Rulon Gardner's Quest for Gold Is Over
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U.S. heavyweight Rulon Gardner lost his  Olympic title Wednesday after being beaten in the semi-final  stage of the 120kg Greco-Roman wrestling event by Georgiy  Tsurtsumia of Kazakhstan.
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He sat down on the mat, legs crossed, fiddling with his laces. Rulon Gardner said he wanted to feel &quot;the way you do when you take off your shoes as aa four- or five-year-old kid, on the mat for the first time.
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Ronald Waterreus, the veteran Dutch goalkeeper for the Red Bulls, announced Friday that he would retire at the end of the season.
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ATHENS -- Kim Rhode of the United States rallied in the final rounds to win the gold medal in women&#39;s double trap yesterday. Rhode won the 1996 gold when it was introduced at the Olympics and now has the 2004 medal, the last time as it is being ...
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One way or another, Paul Hamm&#39;s gold-medal odyssey is about to end. Whether he gets to keep the medal and the title he won a month ago in the Olympic men&#39;s gymnastics all-around will be up to the sporting world&#39;s highest authority.
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ATHENS, Greece -- There were 17 seconds left, and it was finally time for the change. The US women&#39;s basketball team had clinched the Olympic gold medal Saturday for the third time in a row.
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Shed no tears for Rulon Gardner. Yes, that really was Gardner, the only man brave enough to not just stand up to the invincible Alexander Karelin but to beat him, nearly
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Team USA concluded its domination at the Olympics by defeating Australia 5-1 at Helliniko Stadium on Monday, giving coach Mike Candrea a gold medal five weeks after his wife, Sue, died of a brain aneurysm.
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LAS VEGAS - The United States easily put away the crypto-Argentines yesterday to win the coveted gold medal at the 2007 Tournament of the Americas. Actually, what was more coveted, a spot in the 2008 Olympics, was secured the day before by both the Yanks and the Argentines. It was hard for anyone to get psyched for yesterday's meaningless finale, ...
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner and two Utah men were rescued by a Lake Powell fisherman Sunday after surviving a small plane crash near Good Hope Bay the day before.
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Kim Rhode of the United States won the  last Olympic women's double trap competition on Wednesday, just  as she won the first in Atlanta in 1996.
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Karon Bradley was just waiting for the chance to make a big play.
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Andre Ward won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division Sunday, beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus to claim a bit of redemption for an American team that took a beating at the Olympics.
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CAMBRIDGE -- Favored Gardner swam away from the competition to win its 13th girls' South/Central Swimming and Diving title yesterday at MIT.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Rulon Gardner won two pool matches Tuesday, his first in the Olympics since his monumental gold-medal upset of Russia's supposedly unbeatable Alexander Karelin in Sydney, to move within one victory of reaching the Greco-Roman wrestling semifinals at 264 1/2 pounds (120kg).
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Noah Ngeny, who upset Hicham El Guerrouj to win the 1,500-meter gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, retired because of recurring back and pelvis problems from 2001 car accident in Kenya.
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ATHENS, Greece - Andy Roddick hit one last errant shot into the net and hung his head, his medal hopes over. A short while later, Venus Williams was gone, too...