{"id":2109,"date":"2012-08-10T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2012-08-10T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:27:03","slug":"usa-gold-shines-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"USA Gold Shines At Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON (AP) \u2013 The U.S. women\u2019s soccer team avenged one of its toughest losses by nipping Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal as Carli Lloyd scored both goals.<\/p>\n

The Americans had lost a heartbreaker to Japan last year in the women\u2019s World Cup final.
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0LONDON (AP) \u2013 America\u2019s Ashton Eaton can now be called, \u201cThe
\nWorld\u2019s Greatest Athlete.\u201d He earned that title by winning the
\nOlympic decathlon gold medal by 198 points.<\/p>\n

Eaton set the decathlon world record at the U.S. trials in June and backed it up with an Olympic victory with 8,869 points.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two-time world champion Trey Hardee of the U.S. settled for
\nsilver with 8,671 points.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

American runner Manteo Mitchell ran the last 200 meters of the opening lap of the Olympic 4\u00d7400-meter relay preliminaries with a broken leg.<\/p>\n

Mitchell told The Associated Press he had about half a lap to go when he
\nfelt a popping in his left leg.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He finished the lap in 46.1 seconds and helped the Americans to
\na tie for first with the Bahamas in 2 minutes, 58.87 seconds.<\/p>\n

A few hours later, doctors told him he had a broken left fibula. The
\nrelay final is set for today.<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LONDON (AP)- Usain Bolt is the world\u2019s fastest man \u2014 in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes.<\/p>\n

The Jamaican flash won his second straight gold medal in the 200 meters just days after winning the 100 for the second straight Olympics.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0Christian Taylor of the U.S. won the Olympic triple jump gold
\nmedal, overtaking U.S. teammate Will Claye with his fourth jump in
\nthe final.<\/p>\n

Taylor, the world champion, earned the Olympic title
\nwith a best jump of 17.81 meters.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

LONDON (AP) \u2013 Claressa Shields is the first U.S. woman to win a
\nboxing medal in an Olympics.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old shuffled, danced and slugged her way past her 33-year-old opponent from Russia, winning the championship bout of the 75-kilogram class 19-12.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The teenager won the 12-member American team\u2019s only gold medal
\nin London.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0LONDON (AP) \u2013 The unbeaten U.S. women\u2019s volleyball team advanced
\nto the Olympic final with a straight-set victory over South Korea
\nand will play for the title Saturday against defending Olympic
\nchampion Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The American team lost to Brazil 3-1 in the final at the 2008 Beijing Games.
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Brazil advanced with a straight-set win over Japan.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0 LONDON (AP) \u2013 The U.S. women\u2019s basketball team goes for its fifth straight gold medal today at the London Olympics.<\/p>\n

The American women are set to play France in the championship game.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0LONDON (AP) \u2013 The United States continues to hold the lead in
\nthe overall medals race and the gold rush at the London Olympics.
\nTeam USA increased its total to 90, including 39 gold. China is
\nnext in both races with 80 and 37.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Russia sits third overall with 56, and Britain has 52. But the
\nhost country is third in the gold medal standings with 25 to just
\n12 for Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 LONDON (AP) \u2013 The U.S. women\u2019s soccer team avenged one of its toughest losses by nipping Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal as Carli Lloyd scored both goals. The Americans had lost a heartbreaker to Japan last year in the women\u2019s World Cup final. \u00a0 \u00a0LONDON (AP) \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}