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Today's
Medal Tally |
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Wednesday's
Top Medal Events |
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Breaking
News: Tuesday's latest results |
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Olympic
Sports
Basketball:
Classification results for 9th &11th |
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Cycling:
Zijlaard wins road gold |
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Diving:
Xiong takes gold |
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Football:
Cameroon and Spain shine through |
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Gymnastics:
Two cold pills cost one medal |
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Hockey:
Australia beats Korea to move on to semi-finals |
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Tennis:
Venus heads for double gold |
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Tennis:
Haas powers into final |
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Wrestling:
Four Gold Medals Decided |
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Sydney
2000
Olympic
Aid: Swimming Sensations get Behind Olympic Aid |
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Athletes
Athlete
Spotlight: Michael Bennett (USA) |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France) |
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Olympic
Interactives
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the Site! |
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Sporting
Technique Infographics: Water Polo |
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Chat
with Golden Gebreselassie (Ethiopia) |
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IN
THE SPOTLIGHT
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Team USA Update
The
US Beach Volleyball team knows the true meaning of "golden
sands". Their consistent performance saw them win the gold medal
over the Brazilians.
Beach
Volleyball: US take gold at Bondi
Tennis:
Williams and Dementieva play for gold
Tennis:
Seles delighted with bronze medal |
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TOP
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Today's
Medal Tally
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Wednesday's
Top Medal Events
Can't
get enough of the Games? Then take a look at what's waiting on track
for September 27:
Tennis:
Women's
singles
Baseball
Track
and Field:
Men's
800m Final
Cycling
Road Race:
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Breaking
News: Tuesday's latest results
Check
out the latest from Day 11 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Weightlifting:
Rezazadeh breaks two world records to win
Baseball:
Winner plays Cuba for gold
Softball:
US beats Japan for softball gold |
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OLYMPIC
SPORTS
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Basketball:
Classification results for 9th &11th
Cuba
claimed ninth position in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games women's
basketball competition by beating Canada 65-58 in a classification
game at The Dome on Tuesday. New
Zealand held on to win the battle to determine who would finish
11th and 12th when it claimed a 72-69 win over Senegal. The New
Zealand men's basketball team beat Angola to also finish 11th.
Meanwhile ninth place was claimed by Spain who defeated China 84-64. |
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Cycling:
Zijlaard wins road gold
Leontien
Zijlaard(NED) out-sprinted an elite field in the first of the
road cycling events for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She held an
advantage of about three bike lengths over silver medallist Hanka
Kupfernagel (GER) and Diana Ziliute (LTU) after 119.7km. |
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Diving:
Xiong takes gold
Xiong
Ni of China has taken the gold medal in the men's
three metre springboard competition at the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games on Tuesday. |
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Football:
Cameroon and Spain shine through
The
Cameroonian's Olympic campaign began ingloriously when they forgot
to bring footballs to their first training session. A fortnight
later, though, they
stand on the verge of an Olympic medal with only Spain in their way. |
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Gymnastics:
Two cold pills cost one medal
Romanian
gymnast Andreea
Raducan was stripped of her artistic all-round Olympic gold medal
on Tuesday after testing positive for a banned drug contained in a
remedy she took for a cold. |
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Hockey:
Australia beats Korea to move on to semi-finals
The
Australian men's hockey team booked its semi-final berth on Tuesday, finishing
top of Pool A after a 2-1 victory over Korea. Pakistan
also won through to the men's Hockey semi-finals by beating
reigning Olympic champion the Netherlands 2-0 at the State Hockey
Centre on Tuesday. |
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Tennis:
Venus heads for double gold
Venus
Williams remained on target for two gold medals when she
and her sister Serena breezed into the women's doubles final on
Tuesday. Venus has already qualified for Wednesday's women's singles
final, in which she will face Russia's unseeded Elena Dementieva.
Also today, Monica
Seles beat Jelena Dokic 6-1 6-4 in only 59 minutes in the bronze
medal playoff for the women's singles. |
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Tennis:
Haas powers into final
Powerful
German Tommy Haas, who considered skipping the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games because of injuries and dismal form, sealed a place in the
men's singles final on Tuesday. Haas
will now face fifth-seeded Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who
recorded a 6-4, 6-4 win over Arnaud di Pasquale of France, for the
gold medal on Thursday. |
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Wrestling:
Four Gold Medals Decided
Competition
was golden today in the Greco-Roman Wrestling Competition on Day 11
of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. See below for the new Olympic Champions.
54kg:
Sim takes gold
63kg:
Samourgachev takes gold in 63kg category
76kg:
Kardanov wins gold for Russia
97kg:
Sweden's world champ wins gold |
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SYDNEY
2000
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Olympic
Aid: Swimming Sensations get Behind Olympic Aid
Three
pool greats have pledged support for Olympic Aid: William Kirby,
Australian 400m Freestyle Relay Gold medallist, has shed his neck to
knee swimsuit in the name of charity. In addition, Australian
Swimming teammate Matt Dunn has donated two signed pairs of his
swimming briefs. Thorn in the side of Suzie O'Neill, Misty Hyman has
generously donated her signed swimming cap. Having caused an upset in
the pool on Thursday night by snatching gold from Australia's Madam
Butterfly, Hyman is giving something back to the Australian community.The
auctions, hosted by eBay, can be reached from www.olympicaid.com |
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ATHLETES
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Athlete
Spotlight: Michael Bennett (USA)
Heavyweight
contender Michael Bennett can thank boxing for turning around his
life. A high-school wrestler and football player, Bennett
was convicted of armed robbery and served seven years of a 26-year sentence.
In prison, however, he took up boxing, and eventually worked his way
up to 1999 world champion. However Felix Savon of Cuba outclassed
Bennett inside three rounds on Tuesday. |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France)
Jeannie
Longo-Ciprelli won gold in the 1996 Atlanta Games, rounding out the
biggest collection of medals and trophies in women's cycling. Since
she began competing in 1979, she has won 12 world championships and
37 French national titles while breaking 36 world records. In
all, she has won nearly 600 races. |
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Sporting
Technique Infographics: Water Polo
Water
Polo is one of the most physically demanding of all Olympic team
sports. It requires both natural talent and years of dedicated
training to attain the strength, stamina and technique to play at
this level. Click
here for more information about this highly skilled sport. |
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Chat
with Golden Gebreselassie (Ethiopia)
Haile
Gebreselassie (Ethiopia) Men's 10,000 meter GOLD medallist is in for
a chat. US time: Tues Sep 26@7pm ET. Sydney time:Wed Sep 27@10am.
Buffy
Alexander (Canada) Women's eights rowing BRONZE medallist is also in
the Surf Shack. US time: Wed Sep 27@7pm ET. Sydney time: Thurs Sep
28th @ 10 am. Click here for the chat
site |
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