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Show a DAILY. HERALD Saturday, August 23, 2008 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS QCp SCOREBOARD Friday's medalists E1MITES .S. men THt ASSOCIATED PUSS BEIJING Plit up net, put American men in action and watch out At these Olympics, thats becoming in unbeatable combination. From voUeyball to water polo to basketball, the guy sin red, white and blue made their country proud Friday. Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers got it started by winning gold in beach voDeybafl. Then the ULS V ' : S vff - . t - c c DO i "V4 Last, and certainly hot least, was the basketball squad. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and their NBA All-Stpals chewed up and spit out Manu Ginobili and Argentina m the semifinals to clinch their spot in the finals. Speaking of dominating, UsaimBok added a third gold .. medal and an unprecedented third world record to his Olympics by helping Jamaica win the relay. At days end, the US. had 102 medak Wtth more guar anteed from events like volleyball, water polo and basketball, the Americans will have more than the 102 medals won four yean ago in Athens, and is closing in on the 108 won in Barcelona in 1992. China is second in total medals with 89, but is the runaway leader in golds with 47. The Americans are second with 21. Those medal counts can ... change, though. Ukraine lost a silver Friday when the International Olympic Committee officially stripped Lyudmila Blons-k- a of her seconcplace finish in women's heptathlon because of doping. American Hyleas Foun-- : tain moves up to second, with a ' .j . i ' ' V -- a ANDY WOFM left and other membcfs of the United States team cekbrats defeating Russia in a semifinahnatch at the Beijing 2008 Olympici in Beijing an Friday. David Lee just came up MVP with some huge blocks ly went ahead until Lee's Mock for the US. team. made! 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World champion Maris Strombergs of Latvia won the mens gold sweeping to the front at the start of the winner-take-a- ll final and never losing controLThe French duo of ' AnneGarotine Chaussan and Le Corguille took gold and silver in the womens title race. scores Fridays BMEBMl I : toSnrtnUi Okm 60UMantclkwtani.6Hinn. were sixth and seventh, giv- - , ing the U.S, a chance to avoid, being shut out of medals for a second consecutive Olympics. "Thomas and I are going to get into the finals and dive our best and not worry about medals, Boudia Cu N w.l . . Raw Ctoiwon, China b poised to go Wor-- 8 in diving events, with Zhou Luxinleadingalter the men's IOmeter platform preliminaries. No country has swept the diving medals since the United States did in 1952. Back then, there were only four events, American teenagers David Boudia and Thomas Fine hum I Diving: . 16-1- 3 Brian Mahoney SOLO-- '' Medals Table - ' Mm mONa-TH- Azevedo's scoring and Merrill Moses' goaltending, these guys cant be beat. After upsetting world No. 1 Croatia to win their group, the U.S. pulled off another shocker with a 10-- win over Serbia. Azevedo scored three times, with two assists, two steals and two blocks. Merrill '.stopped 16 shots, including every, one in the final period. ' "I knew I had to play the game of my life to keep us in this, Moses said. Its my best game as erf yet. But theres more to come. You'll see Next up: twotime defending gold medalist Hungary on Sunday. . ' am moiwuiTMu, .' . Russian getting bronze. The IOC also asked China to provide additional proof that five of the six members of its womens gymnastics team were old enough to compete If the IOC finds V them to be underage, four medals could be affected. .. right there, US. player Reid Priddy said. That was huge, match an awesome team perhuge for us.. . This marks the first time since formance. the 1984 Los Angeles Games, The thing that really sticks that both the U.S. men and wom- to me is out last break. We had some conf usion, the guys were en will play for the volleyball gold. The women faced Brazil pretty ampped, he said. Men's volleyball: The US. for the title this mornof. That's when coach Hugh . ... McCutcheon took charge. The men won gold in 1984 mens volleyball team assured ' itself erf its first Olympic vot- and 1988 before winning the "Hugh came over to us and bronze in Barcelona. The dos-- . said, Heres what we're going ieyball medal since 1992. The Americans will play for est they've come since was to do on this serve.' It had a the title Sunday against Brazil fourth in Athens in 2004, great calming effect cm us. a 1 winner over Italy in the After winning all five matchWeve got so much motiother semifinaL Russia plays ; vation, we've got motivation es in the preliminary round, the U.S. men beat Serbia in the Italy for the bronze ; coming out erf our ears, said I came alive, said David setter Uqy Bull, who is playing quarterfinals 2 to advance. ' in his fourth Olympics. And they did it despite consid- Lee, who accounted for the final four of his team's points. ' Russia was the bronze med- - : erable adversity. All match long I didn't think I alist in Athens and the silver Before competition started, played my best volley bafl. I got medalist in 2000. The team won McCutcheon was called away it going in the end. from practice. His father-ih-gold in 1964, 1968 and 1980. In The Americans won 2522,. law, Todd Bachman, had been Beijing, the Russians went 1 25-23 in preliminary pool play. and 2527, fatally stabbed at a Beijing In a tight first set, the U.S. ' tourist site. Bachman's wife, , remained undefeated in Beijing went up 6 on Stanley Clay- Barbara, was badly hurt. .. despite playing without their coach for three matches. tons ace, then added another . McQitcheon is married to the Bachman's daughter, former point on Sergey Grankin's errant spike. The U.S. won Olympian Elisabeth Wiz Bachit when Maxim Mikhaylovs man McCutcheon, who played Olympic for the US. women in Athens. spike went long. Russia took a in lead , In OveraN Medals 2008 Games the second after Alexander I Track and field: Theres some Through 21 medal events Rfday Kosarevs block. But the United bad news Bolt is out of races to run. In the final performance States made three straight points in the end to take the set. of his breakout Olympics, Bolt got the baton when the race Priddy scored with a pair of was dose and ended any doubt successful spikes, before Yiuy Berezkho's spike went into the by the time his leg was done. net togive the US. the set, v Once he made a clean handoff Alexey Kuleshov's block put to Jamaican teammate Asafa Russia ahead 3 in the third Powell, the only question was ; set. The Russians extended the whether they'd get the world lead to 20-1but the United record, too. States rallied againtoeven it .. Yep. At 37.10, they were at 24 before Russia won on Al- 0.3 faster than the mark set in ; 1992 by a U.S. squad featuring exander Volkov's block. Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell. That led to a tense fourth Bolt is the first sprinter to set. Russia was up 6 and claim three world records' at went on to win it on Sergey Trtyukhin's spike, sending the one Olympics. He' the fourth crowd on its feet. guy ever to win all three sprint events; the last to do it was Riddy's spike put the UStfri Lewis in 1984. Powell crossed front 63 in the deciding set, but the Russians kept pace and brief ' 0.96 second ahead of Trinidad . Mam HV Mggilna SUER Tkterelktoem, Rutos bronze ohcnw. Mga G0U BURR I Water polo: Between Tony . . - YlMGukWkk,Yue(S. soul Mnsrtoi Associated Prase USAs Ryan Millar, center ar awns Rairatorac i 6 . first time since 196& Next came the fun at the pool The water polo team, which came to China ranked ninth in the world, pulled off the latest in a string of upsets, beating Serbia to also reach the goidmedal match for the first time since 88. tap t r indoor volleyball squad contin- ued its surprising, emotibnal run by beating Russia and advancing to the goidmedal match far the : and Tobagos Richard Thompson the biggest margin' in the Olympics since 1936. We simply couldn't com- - . pete," said Thompsons teammate, Marc Burns.. The US. wasn't around to try to compete with Jamaica, or anyone else, after both the mens and women's teams dropped batons in the final exchange in the prebminaries. With the Jamaican sweep in the 100m and 200m, meant the US went Dfor-- for Olympic sprint gold medals for the first time in history. In the men's prelims, Darvis Patton tried to connect wkh Tyson Gay on the final hand- - , off, but failed. In the women's event, Tom Edwards and Lau-ry- n Williams couldnt get the : exchange made. The U.S. got its fifth gold of this track meet when Bryan Clay took the decathlon. ; . kaai I. Japan 1 ' '' Ctok10,UnM6WkkZ SouRi ... BRSBEINMi I.XnaMnaBIFwJNOCRET - TIM a . Z.BflWnO 2, CMnpO .lUMHMOBMi aSMsa no soumMi. : La-etit-ia Unkall toll 3. Rato Z VMTBI 1, POLO from serious stab wounds Nungan 11, Montaagii I suffered in the attack. 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MMMOlloHllOMIS-IBBI- . my job. wouldn't be here I wasnt ready to give them Granted, the Americans B4 IT B1 2 IB a a iBi lost a bronze-medmatch everything I've got. "I also need to get back to to Russia at the 2004 AthCPMkkS-iilk ritok giaN town R1. f SgiOB nk ens Olympics and entered my family. This is wonderful IM.EMktonkgaS0-1.LUM these Games off the high of and I'll embrace it and enjoy LJamaa IE. CEranony 24. C tod 14. 0 RMa PKNkank it. But as soon as we're done, knocking off world No. 1 ObalkL TIL U6E NkBkanto 32 BBcraa I match. back have to get Brazil in a tuneup lignani to where 7 C Boah 10L town X f But seven straight vicUSA 15 UMI 7). USE 21. Im needed. tories and a berth in the gold-medmatch seemed a longshot. This team represents whats good about team sports, McCutcheon said. OLYEXPZC The sum of ouc parts is much greater than any individual This team is doing it the right way. UVE: bsasbal. Gold MsiW gams; man's 800m. 5000m, 4x400 ralar. That will allow Ball to TAPE: track S fiaM. Gold women's 1500m, 4x400 relay, Mgri realize a dream that began Medal Rnslt; man's diving, platform jump; men's diving, pteltom Gold ' when he sat with his father Med finds, at Beging aemffinboGoldMeiMfinali, N8C 630 pm Beijing in Indiana and watched 4am Men'a Bronze Med garni. those Karch Kiraly-le- d UV& mmi Md hockey. Gold te Beijing 1980s teams on an old TV TAP CNBC men's labta. 10 am gams; where he had to push the tsnniB, singles ssnifinal at Beijing EventsTBA buttons to change channels, MSNBC Sam 11 p.m. Tatemiadi LIVE: womenl baskettMd, Gold Medei steering him from basketUVE men-- i baketM. Gold Med TAPE: aynchnniad ball to volleyball. game; gamt; DELAYED TAPE feack& field, I cant do this justice awimming. tom Gold Medteflnterca-- Gold Med SRah: men'a Janfin Imw; Gold Med finals; gymnas0cB,1 noeing, with words, Ball said. . I eoaig. Gold Med ns' men'a tatta J ai.n.kwia. QoM Med matfli; mans j Winning or losing isnt Mad maten; --Rnuntaw Pika. Beijing going to affect how I feel Iw.dnaGoklMMflnala.atBepi MC 1130pm about myself as a player. Men' marathon; tack 4 field, Gold But it sure as hell is going Mens wReytuit ; Beijing Med finx men's baBketbel, Gold. - Med to be nice having a medal in game, men's dMng. ptetfonn 4pm . Gold Med fina,Befngtdeteyedt the house. Track 4 field, men's: UVE merafimn; ape) So will it too for McTAPE Gold Tstemundp lam. Msdna, mother-in-laCutcheon, whose continues to recuperate Volleyball . . . 1S-- BEIJING The dimb back to the top is nearly complete. One more win and US. basketball is golden again. The Americans ended their streak of final four flops and Argentina's hopes of an Olympic goidmedal repeat, starting fast and fin-1 semifinal victory Friday. ishing strong in a All that's left is what the UJS. players came K . '. ' ar for a gold medal. The United States scored 21 of the first 25 points, got a big break when Argentina star Manu Ginobili reinjured his left ankle, and surged into its first goidmedal game eight years. There's still 40 minutes to go, but this looks good as gold AH the Americans have to do now is brat Spain, who they clobbered by 37 points in pool play, on Sunday to win their first gold in a major international event since the 2000 Olympics. What followed was a frustrating and embarrassing stretch in which they couldn't even make the podium in the 2002 world championships, then managed only bronze medals after losing ki the semis of the 2004 Athens Games and U6 worlds. Carmek) Anthony and LeBron James were al a n part of those bronze busts, and vowed they'd leave China with gold Anthony scored 21 points and James added Id 13 in the second half. Luis Scola scored 28 points for Argentina, which didnt relinquish its title without a fight. Even without Ginobili for the final 3 12 quarlead into ters, the Argentines cut a single digits and frustrated the Americans with their physical play, but they didn't have enough depth or firepower without their best player. Lithuania and Argentina will meet Sunday for the bronze. Spain beat Lithuania 6 in the first semifinaL When the Americans fell from die top of world basketball, was Argertina as much as anyone who took their place and hastened their 180.1116 Argertines, with GnobOi's flair and Scoia's force, won gold in 2004 and silver in the 2002 world championships, beating the United States in both tournaments. The victory in Indianapolis was the first tone a US team lost with NBA players. They knocked off die Americans again four years ago in the semis, and Bryant said two nights 91-8- t .1 mI A 44 .J. 4 4 101-8- : 4 6 a 1 . tonMant-Eraan- Saf . CHARUE RtEDELAssociated Press Howard right blocks o shot by Argentina Luis Scola in their semifinal game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics on Friday. USA center Dwight ago he wanted to face Argentina in this round Now Argentina's time has passed The Americans want their spot back. The US. lead was already 10 points when Ginobili, who came in leading the tournament with 203 ppg, went down in a play away from the baO, limped to the sideline and took off his left sneaker after reinjuring the same ankle that slowed han so badly in the Western Conference finals. The Americans extended the lead to 21-- 4 and were up by 21 early in the second quarter. But they went ice cold against Argentina's zone, . committed some silly fouls that gave away free points at the One, and saw the lead trimmed all the way down to 4W0 on a basket by Scola in the final minute of the half. James wasnt with his teammates when the starting lineups were announced having to sprint out from the back after his name was called Then he was afasert in the first half , managing only two posts. He scored five quick ones in the third quarter, teaming with Dwight Howard to help the Americans break it open again Anthony got mixed up in some chippy play with Scola and Andres Nodoni, but kept his poise and scored eigft points in the period. m toktok-Eige- iana TODAYS W SAME-DA- . SAME-DA- SAME-DA- - yirWG0M e) SAME-DA- w |
