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No Bolt vs. Gatlin II at Olympics, American misses 200 final

By GERALD IMRAY
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Bolt vs. Gatlin II at the Olympics is off. That's because of a tough break for Justin Gatlin, whose right ankle injury flared up only minutes befor...
US women's basketball captain Sue Bird has knee sprain

By DOUG FEINBERG
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Sue Bird and the U.S. women's basketball team received some good news Wednesday when an MRI revealed that the team captain and point guard just had...
US routs Argentina 105-78, moves into men's basketball semis

By BRIAN MAHONEY
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The nail-biters ended for the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team. So did a golden era of international basketball. Emphatically ending a stretch of...
Several unfit judges, referees knocked out of Olympic boxing

By GREG BEACHAM
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The International Boxing Association removed an undisclosed number of referees and judges from the Olympics on Wednesday after determining they had...
Brazil women beat US, ending Walsh Jennings' golden run

By JIMMY GOLEN
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - If Kerri Walsh Jennings winds up with a fourth medal in Olympic beach volleyball, it will be bronze - not gold, like the other three she has earned...
Hoog comes through for Dutch in field hockey semis again

By FOSTER NIUMATA
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Ellen Hoog updated her best memory in field hockey. At the 2012 London Games, Hoog scored the winning shootout goal for the Netherlands against New...
China's 'mudslides' inject personality into once-staid team

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and DIDI TANG
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Lovesick. Goofy. Flamboyant. Not usually words you'd associate with China's Olympic team. In Rio, however, a new generation of Chinese Olympians ar...
Yeleussinov wins 4th straight Kazakh welterweight gold medal

By DAN GELSTON
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Daniyar Yeleussinov leaves with a more permanent - and gnarly - reminder of his Olympic experience than a gold medal. Yeleussinov suffered a cut so...
Interview with Biles, Raisman is must-cringe TV

By DAVID BAUDER
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bob Costas' studio interview with American gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman following their gold and silver-medal winning floor routines was cringe-...
Irish Olympic executive arrested in ticket scheme

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and STEPHEN WILSON
Aug 17, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A senior Olympic executive from Ireland was arrested and taken to the hospital Wednesday after police raided his beachfront hotel as part of an inv...

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