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U.S. Olympic Gymnastics 2012: With Team Gold Secure, Wieber and Douglas Diverge
Before Tuesday, we'd all wondered what they might do together. The Fab Five— a group of gymnasts so talented and stylistically diverse that Olympic gold seemed only a matter of time...
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Olympic Women's Gymnastics 2012 Tuesday Results: Live Scores, Highlights & More
After years of anticipation it's official: The U.S. Women's Gymnastics team has won Olympic gold in London...
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2012 Olympics: Biggest Disappointments from Day 3
You can't have Olympic highs without the Olympic lows, and we had plenty of the latter on Monday. Without getting too deep into the doom and gloom, let's take a quick look at the ...
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2012 Olympics Results: Winners & Losers from Day 3
We've completed our first Monday at the London 2012 Summer Games, and one thing is clear: weekday Olympic competition is no saner than weekend Olympic competition. It might even be a bit loonier...
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Olympic Men's Gymnastics 2012 Monday Results: Live Scores, Highlights & More
The final tally in Monday's men's team gymnastics final was fairly by the book—China first, Japan second, Great Britain third—but the path taken to get there was anything but...
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U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team 2012: Jordyn Wieber's Greatest Test Lies Ahead
Jordyn Wieber's greatest asset has never been a skill or specialty. She doesn't have a world-famous vault like McKayla Maroney or go by a world-famous nickname like Gabby "The Flying Squirrel" Douglas...
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Olympic Swimming Results 2012: Day 2 Updates, Medal Winners, Analysis & More
Day 2 of the 2012 Olympic swimming competition includes: Women's 100m Butterfly - Finals Dana Vollmer wins gold medal with world record time...
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U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics Qualification 2012: 3 Things to Watch
The road to gold begins Sunday for the U.S. women's gymnastics team with a full slate of qualification rounds. These are nervous moments for the so-called "Fab Five," a team talented enough to merit "gold-or-bust" expectations...
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2012 Olympic Swimming, Gymnastics: Day 1 Morning Update from London Games
While most of America slumbered, the first full day of Olympic competition got off to a wild and wonderful start. And I do mean wild. We begin where we almost always do, with Michael Phelps...
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Olympic Swimming Results 2012: Day 1 Updates, Medal Winners, Analysis & More
It was a pretty disheartening opening day, overall, for the Americans. Ryan Lochte looked great, swimming his best time ever to win the 400 IM...
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Olympic Swimming 2012 Results: Qualifiers, Medal Winners, Highlights & More
The London Aquatics Centre features more athletic star power this summer than perhaps any other 2012 Olympic venue...
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Olympic Women's Gymnastics 2012: Top Contenders, World Records & Events Primer
If the Wheaties boxes of yore are any indication, the women's gymnastics competition in London will produce more than a few overnight starlets...
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Power Ranking the Top 100 US Olympians in London
Athletic toil is never easy, but the grind weighs even heavier on those consigned to do it in anonymity. For the 529 U.S...
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London Olympics 2012: Top 10 Storylines to Follow on Day 1
After months of qualifying, trials and team selections—and after a few days of early events—athletic competition at the 2012 London Olympics swings into full action on Saturday, July 28...
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The Top 10 Opening Ceremonies in Summer Olympic History
Always one of the most talked about events of the Olympics , the opening ceremony provides a platform for creative pageantry all while highlighting the best athletes in sports...
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US Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team 2012: Roster, Top Contenders & More
Expectations are always high for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, but the London 2012 Games bring a more frenzied level of hype than usual...
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US Olympic Men's Gymnastics Team 2012: Roster, Top Contenders & More
The women may have landed a spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated , but America’s best male gymnasts enter the 2012 London Olympics with just as much bold-ink intrigue...
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Olympic Women's Gymnastics Predictions 2012: Gold Medal Odds & Projections
Women’s Olympic gymnastics is a notoriously difficult discipline to predict. Four reasons why: 1.) It’s an Olympic competition. Stakes are high and crazy stuff happens...
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Olympic Men's Gymnastics Predictions 2012: Gold Medal Odds and Projections
If you’re a fan of singlets, muscles and jaw-dropping acrobatics, good news: The 2012 Olympic men’s gymnastics competition has arrived. This year’s meet is flush with intrigue, starting with Japanese sensation Kohei Uchimura...
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Olympic Men's Gymnastics 2012: Top Contenders, World Records & Events Primer
If a meet was ever about one man, the London 2012 gymnastics competition is that meet. Japanese sensation Kohei Uchimura has been the world’s best gymnast since Beijing, and by impossibly large margins...
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Olympic Tennis 2012: Full Bracket and Top Medal Contenders
From small beans to fifth Slam, the Olympic tennis tournament has come a long way over the last quarter century. The growth trend continues in London, a tournament that will feature almost every healthy top player on the planet...
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Michael Phelps vs. Ryan Lochte: Comparing the Two Swimming Superstars
With respect to the hundreds of elite swimmers descending on London this week, the 2012 Olympic swimming competition will be all about two men: Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte...
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Ranking the 100 Greatest US Olympians in Summer Games History
It isn't brash, jingoistic or even really subjective to say that America has the greatest sporting legacy in Summer Olympic history...
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US Olympic Basketball Team 2012: Russell Westbrook Is Team USA's Unsung Hero
You wouldn't know it from all the crap he's taken over the past year, but Russell Westbrook is a fantastic basketball player. Like crazy, super, warp-speed fantastic...
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Blog of Basketball Exhibition
After a brief first-quarter scare, the U.S. men's basketball team settled into an easy 100-78 win over rival Spain to finish its pre -Olympic exhibition season undefeated...
