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The Star
| 10 months ago
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak congratulated national diver, Pandelela Rinong, for winning the bronze medal in the Women's 10m Platform event final of the 2012 London Olympics, hence being the country's first female Olympian to ever win an...
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The Reporter
| 10 months ago
In Thursday's 200, Bolt led a Jamaican sweep, with his training partner and pal Yohan Blake -- who upset Bolt in the two sprint finals at Kingston -- getting the silver in 19.44, and Warren Weir taking the bronze in 19.84. That was more than a half-...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
The YouTube footage is humorous, the inexperienced subject half-somersaulting, half-back-flipping over a relatively low bar into the pole-vault pit with accompanying laughter from onlookers five years ago. Little did the videographer know he was...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
This combination of eleven photos shows in the center frame, United States' Ashton Eaton being embraced by his fiancee Brianne Theisen after winning gold in the decathlon following the 1500-meter race during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt and David Rudisha lit up the Olympic Stadium on Thursday...A night after Rudisha lowered the 800-meter world record and Bolt completed the 100-200 sprint double for the second straight Olympics, Dibaba can repeat her Beijing long-distance...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Tom Daley will be "in medal contention" in Saturday's 10m platform diving final, former Olympic medallist Leon Taylor has predicted. Daley, 18, finished fourth in the 10m synchro final last week alongside Great Britain team-mate Pete Waterfield...
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The Reporter
| 10 months ago
Abby Wambach didn't put on her "Greatness Has Been Found" T-shirt right away. She instead strayed from her teammates and knelt alone at midfield -- and cried into a U.S. flag...The United States won its third straight Olympic gold medal Thursday,...
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Sacramento Bee
| 10 months ago
His Olympic gold medal in the decathlon was all but sealed when he reached the last event, the 1,500 meters, where he simply needed to finish in an average time to win the event Thursday night. The world-record holder cruised over the four laps,...
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India Abroad
| 10 months ago
D avid Rudisha lit up Thursday evening with an 800m World record but despite running one of the great Olympic races, he was eclipsed an hour later when Usain Bolt took to the track. The softly-spoken Kenyan is far too polite ever to express any...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Christian Taylor of the US claimed gold in the men's triple jump at the London 2012 Olympics, after recording a seasonal best. Taylor jumped 17.81m in his fourth attempt to stay ahead of compatriot Will Claye (17.62m) and Italian Fabrizio Donato (17.
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BDNews24
| 10 months ago
London, Aug 10 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) American teenager Claressa Shields crowned her rags to riches story in emphatic style on Thursday by outfoxing and outgunning experienced Russian Nadezda Torlopova to win the first women's Olympic boxing...
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BDNews24
| 10 months ago
London, Aug 10 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) World champion Christian Taylor produced this year's biggest jump to take gold in the men's triple jump in an American one-two at the London Olympic Games on Thursday. Taylor's season's best mark of 17.81 metres...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
U.S. swimmer Haley Anderson admits she felt a tad envious when her older sister, Alyssa, won gold in the women's 800 freestyle relay last week...She just wanted a medal, too. "Seeing her get a medal, it was like, 'Oh, I need one too,' " Anderson said,...
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The News Tribune
| 10 months ago
PDT On a day the U.S. women's soccer team won a gold medal, and the U.S. women's water polo team won a gold medal, and the U.S. women's basketball and volleyball teams advanced to championship games expected to fetch two more gold medals, it was a...
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Sacramento Bee
| 10 months ago
Olympic Marathon Swim qualifier in Portugal in June, Anderson, 20, outsprinted Risztov, 26, in the last 500 yards to win by 1.4 seconds. Thursday morning in London, at the 10-kilometer Olympic Marathon finals in the Serpentine at Hyde Park, Anderson...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
24 South Africa has been handed a place in the Olympic final of the men's 4x400 metres, after the side including double amputee Oscar Pistorius was re-instated on appeal in London this morning. One of the South Africans collided with a Kenyan...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 10 months ago
Nick Symmonds ran the fastest 800 meters of his life in Thursdays Olympic final...Kenyas David Rudisha won gold with a world-record time of 1 minute, 40.91 seconds. Seven runners in the event set personal bests and three, including Rudisha, set...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
AP/Kyodo News A bleary-eyed Japan has been left to come to terms with its failure to add an Olympic gold medal to its world cup title in women's football . Just over a year after Nadeshiko Japan named after a colourful yet hardy mountain flower beat...
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Denver Post
| 10 months ago
In an Olympic championship showdown between fierce rivals from the United States and Japan, all that separated the world's two best female soccer teams was the most clutch goalkeeper on the planet. In a game for the ages played at classic Wembley...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
American Christian Taylor fouled on his first two attempts in the triple jump final Thursday before landing a 17.81-meter leap, the longest in the world this year, to claim gold over compatriot Will Claye, who took silver with a jump of 17.62. My...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Japanese soccer fans began their Friday bleary-eyed, many having shed tears but most philosophical, after the world champions were beaten 2-1 by the United States in the women's Olympic soccer final in London...Japan were the best team," 32-year-old...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
22 p.m., Aug. 9, 2012 Chen Ruolin of China dives during the women's 10-meter platform diving semifinal at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012...It won't be a sweep, but China will...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 10 months ago
England Abby Wambach and the rest of the U.S. women's soccer team lined up and bowed one by one to receive their gold medals. It's becoming an increasingly familiar scene for American women at the London Games. There are three full days of Olympic...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Half an hour earlier, Usain Bolt had sprinted away from the field again at 200 meters to become, even by his own platinum standards, a legend in everyone's mind...Bolt is practically the only thing anybody cares about anymore in track, and that's a...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Carli Anne Lloyd is her name and she is from Delran, N.J. and we can say with some certainty now that she is quite good at this gold-medal business. She had the game-winning goal against Brazil in Beijing four years ago, and Thursday night on as...
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Contra Costa Times
| 10 months ago
Manteo Mitchell felt the pop in his leg and knew it wasn't good. "It felt like somebody literally just snapped my leg in half," he said. The American sprinter had half a lap to go in the first leg of the 4x400-meter relay preliminaries Thursday and a...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
Bolt is the reigning world's greatest athlete, small letters and capital achievement. Eaton is the current World's Greatest Athlete, capital letters courtesy of a Swedish king 100 years ago...Bolt, 25, is an athlete for the contemporary world, with...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Bolt, who won both the 100 and 200 in world record times in Beijing four years ago, took the 100m gold Sunday and went on to cruise to victory in 200 with a time of 19.32 seconds in front of a capacity crowd at the Olympic Stadium, Xinhua reported.
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
From the outset, Nadeshiko Japan was playing for more than an Olympic medal. Since it stunned the Americans to win last year's World Cup, the women's national soccer team came to symbolize the country's determination to rebuild northern Japan after a...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics The Japan team wave and bow to the crowd after losing their women's soccer final gold medal match against the U.S. at Wembley Stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 9, 2012. Japanese soccer fans began their Friday bleary-eyed,...
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The Durango Herald
| 10 months ago
Five things to know about Thursday, Day 13 of the London Olympics: Still the man: Bolt leads Jamaican sweep in 200-meter final...Olympic official to AP: IOC to strip Tyler Hamilton of 2004 gold. Usain Bolt greeted the excited crowd with a royal wave...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
August 9, 2012 Just a year after losing to Japan in the World Cup Finals, the U.S. Women redeemed themselves with a 21 win Thursday in the Olympic gold medal match. The title game was the fifth straight in the Olympics for the women who've come away...
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Pop Crunch
| 10 months ago
It was a rematch of last year's Wold Cup final, which saw Japan come out on top. This game, held in famed Wembley Stadium, was all about redemption for Team USA...They snatched our dream last summer, U.S. midfielder Megan Rapinoe said. And this kind...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
Olympic Stadium crowd, Bolt completed a golden grand slam by becoming the first man to win the 100- and 200-meter titles in two successive Olympics. "I am now a living legend," he said, and few would argue. Bolt avenged his losses to teammate Yohan...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Olympics football: USA win thrilling final United States' women's football team retain their Olympic title by beating Japan 2-1 in a thrilling Wembley final...The US have now won each of the last three Olympic football competitions and four of the...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt surged to the Olympic 200 meters title on Thursday at the head of a Jamaican medal sweep to become the first man to win the 100 and 200m sprints at successive Games. The race capped a historic day when Kenya's David Rudisha broke his own...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 10 months ago
The U.S. women's soccer team made another play for America's heart Thursday night, winning a thriller of a gold-medal game, 2-1, over Japan. Before a screaming crowd of 80,203 in Wembley Stadium the largest number of fans who have ever attended an...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
One goal bounced from Carli Lloyd 's head as she flew, and another soared off her orange-booted right foot as she sprinted. Countless stops soaked through Abby Wambach 's headband as she muscled through every minute. All but one attack died at the...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Goalkeeper Hope Solo is known almost as much for the controversy she stirs up off the field as she is for the saves she makes on it. But not on Thursday night during the gold medal game against Japan . Solo was brilliant all night, making several...
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The Orange County Register
| 10 months ago
His Olympic gold medal in the decathlon was all but sealed when he reached the last event, the 1,500 meters, where he simply needed to finish in an average time to win the event on Thursday night...Eaton finished the two-day competition with 8,869...
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PopSugar
| 10 months ago
Your sharing status or "Activity" can be found right next to your profile picture and can be adjusted at any time. If you would prefer not to share the articles you are reading, just turn the Activity setting next to your profile picture to Off . And...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
England (AP) The game was nearly as grand as the stage, in doubt until the last seconds and so important that the winning country's commander in chief was following it back home. Across town, Usain Bolt was doing in London what he did in Beijing, but...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
The world's fastest man and the world's greatest half-miler ran past the finish line and into the history books. Wembley, the iconic stadium, bulged with 80,203 fans for women's soccer as the United States found redemption against Japan. Ireland won...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics Eaton Ashton of the U.S. celebrates winning the men's decathlon during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 9, 2012. Ashton Eaton deservedly took the unofficial title of the world's...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
But on this night, every medalist went away a winner. London When the three women's soccer teams emerged from the beneath Wembley Stadium Japan , the United States , and Canada there was no trace of sadness or disappointment on a single face. Each...
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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Across town, Usain Bolt was doing in London what he did in Beijing, but for 80,203 people at Wembley Stadium and the two best women's soccer teams in the world, this was their Olympic moment.
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US Magazine
| 10 months ago
Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Disclaimer: The 2012 London Olympic events take place five hours ahead of US EST, but Us Weekly is reporting the results as they happen and before they air on NBC during primetime hours. Ashton Eaton has now earned the...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Articles The U.S. women's soccer team captured gold after two stunning goals by Carli Lloyd as the Americans defeated Japan in a rematch of the 2011 World Cup, 2-1. After a thrilling victory over Canada in the semifinals, the Americans' journey to...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Japanese soccer fans who got up before dawn to watch their team take on the U.S. women for the Olympic soccer gold medal started their day with disappointment. Just over a year ago, Japan enjoyed a stunning victory over the U.S...But on Friday, it...
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Associated Press
| 10 months ago
Beating Japan 2-1 in a rematch of last year's World Cup final, the U.S. took its third straight Olympic gold medal Thursday. The game also set a record for the largest audience ever for a women's Olympic soccer final: 80,203 fans watched live at...
