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...Forty-one-year-old DARA TORRES, 41, swims for three silver medals at 41 but gets no gold...
...OLYMPIANS win gold medal in THURSTON HOWELL III--impersonation event...
...sport at the 2000 Games and 9th four years ago, Chinese teams took silver and bronze in Beijing. The second-placed pair of Tian Jia and Wang Jie weren't strong enough to knock off the U.S. powerhouse duo of Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, who defended their gold medal from Athens. But the Americans clearly took notice of China. "Coming into this match, we knew pretty much all year that it could come down to a U.S.-Chinese final," said May-Treanor. "We knew that China would be going for it in this Olympic Games...
After the match, a Chinese reporter questioned whether the Chinese side, having made history by making it to the gold medal match, lost its desire in the final. "We need to remember that U.S. beach volleyball has enjoyed a long history and development. In China it's still pretty new," responded Tian, a three-time Olympian. "They were too strong, too competitive. So the best thing we could do was relax...
...Jamaican athletes are in a better position to have that kind of effect than Shelly-Ann Fraser, who won the women's 100 meters last weekend, the first gold for her country in that event. (She was followed in second and third place by fellow Jamaicans Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart.) To international track-and-field enthusiasts, Fraser, 21, seemed to emerge from nowhere; but to Jamaicans, she's the girl who used to train barefooted in her home neighborhood of Waterhouse, a particularly tough ghetto on the outskirts of Kingston. One of the first things she did after...