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...women's soccer team loses gold medal match to Norway while the women's softball and basketball teams defend their gold medals from...
...overtime match to its rivals from Norway, the last team to beat the USA in major international competition. Women's softball rebounds from losing three straight matches, after winning 112 consecutive games prior to the slump, and avenges each of the three losses en route to the gold medal. Women's basketball withstands a hostile home crowd and dominates Australia in the gold medal match to repeat as Olympic champs...
...story that leads some to call these Olympics the "Dope Games," several track and field athletes are revealed as having tested positive for banned substances. Andreea Raducan, the Romanian gymnast who had won the coveted women's all-around event, is stripped of her gold medal for using another banned substance, found in cold medicine she took during the games...
Steve Redgrave was spitting nails. A gold-medal winner in four successive Olympics, he came to Sydney as a member of the British coxless four crew that had been seeded fourth--this despite being world champions for three years and undefeated for two. But a single loss this year seemed to send the signal that Redgrave and Co. were finished at the top level...
Redgrave, 38, is the only man to have won gold medals in an endurance sport at five successive Olympics. His roll of honor started in Los Angeles in 1984. In between he has posted nine world championships. "You have to be single-minded about what you're trying to achieve," he says. After his semifinal victory, he looked relaxed, and smiled as he said, "There's a likelihood this could be my last Olympics." Unless someone ticks him off again...