Olympics Wrap: Bad Day for U.S., New Dawn for China
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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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ATHENS: While India continued to wallow in the misery of a lone silver medal, it was euphoria for China as it celebrated its best performance at Olympics after sprinting home in Athens in the final few days of competition with an unexpected surge of gold
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It's sad to think that in four short years we have gone from declaring "the world is welcome here" to having the mayor of Salt Lake City effectively telling the president of the United States to "go home." All the goodwill created by being gracious hosts for the Olympics was shattered in one day.
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NEW YORK - Defending World Cup champion Brazil suffered the most shocking result of the day, but China was the biggest loser. The Brazilians lost to Ecuador for the just the second time in their history.
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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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While Beijingâs success in winning the rights to host 2008 Olympics has gained considerable media attention, it also has added impetus to a slew of other developments in the Chinese
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It will be the Beijing Olympics before US National Basketball Association stars have another chance to reclaim global supremacy after losing Friday to Greece at the World Basketball Championship.
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The director's withdrawal from the 2008 Olympics was a public relations disaster for Beijing, but China could have bigger problems on its hands if others follow
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Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe beat  American arch-rival Michael Phelps in the men's 200-meter  freestyle on Monday as China, Australia and Japan led the  United States in the medals table on day three of the Olympic  Games.
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Calls of "cut it out" and "give it back"  competed with a hot United States-vs.-China medals race  Thursday as the 28th Olympiad in Athens went into its final  days with over 70 medals still to be won.
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Told to avoid inflaming anti-American  sentiment, U.S. athletes may have toned down the bravado too  much in the early days of the Athens Games.
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Why the charm of Vladimir Putin and the increasing isolation of the United States are bad news for Chicago's 2016 Olympic hopes.
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ATHENS  By the measure of the medal table, the approaching conclusion of the Olympics&#39; first week seems to promise some sense of normalcy, with America again shadowing the top of the ...
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On the morning after the night before, Athens woke up to a massive Olympian hangover. The city was tired - physically exhausted, emotionally spent.
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ATHENS - The curtains came down on the Athens Olympics under a full moon Sunday after the sports extravaganza returned to the country of its birth and revival as the biggest in history.
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One of the feel-good stories of the Olympics turned sour Saturday, becoming the latest in a long line of scoring controversies that seem to show up in every Games.
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After 12 days of stressful and exhausting competition, China came out as the No 1 power at the 2004 Paralympic Games. With a total of 141 medals, 63 of them gold, China emerged as the dominant force at the Games in Athens.