Romanians Storm to Gymnastics Victory, US Takes Silver
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Romania underlined their superiority over the rest of the field by storming to the women&#39;s gymnastics team gold at the Olympic Games on Tuesday.
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Somehow, Nicolas Massu of Chile summoned the strength and the shots to win his second gold medal of the Olympic Games. That is twice as many medals as the entire United States tennis team won.
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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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THENS - The critical eye, firm hand and warm embrace of Bela Karolyi have molded women&#39;s gymnastics for the past three decades, producing the perfection of Romania&#39;s Nadia Comaneci in 1976 and the sparkle of America&#39;s Mary Lou Retton in ...
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Kyle Shewfelt won the men&#39;s floor exercise Sunday night, giving Canada its first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Marian Dragulescu of Romania finished with the same score as Shewfelt, a 9.787, but a series of tiebreakers dropped him to second place.
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Bouncing back from mistakes Wednesday that would have cost a great team the gold medal on most days, the Americans finished with two of the most dazzling routines of the entire competition to clinch their second title at the world gymnastics championships.
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ATHENS Members of the US women&#39;s gymnastics team sat with their backs against the gym wall, silent and stunned, as they watched their Romanian counterparts mesmerize the crowd.
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Athens: United States failed to reach the menâs basketball final for the first time in 16 years and Italy shocked previously unbeaten Lithuania on Friday to set up an Olympic gold medal game that nobody expected.
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An earthquake shook the Romanian  capital Bucharest on Wednesday night, Reuters witnesses said.
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Nastia Liukin moved within one medal of joining Shannon Miller as the most decorated American gymnast in world championship history yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany.Liukin won a silver medal in the uneven bars finals, failing to become a world champion in her signature event for the second straight year. Ksenia Semenova of Russia beat Liukin for the gold by 0.05.Other winners included Brazilâs Diego Hypolito (floor), and Chinaâs Chen Yibing (rings), Xiao Qin (pommel) and Cheng Fei (womenâs vault). Liukin will have a chance to tie Miller with a ninth medal today in the beam finals.
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Daniela Sofronie displayed all her  athleticism to edge Romania ahead of the United States in the  Olympic women's gymnastics team qualifying Sunday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Whether it counted as victory or just consolation, the US men&#39;s basketball team took the Olympic bronze medal with a 104-96 victory Saturday against Lithuania.
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A strong earthquake shook the Romanian capital Bucharest on Wednesday night, rattling buildings and sending objects flying off shelves, Reuters witnesses said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Shawn Johnson led an American sweep of the podium in the women's artistic gymnastics individual all-round final at the Panamerican Games on Monday, as the U.S. medal machine continue to rumble along.
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MARTA KAROLYI faced the pushing hordes of news media representatives who were intent on getting a bead on the United States&#39; &quot;upset loss&quot; to Romania last night.
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Romania underlined their superiority  over the rest of the field by storming to the women's  gymnastics team gold at the Olympic Games Tuesday.
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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.