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Rio Games shine light on lack of sports for Brazilian girls

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Every Friday after nightfall, teenage girls and young women make their way through a middle-class apartment complex and take over a field of emeral...
Germany fails to earn 3rd straight men's field hockey gold

By CLIFF BRUNT
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Even the resilient Germans couldn't work their way out of this mess. The men's field hockey team has lived dangerously throughout the Rio de Janeir...
Having fun in shootouts, Hedvig Lindahl keeps Sweden alive

By TALES AZZONI
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl wouldn't mind a third straight penalty shootout for Sweden in the women's Olympic soccer final on Friday. After all, it's...
Russian loses women's relay gold from '08 in doping case

By STEPHEN WILSON
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Russia was stripped of a relay gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Tuesday after one of its female runners tested positive for steroids in...
Jenny Simpson runs to 1st US Olympic medal in women's 1,500

By HOWARD FENDRICH
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - As Jenny Simpson took an extra lap around the blue track Tuesday night, Stars and Stripes in tow, and celebrated becoming the first U.S. woman to m...
US routs Japan 110-64, advances to women's basketball semis

By DOUG FEINBERG
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Diana Taurasi and the U.S. women's basketball brushed aside yet another opponent at the Rio Games after being challenged for the first time in the ...
Artur Aleksanyan rolls to Olympic gold in Greco-Roman

By LUKE MEREDITH
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Armenia won Olympic gold and silver in Greco-Roman wrestling on Tuesday, keeping Cuba from its goal of earning one title per day in the sport. Artu...
APNewsBreak: Boxing decision could lead to judging changes

By GREG BEACHAM
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Heavyweight Evgeny Tishchenko's gold-medal victory over Vassiliy Levit in a widely criticized decision is likely to be a catalyst for change during...
China's Olympic dominance in badminton will end in Rio

The Associated Press
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - China's Olympic dominance in badminton will end in Rio de Janeiro. The nation swept all five gold medals at the 2012 London Games, but China's atte...
Serbia stunner: Australia ousted 73-71 in women's basketball

By TERESA M. WALKER
Aug 16, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Liz Cambage cried. Penny Taylor, whose long career is over when the WNBA season ends, stood with her hands on her head staring into space in stunne...

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