Lashko in gold pole position
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Irina Lashko has put Australia in a strong medal position going into the finals of the Olympic 3m springboard competition in Athens.
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Andrei Rybakov of Belarus set a world record of 412 pounds in the menâs 187-pound snatch and won three gold medals yesterday at the world championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Rybakov, 25, beat his own world mark by 2.2 pounds to take the title for a second straight year.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yuriy Bilonog won the gold medal in the men&#39;s shot put at Olympia, the home of the ancient Games, by virtue of his second-best effort after his last throw matched the leading mark set by US athlete Adam Nelson.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Los Angeles was awarded figure skating's 2009 world championships, which will serve as a qualifier for the Vancouver Olympics. Placements at worlds will determine how many spots a country gets for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Kanstantsin Siutsou won the under-23 race Friday, the first man from Belarus to capture a gold medal at the road cycling world championships.
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Even with a performance that lacked his usual ease and electricity, Evgeni Plushenko took the gold.
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Russia&#39;s Evgeni Plushenko performs during the men&#39;s free skating at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Beijing Saturday Dec. 18, 2004.
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James Carter of Baltimore finished fourth in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles today, missing out on a medal. Felix Sanchez, of the Dominican Republic, won the gold medal.
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British boxer Amir Khan goes for gold on the final day of the Athens Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - The first woman to win a gold medal at Ancient Olympia - a Russian shot putter - is under investigation for a positive drug test, international and Russian Olympic officials said Sunday.
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The 20-year wait is over. America has its new Mary Lou, and her name is Carly Patterson. The 16-year-old dynamo beat Russian superstar Svetlana Khorkina to give the United States another Olympic all-around champion Thursday night, closing with a dazzling ...
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ATHENS, Greece -- American pole vaulter Timothy Mack pulled off a last-gasp clearance at an Olympic record height of 5.95 meters to take the title in Athens.
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Daisuke Takahashi of Japan easily won the Four Continents skating competition yesterday in Goyang, South Korea, with two-time U.S. champion Evan Lysacek finishing third.
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Yelena Isinbayeva beat her own world record to clinch the Olympic women&#39;s pole vault gold on Tuesday coming one step closer to matching the performances of her idol, Sergei Bubka.
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Belarus' Yuliya Nesterenko won the top women's athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday, triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of doping woes to win the 100 meters.
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ATHENS - Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko won the top women&#39;s athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday, triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of doping woes to win the 100m.
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advantage. Already he has beaten Russia&#39;s Evgeny Makarenko, the two-time defending world champ, who arrived at the Games with a bulging rsum.