Israeli wins country&#39;s first Olympic gold
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Television and radio stations in Israel cut away from their midday programming. News Web sites were updated faster than even the nimblest of fingers could press &quot;refresh.
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ATHENS - Hicham El Guerrouj completed the first Olympic 1500-5000 double since Finn Paavo Nurmi 80 years ago on the penultimate day of the Athens Games on Saturday.
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As the Olympic Games headed into the home straight, Argentina won their first Olympic gold medal in more than half a century when their soccer team beat Paraguay Saturday.
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world record holder down the final straightaway of the 5,000.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The first taekwondo medals of the Athens Games were awarded Thursday night in the men&#39;s and women&#39;s flyweight division, and Taiwan captured both golds.
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GLYFADA, Greece - When the first notes of the national anthem of Israel pierced the night air, years of yearning came pouring out of Israelis at the Olympic Sailing Centre.
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Chile secures its first ever Olympic gold medal with a win in the men's tennis doubles.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco came into these Olympics without a gold medal, but now he has two after winning the men&#39;s 5000 meters Saturday night.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s sensation Kirsty Coventry clinched the first Olympic swimming gold for her country when she won the 200m backstroke title at the Olympic Games Friday.
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Jang Ji-Won won South Korea&#39;s first taekwondo gold medal at the Olympics by beating American Nia Abdallah 2-1 in the women&#39;s featherweight final.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blasted   past Greece 70-47 to win their first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Kate Allen, an Australian-born triathlete who switched citizenship two years ago, won Austria its first gold medal of these Games in spectacular fashion here yesterday.
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&#39;I awoke at 2 am in a daze and couldn&#39;t get back to sleep,&quot; Uri Fridman says of the morning after his son earned Israel&#39;s first-ever Olympic gold medal in mistral windsailing in Athens.
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ATHENS, Greece - A windsurfer whose first name means "wave" in Hebrew gave Israel its first Olympic gold medal ever Wednesday, taking a plunge in the Saronic Gulf to celebrate. Gal Fridman sailed a remarkably consistent regatta, never finishing worse than eighth in the 11-race series...
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ATHENS, Aug 27: Australia won the Olympic men&#39;s hockey tournament for the first time in history on Friday, beating the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.