Belarus wrestler brawls after defeat
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ATHENS -- The Ano Liossia Olympic Hall looked more like Madison Square Garden yesterday when Olympic freestyle wrestling took on more of a WWE flavour.
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Belarus' authoritarian president accused opposition leaders Friday of trying to foster chaos by using terror, as demonstrators protested for a fifth straight night in the capital against the referendum extending his term in office.
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Police in Minsk broke up a 1,000-strong crowd demonstrating against a referendum that approved allowing Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to stay in power for another term, a Reuters witness said.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko said Monday voters had shown overwhelming support  for his plan to stay in power, but hundreds took to the streets  to protest against what they said was a rigged referendum.
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He was showered again with boos as he approached the ring for his semifinal light-heavyweight bout. Once inside the ropes, he was tossed around by Utkirbek Haydarov of Uzbekistan.
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Two Russians, an Azerbaijani and a  Hungarian won Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling gold Wednesday as  the main attraction, American Rulon Gardner, a bronze medal  winner, shed a tear and stepped off the mat for the last time.
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The man who beat the man they said was the greatest wrestler the world has ever known felt his own tug of mortality here yesterday, in a grey building on a scorching, rubbish-strewn hillside of broken-down houses and a stray goat.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus sped to an unexpected victory in the women&#39;s 100 meter final at the Athens Olympics Saturday. The high-striding Belarussian clocked 10.
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They protest against the results of the referendum allowing Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko to run for president for the third time.
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GRAND FORKS, ND -- Team USA had its momentum halted at the 2005 IIHF World Junior Championship when Team Belarus defeated the Americans 5-3 on Wednesday (Dec. 29) at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
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An opposition leader was convicted Thursday of organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Belarus&#039; authoritarian president and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail, his lawyer said.
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Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset &#151; his own. One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match.
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Crowd protests disrupt the horizontal bar final, after Russia's Alexei Nemov scores unexpectedly low.
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LATVIAN and NHL hockey star Sergei Zholtok died during a Belarus championship game yesterday between Dynamo Minsk and Latvia&#39;s Riga 2000.
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The rivals in the on-going feud over Ukraine's disputed presidential election have accused each other of bringing the country to the edge of disaster.
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Rulon Gardner is thrown to the mat in overtime by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and loses 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal.
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The second day of the World Junior Hockey Championship featured plenty of scoring that led to two big blowouts. Sweden trounced Germany 6-0, while Switzerland beat Belarus 5-0 on Sunday.