Carroll takes bronze for Australia
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Australia has won two medals on the first day of the World Shortcourse Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. The Australian 4x200 metre women&#39;s freestyle relay team took silver, while 17-year-old Lara Carroll
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ATHENS, Greece -- Chantelle Newbery won Australia&#39;s first gold medal in diving since 1924 tonight, easily holding off China&#39;s Lao Lishi and Aussie teammate Loudy Tourky in women&#39;s 10-meter platform.
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Australia and the United States won  their women's basketball semi-finals Friday to set up a clash  between the unbeaten teams in the Olympic gold final.
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ATHENS  - The United States men&#39;s basketball team won the bronze medal Saturday by defeating Lithuania 104-96. By Timothy Clary, AFP.
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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DUBLIN, Ohio  - Australians Rod Pampling and Nick O'Hern, and American Sean O'Hair shared a three-way tie at the top of the leaderboard after the opening round of the Memorial tournament on Thursday.
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The US women took their third consecutive gold medal in Olympic basketball on Saturday, breaking open a close game in the fourth quarter to beat Australia 74-63.
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The 27-year-old took out bronze in the men&#39;s 20km walk -- winning Australia&#39;s first Olympic medal for walking in almost 45 years.
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Argentina won its first Olympic gold medal in 52 years in the soccer final Saturday, while the US women&#39;s basketball team atoned for their men&#39;s failure by storming to victory.
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Britain&#39;s Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks have cruised to Olympic bronze in the open 49er class. Hiscocks won silver with Ian Barker four years ago when the high performance 49ers made their Olympic debut in Sydney.
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ATHENS - Holly McPeak finally won the Olympics medal that has eluded her for so long, teaming with Elaine Youngs to win a bronze medal for the United States in beach volleyball Tuesday night.
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ATHENS, 22 August - Chantelle NEWBERY (AUS) won the gold medal in the Women&#39;s 10m Platform competition on Sunday night at the Olympic Aquatic Centre.
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Australia mounted a fightback against arch rivals the US by claiming three golds and a relay world record at the world short course championships on Saturday.
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The baby-faced Iranian colossus Hossein Rezazadeh proved invincible as the world +105 kg weightlifting record-holder won the Olympic gold on walkover in Athens, capital of Greece, Wednesday night.
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Britain's men take bronze in the 4x100m relay as the women finish fourth at the World Championships.
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Russia, silver medallists in Sydney, won  the Olympic bronze medal in the men's volleyball competition on  Sunday, beating the United States in straight sets.
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ATHENS, Greece - Veronica Campbell snatched Jamaica&#39;s first Olympic medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games with a third-place finish in the women&#39;s 100-metre final last night.