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American women win soccer gold
American women win soccer gold

The U.S. women's soccer team won its third gold medal in four Olympics on Thursday, beating Brazil 1-0 in extra time.
KRIEGER: Silver lining in U.S. softball loss

It might be hard for an American audience to accept, let alone an American team that just suffered a heartbreaking loss. But Team USA's defeat Thursday night in softball's last scheduled Olympic game might be the best thing that could have happened to the sport.

Another Olympic pain of U.S. water polo team

U.S. women's water polo coach Guy Baker told his team before Thursday's gold-medal match against the Netherlands they would either cry tears of joy or disappointment. Once again, it was the latter.

Olympic digest: Gold medal brightens rainy day for beach volleyball pair

Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor never lost a set to become the first beach volleyball team — men's or women's — to repeat as Olympic champions.

Oliver: From a nobody to a medalist

Denver East graduate David Oliver went from an afterthought on the U.S. track team to a bronze medalist.

Taormina ready for historic triple

Overcoming more than her share of adversity, American Sheila Taormina will become the first woman to compete in three Olympic sports when the modern pentathlon gets under way today.

Taurisi lifts U.S. women into basketball final

The U.S. women's basketball team was tested for the first time, but it emerged from Thursday's semifinal with a 67-52 victory and a spot in the gold-medal game.
Finals spots slip away for U.S. relay teams

First, the American men's sprint relay team botched a handoff and failed to advance to the Olympic finals for the first time since 1988. Then the women's sprint relay team dropped the baton in its semifinal heat, knocking them out of the finals for the first time since the 1948 London Games.

U.S. denied final softball gold medal

Losing for the first time since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied a chance for a fourth straight gold medal Thursday, beaten 3-1 by Japan in the sport’s last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years — and maybe for good.
U.S. settles for silver in women's water polo

The Netherlands stunned the United States 9-8 to win the women’s water polo gold medal Thursday. The Americans went into the game as the top-ranked team in the world.

May-Treanor, Walsh team for second gold

Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won their second consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 21-18, 21-18 victory against China's Wang Jie and Tian Jia, the exclamation point on another perfect run.

KRIEGER: Jamaica picking up the pace

Imagine that all the fastest people in the world come from Kansas. A stretch, I know. Make it Mississippi, if you prefer. Or Arkansas. An outcome of roughly that statistical probability is what's happening at these Olympic Games.
Circus follows Gould, but it's not funny

The story was Georgia Gould wanted to be a clown. Turns out it came from somebody who was clowning around.

Denver East's Oliver reaches hurdles final

Denver East High School graduate David Oliver qualified for today's 110-meter hurdle final at National Stadium. If the semifinals are an indication, Oliver has some work to do.
Redeem Team gets wish: Argentina

After finishing a 116-85 Olympic men's quarterfinal basketball rout of Australia, several U.S. players were asked Wednesday whether they would prefer to face Argentina or Greece in Friday's semifinal. Argentina won the popular vote.

Lithuania makes Olympic basketball semifinals

With Nuggets forward Linas Kleiza having another solid game, Lithuania beat China 94-68 on Wednesday to reach the men's basketball semifinals.

Double take: Bolt flies to 200 mark

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt stunned a crowd of 91,000 at National Stadium on Wednesday, powering his way to a 200-meter gold medal to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double.

Runner-up in heptathlon fails drug test

Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine is under investigation for a positive doping test and could be stripped of her silver medal in the Olympic heptathlon.

Olympic digest: U.S. baseball team beats Japan, gets rematch with Cuba

Brian Barden singled in the go-ahead run to break a scoreless tie in the 11th inning Wednesday as the U.S. beat Japan 4-2 to earn the third seed for Friday's medal round of the baseball competition.

Q & A with Crystl Bustos

A Canyon Country, Calif., resident, Crystl Bustos often is described as the Barry Bonds of women's softball because of her slugging power.
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Medal Count

CountryGSBTotal
United States29343295
China46152283
Russia16161951
Britain17121140
Australia11131438
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Thursday at the Games

Main event: So long, softball. It won't be with us in the 2012 London Games. It's possible we'll never see softball in the Olympics again. If not, the U.S. team intends to bid adieu with one of the most dominating performances in Olympic history. How far ahead of the field are the Americans? In eight games leading into today's final against Japan, the Americans have outscored their opponents 57-2 and allowed only eight hits in 48 innings. Tonight, they'll go for their fourth consecutive gold medal.

Other highlights

* Shades of Mia Hamm and Co., the U.S. women's soccer team has made it all the way back. It will face Brazil in the gold-medal match.

* David Oliver, a graduate of Denver East High School, will try to overtake world record- holder Dayron Robles of Cuba in the men's 110-meter hurdles. With the Athens gold and silver medalists knocked out with injuries, Oliver and Robles have qualified No. 1 in each of their respective heats.

Colorado connections

* Eli Bremer (modern pentathlon)

* Dexter Fowler (baseball)

* Steve Mocco (wrestling)

* David Oliver (track and field)

* Sam Sacksen (modern pentathlon)

On TV

* 9News, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 7-11 p.m., 11:30 p.m.- 4 a.m.; MSNBC, 3 a.m-2 p.m.; CNBC, 3-6 p.m., 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; USA, midnight-10 a.m.; Oxygen, 5-7 p.m.; Telemundo, 7-10 a.m., 11 p.m.-midnight, 1-5 a.m. (Friday).

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