Americans win two more golds as Chinese falter
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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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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps, still smarting after America's upset loss to South Africa in the 400 freestyle relay, returned to the pool Monday and qualified fastest for the Olympic 200-meter butterfly. Phelps' quest to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games was dashed with the Americans' bronze medal in the relay Sunday night...
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Michael Phelps took his haul of gold medals at the Athens Olympics to three on Tuesday after winning the 200 meters butterfly and helping the United States beat Australia in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
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Michael Phelps took his haul of gold  medals at the Athens Olympics to three on Tuesday after winning  the 200 meters butterfly and helping the United States beat  Australia in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
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ATHENS -- Though the sport was born on the beaches of southern California, Olympic titles have eluded the Americans through two quadrenniums.
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STUTTGART, Germany - Nastia Liukin fell short of an individual gold medal again. Maybe the Chinese can give her one of theirs.
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American Matthew Emmons fired at the wrong target on the verge of victory in the Olympics men&#39;s 50-meter rife three-position target event to surrender an almost certain gold medal to China&#39;s Jia Zhanbo on Sunday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold-medal game against the Aussies.    Australia set up the rematch by defeating Japan 3-0 later Sunday behind Tanya Harding, who has beaten the Americans twice during her Olympic career and is likely to face them again for the championship...
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Watching the joyful interaction of America's two medal-winning eights yesterday, it would have been easy to assume both were gold.
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Winning a gold medal would ease the sting of two Olympic qualifying defeats for the United States team of National Basketball Association stars.
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BEIJING, Aug.19 (Xinhuanet) -- Michael Phelps has taken his haul of gold medals at the Athens Olympics to three after winning the 200 meters butterfly and helping the United States beat Australia in the 4x200 freestyle relay, Shenzhen Daily reported ...
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ATHENS -- From soaring heights to missed opportunities, the feel-good ride of the United States track and field team hit a couple of potholes last night even as another gold medal was added to its 2004 Olympic collection.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull off another gold-medal victory...
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Michael Phelps led the United States to  a narrow victory in the men's 4x200 meters freestyle relay at  the Athens Olympics Tuesday to collect his third gold medal in  four days.
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They'd already won another set of global gold medals during the summer, but there still was a bit of unfinished business here from last year's victory.
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They were the kind of mistakes only judges see &#151; little touches that seem so inconsequential. But they add up, and they cost the U.S. gymnastics team a gold medal. The Americans settled for silver Tuesday night, done in as much by their own sloppiness as Romania's superiority.
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ATHENS, Greece - Right now, the Americans aren't just a Dream Team - they're more like the Perfect Team. Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold medal game...