Liukin wins beam gold at world championships
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STUTTGART, Germany  - American Nastia Liukin won the balance beam gold medal at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Russia's Olga Kaniskina easily won gold in the women's 20 kilometers walk at the world championships after a farcical start to the race on Friday.
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Somehow, Nicolas Massu of Chile summoned the strength and the shots to win his second gold medal of the Olympic Games. That is twice as many medals as the entire United States tennis team won.
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ARE, Sweden  - Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht made his first victory a world gold medal when he surprised the favorites to win the men's super-combined event at the Are championships on Thursday.
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ATHENS Capping a perfect year, Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand set a stunning world record and won Olympic gold to add to her world title in the three-kilometer pursuit on Sunday.
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Japan edge out the USA and Romania to win team gold in gymnastics.
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Chinese Hercules Liu Chunhong of China lifted three world records on her way to winning the women&#39;s 69kg category gold medal at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday.
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BEIJING  - World champion Yevgeny Plushenko and Irina Slutskaya won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s singles titles as Russian skaters dominated the ISU Grand Prix finals.
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Evgeni Plushenko of Russia captured the men's title for the fourth time Thursday at the European Figure Skating Championships with a solid but unspectacular program, rallying from a poor short program to defeat defending champion Brian Joubert of France.
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Irina Slutskaya and Evgeni Plushenko returned to figure skating&#39;s summit by winning the Grand Prix Finals on Saturday, a little more than a year before the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - China's Yang Wei retained his all-round title at the world gymnastics championships on Friday and 15-year-old American Shawn Johnson charmed the judges to win the women's event.
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Birgit Fischer wins her eighth Olympic gold after guiding her German crew to victory in the women's K4 500m.
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ATHENS -- She won her first Olympic gold medal in kayaking when she was 18, the youngest paddler to do so in Games history. Yesterday, at 42, Germany&#39;s golden girl Birgit Fischer won her eighth Olympic gold in the four-woman 500-metre kayak race.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Teenager Liu Chunhong of China set a world record in winning the women&#39;s 69kg weightlifting division on Thursday.
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Tyson Gay won his third gold medal at the World Championships. For Allyson Felix, it is two - and counting.
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VAL D'ISERE, France  - Bode Miller won the final super-combined event of the season on Sunday and took the discipline's World Cup title.
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What the US men's and women's gymnastics teams pulled off at the recent World Championships in Germany was nothing short of extraordinary. The men, who were 13th last year and in danger of not qualifying for the Olympics, ended up fourth and just missed medaling in the all-around with Jonathan Horton. And after the women rallied to overtake defending champion ...