Rulon Gardner Says Goodbye To Olympic Wrestling
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Rulon Gardner, who had already left a big mark in the world of Olympic wrestling, left his shoes on the mat to signify his retirement from the ancient sport.
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A giant man placing his blue boots in the center of a yellow mat would be a strange sight to the uninitiated. But to American Rulon Gardner, the symbolism was huge.
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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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He sat down on the mat, legs crossed, fiddling with his laces. Rulon Gardner said he wanted to feel &quot;the way you do when you take off your shoes as aa four- or five-year-old kid, on the mat for the first time.
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Briton Kelly Holmes extinguished training partner Maria Mutola&#39;s dream of consecutive Olympic titles Monday with an agonizingly close win in the women&#39;s 800 meters final.
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Rulon Gardner&#39;s bid for a second consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling&#39;s super heavyweight division fell to the mat with a resounding thud yesterday along with the big man himself.
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For five minutes, Sara McMann wrestled well enough to get a gold medal. For one final minute, she didn&#39;t. That left a tearful McMann with the silver, and at least four years for the only American finalist
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Gary Russell Jr. won his bout in the 119-pound division and Raynell Williams won at 125 pounds yesterday to earn the final berths on the United States Olympic boxing team in Houston.The winners in the other nine Olympic weight classes were decided Saturday night: Luis Yanez (106 pounds), Rauâshee Warren (112), Sadam Ali (132), Javier Molina (141), Demetrius Andrade (152), Shawn Estrada (165), Christopher Downs (178), Deontay Wilder (201) and Michael Hunter (201-plus).The world championships will be Oct. 23-Nov. 3 in Chicago. The top eight finishers in each division will qualify for Beijing.
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Jake Arnold of Arizona capped his college career with his second NCAA decathlon championship. Heptathlon favorite Diana Pickler of Washington State will leave school without even one.
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Shell-shocked Americans Andy Roddick and Venus Williams joined already-beaten men&#39;s top seed Roger Federer in the favorites&#39; exodus from the Olympic tennis tournament on Wednesday.
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US players score a poignant win for coach Mike Candrea, whose wife died just before the Athens Games began. By Ailene Voisin -- Bee Sports Columnist.
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Former Olympic and world 100m champion Maurice Greene retires from athletics because of injury.
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Ronald Waterreus, the veteran Dutch goalkeeper for the Red Bulls, announced Friday that he would retire at the end of the season.
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Avery Johnson announced his retirement Thursday, officially ending his 16-year playing career and becoming a full-time assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks.
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UNLV coach John Robinson will retire at the end of the season because of family issues, leaving the struggling program with one year left on his contract.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Rulon Gardner won two pool matches Tuesday, his first in the Olympics since his monumental gold-medal upset of Russia's supposedly unbeatable Alexander Karelin in Sydney, to move within one victory of reaching the Greco-Roman wrestling semifinals at 264 1/2 pounds (120kg).
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The last Olympic medal won by the United States men was in 1984, the year of the Soviet boycott.