American Allen Johnson Crashes Out of Olympics
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World high hurdles champion Allen  Johnson literally crashed out of the Olympic Games Wednesday  when he fell at the ninth flight in the second semi-final.
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ATHENS : Title-holder Venus Williams of the United States crashed out of the Olympic women&#39;s singles tennis tournament here losing a third round tie 6-4, 6-4 to France&#39;s Mary Pierce.
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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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Anja Paerson's  three-race winning streak at the world championships ends Tuesday when she falls in the giant slalom.
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Top seed American Andy Roddick and defending champion Tim Henman both crashed out of the Paris Masters in the third round on Thursday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Top Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew Wednesday from the Athens Games, nearly a week after the duo missed a drug test and were hospitalized after a mysterious motorcycle crash.   "I'm withdrawing from the Olympics," Kenteris said after meeting with the International Olympic Committee...
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U.S. sprinter Torri Edwards is knocked out of the Olympics for good Tuesday when an arbitration panel upholds her two-year drug suspension.
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World number one Roger Federer of Switzerland crashed out of the Olympic tennis tournament on Tuesday when he lost to unseeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  - World decathlon champion Bryan Clay withdrew from the U.S. championships on Friday saying he was suffering aches and pains from a recent competition.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- A botched relay handoff doomed Marion Jones' chances of winning even a single medal at the Athens Olympics, a disastrous ending to her summer of turmoil and disappointment. Hoping to win a pair of golds Friday, Jones was shut out instead. An hour after she finished fifth in the long jump, Jones was unable to make the handoff in the 400-meter relay when Lauryn Williams left too early.
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ATHENS, Aug 17  - World number one Roger Federer was bundled out of the Olympic tennis tournament on Tuesday by unheralded Czech Tomas Berdych.
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Top-seeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt and second seed Paul-Henri Mathieu of France crashed out of the Australian men's hardcourt tennis championships here Friday.
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Jimmie Johnson was "horsing around" on top of a moving golf cart when he fell off and broke his left wrist, his team told The Associated Press on Monday.
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Paula Radcliffe, Britain&#39;s biggest Athens gold medal hope has pulled out of the Olympic marathon less than four miles before the end of the race.
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Jamaica won the women's 4x100 meters  relay Olympic gold medal Friday after race favorite the United  States crashed out with a botched second changeover.
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In an upset as historic as it was inevitable, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson and the rest of the U.S. basketball team lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico on Sunday, only the third Olympic defeat ever for the Americans and first since adding pros.
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MARK COLVIN: The fastest man and woman in Greek athletics are tonight out of the Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have both withdrawn from the Games after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing on their failure to turn up for ...