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Show 0 DAILY HERALD Sunday, August 24 2008 - 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS Olympic .Continued from Dl D3 QCg) friends won synchronized swimmings team title. The bigger news was a Japanese competitor passing out on the pool deck. ' 0 ,'V if MW " W if - v: t ;.fS time. The U.S, has now won that race at seven straight Olympics. It, too, helped erase the disappointment of a flub in the Olympic-recor- d After Japans number con- cluded, two men in swimsuits jumped into the pool to assist Hiromi Kobayashi to the side of the pool After the men sprint relay. To end it with an Olympic lifted her, she buckled to her' , record after everything those knees. Her body and head ' went limp as they carried guys have been through, that shows you they care about her. She was wrapped in a white sheet and rushed away representing America, U.S. mens coach Bubba Thornton on a stretcher, attended to by said. They wanted to end it several volunteers and mediwith good dose of good ol cal personnel rAmerican apple pie.. , Japanese team officials The relay golds were Nos, said Kobayashi made a com- 32 and 33 for the United , plete recovery. Their team '. Slates, with the womens , finished fifth, tied-wit- h the basketball making it No. 34 It was the first , Americans. ' Anocind ftwi photo time Japan hasn't won a ; Saturday night. The womens Mitton-JonLisa USA Leslie Candece b From from had DeUsha team and shot with left medal Parker, their at left medal since the team event , volleyball players pose after winning against ' in womens basketball. Salt Lake Bee Matt Brown trots the bases after hitting a third inning three-ru- n but Brazil. to Australia lost too, home in 1996. run off gold, began ' ; The U.S, medal count will The Americans unfurled Japan's starter Tsuyoshi Wada. Beef closer Kevin Jepsen, left, and USA catcher Taylor Teagarden congratulate each other on final he at )07, closing in on the out against Japan in their bronze medal baseball game. a banner that read Thank ..most won at an Olympics not ' you, China! in both Chinese ' cm home turf .Americans also, and English when the team ' won 107 in Mexico City in . of the Olympics and faces a '.' the 5,000, he charged the match was who have been the world was introduced. With a rou- two-yeban from the sport.' It was the second double 1968,' and had 108 in Barcetine called The Rebirth of ' fixed, accusing the Kazakhs champions since 2001. , lona in 1992. Razoronov is the only here for Ethiopia after of offering the referee Other winners: Australia's Christ, the U.S. swimmers . China remains second in Ken Wallace in the men't 500 performed to a mix of edec- - ' Tirunesh Dibaba won an unweight lifter who has tested money. K-- l; 0 total medals with 96 and first positive in Beijing. Eleven Then came this release Russia's Maxim Opalev tic music-anprecedented women's displayed some in golds with The Chinese ' Greek weightUfters and 12 from the World Taekwondo in mens 500 C-- Ukraine's Combination. .. moves, Federation: Lifetime ban of . Inna Osypenko-Radomsk- a Kenya got a double of wrapped up .a sweep of every Bulgarian lifters failed drug notably s foot in the face table tennis medal, but were tests ahead of the Beijing in womens 500 K-- l; the two-timthe coach and athlete in all sorts, with Wilfred Buiiget gesture. 800 meters world mens thwarted In their bid to take Games, .v sanctioned the from championships champions by ' taking ail eight diving golds when IOC has carried Out and Nancy Jebet Langat win- the (federation) and at the I Mountain bike: South Hungary jn women's 500 ; more than 4,600 doping tests, ning the women's 1,500, Korea might be a great place Australia's Matthew same time, all records of this and a pair from Poland won won the men's athlete at the Beijing Games 7 the women's500 K-- ' this time of year. But training ... with the figure expected to . 7 Also, Andress Thorkild- ter platform. there didn't serve much ben- surpass 5,000 by the dose of. sen of Norway defended his will immediately be erased. The next-to-laefit to the U.S. mountain bike I Boxing: Russian heavy-- . Earlier, a women's match javelin title with an Olympic- day of the the games Sunday night.. record throw, and Belgium's was overturned, the first team.'. Beijing Games was a scorch-- . weight Rakhim Chakhkiev tempera-ture- s I Baseball: It came down to Tia Hellebaut won the wom- time that's happened since .; and British middleweight er, with Mary McGonneloug was at the' mens soccer fi- -, the bottom of the ninth, with en's high jump. taekwondo became an offi-- . ; James Degale were among seventh and Georgia Gould nal topping 107, prompting a Cuba facing a one-ru- n rial Olympic sport in 1990. finished eighth in the 16.6-mithe winners of the first five deficit. rare delay for water then The bases were loaded with; I Women's basketball: Lisa , South Korea's Cha Dong- - .... gold medals. , women's race, both losing '. one out. Leslie scored 14 points to cap min won the mens over another. Several canoe pad-- . So was Ukrainian feathersight of eventual gold medalist off her. illustrious Olympic The pitch, the swing ... .diets also needed treatment. Sabine $pkz of Germany class, bringing weight Vasyl Lomachenko, double play. Game over. for heat after their races, career with a fourth straight the fourth gold to his country who was so dominant that .. and never catching up. " e Gold medal for South Korea, gold medal and the U.S. :. although not the guys who In the the referee mercifully in its native sport. Mexicos mens race, .: finish! Maria del Rosario Espinoza, American Adam Craig went a women's basketball team , .. Capsized at the finishing the tournament stopped his title bout with 5 unbeaten with a 2 victory' .beat Australia on SatA synchronized swimnine seconds left in the open- lap down just as the race was the 2007 world champion, mer collapsed and needed in the final Olympic baseball won the womens Over ing round and Lomachenko ending and was officially cred-- , urday night. '! e finish. ited with a class. . Leslie joined former teamtreatment, too, although game until at least 2016. already up 1 - If indeed baseball never re- mate Teresa Edwards as the she couldn't blame it on the made very precise hits, Todd Wells dropped out a lap Lomachenko said, turns to the Olympic agenda, ' only basket hall players ever I Diving: The Chinese div weather because her event earlier, placing 43rd. Neither . was indoors.. Ditto for a hotat least the United States caii to win four gold medals. ers came close, but they Also, Thai flyweight Somjit , challenged Frances Julien The Aussies have now lost couldnt match Michael headed Cuban taekwondo Jongjohor won his first grid at Absakm, who won his second say it went out a winner. Behind home runs by Matt to the Americans in the gold Phelps feat of going age 33, and light welterweight straight goldjnedaL competitor and his coach. Felix Diaz claimed the DominiLa Porta, Matt Brown and medal game in the past three at the Water Cube. Im moreBiisappointed to They were banned for life., With seven down, all they can Republic's first boxing miss the opportunity to have after the athlete was disquali-- . Jason Donald, the Americans Olympics with all three de; fied from a bronze-meda- l .' beat Japan 4 to claim the '. feats coming by double-digneeded was the men's title with an upset of defendpeople fired up about mounbronze medal. LaPorta rematch, then kicked the ref-- : ing Olympic champion Manus tain biking back at home,,! platform. But Matthew margins. Russia took the bronze, eree in the face. Mitcham of Australia earned Boonjumnong of Thailand. turned after missing a few Craig said. Maybe next time. ; Six more golds will be demedal beating host China 94- -. four perfect 10s on his last "days following a concussion .Doping crept up again, ' 81 as BeckyHammon scored cided Sunday. dive to send this title Down I Women's handball; Norway with Ukrainian weightliffer .. sustained when a pitch hit ' becomthe for him in Under head. Nix time. Razoronov its first gold medal in this first the 22 , got points: Igor Jayson ' Men's soccer: In tern- Chen Nan Scored 26 points Zhou Luxin earnedthe silver had a hit and scored a run in sport, taking an 1 lead on the. ing the sixth athlete and for China, which was try-- . ; second from his country his first game back since a for China. peratures that topped 107 de- way to a victory over China grees, Angel di Maria scored Russia. South Korea brat Hun-- : ing to win its first women's .. In going caught during the games. He week ago Friday, when he fouled a ball off his left eye ; basketball medal since taking claimed 1 1 of the 24 medals off a pass from Lionel Messi gary to claim the bronze, r ,. finished sixth in the awarded in the sport that has in the 58th minute, helping home silver in Barcelona In gram (221.5 pounds) division and underwent micros'ur- 1992. .. I Men's field hockey: Monday. He was kicked out .gery. produced the host nation's Argentina defeat Nigeria 0 They're IOC president Jacques Rogmost Olympic medals. and win its second straight . We lost to Russia, Aus- busting put the beers in Mu- - . nich: Germany beat Spain 0 . The Americans, meanOlympic soccer title.. ge sat behind home plate for ; tfalia and the U.S., who are Olympic n in This reclaim gold for the first went a not the best to teams of the the three deserved this, while, game group part TV SCHEDULE .. with International Baseball world, so we have nothing , single medal. Fix' the second Messi said. We knew com-- ., time since 1992. In the bronze match, Aus-tralFederation president Harvey to be ashamed about, China straight Olympics, too, The ing in that we may never coach Tom Maher said. best the U.S. could muster beat the Netherlands, Schiller. The IBAF is cam-- , have this experience again, .in this event was David Bou-- .. so we are lucky that every- just as it did in the 2004 gold- paigning to get baseball back medal competition. dia getting 10th; Thomas on the Olympic program in . thing went well and we got .. I Taekwondo: Cuba's 2016 after being voted off , what we wanted.Finchum was 12th. . Angel Matos was winning Di Marias strike was a ... I table tennis: China for 2012. Baseball became a 3-- with 1:02 in the second Mens basketball, GoM Medal earner Canoe-kayain 1992. The U.S. round, when he fell to the clinched all six individual The Chinese goal to lift a game in which I medal sport Bronze MeM mens volleyball. play obviously was affected medals, with Wang Liqin wingot bronze in 1996 and gold . mat after being hit by his pair were the first to get to match; men's water polo. Brave the finish line. Then, before in 2000. Medal match; men's lanital, Gold by the searing temperatures. ning bronze in men's singles. opponent, Kazakhstans Medal game, at Beijing Chinas Ma Lin outlasted teamThe referee took the rare' Arman Chilmanov. He was they could totally cross it, Track and field; Ethiopia's sitting there, awaiting medi- - their boat was upside down. mate Wang Hao to take grid. of twice allowing playI step ISA 3am. Kenenisa Bekele won the While other crews laughed, ers to stop and take drinks... cal attention, when he was They played perfectly to . Gymnastics, ihythmic group GoM create this perfect ending for .. The game was the only 5,000 meters in an Olympic-recor- d disqualified for exceeding the Meng Guanliang and Yang Medal finals; boxing. Gold Medal the pingpong competition at one to be played in Beijing's one minute he's allowed. time, completing a Wenjun emerged to claim finals; men's water polo, Gold Medal ' main Olympic stadium, and it the Bejjing Olympics. I never distance double. World cham- . Matos angrily questioned their second straight gold match, at Beyingfsame-datape) '. me am. was watched by a crowd of dreamed it would be so easy, the call, pushed a judge, then medal in the men's pion Bernard Lagat of the canoe double (C2). Chinese coach Liu Guoliang ' United States finished ninth. pushed and kicked referee Boxing. Gold Medal finals, at Beijiog 89,102 that included former three-tim-e Maracham-- . of The (saiffiHlaytapeM.., ; final Sweden. of the Chelbat Chakir world A said, , Argentina great Diego big upset, Telemunifa Of medal races came at 10,000, Bekele just '. Matos then spat' on the floor dona.' day pioii Men's voSeybali. Gold Medal match; .. K-in the men's I Rhythmic gymnastia: Rusand was escorted out. missed a double at the AthNigeria added silver to the Closing Ceremony, at Beijing (same-- ; with Spain's Saul Qraviotto ens 2004 Olympics when " He was too strict, said sias Evgeniya Kanaeva won gold it won in 1996. .: comhis coach, Leudis Gonzalez, the individual NBC and Carlos Perez beating a he got the 10,000 gold and Spjn., German pair who were the finished second to Moroccan referring to the decision to I Synchronized swimming: petition, posting the high score.' great Hicham El Guerrouj in ..disqualify Matos. Afterward, defending gold medalists and Russias Anastasias and their in all four rotations. . . - W nil. . . . es . . . . . ar . . j . 5,000-10,00- never-before-se- l; . ; e . . K-2- . Mit-cha- m . 2. -- . st . . . on-fie- ld . . . . . : le -- . . : . . : . 22.1-mil- - 3-- 92-6- " : . 9-- 29th-plac- : . . . . . -- . 8-- it er , . ' : : . ' . i 8-- . 34-2- 7 : . 105-kil- , . .. . . . Todays U.S-Japa- : : ia . Q9P . . - 2. k: . . . . . (same-da- y y . 500-met- . . . .': Sp-m.- . 500-met- 2, . . . days schooling the offense, and Johnson got beat a couple of times deep. After a day off from practice, Johnson responded by making two terrific plays the next day to prevent long passes. Mendenhall calls him completely trustworthy," and the guy continues to hold off challengers. '. jr. . I Most Improved Flayer, Of--, feme: Fr.RBJJ.PiLuigi An injury slowed DiLuigi's progress as a true freshman but hes worked hard and has. been quick and powerful during fall camp. There wQl be Some big plays for him in this offense behind Harvey Unga. . I Most Surprise, Offense: RB Wayne Lot u Mendenhall has been very complimentary of the Train, talking about how he's hard to tackle running the bal Latu has some speed and some pop and could make an impact, even with the depth at running back, I Biggest Surprise, Defense: Fr. LB Jadon Wagner Wagner looked awkward and unsure of himself last season when he came home oft ' his LDS mission. This fall he's steadily moved up the depth chart and. with his big frame, could turn into a playmaker. . I Biggest overall surprise of Fall Camp: Wide receiver Austin Collies training at the quarterback spot. Sowed by a stress fracture, Collie has been pretty much a during fall camp. Then on Friday, he's suddenly working out with the quarterbacks. Mendenhall said the Cougars non-fact- Improved Flayer, De- fense: 5a S Andrew Rich and Jr. LB Coleby Clawson Rich was a little over--' whelmed during spring (by his ' own admission) and started slowly during fall camp. But now he's the Na 3 safety be- - .. hind David Tafuna and Kellen Fowler. Clawson, also from Snow College, followed the same path. Now he's being trained at both outside line. . MAMO RUIZDaHy Herald wide receiver O'Neill Chambers (11) runs back to ' BYU formation during a drill at the football practice field Saturday, Aug.2 backer spots. y of Fall I Biggest Camp: The blowup between Jordan Pendleton and defensive coordinator Jaime Hill. Really, is this all we have to talk about during fall camp? If my high school coach had said non-stor- o . . 9 Best True Freshman: WR Transformation: Jr. NT Russell Tialavea A season-endininjury last fail was tough cm Tialavea, who according to Mendenhall, npver had the strongest work ethic. But the junior worked his tail off (literally, he lost 30 pounds during his rehab) and showed up to camp a different player. I Biggest In jury to Disappointment Tom Sorensen I: . Sorensen was slated to start at center but has shoulder - ONeill Chambers Some freshman just dont five up to the hype, having trouble adjusting to the college game. Not Chambers. Hes all that and a bag of chips. He has terrific hands hnd body control, and if he's a good student under Collie, could be a record setter. ' ; . . . 9 Best Quote I: It had way too much violence for me, and it was about an hour too long. I would give it maybe twoand-a-hal- f Mendenhall's stars. film critique on the new Bat- man movie. t . . 9 Best Quote H: I started but fifth string. I was just get--. ting beat up by guys like Scott Young (Philadelphia Eagles) . I Biggest g actually installed a scheme during the latter part of the 2007 season that featured Collie as a situational quarterback but never used it. Mendenhall go,Hmm," This is a guy who was offered by some big schools out of high school and BYU was lucky to get him. . . I Biggest problems that wont go away. interception on a pass from One of the nicest guys on the Max HalL team, its tough because he had an injury that kept him out of I Best Returned Missionary, Defense: Jr. LB Matt Ah You 2006, too. The former Lone Peak star has been a rock since coming I One man's tragedy The back and moved past Shawn only good news about Sorensen's injury is it allows redshirt Doman at inside linebacker. freshman Matt Reynolds to Ah You has been dinged up a bit toward the end of camp bid get on the field. BYU coaches decided to move AILMWC has been impressive. e left tackle Dallas Reynolds to 9 Best Returned Mission ary, center and put his younger brother in his tackle spot. Matt Offense: So. WR Luke Ash- Reynolds may be BYlTs most worth Ashworth looks smooth and talented lineman ever by the fast as both a receiver and a time he finishes his career, kick returner. There was some 9 Biggest Disappointment R: talk this summer about moving him to safety but he's at the Injury to Kelly Bills ' What is it with the Bills' and right spot now. concussions? Older brother K.C had similar problems that J 9 Flay This Guy Somewhere I: Fr. QB Stephen Covey : forced him to give up football. 1 know Covey isn't your BYU was counting on Bills to typical college quarterback, provide some tough blocking but he's been able to move the at fullback. team when given a chance in I One mans tragedy BYU scrimmages. Mendenhall said he may have a spot for Covey turns to Vakapuna and red-shifreshman Kaneakua Friel in certain situations as a runto fill the fullback spot, already ning quarterback. Maybe BYU should try him at skxback or thin because of Manase Tonsafety at some point He's too ga's grade problems. good an athlete to keep off the field. I Best Flay of Fafl Camp, Offense: O'Neill Chambers 9 Flay This Guy Somewhere R: catch deep down the sideline for a touchdown while Jr. DE Bernard Afutiti The JC transfer was late holding off a defender with the other hand. arriving at fall camp and Mendenhall said he didn't think he would be able to catch up. I Best Flay of Fall Camp, Then Afutiti started blowing Defense: Brandon Bradleys by offensive linemen and made athletic, gravity-defyin- g . Hill, that would have been the nicest name hed ever called me. Continued from . . to me what Pendleton said to CougarsDl . and Fahu Tahi (Minnesota rt beat up, just put on my I I had to question myself: Am I really cut out for this? BYU junior linebacker Matt Bauman, who has gone from walk-o- n to starter. one-hand- 9 Daily Herald Sports Editor can be Darnell Dickson reached at . or 344-25- at ddickson by heraldextra.com. Read his , blog on BYU football at coujpirblue.com . - t d d ri ssM ( J e4 - - - 1 |