Olympics-Mayo knocked out, women prosper
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ATHENS, Aug 19  - Gold medal favourite Carlos Moya joined the exodus of big name tennis players from the Olympics on Thursday, crumbling in the men&#39;s quarter-finals against Chile&#39;s Nicolas Massu.
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For the first time in 20 years, an American woman did not win the 100-meter dash at the Olympic Games. And now, after Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus
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US players score a poignant win for coach Mike Candrea, whose wife died just before the Athens Games began. By Ailene Voisin -- Bee Sports Columnist.
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Americans Misty May and Kerri Walsh  continued their unbeaten streak to win their Olympics women's  beach volleyball semi-final on Monday and will face an  experienced Brazilian team in the gold medal match.
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Australia&#39;s Loretta Harrop dominated and lost. Susan Williams, of Littleton, wasn&#39;t supposed to be there but left with the bronze, the only American medal.
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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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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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Meaghan Francella knocked off another top-ranked player, beating Lorena Ochoa yesterday in the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship in New Rochelle, N.Y.
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Kelly Holmes of Britain surprised everyone even including herself when she beat the defending Olympic champion and nine-time world champion Maria Mutola of Mozambic in today&#39;s women&#39;s 800 meters final at the Olympics.
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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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Shinobu Asagoe, the last unseeded  player left in the women's singles, reached her first grand  slam quarter-final with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 win over Greece's Eleni  Daniilidou 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 at the U.S. Open Monday.
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ATHENS -- A wild comeback lifted the United States from the brink of defeat against an inspired Greek team yesterday, putting the Americans in the Olympic volleyball semifinals for the first time in 12 years.
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ATHENS -- Long after the match that earned her a silver medal in the first woman's wrestling tournament in Olympic history, Sara McMann's words were poignantly brief.
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Former Army sergeant Kelly Holmes tonight proved her fighting qualities as she battled her way to gold medal glory. Dogged by illness and injury throughout her career, the
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus surged ahead at the finish to capture the Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre dash, nipping Lauryn Williams of the United States and breaking a 20-year-old American stranglehold on the title.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The United States&#39; march toward a medal in women&#39;s basketball met minimal resistance today at the Summer Olympics.
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All four of them were hoping it would come to this. America's two beach volleyball duos won Olympic quarterfinal matches yesterday in Athens to set up a showdown for a berth in the women's gold medal match.