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USA Women's Team wins 4x100m relay gold with historic time
After a near-disaster in the opening round, the U.S. successfully defended its Olympic 4x100m gold medal Friday night in Rio. Running in the inside lane in the final, the U.S. clocked 41.01 seconds, the second fastest time ever. At the 2012 Olympics, the U.S. ran the fastest time ever, 40.82 seconds. The U.S. team in Rio featured, in order, Tianna...
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Serbia beats Australia to set up gold medal game vs Team USA
Serbia cruised to an 87-61 upset win over Australia in the men’s basketball semifinals to secure a date against the United States in the gold medal game. The rout was on in the first quarter as Serbia’s tough defense stifled Australia from the jump. The Boomers scored just five points in the first quarter and followed with nine in...
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Usain Bolt wins gold in 200M at third straight Olympics
Putting the final touches on his Olympic legacy, Usain Bolt won the Olympic 200m gold medal Thursday night in Rio. It was likely the last individual Olympic race for the eight-time gold medalist. Bolt crossed the line in 19.78 seconds. It was his slowest time in an Olympic final. With three Olympic gold medals in both the 100m and 200m,…
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Murray beats del Potro, becomes first two-time gold medalist
Great Britain’s Andy Murray defeated resurgent Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in the men’s singles best-of-five final on Sunday, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5. In doing so, the men’s World No. 2 has become the first tennis player to win consecutive gold medals. In the beginning, Murray seemed to have a grasp on the match. He converted several break points and was up...
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Lochte, three other swimmers robbed at gunpoint in Rio
Four members of the USA Swim Team, including Ryan Lochte, were robbed by individuals posing as police officers in an incident early Sunday morning in Rio, according to the United States Olympic Committee. In a statement issued Sunday, the USOC spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said the following: “According to four members of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team (Gunnar Bentz, Jack...
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In final race, Phelps gets 23rd gold, Team USA wins 4×100 medley
Michael Phelps secured career Olympic gold medal No. 23 alongside Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller and Nathan Adrian by winning the 4x100m medley relay on Saturday night. The American squad raced to an Olympic record time of three minutes, 27.95 seconds. Murphy broke Aaron Peirsol’s 6-year-old world record in the 100m backstroke during his lead-off leg, clocking 51.85 and shaving 0.09…
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Ex-Cal RB Best makes Olympic debut vs Bolt, fails to advance
Former Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best made his Olympic debut on Saturday, running the 100m in Rio. He became the first track and field athlete to compete at an Olympics after playing in the NFL. Racing in the same heat as Usain Bolt, Best clocked 10.39 seconds. Best finished seventh in his heat, and will not advance to the…
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Stanford's DiRado wins first individual gold at Rio in upset
Maya DiRado won her first individual gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Friday night, upsetting heavy favorite Katinka Hosszu of Hungary in the 200m backstroke. DiRado, making her Olympic debut in Rio with Team USA, won a bronze and a silver medal behind Hosszu earlier this week in each of the individual medleys. DiRado raced to two minutes, 5.99…
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Ledecky dominates 800m freestyle to break world record
Katie Ledecky made history as the just second woman to win three individual freestyle events at a single Olympic Games on Friday night when she successfully defended her 2012 gold in the 800m freestyle. She raced to eight minutes, 4.79 seconds to lower the world record for the fifth time. Ledecky joins American Debbie Meyer in the 1968 Mexico City…
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Phelps anchors 4x200m freestyle relay to another gold medal
Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Townley Haas aided the U.S. quartet’s victory in the 4x200m freestyle, adding a fourth consecutive gold medal for the U.S. in the event at the Olympics on Tuesday. Phelps has been on every one of those relays: 2004, 2008, 2012 and now 2016. Their time of seven minutes, 0.66 seconds beat out Great…