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Breaking
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Today's
Medal Tally |
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Saturday's
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Olympic
Sports
Basketball:
Australia in gold contention after semifinal victory |
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Diving:
China goes for fifth gold |
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Football:
Zamarano double secures Chile bronze |
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Gymnastics:
Ten finalists in Gymnastics decided Friday |
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Athletics:
Korzeniowski walks into Olympic history |
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Athletics:
Britain crashes out as US cruises through |
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Athletics:
Polish teenager wins women's hammer gold |
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Athletics:
Ngeny shocks El Guerrouj for 1500m gold |
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Wrestling:
American slays another rival |
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Sydney
2000
Olympic
Sydney: Sydney Games to go out with a bang |
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Olympic
Sydney: King Claudio puts fans in a frenzy |
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Athletes
Athlete
Spotlight: Chamique Holdsclaw (USA) |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Abbas Jadidi (Iran) |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Jan Ullrich (Germany) |
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Team
USA Update
The
United States had a mixed day on Friday, with the highs of a gold in
the men's pole vault and the US basketball teams through to the
finals, but some disappointing and close results in other events.
Click below for the full stories.
Pole
Vault: Hysong wins pole gold by a whisker
Athletics:
United States cruise through relays
Jones
loses long jump and five-gold dream
Basketball:
US women to play Australia in gold medal match
Basketball:
Dream Team survives 85-83 semifinal scare against Lithuania
Football:
Chile beats US for bronze
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TOP
STORIES
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Breaking
News: Friday's latest results
Check
out the latest results from Day 14 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games:
Hockey:
Australia wins third gold
Pole
Vault: Hysong wins pole gold by a whisker
Athletics:
Jones loses long jump and five-gold dream
Sailing:
Ainslie wins protest and Laser gold medal
Basketball:
Dream Team survives 85-83 semifinal scare against Lithuania
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Today's
Medal Tally
Click
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Saturday's
Top Medal Events
Can't
get enough of the Games? Then take a look at what's waiting on deck
for September 30.
Football
(Soccer): Men's Final
Basketball:
Women's Final
Cycling:
Men's and Women's Individual Time Trials
Athletics
(Track and Field): Women's 4x100 and 4x400 Relays
Boxing |
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OLYMPIC
SPORTS
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Basketball:
Australia in gold contention after semifinal victory
Australia
was the first
team through to the gold medal match in the women's basketball
competition after disposing of Brazil 64-52 in the first semifinal at
the SuperDome on Friday. Champions
from Atlanta, the USA, also moved into the gold medal round,
knocking out Korea. |
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Diving:
China goes for fifth gold
China
has already won a total of eight diving medals - four gold and
four silver - in the seven diving events held to date. China's Tian
Liang began his bid for his first Olympic gold medal by winning the
preliminary round of the men's 10 meters platform at the Sydney 2000
Olympic Games on Friday. Check
out all of Friday's diving results. |
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Football:
Zamarano double secures Chile bronze
Chile
has won the bronze medal in the men's football competition with
a 2-0 victory over the United States at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
on Friday. Two second half goals from star striker Ivan Zamarano were
enough to take the game. |
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Gymnastics:
Ten finalists in Gymnastics decided Friday
The
top half of the finalist field in the individual all-round
competition seems set, with Alina Kabavea (RUS) narrowly leading the
field. However, the battle for positions five to 10 is open with at
least eight contestants in position to claim
a place in Sunday's final. |
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Athletics:
Korzeniowski walks into Olympic history
Poland's
Robert Korzeniowski took the Olympic 50 km walking gold medal on
Friday to become the first
man in history to win both walking events at the same Games.
Korzeniowski, the defending champion at 50km, won the 20km version a
week ago when Bernardo Segura of Mexico was disqualified after
crossing the line first. |
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Athletics:
Britain crashes out as US cruises through
Britain's
fancied Olympic 4x100 metres men's relay team crashed out at the
first stage of the competition on Friday as a
series of awful baton changes saw them disqualified after
finishing last in their heat. But the United States had no trouble as
newly-crowned 100m champion Maurice Greene anchored the world record
holders to the fastest qualifying time of the day, 38.15 seconds. |
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Athletics:
Polish teenager wins women's hammer gold
Teenager
Kamila Skolimowska of Poland won
the women's inaugural Olympic hammer gold on Friday. The
17-year-old threw 71.16 metres to beat Russian Olga Kuzenkova (69.77)
and Kirsten Muenchow of Germany, who threw 69.28 with her penultimate effort. |
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Athletics:
Ngeny shocks El Guerrouj for 1500m gold
Kenyan
Noah Ngeny produced the shock of the Sydney Games on Friday as
he outsprinted Hicham El Guerrouj to win the men's 1500 metres gold.
Ngeny, the world silver medallist behind the Moroccan, timed three
minutes 32.07. Earlier the Kenyans extended their steeplechase reign
with another win. Unfancied Reuben
Kosgei won the men's Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase gold. |
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Wrestling:
American slays another rival
The
United States' surprise packet Brandon Slay edged past Kazakhstan's
Gennadiy Laliyev on Friday to seal
a place in the semi-finals of the 76 kg freestyle event at the
Olympics Games. Slay caused a major upset on Thursday when he beat
reigning Olympic champion Bouvaissa Saitiev of Russia in the
elimination pool. Click
here for the remainder of Friday's wrestling results. |
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SYDNEY
2000
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Olympic
Sydney: Sydney Games to go out with a bang
The
Sydney Olympics are to go out with a bang - a low-flying fighter
bomber is to ignite a massive plume of flame and one million people
will be treated to one
of the world's most spectacular firework displays. |
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Olympic
Sydney: King Claudio puts fans in a frenzy
Italy's
taekwondo player Claudio Nolano has gone from, in his own words,
being "a nobody" to someone with thousands of fans around
the world. And all it took was a
few seconds on NBC's The Today Show. Now his fanmail is second
only to Australian swimming triple gold medallist Ian Thorpe. |
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ATHLETES
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Athlete
Spotlight: Chamique Holdsclaw (USA)
One
of the first six players named on the US Olympic team, Chamique
Holdsclaw was a feared college basketball player. At the University
of Tennessee, Holdsclaw scored more than 3000 points and snared
nearly 1300 rebounds while leading her team to a 131-17 record. Her
amazing talent translated to a successful 1997 world championship
outing. Can
Holdsclaw cap it all with Olympic triumph tomorrow? |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Abbas Jadidi (Iran)
Abbas
Jadidi barely missed a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games,
losing the final to the United States' Kurt Angle on an officials'
decision after wrestling to a 1-1 tie in overtime. Jadidi enters the
Sydney 2000 Games as one
of the top contenders in the 130kg (286-pound) class.
Elimination rounds for the 130kg event began on Friday - check
out how Abbas is going. |
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Athlete
Spotlight: Jan Ullrich (Germany)
At
age 26, Jan
Ullrich is in his second career. And that is just his cycling
life. A former Tour de France champion, Ullrich is a hot contender
for the 500m time trial on Saturday. Find out more about Ullrich and
his chances for gold in Sydney. |
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Sporting
Technique Infographics: Gymnastics (Rhythmic)
The
rope, hoop, ball, ribbon and clubs are the apparatus used in the
rhythmic gymnastic competition. A strictly female event, the gymnasts
perform a routine to music with the different apparatus. Click
here to find out more about what each routine entails. |
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