Stunning comeback puts Russians into volleyball final
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Russia came back from two sets down and saved seven match points against Brazil in the semi-finals of the women&#39;s volleyball on Thursday for a spectacular win that put them into their second straight Olympic final.
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Elena Dementieva beats Jennifer Capriati in a third-set tie-break to set up an all-Russian US Open final .
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BEIJING  - World champion Yevgeny Plushenko and Irina Slutskaya won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s singles titles as Russian skaters dominated the ISU Grand Prix finals.
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The ebb and flow of play by a pair of Pac-10 rivals Thursday in Long Beach gave volleyball fans everything they wanted from a Final Four semifinal match - and more.
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Australian Irina Lashko advances to the final of 3-meter springboard with the top score from Thursday's semifinals.
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MELBOURNE -- No one has to say the Russians are coming. They're already here. Seven of the final 16 women at the Australian Open are from Russia, including Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova, French Open winner Anastasia Myskina, and US Open victor Svetlana Kuznetsova. It could have been nine, but two others lost yesterday.
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Irina Slutskaya and Evgeni Plushenko returned to figure skating&#39;s summit by winning the Grand Prix Finals on Saturday, a little more than a year before the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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China embraced its first volleyball Olympic title in 20 years, beating Russia 3-2 in the women&#39;s final in Athens on Saturday. After trailing two sets down, China came from behind to trounce Russia 28-30, 25-27, 25-20, 25-23 and 15-12 to claim the title.
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Russia secured its third Fed Cup title Sunday after Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first reverse singles and gave the hosts an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Italy.
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Dmitry Tursunov beats American Andy Roddick to send Russia into the Davis Cup final.
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Olympic champions the United States narrowly edged Russia 66-62 to reach the final of the women&#39;s Olympic basketball Friday. The last time the American women lost was to the
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Russia were on course to reach their   fourth Davis Cup final after taking a commanding 2-0 lead at   home against the United States in Friday's singles.
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Britain's Andy Murray beats Russia's Mikhail Youzhny to reach the final of the St Petersburg Open.
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TWENTY years after China won their only women&#39;s volleyball gold, the team did it again today, winning a hard-fought battle with Russia today.
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Bob and Mike Bryan win their doubles match to reduce Russia's lead to 2-1 in the Davis Cup.
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The United States hit its stride just in time to avoid elimination from the World Cup of Hockey. Facing the same Russian team that dominated them five nights earlier
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Nadia Petrova and Elena Vesnina beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles contest to give Russia a 3-2 win over the United States in their Fed Cup semi-final on Sunday in Stowe, Vermont.