Bilonog Wins Olympia Shot Put Gold
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Competing under a flawless blue sky in the tree-lined grove devoted to Zeus, the European gold medallist equaled American champion Adam Nelson&#39;s opening mark of 2.16 to capture his first major title on a countback.
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ATHENS (PL).â Unexpectedly, but justly so, shot putter Yumisleidi CumbÃ¡ has become the first gold medalist for Cuba at the 28th Olympic Games in Athens after Russian Irina Korzhanenko tested positive for drugs.
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Aaron Peirsol was awarded gold in the men&#39;s 200 meters backstroke at the Athens Olympics on Thursday after winning an appeal against his disqualification then surviving a protest from the British and Austrian teams.
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FRANCE finally struck cycling gold when Julien Absalon won the mountain bike cross country title today in the last cycling race of the Games.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, hosted a track and field event for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot-putters of the Athens Games arrived at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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American Bode Miller won the gold medal in the men's super-G Saturday despite nearly jumping off the course midway through his run in the opening event of the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
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VOULIAGMENI Tyler Hamilton of the United States won the men&#39;s time trial gold medal Wednesday, beating defending champion Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia and another American, Bobby Julich.
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko, who won the Olympic shot put last Wednesday, was stripped of her gold medal Monday because of drug use.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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Amanda Beard credited her new-found  maturity for ending an eight-year wait for a second Olympic  gold medal in Athens Thursday.
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The United States won the women's  basketball gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday.
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Olympic and world silver medalist Adam Nelson recorded the third-longest indoor shot-put throw of all-time to win the Tyson Invitational meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday.
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(Athens, Greece-AP) Aug. 22, 2004 - The women&#39;s shot gold medal shot put winner from Russia, Irina Korzhanenko, is under investigation after failing a doping control test.
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Amanda Beard, twice an Olympic silver  medallist back in 1996, finally won individual Olympic gold  when she snatched victory from Australia's Leisel Jones in the  200 meter breaststroke Thursday.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, will host competition for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot put competition of the Athens Games is contested at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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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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Kelly Holmes of Great Britain captured her second Olympic title of the Games here as she won the 1500 metres.