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Venus Williams of the United States returns to Sara Errani of Italy at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012.Photo: Elise Amendola/ APThe American won gold in singles in 2000, as well as two gold medals in doubles with sisterNew...
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Poland's Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel produced one of the biggest shock of the preliminary phase with victory over Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal of the United States.Gibb and Rosenthal came into the Games as the leading men's team on beach volleyball's 2012 World Tour, but their form deserted them as the unheralded Poles ran out 21-17 21-18 winners.The performance of Prudel was key to Poland's...
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settings.Fifteen-year-olds from Lithuania aren't supposed to win Olympic gold medals, especially in the pool.Ruta Meilutyte is obviously out of the ordinary, claiming her country's first ever Olympic swimming medal in London on Monday as China continued to rake in gold while Britain struggles to have an impact on its own Games.Meilutyte continued a tradition of teenage breaststroke champions, beating...
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France's Yannick Agnel saw off a star-studded field to win gold in the men's 200m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympic Games on Monday.Fresh from helping his country to a 4x100m freestyle relay victory over the United States a day before, Agnel produced a terrific swim and led from start to finish as he touched home in a time of 1:43:14.Park Tae-hwan of Korea Republic and China's Sun Yang shared silver...
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China claimed gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the gymnastics men's team event at the North Greenwich arena on Monday.Great Britain won their first men's Olympic team medal in a century when they claimed bronze, after Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Daniel Purvis, Sam Oldham and Kristian Thomas scored a total of 271.711 as they produced a stunning team performance in front of a royal audience.Britain...
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Medal-winning Great Britain gymnast Sam Oldham has described his team's bronze at London 2012 as "a dream come true".The 19-year-old, from Keyworth, Notts, was the youngest member of the first British men's gymnastic team to win an Olympic medal since 1912.His success has come five years after he moved away from his family home at the age of 14 to join the Huntingdon Gymnastics Club in Cambridgeshire.A...
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France's Yannick Agnel won his second gold of London 2012, taking victory in the men's 200m freestyle as American Ryan Lochte could only finish fourth.Agnel, who also helped France win the 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday, led from the front and finished two metres clear in one minute, 43.14 seconds."I hope the French President is still here and he will be delighted with that. Agnel is head and shoulders...
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Eight time winners India gave tough fight to much higher ranked Netherlands before going down 2-3 in their opening London Olympic Games pool B mens hockey competition...
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Pakistan held 2008 Olympic silver medallists Spain to a 1-1 draw on the opening day of the men's Olympic hockey competition at the London Games after Australian captain Jamie Dwyer's spurred the World champions to a runaway 6-0 win over South Africa here today.Pakistan wasted several scoring chances after surviving sustained Spanish attacks in the first session and later in the second half saw a Spanish...
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