Chilean Pair Win Country's First Gold
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Nicolas Massu and Fernando Gonzalez won  Chile's first gold medal at an Olympics in a five-set tennis  marathon that ended at 2:37 a.m. on Sunday.
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It was a glorious surprise, igniting a party complete with song and dance: The Greeks won the first gold medal of their hometown Olympics with an unexpected victory last night in synchronized diving.
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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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South Korea has grabbed its first gold in women&#39;s taekwondo but had to settle for bronze on the men&#39;s side. Jang Ji-Won built an early lead in her under 57 kilogram match before hanging on to defeat Nia Abdallah of the United States 4-1.
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Iker Martinez and Xavier Fernandez of Spain lived up to their billing as favorites by winning the gold medal in the 49er class Thursday.
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Brazil coast to victory over New Zealand in their first match of the Women's World Cup.
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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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Hermann Maier finished first in the giant slalom for his first gold medal at the world championships since 1999.
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An exhausted Nicolas Massu reeled in Mardy Fish in five tortuous sets on Sunday to win Chile their second gold medal at an Olympic Games less than 24 hours after helping them to their first.
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Argentina beat Italy 84-69 to win the  men's Olympic basketball gold Saturday, the country's first  medal in the sport.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Tyson Gay nailed the sprint double, Irving Saladino's long jump gave Panama a first world championships gold medal and Jana Rawlinson salvaged Australian pride by winning the 400m hurdles on Thursday.
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Ilias Iliadis of Greece thrilled the home crowd Tuesday, beating Roman Gontyuk of Ukraine to win the gold medal in the 81-kilogram class.
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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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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Massimiliano Blardone of Italy won the first men's World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday in a time of two minutes 27.88 seconds.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blew away   Greece 70-47 to capture an emotional first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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ATHENS : Iran grabbed their first-ever Olympic taekwondo gold medal while world-leaders South Korea opened their campaign with one title, saying they may have lost another to a scoring mistake by the judges.
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ARE, Sweden  - Mario Matt rescued the Austrian men's team in the nick of time on Saturday, winning the men's slalom to give them their first gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.