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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...
After winning the 100 meter final with one of the fastest times ever recorded and anchoring the gold-medal winning 4x100m men's relay, the world's fastest man and world record holder in the 100m reclaims sprinting supremacy...
American Rulon Gardener, who had never won an NCAA championship, does the unthinkable and defeats Russian Alexander Karelin, a.k.a. the Siberian Bear, for the gold medal in the heaviest weight-class in Greco-Roman wrestling. Karelin was looking for his fourth gold medal and had never lost an international competition before the match...