Olympics Highlights: Day 11

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International track officials say American shot put world champion C.J. Hunter has tested positive for a banned substance. The case is being turned over to USA Track and Field, and Americanofficials will decide what to do next.

Hunter isn’t competing at the Olympics because of recent surgery, but he is in Sydney as a coach for his wife, 100-meter gold medalist Marion Jones. Jones nowhas to deal with this distraction in her attempt to win a total offive gold medals.

Hunter tested positive for nandrolone, which helps athletes gainstrength and muscle bulk.

“I know what’s going on and I am aware of the allegations andam going to defend myself vigorously,” Hunter told NBC. There wereno reports linking Jones to the use of banned performanceenhancers.

Obadele Thompson’s Olympic medal was bronze, not gold, but for his home country of Barbados it was still precious.

“It is truly great for Barbados to have the third fastest humanbeing in the world,” Sports Minister Rudolph Greenidge said.Acting Prime Minister Billie Miller called the medal “historic.”

Thompson came third in the Olympic 100-meter dash in Sydney onSaturday to the first Olympic medal ever for the island of 260,000since it gained independence from Britain in 1966.

His win set off a national celebration. Whooping fans pouredinto bars to celebrate and radio stations blared a calypso tributesong, “Oba” as politicians and sports figures lauded Thompson.

Basketball

The Dream Team looked drowsy at thestart and the finish. In between, they ran a highlight film’s worthof dunks over France to win a fifth straight game in Sydney,106-94. The win, which puts the two-time defending gold medalistAmericans into the quarterfinals, was highlighted by Vince Carter’ssky-walking dunk over Frenchman Frederic Weis.

Antonio McDyess finished with 20 points, Kevin Garnett with 19and Carter had 13.

Lithuania, guaranteed a slot in the quarterfinals, improvedto 30-2 by knocking off winless New Zealand 85-75.

Russia clinched a quarterfinal berth with an 88-to-65 romp overAngola.

Beach Volleyball

The home team won again.

Already having its best overall Olympic performance ever, hostnation Australia picked up a gold in women’s beach volleyball.Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst edged out Brazilians Shelda Bedeand Adriana Behar 12-11, 12-10 in front of yet another rowdy crowdof Aussies.

The Brazilian team of Sandra Pires and Adriana Samuel beatYukiko Takahashi and Teru Saiki of Japan for the bronze.

Diving

America’s momentum at the diving pool continued as Mark Ruiz and Troy Dumais moved into the semifinals of 3-meter springboard. Defending Olympic champion XiongNi of China was the semifinal leader, with Ruiz fourth and Dumaisseventh.

On Sunday, Laura Wilkinson ended America’s 36-year skein ofdiving futility by shocking the defending champion Chinese on the10-meter platform.

Equestrian

Rhythmical, ridden by Nona Garson of Lebanon, N.J., fell on aturn during the qualifying round, eliminating her from theindividual event. Horse and rider were unhurt and will be in theteam event Thursday.

The mare Liberty, ridden by Laura Kraut of Oconomowoc, Wis.,lowered two fences for 8 faults. Kraut finished 21st in the groupof 74 riders, Lauren Hough of Ocala, Fla., 37th and MargieGoldstein Engle of Wellington, Fla., 49th. The scores will be wipedclean if they move forward to the final event on Sunday.

Gymnastics

Blaine Wilson finished sixth in the vault finals and Elise Raywas eighth in the balance beam, ending any hope theAmericans had of winning a gymnastics medal in the 2000 Games.

The American women finished fourth and the men fifth, and no onewon any individual medals. It’s the first time since 1972 theUnited States has been shut out of a gymnastics medal.

Russia’s Alexei Nemov, who won the men’s all-around, won thegold on the high bar. He also won a bronze on the floor. Nemov wonsix medals in Sydney, matching his total from Atlanta.

Svetlana Khorkina added a silver from the floor exercise to thegold she won in the uneven bars Sunday. Her teammate, YelenaZamolodchikova, won gold on the floor with an energetic routinethat had the audience rocking.

Gervasio Deferr of Spain won gold in the men’s vault, and LiXiaopeng won gold on the parallel bars. China’s Liu Xuan won thegold in the balance beam.

Handball

South Korea issued a challenge to the Scandinavian superpowers of women’s handball with their fourth straight win of the Olympic tournament.

The super-slick Koreans rallied from a slow start to defeatAngola 31-24 and finished on top of Group A in the preliminaryround.

Victories over France, Romania, Hungary and Angola inSydney have confirmed a remarkable turnaround in the fortunesof the South Koreans, a dominant force in the sport for twodecades.

Sailing

Ian Barker and Simon Hiscocks of Britain won the silver medal insailing’s 49er class and Americans Jonathan McKee and Charlie McKee won the bronze. The Seattle brothers captured the first U.S. sailingmedal of the games with a strong finish in Sydney Harbor.

The bronze leaves the U.S. team just one short of matching theirdisappointing total in 1996.

The gold medal had been determined Saturday. It went to ThomasJohanson and Jyrki Jarvi of Finland.

470 skipper Paul Foerster of Rockwall, Texas, moved intosecond place overall with one race to go. Women’s 470 skipper J.J.Isler is third with one race to go. Both are former Olympicmedalists. The deciding races will be sailed Wednesday.

Finn skipper Russ Silvestri of Tiburon, California, is seventhoverall, and Star skipper Mark Reynolds of SanDiego, a four-time Olympian and former gold medalist, is eleventh.Each of those two classes has seven races left.

Softball

Having beaten China and Australia in a day-night doubleheader,the Americans will have a chance at the third team to beat them inthe round-robin: Japan.

Lisa Fernandez struck out 13 in the nightcap to beat Australia1-0. She fanned eight in a row before Peta Edebone, who hit a13th-inning homer off her to win the first meeting, grounded out tothird with one out in the seventh.

Japan advanced to the gold medal game as Mariko Masubichipitched a one-hitter and Reoka Utsugi homered to beat Australia1-0.

With the two losses in one day, the Aussies finished with abronze medal.

Earlier in the day, the Americans beat China 3-0 in 10 inningswhen Stacey Nuveman homered in the third extra inning. That gamewas spiced up by Tom Lasorda and the U.S. baseball team, which hadbeen practicing on an adjacent field.

Synchronized Swimming

Americans Tuesday Middaugh and Anna Kozlova are fourth in thesynchronized swimming duet competition. They’ll compete in thefinal on Tuesday.

Russia’s duet of Maria Kissleyeva and Olga Brusnikina led. TheJapanese duo of Miya Tachibana and Miko Takeda was second.

The Russians’ karate routine to Japanese drums was sotechnically difficult the nearly-packed Aquatic Center would burstinto applause in the middle of a move.

Table Tennis

Kong Linghui of China defeated Jan-Ove Waldner of Sweden in five games to win the Olympic gold medal in men’s table tennis.

Liu Guoliang of China won the bronze, defeating Sweden’s Joergen Persson in four games.

Wang Nan beat countrywoman Li Ju in the women’s singles final.The two paired up to beat the Chinese team of Sun Jin and Yang Yingin doubles.

Kong and Liu earned the silver medal in men’s doubles, losing toteammates Wang Liqin and Yan Sen.

Tennis

Two U.S. teammates, just one winner — and no surprise,that winner was Venus Williams.

U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion Williams, undefeated in herlast 31 matches, advanced to the Olympic finals by knocking off Monica Seles, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. Williams clinched at least a silver with her victory.

The survivor of the all-American semifinal now faces No. 10Elena Dementieva of Russia, who defeated unseeded Australian JelenaDokic 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Dokic faces the third-seeded Seles for thebronze.

Williams advanced to the semifinals in doubles with her sisterSerena by beating top-seeded Julie Halard-Decugis and AmelieMauresmo of France 6-3, 6-2.

Track and Field

Michael Johnson is the first repeat winner at the Olympics inthe men’s 400. He followed his Olympic-record performance inAtlanta with a second straight gold-medal performance, winning in43.84 seconds. Fellow American Alvin Harrison grabbed thesilver. It’s the eighth time Americans have swept the top two spotsin the 400.

Just before Johnson won, the 110,000 people in StadiumAustralia got to see what they wanted. Australia’s Olympiccauldron-lighter, Cathy Freeman, won the women’s 400. She’s thefirst Aborigine to win an individual Olympic gold medal.

Later, Pocatello, Idaho’s world record-holder Stacey Dragila wonthe women’s pole vault. In the men’s 110 hurdles, Terrence Trammell won the silver and fellow American Mark Crear the bronze.

American James Carter and Angelo Taylor have advanced to themen’s 400-meter hurdles final. Eric Thomas of the U.S. did not getthrough the semifinals.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers is inthe semifinals of the women’s 100 hurdles after winning two heats.Fellow Americans Sharon Couch and Melissa Morrison are also in thesemifinals. Dwight Phillips of Stone Mountain, Ga., is the lone Americanstill in the men’s long jump.

World record-holder Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and defending champion Noureddine Morceli of Algeria both advanced through the first round ofthe men’s 1,500 meters. So did Americans Michael Stember, GabeJennings and Jason Pyrah.

Gabriela Szabo of Romania set an Olympic record while winningthe women’s 5,000.

Volleyball

Playing an Italian team resting most of its starters to preparefor a run at the gold medal, the Americans still couldn’t end theirrun of futility in Sydney, losing 21-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-18.

The United States (0-5) finished tied for 11th, its worstshowing ever at the Olympics and the only time it has failed to winat least once.

Brazil completed a perfect 5-0 run through Group A of the Olympic men’s volleyball tournament by defeating Cuba in three grueling games. Giovanne Gavio had 10 kills and 19-year-old star Dante Amaral had nine for the Brazilians in the 28-26, 30-28, 25-18 victory.

Brazil will play Argentina (2-3) in the quarterfinals.

Cuba dropped to third in Group A by losing a tiebreaker to theNetherlands. Both teams went 4-1, but the Netherlands had a betterrecord in games won versus games lost.

The Netherlands, the 1996 gold medalist, closed out group playby getting past Spain 25-18, 25-17, 25-26, 25-21. Spanish hitterRafael Pascual had 27 kills.

The Dutch advance to play Yugoslavia (2-3), which eliminatedSouth Korea 24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 19-25, 15-8. The South Koreans,playing the best defense of the tournament, lost two five-gamers,and the rest of the field is glad to be rid of them.

Spain (1-4) was eliminated when Australia beat Egypt 25-17,25-23, 25-22. The victory by the Aussies (1-3) put them in the quarterfinalsagainst Italy, marking a stunning Olympic debut for a program thatstarted from nothing in 1993.

Russia clinched second place in Group B by defeating Argentina25-23, 25-15, 25-20. Roman Yakovlev had 13 kills and Igor Chulepov11 for the Russians (4-1). Russia will play the Cubans in the best matchup of thequarterfinals.

Water Polo

The American men, led by four goals from ChrisHumbert, kept their medal hopes alive with a 12-8 victory over thewinless Netherlands. The first U.S. winafter two losses in Sydney made it likely that the Americans willadvance into the medal round.

Playing in his third Olympics with as many countries, Andrei Kovalenko scored three goals to lift Australia to an 11-6 victory over Slovakia.

Kovalenko won bronze with the Unified Team in 1992 and finishedlast with Ukraine four years later. The 29-year-old moved toAustralia soon after.

Kovalenko and Sean Boyd had first-quarter goals to getAustralia, 1-1-1, going against Slovakia, 0-3-0 in its Olympicwater polo debut.

Weightlifting

Hossein Tavakoli of Iran won the gold medal in the 231¼-pound(105 kg) weightlifting, but Alan Tsagaev of Bulgaria — giventhe right to lift only hours before — got the silver medal.

Bulgaria had previously won a weightlifting gold, a silver and abronze in the Olympics, but lost all three when each lifter wastossed out for testing positive for a banned drug, a diuretic.

Tavakoli lifted 518 pounds (235 kg) on his final lift toovertake Tsagaev, who had led for most of the clean and jerk afteralso raising 518 pounds. Tsagaev could have won the gold, butcouldn't make his final lift of 523½ pounds (237.5 kg).

Wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestler Matt Lindland, whose fight to wrestle inSydney reached the Supreme Court, gained the finals at 167½ pounds(76 kg), but not without another controversy concerning whether aresult should count.

Lindland rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat David Manukyan ofthe Ukraine 7-4 in the semifinals for his fourth victory in twodays.

However, Lindland had a few uncertain moments after the victory,as Manukyan protested the scoring. Manukyan argued in the Olympicappeals process for a rematch, but it was denied.

Garrett Lowney, the inexperienced 20-year-old who beat afive-time world champion en route to the semifinals, lost to formerworld champion Mikael Ljungberg of Sweden at 213¾ pounds.

Lowney of Appleton, Wis., who will wrestle Tuesday for thebronze medal, scored three consecutive upsets — including astunning ouster of five-time world champion Gogui Koguachvili ofRussia on Sunday.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.