Saturday: Day 16 at the Summer Olympics
(Sydney, Australia-AP) -- Marion sets a record with five. The U.S. grabs four relay medals. And American women reign again in basketball.
Here's what's happening on day 16 at the Summer Olympics.
ATHLETICS
Marion Jones has five medals. Three of them are gold. The other two are bronze. It's not the five golds she was aiming for, but nevertheless she's the first woman to win five track medals in one Olympics.
Jones was part of first and third-place relay teams on day 16 at the Summer Games.
The U-S women's four-by-100 relay team had some problems with baton passing, and finished third behind the Bahamas and Jamaica. It's the first-ever track and field gold for the Bahamas.
The American four-by-400 unit had no trouble. Jones, running third, started her leg in second place and ended it with a 15-meter lead as the Americans won by a fairly comfortable margin.
The U-S men swept their relays. They had no trouble streaking to gold in their 400-meter relay. With Maurice Green running the anchor leg the Americans logged a winning time of 37-point-61 seconds. With Michael Johnson anchoring the four-by-400, they ran away to another gold.
Nouria Merah-Benida of Algeria won the women's 15-hundred. Marla Runyan of Eugene, Oregon, finished eighth and Suzy Favor Hamilton finished 12th and last after exhausting herself in the lead and falling.
Ethiopia took gold and silver in the women's ten-thousand meter run. Gold in the men's five-thousand went to Millon Wolde of Ethiopia.
Trine Hattestad of Norway won the women's javelin.
BASKETBALL
The United States won the women's Olympic basketball gold medal, beating the home team in the title game.
The Americans mowed down Australia 76-to-54.
U-S teams have now won 25 straight games while winning the last two Olympic titles and the 1998 world championship.
Lisa Leslie and Natalie Williams led the United States with 15 points each. Sheryl Swoopes scored 14 and Yolanda Griffith added 13.
Brazil beat South Korea 84-to-73 for the bronze medal.
In the men's division, Canada beat Russia 86-to-83 in double overtime for seventh place. Italy topped Yugoslavia 69-to-59 for fifth place.
WRESTLING
The U-S 12-match win streak in wrestling ended with two losses and two silver medals. Samuel Henson of St. Louis lost the 119-pound final to a wrestler from Azerbaijan 4-to-3.
Brandon Slay of Amarillo, Texas, dropped his 167 and a-half pound final to Alexander Leipold of Germany, 4-to-0.
Both Americans get silver medals.
There are other U-S wrestlers who could win medals. Terry Brands of Omaha, Nebraska, Kerry McCoy of Longwood, New York, Lincoln McIlravy of Rapid City, South Dakota, and Charles Burton of Bloomington, Indiana, all won their pool competitions. All advance to their weight division quarterfinals, which are Sunday.
CYCLING
Two-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong takes home a bronze medal from the Olympics.
Armstrong finished third in the men's 33-mile individual time trial.
Viacheslav Ekimov (vee-AH'-cheh-slahv EK'-ih-mawv) of Russia, who races with Armstrong on the U-S Postal Service trade team, won the gold medal. Jan Ullrich (yah OOL'-rik) of Germany, who won the road race Wednesday, took the silver.
Mari (MEHR'-ee) Holden of the U-S won the silver medal in the women's cycling time trial. Karen Kurreck of Los Altos Hills, California, finished 16th.
VOLLEYBALL
The U-S women's volleyball team doesn't go home with a medal, but does go home having accomplished much more than anyone anticipated.
Brazil had too much quickness and strength, winning the bronze medal by defeating the Americans 25-18, 25-22, 25-21.
The U-S team finishes fourth after a seventh-place run four years ago in Atlanta.
Cuba rallied from two sets down to win the gold for the third straight Olympics, beating Russia 25-27, 32-34, 25-19, 25-18, 15-7.
SAILING
Four-time Olympian Mark Reynolds and Magnus Liljedahl of the United States won the gold medal in the Star class of Olympic sailing.
Iain Percy of Britain won the gold in the Finn class.
BOXING
The first six gold medal bouts in boxing have been decided. Cubans won four of them, and one of those wins went to heavyweight Felix Savon (suyh-VOHN'). He becomes the third boxer in Olympic history to win three gold medals.
France and Russia won the other golds.
No Americans fought on day 16 in Sydney.
WATER POLO
The U-S men's water polo team edged Croatia 9-to-8 in overtime. The Americans will play on Sunday for fifth place.
SOCCER
The Olympic men's soccer final went to a shootout, where Cameroon clinched the country's first-ever gold medal with a victory over Spain.
Cameroon came back from a 2-to-0 deficit with the help of an own goal to tie the score at 2-all by the end of regulation.
Pierre Wome scored the clinching penalty kick as Cameroon outscored Spain 5-to-3 in the shootout.
CANOE-KAYAK
The United States finished sixth in its first-ever one-thousand meter four-man kayak sprint. A team from Hungary won the gold.
Knut Holmann of Norway won the Olympic gold medal in the men's one-thousand-meter solo kayak sprint.
Andreas Dittmer of Germany won gold in the men's one-thousand-meter solo canoe sprint.
Germany won the 500-meter, four-woman kayak sprint.
Mitica Pricop and Florin Popescu of Romania finished first in the one-thousand-meter, two-man canoe sprint.
The Olympic champions in the one-thousand-meter, two-man kayak sprint are Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi of Italy.
DIVING
Chinese divers took the gold and silver medals in the men's platform competition. Mark Ruiz of Orlando finished sixth, and David Pichler of Fort Lauderdale was ninth.
MODERN PENTATHLON
Dmitry Svatkovsky of Russia won the modern pentathlon.
Chad Senior of Colorado Springs, Colorado, finished sixth.
RACEWALKING
Mexican racewalker Bernardo Segura, disqualified after he crossed the finish line first, has lost his appeal to get his gold medal back.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Segura's disqualification is valid even though he wasn't notified of it until about 15 minutes after he crossed the finish line.
DRUGS
A seventh athlete has tested positive for a banned substance. The I-O-C says Russian 400-meter runner Svetlana Pospelova tested positive for a steroid in an out-of-competition test.
FLAG-GARDNER
The man who slew Goliath and wrapped himself in a U-S flag afterwards will carry that flag during the closing ceremony at the Summer Olympics.
Rulon Gardner made his mark on the Games by pulling off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic sports history. He's the wrestler who came off a Wyoming farm to beat three-time Olympic super-heavyweight champion Alexander Karelin of Russia.
Karelin is considered Russia's greatest athlete and had never lost in 13 years of international competition.
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