China, Japan, Ukraine Take Women&#39;s Wrestling Golds
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China&#39;s Wang Xu captured gold in the 72-kilogram category, defeating Russian Gouzel Maniourova in the final Monday. Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan took the bronze.
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While a trio of Japan's women wrestlers were left to celebrate gold at the Asian Games, one was ordered to hit the floor and start doing push-ups.
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Ai Shibata wore down French teen-ager  Laure Manaudou to win the women's 800 meters freestyle gold  medal at the Athens Olympics Friday and provide Japan with  their first female swimming champion in 12 years.
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Masae Ueno will certainly have a tale to tell when she gets back to her Tokyo office. Ueno joined the parade of Japanese Olympic judo champions, winning the women&#39;s 70-kilogram gold medal Wednesday.
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Japan won bronze in Olympic baseball Wednesday with an 11-2 drubbing of Canada, but it was a bittersweet victory after high hopes of a gold with their &quot;Dream Team&quot; of pro players.
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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko became the fastest woman in the world, winning the 100m gold medal at the Olympic Games here Saturday evening.
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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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The Winnipeg native won her third gold medal of the Games on Wednesday, finishing first in the women&#39;s 100-metre freestyle event for visually impaired athletes in a time of one minute 1.74 seconds.
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Belarus' Yuliya Nesterenko won the top  women's athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday,  triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of  doping woes to win the 100 meters.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American Sara McMann will compete for gold in the 63kg (138-pound) division, this after winning her semifinal match Monday morning in the first-ever women&#39;s Olympic wrestling tournament.
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Russia, Japan and the United States were 1-2-3 after the Olympic team technical event, the same places they finished in the duet competition a day earlier.
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The U.S. won their sixth successive   women's world championship with a 3-0 victory over Japan on   Tuesday, bringing to an end the first test event for the 2008   Olympics in Beijing.
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Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe beat  American arch-rival Michael Phelps in the men's 200-meter  freestyle on Monday as China, Australia and Japan led the  United States in the medals table on day three of the Olympic  Games.
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Chinese have clinched three titles at the annual award ceremony of the Asian Football Confederation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. China&#39;s youth women&#39;s football team was awarded
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - China dropped the first two sets, but rallied for a victory over Russia in the women&#39;s volleyball gold medal match.
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ATHENS Romania underlined its superiority over the rest of the world by winning the women&#39;s gymnastics team gold Tuesday.