Dream Team most unpopular athletes in Olympics
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These Dream Team impostors are jeered in Athens bars by Americans, booed in the arena by Greeks and the rest of the world, despised back home by people fed up watching their selfish ways on TV.
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The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has named the five who failed drugs tests before the Athens Olympics.
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When the US women&#39;s national team won the gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games, it was the swan song for legends Mia Hamm, Joy Fawcett, and Julie Foudy.
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Maybe this is the end of an era. Dawn Staley has called it quits as an Olympic player. Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes can&#39;t imagine playing without her.
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Andre Ward was the last man standing for the US Olympics boxing team Friday night. Booed by a hostile crowd, confused about the score, running on fumes in the
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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When Michael Jordan led the first  NBA-studded "Dream Team" into the Olympics in 1992, the hope  was that their dazzling displays of basketball would inspire  others to play better and bridge the gap with the Americans.
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I&#39;m no longer accepting the popular - and lame - excuse that the United States men&#39;s basketball team failed to win Olympic gold because its best players didn&#39;t show up.
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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.
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If you picture an Olympic team as athletes in track suits with a few blazer-clad types in the background to look after them, it is time for a radical rethink.
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The United States suffered their worst  day of the Athens Olympics on Friday when their basketball  "Dream Team" were humiliated and Marion Jones flopped, leaving  the world's top sports nation almost starved of gold medals.
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There are some people who feel that Michael Phelps has been overpraised at these Olympics, that the attention on his medals came at the expense of others.
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Veterans Lisa Leslie and Dawn Staley refused to let the United States Olympic women's basketball dynasty suffer the same ignoble fate as that of the American men.
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There are favorites and there are expectations, but to compete in the Olympics is to hazard the risk of being outfought, outscored, out-happied.
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Russia are to lodge a forceful protest  with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over what they  say was biased judging throughout the Athens gymnastics  competition, the team spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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Drugs cast another shadow over the  Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their  bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.