An Olympic Dream, Claimed by 2 Women
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Two of the top Americans in womenâs windsurfing are competing in the RS:X world championships this week as part of their training for the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
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ATHENS, Greece -- There was room for one error -- maybe two -- in the Olympic women&#39;s gymnastics final, but not three.
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After so many years of injuries and despair, Kelly Holmes figured an Olympic gold medal would make up for it all. She wound up with two.
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Athens - Olympic Games medal dreams were gunned down, rescued and put on hold in Athens after a series of protests. Nowhere was the sound and fury greatest than out on the athletics track and in the gymnastics arena.
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OLYMPIA, Greece -- A brilliant idea, taking the shot put back to the birthplace of the Olympic Games, proving, if nothing else, that everything old really can become new again.
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Olympic champions have their parents to thank for their physiology&#151;but no one is born a world-record holder. That also requires training, nutrition, desire, and determination.
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US gymnasts Carly Patterson and Courtney Kupets will be bidding for medals again tonight when they compete in the women's all-around. No American woman has won Olympic gold in this event since Mary Lou Retton did it at the boycotted 1984 Games.
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The controversial sport now has female participants  -  with Brazil in the lead
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The women gymnasts are favored to make history and win gold Tuesday - a Wheaties box moment waiting to happen.
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We do not dare to believe that our two champions, Katerina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris, avoided the IOC&#39;s drug test because they were doped.
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The Olympic kayak team is full of inspiration after Hamish Carter and Bevan Docherty&#39;s medal winning feats in the triathlon. Ben Fouhy and Steve Ferguson watched the race on Greek TV, with the sound down!
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Nike was among the first organizers of womenâs athletic events to award jewelry to participants and age-group winners instead of medals or plaques, and now the idea is catching on.
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The former teammates stood a few feet apart in the sand, a volleyball net marking the distance between them and their dreams. Holly McPeak and Misty May were once a pair.
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ATHENS, Greece - Sometimes you win silver, and sometimes you lose gold. Tuesday night in an Olympic Indoor Hall that was, for a change, more full than empty, the US Olympic Women&#39;s Gymnastics Team did the latter.
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The United States won the women's  basketball gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday.
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ATHENS -- For many Israelis, the Olympics evoke memories of a terrorist massacre and political boycotts, but windsurfer Gal Fridman provided his countrymen an historic and celebratory remembrance yesterday after he won the first gold medal in the Jewish state's 56-year history.
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The first time triathlon was an Olympic sport, Susan Williams didn&#39;t get a shot to make the team. This time, she&#39;s going home with a medal.