Germany, Norway cruise to gold in single sculls; Romania, Australia...
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German single sculler Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski ended Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch's Olympic dominance Saturday, beating the two-time defending gold medalist by nearly four seconds.
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Rower Matthew Pinsent has won a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the coxless four, while Britain picked up further gold medals in the sailing, cycling and three-day eventing.
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Australia's Brooke Hanson charged  to two gold medals while Ian Crocker needed a world record to  give the United States their only individual victory at the  world short course championships on Sunday.
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The American men's elite eight crew ends a four-decade drought in rowing gold medals Sunday, pulling out to a big lead and fending off a late charge by the Netherlands.
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Australia picked up a fourth rowing medal after a member of the Ukrainian women&#39;s quad sculls tested positive for a prohibited stimulant.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States has won a silver medal in the women&#39;s gymnastics team competition. Romania earned the gold medal, finishing with 114.283 points. The US had 113.584, while Russia took the bronze with 113.235.
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its  soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael  Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the  Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke. The  Olympics started its eighth day with 32 gold medals up for  grabs in what has been dubbed ~Super Saturday.~
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Benoit Peschier of France won gold in the men&#39;s single kayak on Friday, while the Slovakian team of Pavol and Peter Hochschorner took gold in the men&#39;s double canoe at the Helliniko Slalom Center.
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Kyle Shewfelt won the men&#39;s floor exercise Sunday night, giving Canada its first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Marian Dragulescu of Romania finished with the same score as Shewfelt, a 9.787, but a series of tiebreakers dropped him to second place.
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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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ATHENS : Natasa Janics of Hungary captured the women&#39;s K1 500m kayak gold medal, then teamed up with Katalin Kovacs to win the K2 500m and deny Birgit Fischer a record-equalling ninth career Olympic gold.
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Australia&#39;s Brooke Hanson charged to two gold medals while Ian Crocker needed a world record to give the United States their only individual victory at the world short course championships on Sunday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Winning on whitewater runs in the family for Frenchman Benoit Peschier, though an Olympic gold is something new. Peschier paddled his one-man kayak aggressively but penalty free in both his semifinal and final runs on the manmade Olympic ...
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German kayaker Birgit Fischer had to settle for silver instead of a ninth Olympic gold on Saturday, but it was gold all the way in the men&#39;s single and pairs events.
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ATHENS -- She won her first Olympic gold medal in kayaking when she was 18, the youngest paddler to do so in Games history. Yesterday, at 42, Germany&#39;s golden girl Birgit Fischer won her eighth Olympic gold in the four-woman 500-metre kayak race.
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ATHENS: Michael Phelps won gold in the 100m butterfly on Friday to take his Olympic medal tally to five gold and two bronze. A medal of any colour now will him equal the record for most medals at a single
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Daily diversions: Birgit Fischer won her first Olympic gold medal in flat-water kayaking as a teenager in 1980 for East Germany. In Athens, at 42 and the single mother of two teenagers, she goes for her eighth gold medal.