Fastest race ever yields gold, bronze for US
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Justin Gatlin wants to be a new face of track and field. Maurice Greene doesn&#39;t want his face to be forgotten. Both should agree on one thing.
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SARAH ULMER gave New Zealand its first ever Olympic cycling gold medal and only their second gold of the Athens Games overnight. And she broke her own world record for the women&#39;s 3km individual pursuit.
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Tyler Hamilton and Bobby Julich won the gold and bronze medals today in the men's individual time trial at the Olympics.
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Michael Phelps won his second and third  Olympic golds for the United States on Tuesday, setting a new  Games record in the 200-meters butterfly before leading a 4 x  200 freestyle cliffhanger just over an hour later.
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Great British sprint quartet Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis blew away the American favourites with a breathtaking relay run to take the 4x100 metres Gold in 38.
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Britain took a shock gold in the men's  Olympic 4x100 meters relay Saturday, pipping favorite the  United States by one hundredth of a second.
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko became the fastest woman in the world, winning the 100m gold medal at the Olympic Games here Saturday evening.
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Mizuki Noguchi of Japan held on for the gold and American Deena Kastor used a late burst for a stunning bronze medal finish Sunday night in the Olympic marathon. Kastor's third place gave the United States its first marathon medal since Joan Benoit's gold in Los Angeles 20 years ago.
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American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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ATHENS, Greece - Justin Gatlin ran the race of his life, barely holding off the fastest Olympic 100 field in history to win the gold in 9.85 seconds. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver in 9.86...
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American swimmer Michael Phelps won an  Olympic record-equaling eighth medal at the Athens Games when  the U.S. team took gold in the men's 4x100 meters medley relay  Saturday.
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Saul Mendoza, a Mexican who lives in Texas, won the men's race in 1 hour 33 minutes 16 seconds. Edith Hunkeler of Switzerland won the women's competition in 1:53:27.
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ATHENS, Greece - American Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night, leading the entire race. Phelps finished in an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds, lowering his own mark of 1:58.52 set in the semifinals one night earlier...
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Sport: American takes 200m gold to become third man in history to win world championship sprint double.
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The United States won the women's 4 x  400 meters relay gold medal at the Olympics Saturday.
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World records are rare, but even rarer in the Olympic world is having a country sweep the medals in one event. On Monday, Jeremy Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew did just that for the US in the 400-meter dash.
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Justin Gatlin of the United States became the fastest man in the world after winning the men&#39;s 100 meters dash at the 28th Olympic Games here on Sunday.