America&#39;s great hope in 1,500 has early exit, Devers squeaks into 100 semis
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Alan Webb, who was supposed to end America&#39;s streak of mediocrity in middle-distance races, got outmaneuvered and outrun as he failed to make it out of the preliminary round in the 1,500 meters.
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ATHENS -- Erik Vendt's Olympics ended in the morning yesterday, when he ran out of gas in the preliminaries and failed to qualify for tonight's final of the 1,500-meter freestyle, where he's the world bronze medalist.
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Tim Brabants suffered disappointment in the K1 1,000metres final at the Athens Olympics today after finishing fifth. The 26-year-old from Chertsey was the fastest qualifier but could not stay with the pace in the final.
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he Americans bowed out relatively early. Controversy clouded the elimination of one of the game&#39;s biggest names, Serena Williams, and rain and wind each had a day to ravage the tournament.
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AKRON, Ohio - Having closed the gap to a mere one-tenth of a point, Vijay Singh needs only to finish ahead of Tiger Woods at the NEC Invitational, starting today, to end Woods&#39; record run as the No. 1-ranked player in the world.
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Shinobu Asagoe, the last unseeded player left in the women&#39;s singles, reached her first grand slam quarter-final with a 7-6 4-6 6-3 win over Greece&#39;s Eleni Daniilidou 7-6 4-6 6-3 at the US Open on Monday.
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South Korea took an early lead, so did the Czech Republic. Hey, even New Zealand had the US women&#39;s basketball team down for a while.
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In a rough year for semi stocks, Advanced Micro Devices has thrived. Is there more room to run? NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Tech stocks have had a nice year-end rally but that hasn&#39;t been enough to pull the chip sector out of the red.
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At first glance, it appeared to be a case of saving the best for last, the end of the tee times for yesterday's first round of the Tour Championship seemingly scripted to showcase not only the PGA Tour's top four money winners, but the world's top-ranked players, too.
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Phil Mickelson looked as if he was headed for a runaway. He had to settle for another record yesterday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
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It has been an uninspiring United States Open for the American men, who fell apart with remarkable alacrity in the first week of the tournament. Until this year, when Taylor Dent, Mardy Fish and Vincent Spadea all lost in the second round, the Open had never gone into the third round with only two American men.
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The result of the Olympic 100m was not a massive surprise because Justin Gatlin has always had huge talent. I thought he would be in the mix, but what I didn&#39;t know was whether he had enough to beat the big guns.
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India&#39;s hopes of an Olympic tennis gold medal evaporated last night when Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lost 6-2, 6-3 to Germany&#39;s Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler in the doubles semi-finals.
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As the American sliced to victory in Tuesday night&#39;s final of the women&#39;s 100-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics, a crash early in the race had taken out two of her main rivals.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, United States : Humiliation from the worst American defeat in the Ryder Cup&#39;s 77-year history had barely registered when United States golfers faced an even bleaker thought - the future.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Whatever magic they had found in the morning dew yesterday, they lost in the afternoon shadows at Oakland Hills Country Club. And so a heralded US Ryder Cup team finds itself in need of a miracle finish even grander than the one it scripted in 1999.
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We all saw it coming. For months now, the fight for golf&#39;s No. 1 ranking had been staged in PGA Tour battles far and wide. While one man slowly chipped away at what once seemed to be an insurmountable lead