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Friday, August 3, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

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News: Games welcomes Bolt, says goodbye to Phelps Nationals reel in Marlins to pad division lead Gymnastics: There's no stopping Gabby, says Comaneci Basketball: Late-game heroics give France OT win over Britain Swimming: Adlington ready to take a break Swimming: Ledecky quizzed about doping Cycling: Team GB know when to peak - Brailsford Jamaica transfixed as its sprinters storm the Olympic stage Swimming: London marks redemption for rebel sprinter Athletics: Polish champion Majewski eyes Rio UPDATE 1-Golf-Furyk stays in charge, Woods 13 off the pace Athletics: Majestic Dibaba storms to 10,000 gold Swimming: The crowd chant for Becky but get Ledecky Swimming: Phelps gives lesson to young pretender Boxing: Lost lenses and bout for American record holder Games welcomes Bolt, says goodbye to Phelps Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt begins the defense of his 100 meters title at London 2012 on Saturday and Michael Phelps will have one last chance to add to the biggest Olympic medal haul of all time. Bolt, the charismatic Jamaican who lit up the 2008 Beijing Games with three golds and his trademark lightning bolt celebration, will run in the heats of the shorter sprint, the most anticipated event of the Games. ... Full Story Top Nationals reel in Marlins to pad division lead Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The Washington Nationals cruised to a 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins to extend their lead at the top of the National League East division in the first leg of a doubleheader on Friday. First baseman Adam LaRoche drove in three runs to increase his team-leading total to 67 on the season while John Lannan improved to 2-0 after striking out four batters and limiting Miami to four hits in six innings. With the win, the Nationals improved their division lead over the Atlanta Braves to three games. ... Full Story Top Gymnastics: There's no stopping Gabby, says Comaneci Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:58 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants an audience with her, Oprah Winfrey is "flowing happy tears" for her and spookily her surname is an anagram of 'USA gold' - no wonder Americans cannot get enough of Gabby Douglas. Games sweetheart Douglas tumbled her way into the hearts of her compatriots after joining Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin as the only American women to win the coveted Olympic all-round gymnastics crown. ... Full Story Top Basketball: Late-game heroics give France OT win over Britain Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:35 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - France's Celine Dumerc broke British hearts on Friday with a three-pointer to force overtime and another with under a second remaining for an 80-77 win that deprived the hosts a maiden Olympic women's basketball victory. The French captain's two miracle threes kept France unbeaten atop Group B at 4-0 and Britain winless after wrenching losses to Australia, Canada and Russia that had the Olympic Basketball Arena fans roaring but deflated in the end. ... Full Story Top Swimming: Adlington ready to take a break Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Rebecca Adlington looked forward to clambering on her bicycle and pedaling off to a new adventure in Africa after failing on Friday to repeat the golden exploits of four years ago in the Olympic pool. The golden girl of British swimming swapped her two Beijing golds for two bronzes and left the Aquatics Centre with the emotions swirling around her head and a realization that time has moved on. ... Full Story Top Swimming: Ledecky quizzed about doping Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:14 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - American teenager Katie Ledecky got a rude introduction to the cost of success at the London Olympics on Friday. After blitzing the host-nation's best hope for a swimming gold medal with an astonishing victory in the 800 meters freestyle final, the 15-year-old climbed out of the pool and walked straight into a storm. Ledecky was not expected to win the gold medal, but that was not the least surprise. It was the way she won it that set tongues wagging as soon as she touched the wall. ... Full Story Top Cycling: Team GB know when to peak - Brailsford Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:01 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's track cyclists are showing their rivals exactly how to win gold medals, gaining the experience to peak at just the right time. Winners of seven out of ten possible titles in 2008, Team GB so far have three wins out of four and could well repeat that feat even if the opposition has improved in recent years. Team leader Dave Brailsford told Reuters the secret lies in building up towards each Games. ... Full Story Top Jamaica transfixed as its sprinters storm the Olympic stage Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaicans crowded around a giant television screen in the busy Half Way Tree section of Kingston on Friday, anxious to witness the highly anticipated 100-meter races at the Olympic Games in which the Caribbean island's men and women are the favorites. "Jamaica's girls look good," said a beaming Bridgette Plummer after watching women sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser and Veronica Campbell Brown win their respective first-round races. Three Jamaican men also hope to make history at the Olympics on Sunday, equaling a feat by the island's women sprinters in Beijing four years ago. ... Full Story Top Swimming: London marks redemption for rebel sprinter Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:55 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - From the Shakespearean references in his post-race comments, to his thick-rimmed glasses and tattoos covering both his arms, Anthony Ervin is not your average U.S. Olympic swimmer. Not many of his U.S. team mates have worked in a tattoo parlour, played guitar in a band called Weapons of Mass Destruction or had a near-death experience on a motorcycle while trying to evade the police. Twelve years after he won gold and silver in Sydney and a decade after quitting the sport, the 31-year-old sprinter staged an unlikely comeback by qualifying for the London Games. ... Full Story Top Athletics: Polish champion Majewski eyes Rio Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:44 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Moments after winning a second men's Olympic shot put title on Friday Poland's Tomasz Majewski was already contemplating a tilt at a third in Rio in 2016. "Why not? If I am healthy, then why not. Three is a good number," the 30-year-old said smiling as he towered over a crowd of reporters. Victory for Majewski, who took gold in Beijing four years ago, made him the first man to win the event twice since Parry O'Brien of the United States in 1952 and 1956 and the first non-American. ... Full Story Top UPDATE 1-Golf-Furyk stays in charge, Woods 13 off the pace Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:43 PM PDT Reuters - * Furyk preserves a two-shot lead at Firestone * Woods cards a 72 after struggling on the greens (Updates at end of round) AKRON, Ohio, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Rock-steady Jim Furykmaintained both momentum and a two-shot lead in Friday's secondround of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational while seven-timeschampion Tiger Woods again struggled with his putting. Furyk, who opened with a dazzling seven-under-par 63 in theelite World Golf Championships (WGC) event, followed up with afive-birdie 66 on another steamy day at Firestone Country Club. ... Full Story Top Athletics: Majestic Dibaba storms to 10,000 gold Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba's rocket-propelled final lap lit up the first day of track and field in the Olympic stadium on Friday, burning off her rivals in style to retain her 10,000 meters crown. Dibaba, 26, swept to glory in 30 minutes, 20.75 seconds, helped by a phenomenal final 400 which left her rivals trailing in her wake. The race had been expected to provide fireworks between Dibaba, dogged by leg problems since winning the 5,000 and 10,000 double in Beijing, and Kenya's double world champion Vivian Cheruiyot. ... Full Story Top Swimming: The crowd chant for Becky but get Ledecky Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The home fans were chanting 'Becky, Becky' but Katie Ledecky got there first. Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington, the 800 meters freestyle world record holder and golden girl of British swimming after her surprise double gold haul in Beijing four years ago, surrendered her crown to the 15-year-old American. In fact, it was more a case of Ledecky ripping it unceremoniously off her head with a performance that heralded the arrival of another prodigious talent from the other side of the Atlantic. ... Full Story Top Swimming: Phelps gives lesson to young pretender Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:37 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A reinvigorated Michael Phelps, the most successful Olympian of all time, showed the pretender to his crown Chad Le Clos how it's done as he took gold in his last individual race. Three days previously, South Africa's Le Clos had astonished the Aquatics Centre by beating his hero Phelps into second place in the 200 meter butterfly, and it looked like Phelps' reign was already over. ... Full Story Top Boxing: Lost lenses and bout for American record holder Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - With his contact lenses lying somewhere across the ring, American flyweight Rau'shee Warren trudged out of the London Games for the professional ranks on Friday with the ignominy of an eight-year Olympic losing streak. The 25-year-old, the first American boxer to compete in three Olympics, lost a narrow decision 19-18 to Nordine Oubaali of France, who moved on to the quarter-finals and one victory away from securing at least a bronze. After first round defeats at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Games, defeat was tough to take for the 2007 world champion. ... Full Story Top

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