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In
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In
the Spotlight: Redgrave wins fifth rowing gold |
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Team
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Top
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Sunday's
Top Medal Events |
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Breaking
News: Saturday's Latest Results |
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Olympic
Sports
Basketball:
Close competition |
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Cycling:
Paola Pezzo wins second gold medal |
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Diving:
Russia upstages China to win gold |
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Football:
Europe vs Americas in battle for gold |
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Gymnastics:
Russia takes gold in first ever Olympic Trampolining |
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Hockey:
Pakistan salvage last-minute draw |
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Rowing:
Some golden results |
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Swimming:
More records fall in the pool |
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Tennis:
Dokic battles back to reach quarters |
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Athletics:
USA takes both 100m gold medals |
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Weightlifting:
Dimas wins historic third gold |
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Athletes
Athlete
Spotlight: Shelda Bede (Brazil) |
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Olympic
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IN
THE SPOTLIGHT
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In
the Spotlight: Redgrave wins fifth rowing gold
Briton
Steve Redgrave refused to rule out another Olympic campaign
after winning an unprecedented fifth consecutive gold medal on
Saturday at the Sydney regatta. Redgrave, 38, the most celebrated
oarsman in Olympic history, teamed with Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster
and James Cracknell to win the men's coxless fours. |
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Team
USA Update
The
United States of America Olympic Team proved in the pool and on the
track today, just what greatness and gold medals are all about.
Swimming:
US world record in women's medley relay
Athletics:
Jones takes 100m gold
Football:
Europe vs Americas in battle for gold |
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TOP
STORIES
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Sunday's
Top Medal Events
Can't
get enough of the Games? Then take a look at what's waiting on track
for September 24:
Athletics
(Track & Field) schedule:
Men's
High Jump
Women's
Triple Jump
Gymnastics:
Women's
Vault
Uneven
Bars
Men's
Floor Exercise
Pommel
Horse
Rings
Diving:
Women's
Platform |
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Breaking
News: Saturday's Latest Results
See
below for some exciting results on Day 8 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games, the day of the most medal results:
Water
Polo: Australia wins gold
Athletics:
Men's javelin
Badminton:
Men's Single Gold Medal match
Table
Tennis: Men's Doubles Gold Medal match
Football:
Men's Quarterfinal results |
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OLYMPIC
SPORTS
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Basketball:
Close competition
Basketball
fans were treated to some exciting and physical matches in the
preliminary rounds of men's basketball on Saturday. Earlier results
saw Australia,
Russia and Yugoslavia the winners. |
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Cycling:
Paola Pezzo wins second gold medal
Paola
Pezzo repeated her Atlanta victory in the Olympic mountain bike race
on Saturday but her Spanish rival Margarita Fullana accused the
Italian of causing a crash that ruined her gold medal hopes. |
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Diving:
Russia upstages China to win gold
Russians
Vera Ilyina and Yulia Pakhalina upstaged China's great Fu Mingxia on
Saturday to win the first-ever
Olympic synchronised diving title with a clearcut victory in the
three-metre springboard event. The
Russian men's synchronised platform duo out performed China and
Germany for the gold medal on Saturday. |
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Football:
Europe vs Americas in battle for gold
The
final of the women's football competition will be a contest
between Europe and the Americas, whatever the results of
Sunday's semifinal matches. |
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Gymnastics:
Russia takes gold in first ever Olympic Trampolining
Four
times world champion, Russian Alexandre Moskalenko, gained the
first Olympic gold medal in Trampolining on Saturday night with a
score of 41.7. |
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Hockey:
Pakistan salvage last-minute draw
Pakistan
scored in the last minute to salvage a draw with Malaysia in the
men's semifinals, while India's
semi-final hopes were kept alive after it defeated Spain 3-2.
Australia remained unbeaten. |
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Rowing:
Some golden results
Briton
Steve Redgrave won an unprecedented fifth consecutive gold medal on
an action-packed
first day of rowing finals; just one of the highlights of a
great day of rowing. |
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Swimming:
More records fall in the pool
Grant
Hackett took Kieran Perkin's crown while Inge de Bruin won her third
gold medal. To add to the excitement, the men's and women's US medley
relay teams set world records in the last night of swimming.
Hackett
takes Perkins' title
De
Bruijn wins 50m freestyle
US
world record in women's medley relay
US
breaks men's relay medley world record |
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Tennis:
Dokic battles back to reach quarters
Australian
teenager Jelena Dokic came from behind in both sets and overcame
an injury scare, to defeat Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay 7-6, 7-5. |
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Athletics:
USA takes both 100m gold medals
The
United States won
gold in both of the 100 metre finals on Saturday with Marion
Jones taking the women's and Maurice Greene winning the men's. |
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Weightlifting:
Dimas wins historic third gold
Greece's
Pyrros Dimas won a dramatic men's 85 kg contest on Saturday to
become only the second weightlifter in history to win three gold
medals. Dimas, light-heavyweight champion in Barcelona and Atlanta,
won an enthralling battle in which the
three medallists finished tied on the same weight of 390 kg. |
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SYDNEY
2000
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Games
Gossip: Romance blooms as flowers colour Village
The
Florist in the International Zone has been doing a roaring trade
since the Olympic Village opened. But
people are not just ordering the typical congratulatory bouquets. |
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ATHLETES
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Athlete
Spotlight: Shelda Bede (Brazil)
Shelda
Bede may be the best
defensive player in women's beach volleyball. She may be among
the best servers. And this much is beyond doubt - she and partner
Ariana Behar are considered the best team in the world. |
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Chat
with Lenny Krayzelburg
It's
Gold Medal Mania!! Chat
with Lenny Krayzelburg, USA Men's Swimmer and triple gold medal
winner. USA time Sep 25@9pm ET; Sydney time, Tuesday Sep 26th @12
noon. He is chatting live from the Surf Shack. |
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