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Show Saturday, September 23, Expected SYDNEY. Australia ( AP) It was a history-making day for American swimmer Jenny Thompson, an exhilarating day for the Dutch, and a super day for the underdogs. Athletes pessimistic about their chances might consider these favorites who slumped Wednesday at the Olympics: Cuba's baseball team, with two gold medals and a 21 game Olympic winning streak, fell 4-2 - to the Dutch. Russia's Marat Safin, winner of the U.S. Open and another tennis tournament this week, went out barely 24 hours after arriving in Australia. Losing 1-6, 6-1. 6-4 to Frances Fabnce Santoro. Safin was among nine seeded men gone after just one round. South Korea's men archers, the top qualifiers, didnl even reach the semifinals, and Aastralia's Simon Fairweather beat Amencan Vic Wundcrle. a former world junior champion, 113-106 in the gold medal match. World champion Hidchiko Yoshida of Japan crashed out with an apparent broken elbow against Brazil's Carlos Honorato in kilogram kilo-gram judo. Honorato went on to the final, losing to another of the days Dutch winners, Mark Huizinga. The Dutch, meanw hile. did well in events where they were favored. Swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband won his second gold of these games, beating two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexander Popov of Russia in the 100-meter freestyle. In a semifinal for the women s. 100, van den I loogenband s countrywoman Inge de Bruijn set her second world record of the Olympics. It was the 12th world record set or tied in five davs at the Nemov wins SYDNEY. Australia (AP) Inspired by the newborn son he has yet to see. Alexei Nemov put on a golden show in the men's all-around, twirling and tumbling his way to the title that eluded him four years ago. He took the gold with 58.474 points. "I now have a son. Thai was a major motivation." he said Wednesday, smiling broadly at the thought of little Alexei. bom after Nemov left for the Olympics. "I did my best for Russia, my family fam-ily and my loved ones." he said. Chinas Yang Wei won the silver Wednesday, finishing 0.113 points behind Nemov. Oleksandr Beresh of Ukraine took the bronze. For Nemov. who finished jast 0.04 points behind Li Xiaohuang of China in the 19 all-around, victory vic-tory was sweet So stoic and focused during the competition, the gymnast dubbed "Sexy Alexei" in Atlanta fox his playfulness, turned to the bank of cameras after the gold medal was 2000 favorites Olympic pool. Thompson anchored the I'niied States to victory in the 8(l-meter freest vie relay, boosting her career Olympic gold medal collection to seven -- more than any other female swimmer She had been tied with Germany's Kristin Otto at six. Thompson also is tied with Vera Caslavska of the Czech Republic for the second-most Olympic golds by a woman. The Americans also got gold from Misty Hyman, who upset defending champion Susie O'Neill. Australia's 'Madame Butterfly." in the 2U) butterfly, and from cyclist Marty Nothstein. Nothstein first swept two races against German Jens Fiedler, the two-time defending Olympic champion, and then beat France's Florun Rousseau 2-0 in the men's spnnt gold medal race. Tha boosted the Americans' total for five days of competition to 10 golds and 23 medals in all. Host Australia had seven golds among its 22 medals. Behind France and China, with six each, the Netherlands moved up to fifth place with five golds. In a tent in Sydney's Darling Hartxv. Dutch fans were celebrating, decked out in orange faces, wigs, hats and T-shirts. -When Van den Hoogenband won, the place went crazy." said 37-year-old Ronald Starreveld. " And 1 canl believe we beat the Cubans at baseball. Usually, when our baseball team travels outside Europe, they'te useless." Domenico Floras anti of Italy became the first to ever sweep the men's breaststroke golds, winning the 200 by three body lengths. He became the first Italian swimmer to all-around gold, Wilson finishes sixth placed around his neck and hopped up and down. With a broad smile on his face, he held out his arms in triumph. tri-umph. After the Russian national anthem was played. Nemov again turned to the cameras, blowing a kiss and sinking a body -builders pose as he laughed. If Nemov was surprised, he was the only one. Watch him for one routine and it's clear that he's simply better than everyone cLx im the floor. His lowest score of the night was a 9.65 on the vault - better than some gymnasts' highest score. While other gymnasts worry about how many flips and twists they can throw into then routines, Nemov remembers that the name of this sport u "artistic gymnastics." His toes are always perfectly pomted. his legs extended so they look about five feet kmg and his body so straight you could use it as a ruler. He's one of the few gymnasts w ho can draw the kind in n nn - 11 1 i r7 Par take dive in Games win Olympic gold when he won the KI) breaststr ke earlier. After a series of announcements of failed drug tests before the games, the first two expulsions from the Olympics themselves came Wednesday. Ivan Ivanov, a former Olympic weightlifting champion from Bulgaria, was stripped of his silver sil-ver medal from these games. Also banned was Vadim Devyatovsky, a hammer thrower from Belarus. Bulgaria immediately gained two new medals, however. Galabin Boevski won a world record-breaking showdown with Georgi Markov to take the gold medal in 69-kilo-gram (152 -pound) weightlifting. His Bulgarian teammate took the silver. Markov broke Boevski's world record in the snatch. Markov broke the world record in the clean and jerk and tied H in total lift. The winner in the women's 75-kilogram 75-kilogram (165-pound) division. Maria Isabel Urrutia of Colombia, also trained in Bulgaria. Hers was the first gold medal in any sport for Colombia, but she said, "This will not be the last Olympic medal. You will see more medals from my country." L'rrutia. silver medalist Ruth Ogbeifo of Nigeria and bronze medalist Kuo Yi hang of Taiwan had identical totals of 245 kikgrams (540 pounds), but Urrutia got the gold because she weighs less. In men's all-around gymnastics. Russia's Alexei Nemov won the Olympic title that eluded him in Atlanta four years ago. With 5X474 points, he was 0.113 ahead of Yang Wei. from the Ch.nese lineup that won the team gold earlier. While South Korea suffered its of gasp1, from the crowd usually reserved for only the ugliest of crashes. crash-es. He looks like a trapeze artist on the high bar. drawing oohs and aahs with his soaring flips. On tne. he throws himself high above the bar and does a somersault, slapping his thighs in a move that looks more suited for Cirque du Soieil than tlie Olympics On the fkxH, his favorite exercise, he moves with power and purpose and makes it .took effortless at the same time. When he does his flares -- swinging his body around on his hands w hile he sctssor-kicks fus legs he throws in a little turn on his shoulders. shoul-ders. "When you walk onto the floor the first day. everything looks fine." Nemov said. "But today I was like an automaton. I w as performing like an automaton. I could fall at any moment, that w as how I felt." He sure didnl look like it. His onlv stumble of the nicht came on Park CRLS.TY.iiW JF 1 435 940-6600 vsTvw.crestviewparkcity.com Record shock in archery, it gained its first Olympic fencing gold when Kim Young ho defeated Ralf Bissdorf of Germany 15-14 in the men's foil championship match. In the quarterfinals, quarter-finals, he beat Ukrainian Sergiy Golubytsky. who has won the last three world championships and most world titles since 1W2. While Cuba suffered in baseball, that nation's Sibelis V'erancs defeated defeat-ed Kate Howey of Britain for gt4d in women's TO-kilogram judo. On the cycling track, five-time world champion Felicia Ballanger ot France beat Russia's Ox ana Gnchina for her third consecutive Olympic gold in women's spnnt cycling Juan Llaners or Spam won the 4Vkilometer points race. In slalom racing on water, Thomas Schmtdt of Germany won the men's one-kilometer kayak race, ahead of reigning work! champion Paul Ratchtfe of Britain. Slovak brothers Pavel and Peter Hochschorner won the gold for two-man canoes. Britain s Richard Faukis won the men's double trap in a shootoff with defending gold medalist Russell Mark of Australia. Renata Mauer-Rozanska Mauer-Rozanska of Poland won the gold in the women's 50-meter rifle. Besides Safin's loss, upsets Wednesday in men's tennis included No. 4 seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia losing to Max Mimyi of Belarus. No. 7 Tin Henman of England losing to Karol Kucer3 of Slovakia, No. 10 Francisco Squillan of Argentina losing to Kanm Alarm erf Morocco. No. 12 Marcelo Rws ot Chile losing to Argentina's Mariano Zabaleta. and No. 14 Wayne Ferreira of South Africa ksmg to Tommv Haas of Gemvnv t the vault, when he landed short and had to take a step forward to keep from falling on his face. Still the judges gave him a S) 65. prompting one fan to yelk "Just give Nemov the gold now!" Afier he finished his parallel bars, his last routine. Nemos appeared to be holding back tears as he waved to the cheering crowd. He hugged his coach and rhen sat down to wait out Yang, who needed a SVJVM on ihe pommel horse to pass Nemov. Yang came through with a solid routine, punching the air in triumph and exchanging high-fives ith his coach when he finished. But he earned a 9.75. only enough for the siher. "I'm very prenkl and very satisfied with myself," Yang said "Even though he beat me, I'm very happy Nemov has a chance to take home more hardware, too. His Olympic exploits will make for great tedume stories somedav City's PREMIER Rm 800 825-8889 parkciryinfoutahhomes.com HARMON BUILDERS & REMODELING INC. PROFESSIONAL REMODEUNG . INSURED GC. Kitchen Baths Basement finishes & Additions Redwood Decks & $ Decorative Concrete 435 - 513 II It If J-" ll-'O 'tl!'! SlYift!.);:!: . mm s ff e B-13 - 6256 - i i ' ' -"'' '. : r 3 i f 1 mnm nn it ,4 i m nn nil i m m f |