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Team
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Breaking
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Monday's
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Olympic
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Basketball:
Women's Russia too strong for New Zealand |
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Cycling:
Martinez completes his trophy cabinet |
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Football
(Soccer): Four dramatic quarter-finals |
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Football
(Soccer): US will play Norway for Gold in Women's Competition |
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Gymnastics:
Latvia's Igors Vihrovs wins gold |
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Hockey:
Australia stays on course for double |
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Rowing:
Britain take rowing's 'blue riband' |
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Tennis:
Williams survives stiff challenge to reach semis |
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Athletics:
Takahashi wins women's marathon |
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Athletics:
Kliugin wins gold in high jump |
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Wrestling:
Titanic struggle in Greco-Roman |
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Sydney
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Australian
Sport: Anything is Possible |
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Athletes
Athlete
Spotlight: Tara Nott (USA) |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Kerri-Ann Pottharst (Australia) |
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IN
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Shaz's
Team USA Update
The
athletes of the United States of America Olympic Team continue to
work their way into the semis and the finals. Check out the USA
team's success stories.
Swimming:
Smashed like, uh, guitars
Beach
Volleyball: Electric US through to final
Tennis:
Williams survives stiff challenge to reach semis |
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TOP
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Today's
Medal Tally
Click
here for the latest updates on the medal tally. |
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Breaking
News: Sunday's latest results
Check
out the latest results from Day 9 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Diving:
Platform gold for US
Weightlifting:
Kakiasvilis takes third Olympic gold
Women's
Singles Table Tennis - Wang wins gold
Athletics:
latest results |
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Monday's
Top Medal Events
Can't
get enough of the Games? Then take a look at what's waiting on track
for September 25:
Athletics
(Track and Field) schedule:
Men's
400m
Women's
400m
Women's
Pole Vault
Beach
Volleyball schedule:
Women's
Finals
Gymnastics
schedule:
Men's
Vault
Parallel
Bars
High
Bar
Women's
Balance Beam
Floor
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OLYMPIC
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Basketball:
Women's Russia too strong for New Zealand
Russia
completed its preliminary campaign with a comfortable
92-54 win over New Zealand at The Dome, while competition was
fierce in other
matches of the Women's Preliminaries. |
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Cycling:
Martinez completes his trophy cabinet
France's
Miguel Martinez has topped
what has already been a wonderful year by winning the men's
cross-country mountain bike race at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. |
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Football
(Soccer): Four dramatic quarter-finals
The
United States will play Spain in Sydney while Cameroon will meet
Chile in Melbourne in the semifinals of the Olympic soccer tournament
on Tuesday after they all came through four
dramatic quarter-finals on Saturday. |
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Football
(Soccer): US will play Norway for Gold in Women's Competition
Norway
and the United
States have progressed to the Olympic final of the women's
football competition after defeats over Germany and Brazil in
Sunday's semifinals. |
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Gymnastics:
Latvia's Igors Vihrovs wins gold
Latvia's
Igors Vihrovs stunned
the gymnastics world on Sunday by taking the Olympic gold medal
in the men's floor event: his first major championship win and
Latvia's first ever Olympic gold medal. Russia's Elena
Zamolodtchikova, a late replacement for team mate Svetlana Khorkina, made
the most of her opportunity to claim the vault gold medal at the
Olympic gymnastics apparatus finals, while Romanian police officer
Marius Urzica won
the gold in the men's pommel horse. Russia's Svetlana Khorkina overcame
an Olympic Games filled with bitter disappointment by
successfully defending her gymnastics uneven bars gold medal and Atlanta
silver medallist Szilveszter Csollany (HUN) won the gold medal
in the Men's Rings apparatus final. |
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Hockey:
Australia stays on course for double
Defending
women's champions Australia continued their impressive march towards back-to-back
Olympic titles with a 3-0
win over New Zealand on Sunday. Meanwhile Great
Britain and Canada draw in other hockey news. |
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Rowing:
Britain take rowing's 'blue riband'
Britain
finished the Sydney Olympic rowing regatta in the best possible
fashion on Sunday by winning
gold in the blue riband men's eight event. There were also
five other medals in contention on the last day of the rowing competition. |
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Tennis:
Williams survives stiff challenge to reach semis
Venus
Williams survived a stiff challenge from Arantxa Sanchez Vicario on
Sunday to extend her streak to 30
successive victories, while Monica
Seles and Jelena Dokic were successful in other tennis news. |
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Athletics:
Takahashi wins women's marathon
Takahashi
Naoko of Japan entered the Olympic Stadium to a huge roar at the end
of the women's marathon on Sunday and crossed
the line to win gold with a new Olympic Best time of 2:23:14. |
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Athletics:
Kliugin wins gold in high jump
Sergey
Kliugin of Russia won the men's
high jump gold at the Sydney Olympic Games on Sunday as world
record holder Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, back from a drugs ban, just
missed out. Kliugin was the only athlete to clear 2.35 metres, while
six others managed 2.32m, Sotomayor taking the silver on countback
after missing fewer previous jumps. The bronze went to Abderrahmane
Hammad of Algeria. |
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Wrestling:
Titanic struggle in Greco-Roman
It
was a battle to the bitter end in the Greco-Roman 97kg division
wrestling at the Exhibition Centre on Sunday, while Poland's
two Olympic champions struggled during the opening session of
the tournament in other wrestling news. |
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SYDNEY
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Australian
Sport: Anything is Possible
Australian
sports refuse to be lumped into just one category. Competitive team
sports such as rugby and Australian Rules football are popular, but
the country can't deny its love for the solo pleasures of surfing and
golf. As for the nation's most prestigious sporting event —
that's the Melbourne Cup, an annual horse race. Learn
more about sports Down Under, where there's even a smattering of
camel racing. |
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ATHLETES
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Athlete
Spotlight: Tara Nott (USA)
Tara
Nott was working for the Atlanta Organising Committee for the
Olympic Games in 1995 when she started weight training as part of her
fitness routine. Then she met the United States weight-lifting
coaches through her work and decided to pursue it as a sport. Five
years later, she's in the Games and she's won the gold medal. |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Kerri-Ann Pottharst (Australia)
For
years, Kerri-Ann Pottharst was the best attacker on the Australian
women's indoor-volleyball team. Then, in 1992, after a decade on the
international circuit, a severe knee injury led to months of
rehabilitation. It might have ended her volleyball career, but
instead, Pottharst
headed for the beach — for beach volleyball. |
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Sing
along to your favourite Anthem
The
national anthems for each country can be heard on each country page
on the official Sydney Olympic Games 2000 website. For example, for
the USA national anthem visit the USA
country page and check the link on the bottom right. |
