Olympic winners and losers
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Third overall with 63 medals, 32 of them gold, and significant breakthroughs in sports in which China hadn&#39;t been a big factor, with medals in boxing, tennis, canoeing, cycling, fencing, sailing and wrestling.
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Michael Phelps wins more golds in Athens than Holland, New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
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The team that did near the worst in Olympic baseball drew the most fans while the team among the most feared were not there. Such was the Olympic baseball competition, where
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Olympic gymnastics judges give out scores with infinitesimal differences. Mistakes are made. In fact, more than one mistake figures into the controversy of whether American Paul Hamm or South Korean Yang Tae Young are more deserving of the gold medal.
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Terin Humphrey and Annia Hatch got silver. Courtney Kupets got bronze. And Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984. And they might not be finished yet.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull out another gold-medal victory...
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Athens - Runner-up to the United States by a handful of gold medals at the Athens Olympics, China was the big winner at the Paralympics.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel and Wall Street Journal sports writer Stefan Fatsis, reporting from Athens, talk about some of the highlights of this week&#39;s Olympic Games events.
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Americans Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham win their first Olympic titles after outmaneuvering their British rivals during the final 470 class race.
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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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The greatest race of the Olympics  produced the most unlikely winner.
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Australia&#39;s Loretta Harrop dominated and lost. Susan Williams, of Littleton, wasn&#39;t supposed to be there but left with the bronze, the only American medal.
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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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Top-ranked Roger Federer&#39;s Olympics ended Tuesday night with back-to-back losses in singles and doubles.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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BORMIO, Italy -- Whether the Nations Team Event -- tried for the first time in championship competition here yesterday -- is destined for Olympic glory or the trash, only time and more races will tell.