US settles for bronze medal in win against Lithuania
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ATHENS  - The United States men&#39;s basketball team won the bronze medal Saturday by defeating Lithuania 104-96. By Timothy Clary, AFP.
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With Carmelo Anthony back at full strength, the United States had little trouble with Lithuania. Anthony, who hyperextended his knee and left in the second quarter of a win over Brazil last week, scored 19 points Sunday as the United States cruised to a 111-88 win over Lithuania in a tuneup for the world championships.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull off another gold-medal victory...
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The United States won the women's 4 x  400 meters relay gold medal at the Olympics Saturday.
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Argentina won its first Olympic gold medal in 52 years in the soccer final Saturday, while the US women&#39;s basketball team atoned for their men&#39;s failure by storming to victory.
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Stephon Marbury scored 31 points and the United States defeated Spain 102-94 in a pressure-packed Olympic men's basketball quarter-final to keep alive their hopes of a gold medal.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Greece produced a sensational   win over the United States to reach the world basketball   championship final on Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Lamar Odom made a key defensive play on Greece's Dimitris Pipanikoulaou, preventing him from getting a clean layup attempt that could have cut the United States' lead to two points, and the Americans won 77-71 Tuesday night in the second round of the Olympic men's basketball tournament.    In a much closer game than expected, the Americans bounced back from their embarrassing loss to Puerto Rico in their opener and avoided dropping to 0-2, which would have matched their loss total from the previous 68 years...
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Defeating one of three teams that beat them earlier in the tournament, the U.S. men's basketball team tops Lithuania, 104-96.
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August 17, 2004 -- Two days after a historic victory over the United States Olympic Basketball Team (Team USA), Puerto Rico suffered their first loss at the 2004 Olympics to Lithuania, 98-90 on Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Redemption came from the perfect spot for Sarunas Jasikevicius. The Lithuanian guard, whose off-target 3-pointer kept his team from pulling off the biggest upset of the Sydney Olympics, didn't miss when it counted Saturday night in a thrilling 94-90 victory against the United States...
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And so it has come to this for the United States&#39; men&#39;s basketball team: It is happy with a grind-it-out victory over Greece, a nation that certainly knows pita but not pick and rolls. What did we learn from Tuesday night&#39;s 77-71 victory over our hosts ...
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THE US has won the Olympic bronze medal in the women&#39;s water polo, holding off a spirited second-half fightback by Australia. The Americans led 4-0 at halftime, but the reigning world champion Australians
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Lithuania closed its perfect preliminary round with a flourish, beating Australia, 100-85, yesterday in Athens.
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ATHENS, GREECE - It is a measure of revenge, but no one would dare claim it as anywhere near equal. The United States&#39; victory over Australia in water polo Thursday earned the US a bronze medal, but it wasn
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The US women&#39;s softball team has finished a dominating performance at the Olympics by capturing the gold medal. The Americans had little trouble with Australia in the final Monday, cruising to a 5-1 victory.
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Bronze is better than nothing. That's one Olympic lesson the U.S. men's basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge and salvaging some self-respect in a 104-96 victory over Lithuania. Although they didn't get what they wanted in Athens, they didn't embarrass themselves in their finale, either.