ATHENS OLYMPICS 2004 / Hurdles gold lets Sanchez put ghosts to bed
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There is no more need to remind himself of what happened in Sydney four years ago. The batteries on that memory went dead as he flashed around the track to the Olympic gold medal.
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An almost unthinkable lapse of concentration Sunday cost American Matt Emmons an Olympic shooting gold medal. Emmons, far ahead going into his final shot in the three-position
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ATHENS: Irina Korzhanenko of Russia lost her shot put gold medal on Monday and was expelled from the Athens Games for doping, ruining her historic victory at Ancient Olympia.
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Six-time gold medalist Michael Phelps probably spoke for millions of Olympic-saturated television viewers Sunday during his umpteenth and final NBC interview in Athens. "I just want to go home and sleep," Phelps said, a mission he could have begun early if he had NBC's last Olympic broadcast to sedate him.
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James Carter of Baltimore finished fourth in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles today, missing out on a medal. Felix Sanchez, of the Dominican Republic, won the gold medal.
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ATHENS -- The Games ended here last night with the last runner of the marathon making his way into Panathinaikos Stadium and the Olympic flame being doused a few hours later.
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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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ATHENS  Michael Phelps might receive his last gold medal of the Athens Olympics in a way no one would envision.
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ATHENS -- The coach of the United States softball team had a dream the other night. As Mike Candrea explained yesterday, it has been hard enough sleeping for the last month, let alone dreaming. The dream had nothing to do with these Olympics -- and everything to do with these Olympics.
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ATHENS - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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The US boxing team sucked on sour grapes after being left with just one gold medal prospect in the Olympic boxing tournament Friday.
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The United States softball team came  into Athens on a simple mission -- take home their third  straight gold medal or call the trip to the Olympics a failure.
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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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ATHENS In her semifinal, Fani Halkia had run the fastest women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles in Olympic history. After the final on Wednesday night she ran what might have been the slowest victory lap.
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DENVER - Carmelo Anthony spent many nights at the Olympics in his hotel room depressed and wanting to go home. The Denver Nuggets star was demoted to the bench during the Athens Games, in which the NBA players
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The Dominican Republic&#39;s Felix Sanchez hugs Jamaica&#39;s Danny McFarlane (right) after the men&#39;s 400 metres hurdles final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games yesterday.
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Horrible, terrible, embarrassing. Those are the best words to describe the way Team USA has performed in the 2004 Olympic games. The team of ringers has been