Guatemala gets first gold star since '96
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Jose Contreras scored in the 69th minute to give Guatemala a 1-0 victory over El Salvador in the first round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup yesterday in Carson, Calif.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blasted   past Greece 70-47 to win their first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Jamaican speedster Veronica Campbell earned the Caribbean nation their first Olympic gold medal of the 2004 Games when she won the 200 meters Wednesday in a searing 22.
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ARE, Sweden  - Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht made his first victory a world gold medal when he surprised the favorites to win the men's super-combined event at the Are championships on Thursday.
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Just less than one month after steering his country to their first Olympic soccer gold medal. Bielsa, 49, had weathered Argentina&#39;s shock first-round elimination at the 2002 World Cup followed by almost two
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com. Hours after its men&#39;s soccer team beat Paraguay for the country&#39;s first Olympic gold medal in any sport since 1952, the Argentine men&#39;s basketball team made it a double
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ATHENS, Greece - Andre Ward won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division Sunday, beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus to claim a bit of redemption for an American team that took a beating at the Olympics.    Fighting in the last bout of the games, Ward found his mark with quick inside punches in the third round to win the first boxing gold for the United States since David Reid in 1996...
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ATHENS, Greece -- Argentina&#39;s footballers beat Paraguay 1-0 in a bad-tempered Olympic football final to give the country its first gold medal since 1952.
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Brian Ching got another big goal, and the United States received the gift of jewelry. Ching scored just five minutes in on the Americans' first shot, and El Salvador was forced to play a man short after a defender was ejected midway through the first half for wearing a gold chain. Landon Donovan went on to score a second-half goal, and the United States won 2-0 Saturday to move into good position to advance to the regional finals of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
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Guatemala reached the quarter-finals of the Gold Cup on Tuesday after drawing 1-1 with Trinidad and Tobago, while the United States made it three wins out of three by beating El Salvador 4-0.
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BARDOLINO, Italy (CP) - Tereza Hurikova of the Czech Republic won the junior time trial to take home the first gold medal and rainbow jersey of the world road cycling championships Monday.
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Landon Donovan was voted the U.S. soccer team player of the year Thursday, becoming the first three-time winner of the award.
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Angel Cabrera gave Argentina its first major championship in 40 years with a 1-under-par 69 at Oakmont.
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ATHENS (PL).â Unexpectedly, but justly so, shot putter Yumisleidi CumbÃ¡ has become the first gold medalist for Cuba at the 28th Olympic Games in Athens after Russian Irina Korzhanenko tested positive for drugs.
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Striker Alberto Medina scored nine minutes after coming on for his international debut as Mexico beat Guatemala 2-0 in a friendly in the Texan city of San Antonio.
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CARSON, California  - A first-half goal from midfielder Clint Dempsey earned the United States a 1-0 win against Guatemala in the opening Group B match at the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Thursday.
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For the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the team standing atop the podium for the gold medal ceremony won&#39;t be wearing red with its white and blue.