Oly: AAP Olympic news list for Thursday, August 26

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2004
Oly: AAP Olympic news list for Thursday, August 26

AAP Olympic newslist for Thursday, August 26

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ATHENS, Aug 25 AAP - Speed king Ryan Bayley and Graeme Brown claimed an Olympic double
each tonight as Australia completed its total dominance of cycling at the Games with a
haul of six gold medals. (OLy Cyc Aust Daylead), see also factbox.

ATHENS - Graeme Brown won his second gold medal of the Olympics when he and Stuart
O'Grady defended Australia's title in the 50km madison race tonight. (OLy Cyc Madison
Daylead)

ATHENS - Australian Jana Pittman finished a brave front-running fifth behind the new
superstar of Greek athletics in the 400m hurdles final at the Athens Olympics tonight.

(Oly Ath Pittman Daylead)

ATHENS - Greece hailed a new sporting diva today when Fani Halkia surged from relative
obscurity a few days ago to be crowned the women's 400m hurdles Olympic champion. (Oly
Daylead)

ATHENS - If they didn't know him beforehand, Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele
now know who the big Aussie bloke is. (Oly Ath Mottram)

ATHENS - Australian hockey striker Jamie Dwyer rated the Kookaburras' 6-3 semi-final
win over Spain as the team's best performance of the Olympics. (Oly Hoc Aust Daylead)

ATHENS - Australia's baseballers have won a silver medal after being beaten 6-2 by
Cuba in the gold medal match at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. (Oly Base Aust Lead Fulltime)

ATHENS - Former Aussie backpacker Kate Allen pipped Australian favourite Loretta Harrop
in sight of the finish to win the Olympic women's triathlon today, but will take the gold
medal home to Austria. (Oly Tra Nightlead)

ATHENS - Just like Australia's No.1 women's team, two cracks at an Olympic medal wasn't
enough for men's beach volleyballers Julien Prosser and Mark Williams.

ATHENS - Hold all tickets, Australia's Olympic sailors might deliver the goods after
all. (OLy Sai Aust)

ATHENS - The Hoys may yet add two Olympic gold medals from Athens to their collection.

(Oly Eqn Aust Nightlead)

ATHENS - Australian television network Channel Nine has been forced to hand back the
accreditation of one of its cameramen. (OLy Nine Lead)

ATHENS - Triple champion Marion Jones made a low-key return to Olympic competition
tonight by successfully qualifying for Friday's women's long jump final. (OLy Ath Jones)

ATHENS - Two Russians, an Azerbaijani and a Hungarian won Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling
gold on Wednesday as the main attraction, American Rulon Gardner, a bronze medal winner,
shed a tear and stepped off the mat for the last time. (Oly Wre)

ATHENS - Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego beat Spain's Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera
21-16 21-15 tonight to bag Brazil's first men's Olympic beach volleyball gold medal. (Oly
Bvo)

ATHENS - The first Israeli ever to win an Olympic gold medal dedicated his victory
on Wednesday to his 11 countrymen killed in the Munich massacre of 1972. (Oly Sai Mistral
Daylead)

ATHENS - Top International Olympic Committee officials are furious at what they see
as US President George Bush's hijacking of the Olympic name for his re-election campaign.

(OLy Politics)

ATHENS - Three US prosecutors investigating the affair of US laboratory BALCO were
in Athens today to pass on information regarding Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina
Thanou to local authorities, Greek judiciary sources said. (OLy Doping Kenderis Lead)

MOSCOW - Russia's gymnastics chief Leonid Arkayev has added his voice to a chorus of
public opinion calling for major reforms in his sport, saying Olympic gymnasts are powerless
against what he called "judging mafia". (Oly Gyn Russia)

TO COME

ATHENS - The fastest and most exciting cyclist in the world would gladly give up one
of his two Olympic gold medals for one of the most enduring and inspirational. (OLy Cyc
Aust Nightlead) 600 words

ATHENS - After their darkest couple of months, came their finest hour. (Oly Cyc Aust
Wrap) 715 words

ATHENS - Stuart O'Grady has worn the Tour de France yellow jersey, won stages in the
classic and taken out World Cup events. (Oly cyc Madison Nightlead) 460 words.

ATHENS - It is unlikely that Ryan Bayley will soon be launching his own line of underwear.

(OLy Bayley View) 540 words

ATHENS - Physically she made it through the race but emotionally Jana Pittman collapsed
after she finished fifth in her Olympic 400m hurdles final. (Oly Aths Aust Nightlead)
730 words

ATHENS - As race plans go, there was nothing subtle or sophisticated about it. (OLy
Ath Pittman Race) 364 words

ATHENS - New Olympic 400m hurdles champion Fani Halkia of Greece has launched an impassioned
defence of her disgraced former training partners Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou
but distanced herself from their controversial coach. (Oly Ath Halkia)

ATHENS - Fani Halkia did for Greece what Cathy Freeman did for Australia four years
ago. (Oly Ath Pittman Scene)

ATHENS - What on earth is going on at the Olympic velodrome? (Oly Cyc Scene) 423 words

ATHENS - Fani Halkia sent host nation Greece into raptures as she produced an astonishing
performance to pull off a stunning upset and win the Olympic Games women's 400 metres
hurdles. (OLy Ath Nightlead)

ATHENS - Angry Australian baseball coach Jon Deeble launched a broadside at the umpiring
after a controversial decision which may have cost his side an historic Olympic Games
gold medal. (Oly Base Aust Nightlead) 515 words

ATHENS - They come from the Toledo Mudhens. (OLy Base Aust Future)

ATHENS - The Australian Opals will play Brazil in the semi-finals and are on track
for the much-anticipated gold medal showdown with arch-rival the United States in the
Olympic women's basketball competition. (OLy Bkb Aust Women Nightlead) 396 words.

ATHENS - For two weeks, Carlo Massimino has sat in the Olympic village watching Australian
teammates bring their gold medals home. (Oly Tae Aust) 373 words

ATHENS - Australian sport has traditionally been about mateship and mates stick together.

(Oly Spats AAP Backgrounder) 1042 words

ATHENS - The doping scandals were expected, the bitch fights inevitable and the drama
gripping. (OLy Controvesy) with factbox. 610 words

ATHENS - Rowing Australia today expressed confidence in women's head coach Harald Jahrling
but said the sport's coaching structure would be overhauled after the Olympics. (Oly Row
Aust) 430 words

ATHENS - A delighted Marion Jones, who won three gold medals at the Sydney Olympics
four years ago, put all her recent troubles behind her and qualified for the Olympic long
jump final. (Oly Jones Nightlead) 420 words

ATHENS - Throughout the chilly Moroccan winter one dream burned bright for Hicham El
Guerrouj as he trained in the thin air of the Atlas mountains. (OLy Ath El Guerrouj)

ATHENS - The "Iranian Hercules" Hossein Rezazadeh extended his reign as the world's
strongest man by defending his super-heavyweight Olympic weightlifting gold medal with
a jaw-dropping display of strength. (Oly Wgt Nightlead)

ATHENS - Many of us will never forget the vision of Ursula Andress walking out of the
warm Caribbean up onto the beach at Dr No's forbidding Crab Key lair, when something stirred
deep within James Bond. (Oly Tra Scene) 490 words

ATHENS - Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos responded to heavy pressure from home to win
Brazil's first men's Olympic beach volleyball gold medal at the Athens Games. (OLy Bvo
Nightlead)

MALABO - Eric "the Eel" Moussambani dreamt of Olympic glory in Greece. Instead he watches
the Athens action from a dingy bar in coup-prone Equatorial Guinea, his remote African
home. (Oly Eel)

ATHENS - Greece has no post-Olympics plan for most of its brand-new sports venues which
have earned international praise but pushed the Games cost to over 7.0 billion euro ($A12.03
billion). (Oly Stadiums) 350 words

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ATHENS SCHEDULE (All times AEST)

1530: Kayaking

Men's K1 500m Semifinals (Nathan Baggaley)

Men's C1 500m Semifinal (Martin Marinov)

Men's K2 500m Semifinals (Nathan Baggaley-Clint Robinson)

Women's K2 500m Semifinal (Paula Harvey-Susan Tegg)

1700 Triathlon, Men's race (Greg Bennett, Peter Robertson, Simon Thompson)

1700: Modern Pentathlon (Eszter Hortobagyi, Alexander Parygin)

1900: Diving, 3m Springboard Semifinals (Loudy Tourky, Irina Lashko) 0400: Women's
3m Springboard Final

2200: Sailing

0000 Water Polo, women's Bronze Medal Game, Australia v US

0030: Gymnastics Rhythmic, Individual All-Around Qualification (Penelope Blackmore)

0300: Athletics

Women's high jump qualifying (Petrina Price)

0325 Men's Javelin qualifying (Oliver Dziubak

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