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In
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Shaz's
Team USA Update |
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Top
Stories
Breaking
News: Thursday's latest results |
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Today's
Medal Tally |
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Friday's
Top Medal Events |
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Olympic
Sports
Basketball:
Gaze shoots Australia into semifinals |
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Basketball:
Australia and USA remain unbeaten |
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Diving:
China scoops the pool |
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Football
(Soccer): Germany takes bronze with 2-0 win over Brazil |
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Gymnastics:
Raducan loses appeal |
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Gymnastics:
Greece top the all-round qualification |
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Hockey:
South Korea beats Pakistan to make final |
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Tennis:
Kafelnikov defeats Haas for Olympic gold |
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Tennis:
Williams sisters grab doubles gold |
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Athletics:
Farce reigns as Wang walks away with gold |
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Athletics:
Queen Marion and King Konstantinos rule the 200m |
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Athletics:
Pedroso wins men's long jump gold |
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Wrestling:
Grand Superiority clinches preliminary |
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Sydney
2000
Olympic
Sydney: Precautions taken against Olympic hangover |
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Olympic
Aid: Fatso - not just a fat-arsed Wombat |
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Olympic
Sydney: Frog numbers leap at Olympic Park |
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Athletes
Athlete
Spotlight: Mark Ruiz (USA) |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Regla Torres (Cuba) |
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Olympic
Interactives
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the Site! |
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Explore
Your favourite Sport |
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Sporting
Technique Infographics: Athletics (Running) |
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Chat
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IN
THE SPOTLIGHT
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Shaz's
Team USA Update
Women
dominated the medal tally for the US on day 13 with Marion, Venus
and Serena taking top billing. Tough battles were also fought out on
the football pitch and on the harbour.
Athletics:
Jones completes sprint double
Tennis:
Williams sisters grab doubles gold
Sailing:
US teams win women's and men's 470 silver
Football:
Silver in women's soccer
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TOP
STORIES
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Breaking
News: Thursday's latest results
Check
out the latest results from Day 13 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games:
Football:
Golden goal secures win for Norway
Athletics:
Estonia takes decathlon gold
Hockey:
Netherlands beats Australia to make final
Volleyball:
Cuba and Russia in Women's Final
Basketball:
Lithuania down world champions Yugoslavia to take on US
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Today's
Medal Tally
Click
here for the latest updates on the medal tally.
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Friday's
Top Medal Events
Can't
get enough of the Games? Then take a look at what's happening on September 29.
Athletics
(Track and Field):
Women's
Long Jump
Men's
1500m
Men's
pole vault
Hockey
(Field):
Women's
Final
Basketball:
Men's
and Women's Semifinals |
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OLYMPIC
SPORTS
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Basketball:
Gaze shoots Australia into semifinals
Andrew
Gaze scored 27 points on Thursday to drive Australia into the
Olympic men's basketball semifinals with a
thrilling 65-62 quarterfinals win over Italy, while France ended
Canada's surprising run through the men's Olympic Games
basketball tournament with a 68-63 quarter-final win. |
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Basketball:
Australia and USA remain unbeaten
Australia,
United States, Korea, and Brazil have all progressed to the women's
semifinals at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games after winning
their quarterfinal matches at the SuperDome Wednesday. The
semifinal matches on Friday are: USA against Korea, and Australia
against Brazil. |
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Diving:
China scoops the pool
Xiong
Ni collected his second gold medal of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
when he shared
victory with Chinese team mate Xiao Hailiang in the men's
synchronised diving three-metre springboard event. Meanwhile, China's
Li Na and Sang Xue scored an
overwhelming victory in the Olympic synchronised diving women's
platform event on Thursday. Fu Mingxia, a world champion at 12, then
pulled off a
record-equalling fourth Olympic diving gold medal when she
retained the women's three-metre springboard title. |
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Football
(Soccer): Germany takes bronze with 2-0 win over Brazil
Germany
has taken the bronze medal in the women's football tournament at
the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games with a 2-0 victory over Brazil. |
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Gymnastics:
Raducan loses appeal
Romanian
gymnast Andreea Raducan has lost
her appeal against being stripped of the Olympic gold medal she
won last week in the all-round competition. |
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Gymnastics:
Greece top the all-round qualification
The
Greek Rhythmic Gymnastics women's group is leading
the field with 39.400 points, followed by Russia on 39.366 and
Japan on 38.766 in the exercises all-round qualification Thursday. |
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Hockey:
South Korea beats Pakistan to make final
The
South Korean men's hockey team won through to their first Olympic
final on Thursday after defeating Pakistan 1-0 in a semi-final match. This
was hockey's equivalent of David and Goliath. |
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Tennis:
Kafelnikov defeats Haas for Olympic gold
Russian
Yevgeny Kafelnikov defeated Tommy Haas of Germany in five
gruelling sets on Thursday to win the Olympic tennis gold medal.
The fifth-seeded Kafelnikov, a master of five-set matches, claimed a
7-6 (7-4) 3-6 6-2 4-6 6-3 victory to capture the first Olympic tennis
gold ever for Russia. |
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Tennis:
Williams sisters grab doubles gold
Sisters
Venus and Serena Williams of the United States crushed Dutch pair
Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans in straight sets on Thursday to win
the Olympic women's doubles title. Earlier, Dominique van Roost
and Els Callens had won Belgium's
first ever Olympic tennis medal in the women's doubles, winning
the bronze medal. |
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Athletics:
Farce reigns as Wang walks away with gold
Wang
Liping of the People's Republic of China won the inaugural women's
20 km walk gold at the Sydney Olympic Games on Thursday after the
race degenerated into high farce and floods of tears. Wang won
after the three walkers in front of her were disqualified in the
closing stages after each had been ahead. |
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Athletics:
Queen Marion and King Konstantinos rule the 200m
Marion
Jones completed the second leg of her quest for five Sydney Olympic
titles on Thursday as she outclassed
her rivals to win the women's 200 metres gold, while
Konstantinos Kenteris of Greece sprang
a major surprise as he won the men's 200 metres gold in one of
the most wide-open finals of the Games. |
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Athletics:
Pedroso wins men's long jump gold
Cuba's
triple world champion, Ivan Pedroso, won the men's long jump gold at
the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in dramatic fashion on Thursday to
claim his first
Olympic title. |
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Wrestling:
Grand Superiority clinches preliminary
Georgian
Eldar Kurtanidze defeated Ricardas Pauliukonis of Lithuania with a
Grand Superiority score of 11-1 in their Olympic 97 kilogram
freestyle wrestling preliminary on Thursday morning. Elimination
rounds were also contested in the 54kg, 63kg and 76kg weight
divisions at the Sydney Exhibition Centre on Thursday - click
here for all the latest results. |
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Olympic
Sydney: Frog numbers leap at Olympic Park
If
you happen to be wandering the Olympic Park precincts and, in
response to the call of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie" you hear
an unfamiliar retort of "Croak, Croak, Croak", pause a
moment. You may well have stumbled upon Australia's
most patriotic species of frog — the Green and Golden Bell Frog. |
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ATHLETES
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Athlete
Spotlight: Mark Ruiz (USA)
Diver
Mark Ruiz comes to Sydney with a
resume chock full of victories, notably the one-meter and
three-meter springboard and platform titles at the 1999 spring
National Diving Championships in the United States. Ruiz, whose forte
is the platform, snagged a bronze at the FINA Diving World Cup last
year. Seventh in both the Men's springboard and synchronized
platform, he begins his quest tomorrow in the individual platform
preliminaries—look for updated news. |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Regla Torres (Cuba)
Regla
Torres is known as The Queen. Not only is she the
undisputed star of the undisputed rulers of women's volleyball,
Cuba, but she also ranks among the royalty of all athletes at the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Be sure to check out the results of the
semifinal against Brazil in a rematch of one of volleyball's most
famous clashes - the wondrous Atlanta semifinal won by Cuba in five
sets on their way to the 1996 gold medal. |
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Explore
Your favourite Sport
Whether
you're a football fanatic or a devoted swimming spectator, a track
aficionado or a water polo observer, you'll find plenty to amuse you
at this exhaustive event exploration. Can't understand why the
gymnastics judges ruled how they did? Confused about Madison, the
cycling disciple added this year? Get
the lowdown on Olympic sport. |
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Sporting
Technique Infographics: Athletics (Running)
While
the athletes in the sprint, middle distance, and marathon events are
all runners, the biomechanics of those runners are markedly
different. The techniques of Olympic hurdlers — trained to clear
the hurdles in one fluid motion without breaking stride — are
different again. Improve
your own running technique. |
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Chat
with Tatiana the pole vaulter
The
very popular Tatiana Grigorieva - Australia's Silver medallist,
women's pole vault - is coming in for a chat. Sydney time: Saturday
Sep 30th @ 11 am USA time: Friday Sep 29th @ 8pm ET. |
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