Curtains Come Down in Athens, Korea Finishes 9th
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The 28th Olympic Games came to an end in Athens, Greece with an exuberant closing ceremony. There was drama up to the last gold medal with a spectator running onto the course of men&#39;s marathon with about 15 minutes to go.
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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THE defiant taunts cascaded down from the Olympic stadium grandstands for minutes. &quot;Hellas, Hellas,&quot; followed by &quot;Kenteris, Kenteris&quot; - an angry display that held up the main event of Thursday&#39;s athletics program.
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Early fears of an Olympics disaster failed to materialize here in Athens, where the heightened security may have been obtrusive, but was not enough to keep away the crowds.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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A grand judging goof at the Athens Olympics cheapened American gymnast Paul Hamm&#39;s historic gold and gave South Korea another good reason to cry robbery at the games.
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ATHENS : Iran grabbed their first-ever Olympic taekwondo gold medal while world-leaders South Korea opened their campaign with one title, saying they may have lost another to a scoring mistake by the judges.
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Japan claimed gold in the women&#39;s marathon Sunday. Battling extreme heat and a difficult 42.195 kilometer course through historic Athens, Mizuki Noguchi passed the finish line in two hours, 26.
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With the United States suffering its  worst day at the Athens Olympics, China took center stage as  sporting superpowers on a night to remember on the athletics  track.
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The curtain finally fell on Greece&#39;s two-month sporting spectacle, with a low-key but emotional closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Capping its sports-hosting triumph, Greece ended the XXVIII Olympiad with a festive splash of ethnic folklore, music and dancing.
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Description: In Athens, Japan&#39;s Mizuki Nogushi wins the women&#39;s Olympic Marathon, the first raced from the historic site in 108 years.
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As some 200 athletes from North and South marched into the Olympic Stadium under the flag of the Korean peninsula in a mixed group on Sunday night, the 28 th Olympic Games finally ended two
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Athens stages a low-key but emotional Paralympics closing ceremony.
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For the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the team standing atop the podium for the gold medal ceremony won&#39;t be wearing red with its white and blue.
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ATHENS -- The place was ready for a party. Prohibitive underdog Greece had its fans waving the blue-and-white flag and chanting &quot;Hellas&quot; at every opportunity when they weren't booing the United States.
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Calls of "cut it out" and "give it back"  competed with a hot United States-vs.-China medals race  Thursday as the 28th Olympiad in Athens went into its final  days with some 80 medals still to be won.