Overlooked U.S. Men's Gymnasts Take Silver
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Twenty years later, the boys are back on the medal stand. The American men's gymnastics program, long overlooked and often unappreciated, won Olympic silver Monday, capping a four-year rebuilding project to take home a medal for the first time since the boycotted 1984 Games.
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yler Hamilton and Bobby Julich showed that there is some depth to American cycling, winning the gold and bronze medals today in the men&#39;s individual time trial at the Olympics in Athens.
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There were no judges, and there was no pressure. Best of all, there was no Olympic-sized controversy at MCI Center on Thursday as the stars of the U.S. gymnastics team tumbled, twirled and gyrated.
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The U.S. men's basketball team salvaged  some pride Saturday, beating Lithuania 104-96 to take the  Olympic bronze medal.
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Judging by the long faces, it looked like the US women&#39;s gymnastics team had won absolutely nothing. The reigning world champions had made enough tiny mistakes Tuesday to miss the Olympic gold medal, which went to Romania.
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While it didn't produce as much hand-wringing as did the men's shortfall in Japan earlier this month, the US women's basketball team's semifinal loss last week at the World Championships in Brazil was far more startling. The men, after all, had been sixth in 2002 and third at the Olympics. The women not only hadn't been beaten at the global ...
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ATHENS - Bronze is better than nothing. That&#39;s one Olympic lesson the US men&#39;s basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge
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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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Nastia Liukin moved within one medal of joining Shannon Miller as the most decorated American gymnast in world championship history yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany.Liukin won a silver medal in the uneven bars finals, failing to become a world champion in her signature event for the second straight year. Ksenia Semenova of Russia beat Liukin for the gold by 0.05.Other winners included Brazilâs Diego Hypolito (floor), and Chinaâs Chen Yibing (rings), Xiao Qin (pommel) and Cheng Fei (womenâs vault). Liukin will have a chance to tie Miller with a ninth medal today in the beam finals.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - The United States dazzled on the floor and vault to win the women's team gold at the world gymnastics championships on Wednesday.
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ATHENS, Greece - After falling onto the edge of the judges' table on the landing of his vault, Paul Hamm performed two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win the men's all-around gymnastics title by the closest Olympic margin ever.    Needing a 9.825 on high bar, his best event, to tie Kim Dae-eun of South Korea for gold, Hamm was dazzling...
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Bronze is the best the American men can do in basketball, and the reason is simple: A hastily assembled assortment of NBA stars couldn't beat a better team &#151; Argentina. Manu Ginobili scored 29 points to lead his nation to another victory over the country that used to dominate the sport, an 89-81 win in the Olympic semifinals Friday night.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin picked up two more golds for the United States on Sunday, while Chinese gymnasts faltered on the final day of the world championships.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Hamm out-scored South Korean Kim Dae Eun in the final exercise to become the first US gymnast to win the all-round men&#39;s title at an Olympic Games.
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Japan edge out the USA and Romania to win team gold in gymnastics.
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After 20 years of waiting, a United States men's gymnastics team had won an Olympic medal, its first since 1984. Japan won the gold and Romania took the bronze.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Whether it counted as victory or just consolation, the US men&#39;s basketball team took the Olympic bronze medal with a 104-96 victory Saturday against Lithuania.