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...best player, Abby Wambach, shocked Brazil in the gold medal game, a 1-0 overtime thriller. Brazil had spanked the U.S., 4-0, at last year's World Cup, and then the U.S. turned into team turmoil after it, when benched American goalie Hope Solo teed off on their coach. Now, under new coach Pia Sundhage, they're the Olympic champs. And Solo, a polarizing force a year ago, is a star after shutting out Brazil. "Whatever I said last year, I said everything under emotions," Solo explained after the game. "I feel great; I just won a damn gold...
...Netherlands, earning silver. But softball is the true surprise; the sport was dropped from the Olympics, in part, because the U.S. was so dominant. "I really kind of feel that maybe people [will] get off our back, and realize that there is some parity in this game," says U.S. coach Mike Candrea. Too late for that, coach, maybe your team should have dropped a big one earlier...
...first half with the score at 55-43 and give the U.S. some much needed breathing room. Team USA had led by just one at the end of the first quarter, and the quick silver Australian point guard Patrick Mills - "an NBA player for sure," said the admiring U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski afterwards - was giving them cause for concern, and ended up with 20 points...
...Australia's coach, the American born Brian Goorjian, agreed that the depth, intensity and athleticism the U.S. has brought to Beijing makes them tough to prepare for - let alone defeat. "When I sat up last night thinking about the game, I thought, can you play a team at that level for 40 minutes? They are playing great together, and everyone's contributing. They're going to be very, very tough to beat...
...course," says Bolt of his intake on Wednesday. "I'm serious. He bought my nuggets, because I didn't really want to go to the cafeteria. I came straight to the track and my masseuse again bought me more nuggets. And I just had two though, because my coach said I should not eat so [many] nuggets before a race." Heck, if he ate three, Bolt might have shaved more time off of Johnson's record...