U.S. approach 100 medals but may forfeit baseball gold
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - The United States pushed towards the 100-medal mark at the Panamerican Games on Thursday but may let one of the biggest go, with their baseball team ready to forfeit the gold to Cuba.
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The U.S.' collection of college baseball players top Brazil and Mexico on Wednesday to set up a gold medal game against Cuba.
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You do the math. With the first, third and fourth place finishers in the 100-meter dash joining forces on one 4x100 relay team, doesn&#39;t it figure that they should beat the competition?
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The U.S. will undoubtedly be favored to win Olympic gold in 2008 coming off its performance in Las Vegas, but it would be foolish to be so presumptuous.
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ATHENS -- They ended up on a podium with medals. Maybe not the podium they expected to mount and maybe not the color medal they came to get. But going home with a bronze beats the alternative -- going home with mostly bad memories -- and the US men's basketball team ended its frustrating Olympic run last night with a ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Paul Hamm appeared before the sports world's highest court Monday to argue why he should keep his Olympic gymnastics gold medal.    The Court of Arbitration for Sport convened to hear the appeal from a South Korean who lost the gold medal in the men's all-around at last month's Athens Olympics because of a scoring error...
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Terin Humphrey and Annia Hatch got silver. Courtney Kupets got bronze. And Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984. And they might not be finished yet.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Look at it this way: At least the US basketball team won&#39;t be asked to give back its gold medal. On a day that was Olympic in scope both for its shock value and its intrinsic weirdness, the
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The United States ran their preliminary  round record to a perfect 5-0 with a 100-62 drubbing of China  at the women's Olympic basketball tournament on Sunday,  remaining on course for a third consecutive gold medal.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - With the four Olympic baseball medal contenders set, teams will be competing for placement during Sunday&#39;s games.
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One more victory and U.S. softball team will have its goal: a third Olympic gold. Right now, the Americans aren't just a Dream Team &#151; they're more like the Perfect Team. Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold medal game.
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LAS VEGAS - The reclamation project is still a work-in-progress - there's this Olympic gold medal thing next summer - and minefields aplenty await. But the United States did all it could do here in what has become its own quadrennial showcase, crushing Puerto Rico, 135-91, yesterday to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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ATHENS -- The evening began on a down note for the US swimming team, and descended from there. First, world champion Jenny Thompson struggled home fifth in the 100-meter butterfly. Then world record-holder Brendan Hansen was caught by Japan's Kosuke Kitajima in the 100 breaststroke. Finally, the men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay finished third behind South Africa and the ...
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China's national baseball team is in the United States learning the finer points of the game from Major League representatives as part of their preparation for the Beijing Olympics, officials said on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee is contesting an international ruling which could cost Michael Johnson and the rest of the U.S. 1,600-meter relay team their gold medals from the Sydney Olympics.
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ATHENS - It&#39;s a quirky statistic, one that makes you do a double-take until you check the record books. In the last 40 years only one White American, Dave Wottle, had won an Olympic gold medal in an event on the track.
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ATHENS, Greece  Their own country has a hard time celebrating a silver medal. If it isn&#39;t gold, it&#39;s symbolic of second place or third place, and that&#39;s just not the American way when it comes to the Olympic Games.