's January, Michelle Kwan will be lacing up at the US Figure Skating Championships and she'll be favored to win. That hasn't changed in a decade.
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Rulon Gardner wasn&#39;t going to let go of Sajad Barzi. With the 6-foot-5 Iranian firmly in his grasp, Gardner used every ounce of his 265-pound frame to drive the Iranian face down into the mat.
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ATHENS - At lunch Wednesday, gymnast Blaine Wilson showed fellow American Andy Roddick the silver medal he had won earlier this week. Roddick eyed it with interest, but he wasn&#39;t blown away.