Tag: live from beijing
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Ramsey: U.S. best women’s basketball team of all time
BEIJING • Meet the greatest women’s basketball team of all time. The Americans completed a demolition job of the world with a 92-65 victory over Australia in the gold-medal final.Saturday’s triumph ended a dominating run through the tournament. America’s opponents never had a chance. And I mean that literally. The United States romped to eight…
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Sky Sox player returns to claim Olympic bronze
BEIJING – You can knock Jayson Nix down, but you can’t knock him out. The Colorado Springs Sky Sox second baseman returned to the U.S. baseball team Saturday for an 8-4 win over Japan in the Olympic bronze-medal game, eight days after bunting a ball into his face. Nix, 25, went 1-for-4 with a single…
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American Clay easily wins exhausting decathlon
BEIJING • There was no celebration after the decathlon. The newest “World’s Greatest Athlete” – Bryan Clay – knew before the event’s final race that all he’d have to do to win the gold medal was finish. Clay finished and about five feet, if that much, beyond the finish line, the 28-year-old laid down on…
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Cejudo to appear on ‘Leno’ on Wednesday
BEIJING • Rich, famous and all smiles, Henry Cejudo is going Hollywood. The Coronado High School graduate will appear Wednesday on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” to flaunt the gold medal he won in freestyle wrestling at the Beijing Games. “I’m going to headlock Leno,” Cejudo said Friday. “That will be an easy headlock.”…
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Ramsey: Coach K is one win from being national icon
BEIJING • Accepting the task of leading America’s Olympic men’s basketball team leads to the heights or the depths. The job transforms a coach to national hero or national pariah. We’re watching the coronation of Mike Krzyzewski, who’s on the brink of leading the United States back to its accustomed perch atop the basketball world.…
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OTC’s Isaksen has rough day in modern pentathlon
BEIJING • Two terrible shots made her grimace. One tight swimsuit left her in tears. Twenty fencing losses nearly jolted her to the exits. On the big stage, Margaux Isaksen resembled a wide-eyed teenager. The Olympic Training Center resident buckled under pressure in a shaky start and couldn’t recover for a strong enough finish Friday…
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Americans win beach volleyball gold
BEIJING • America rules the beach. The United States completed its sweep of beach volleyball competition with a three-set victory over Brazil on Thursday night in the men’s gold-medal match. The American team of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers shrugged off a sloppy second set to pulverize Marcio Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes in the final…
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USOC seeks more money for more medals
BEIJING • The equation is simple: More revenue equals more Olympic gold medals. That’s math in the eyes of the U.S. Olympic Committee, whose leaders called for increased financial resources Friday as China edged closer to winning the gold-medal count at the Beijing Games. Details remain sketchy on how the Colorado Springs-based USOC, a nonprofit…
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U.S. softball team upset by Japan
BEIJING • Possibly the biggest upset of the XXIX Olympic Games came at the expense of the U.S. softball team. If there is a wrong time to finally give up an earned run or two, Team USA softball team picked it. Team USA had been so dominant in this softball tournament that it was the…
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U.S. loses gold-medal game in women’s water polo
BEIJING • Olympic heartache continues for the U.S. women’s water polo team. The Americans lost, 9-8, to the Netherlands in the gold medal game Thursday when Dutch superstar Danielle de Bruijn scored with 26 seconds left. The loss follows a trend. The U.S. lost in the gold medal game in the final seconds in the…