(Sydney, Australia-AP) -- The U.S.A. has a repeat Olympic softball champion, a happy volleyball team, and a wet, soggy baseball game.

SOFTBALL

The United States repeats as the Olympic softball champion. Japan's left fielder misplayed Laura Berg's liner to deep left in the bottom of the eighth, allowing the Americans to score the deciding run in a 2-to-1 victory. Stacey Nuveman had singled home the other U-S run in the fifth with the team's only hit of the game.

On their march through the playoffs, the U.S.A. beat all three teams that had beaten them in the preliminary round.

BASEBALL

The United States and South Korea are tied at 2-to-2 in the bottom of the eighth in their semifinal baseball game. There's been a rain delay of about an hour and 45 minutes, and play is just resuming.

Cuba advanced to its third straight Olympic final by shutting out Japan 3-to-0 on Tuesday. Orestes Kindelan drove in all three runs with a pair of singles.

SOCCER

The U-S men's soccer team, which was rolling through the Olympic tournament, will settle for playing for a bronze medal. The Americans lost to Spain in a semifinal, 3-to-1. Midfielder Jose Mari Romero had two assists and a goal for Spain.

Cameroon beat Chile 2-to-1 in the other semifinal, with all the goals coming late in the game. Cameroon surrendered an own goal in the 78th minute, then scored the tying goal in the 84th minute. And Cameroon got the game-winner on a penalty kick in the 89th minute.

The U-S and Chile play for the bronze medal Friday.

VOLLEYBALL

The United States women's softball team is in the semifinals after winning a two-hour thriller against South Korea. The Americans hung on for a 3-to-2 victory, winning 26-24, 17-25, 25-23, 25-27, 16-14.

Cuba, Russia and Brazil also reach the semifinals.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Californians Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana have the men's beach volleyball gold medal. They beat a Brazilian team 12-11, 12-9 in the final at Bondi Beach.

TENNIS

Monica Seles takes home the bronze medal in women's singles tennis. She beat Australian Jelena Dokic 6-1, 6-4 in the match for third place.

Venus and Serena Williams are in the tennis doubles final. They earned their spot with a 6-4, 6-1 decision over Els Callens and Dominique Van Roost of Belgium. They'll meet Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans of the Netherlands in the final.

Germany's Tommy Haas and Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov are the men's finalists. Haas defeated Switzerland's Roger Federer 6-3, 6-2. And Kafelnikov stopped Frenchman Arnaud Di Pasquale 6-4, 6-4.

WRESTLING

Matt Lindland of the U-S earned a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. He lost the gold medal match in the 167-pound division to Mourat Kardanov of Russia.

American Garrett Lowney won his finale, and earned the bronze medal at his weight.

Two other Americans have won their opening-round pools, 128-pounder Jim Gruenwald and super heavyweight Rulon Gardner, both of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Gardner may be one match away from possibly facing Alexander Karelin, the Russian who has never lost in international competition. Karelin's won the last three Olympic gold medals in his division, dating back to Seoul in 1988. Both Americans wrestle next on Wednesday.

BOXING

Bantamweight Clarence Vinson has earned the first U-S medal in boxing. He won his quarterfinal bout on points, beating a Romanian 26-to-19, and is guaranteed at least a bronze medal.

One of the most anticipated boxing matches of the Olympics turned into a showcase for six-time world champion and two-time defending Olympic gold medalist Felix Savon (suh-VOHN'). The Cuban gave Michael Bennett of Chicago a lesson in boxing skills, winning the heavyweight bout 23-to-8 in a fight stopped in the third round on the 15-point rule.

American Jeff Lacy lost his middleweight division quarterfinal on the 15-point rule.

TRACK AND FIELD

World champion Inger Miller is officially out of the women's 200 meters. The left hamstring injury that forced her out of the 100 last week has not healed.

A U-S-A Track and Field official says Miller still hopes to run in the 400-meter relay on the weekend.

Miller hurt her hamstring while training at U-C-L-A earlier this month, two days before she left for Sydney.

DRUGS

International track and Olympic officials say shot put world champion C-J Hunter failed four separate drug tests in Europe this summer.

Hunter's nutritionist says contaminated food supplements were responsible for the positive results. Hunter says he doesn't know how the tests came out positive.

One track official says Hunter's tests indicate ingesting a banned substance over a period of time. And an I-double-A-F medical official says Hunter could well be one of the cases where food supplements cause the positive test results.

I-double-A-F and I-O-C rules say an athlete is responsible for whatever substance is found in the body, regardless of how it gets there.

The women's all-around gymnastic champion has had her gold medal taken away. Sixteen-year old Romanian Andreea Raducan took a banned stimulant contained in two cold medicine pills the team doctor gave her. An I-O-C official says it was a common, over-the-counter drug, adding that it was an accident and her doctor was at fault.

Still, Raducan's been stripped of her all-around gymnastics gold medal. She's being allowed to keep her team and vault medals.

The team doctor has been banned from the next two Olympics, 2002 in Salt Lake City and 2004 in Athens, Greece.

Raducan is the first gymnast to be stripped of a medal because of failed drug test.

DIVING

Xiong Ni of China'x Xiong Ni won the gold medal in men's springboard diving. Troy Dumais of Ventura, California, finished sixth, and Mark Ruiz of Orlando, Florida, was seventh.

WEIGHTLIFTING

U-S champion Shane Hamman set national records for the snatch and total lift while finishing eleventh in Olympic super heavyweight weightlifting.

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

A Russian pair took the gold medal in synchronized swimming duet competition. Tuesday Middaugh and Anna Kozlova finished fourth as the U-S failed to get a medal in the event for the first time.

CANOE-KAYAK

U-S flagbearer Cliff Meidl (MY'-duhl) and Phillipe Boccara have been eliminated from the two-man, one-thousand-meter kayak event.

Angel Perez, the former Cuban Olympian who won a legal battle to represent the United States, helped guide his four-man squad into the one-thousand finals.

However, Jordan Malloch, the U-S entry in the solo one-thousand-meter canoe, failed to advance.

CYCLING

The Netherlands, Germany, and Lithuania won the women's road race cycling medals. Americans Karen Kurreck of Los Altos Hills, California, and Mari Holden of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pulled out after crashes and mechanical problems. Nicole Freedman of Stanford, California, finished 47th.

SAILING

The two U-S 470 skippers, Paul Foerster of Rockwall, Texas, and J-J Isler of San Diego, are in medal contention. Foerster is second and Isler is third going into Wednesday's deciding 470 races.

Finn skipper Russ Silvestri of Tiburon, California, sits in fifth place overall with five races left in his event.

Four-time Olympian Mark Reynolds of San Diego improved to seventh in the Star class with five races to go.

Courtenay Becker Dey of The Dalles, Oregon, the 1996 Europe bronze medalist, is 17th overall through seven fleet races in her competition.

EQUESTRIAN

U-S dressage riders sat securely in third place midway through the Olympic team competition Tuesday. The Germans and Dutch, as usual, hold the top two spots.

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