Oly: AAP Olympic news list for Tuesday August 17

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2004
Oly: AAP Olympic news list for Tuesday August 17

AAP Olympic newslist for Tuesday August 17

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ATHENS - Ian Thorpe tonight became Australia's greatest Olympian by winning the contest
dubbed the "race of the century". (Oly Aust Daylead)

ATHENS - Ian Thorpe turned the tables on defending champion Pieter van den Hoogenband
to win the 200m freestyle title in Athens and secure his fifth Olympic gold medal. (Oly
Swm Thorpe)

ATHENS - With his dream of winning seven gold medals sunk, Michael Phelps will be looking
to get back on the winner's podium in his favourite event at the Athens Olympics tomorrow.

(Oly Swm Phelps Daylead)

ATHENS - World recordholder Leisel Jones just can't seem to win when it counts. (Oly Swm Jones)

ATHENS - If you lose in elite level sport, you can do it well like Brooke Hanson and
Michael Phelps. (Oly Swim Losing)

ATHENS - The United States has challenged Australia's domination of the Athens Olympic
pool, Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol combining to win the 100m backstroke double.

(Oly Swim Daylead)

ATHENS - Australia collected its third bronze medal in diving at the Athens Olympics
tonight when Robert Newbery and Steven Barnett finished third in a sensational three metre
synchronised springboard event won by host country Greece. (Oly Div Aust Daylead)

ATHENS - Hosts Greece grabbed their first gold medal of the Athens Olympics today when
Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men's three-metre synchronised diving after
the Chinese pair suffered a no-dive. (Oly Div Greece)

ATHENS - Four years ago, Suzanne Balogh was told she was too old and too lacking in
talent to succeed in shooting. (Oly Sho Aust Nightlead )

SYDNEY - As a 12-year-old, Suzy Balogh missed her sporty father Steven. (Oly Sho Aust Family)

ATHENS - China's Zhu Qinan broke a world record to win their third gold medal of the
Olympic shooting competition today. (OLy Sho Men Nightlead)

ATHENS - Reigning Olympic archery champion Simon Fairweather fell victim to windy weather
today when he was bundled out in the first round of the men's individual competition in
Athens. (Oly Arc Aust Nightlead (Pix available))

ATHENS - The other half of the Opals' superstar double act, Penny Taylor, turned in
a five-star performance to power Australia to one of its most significant international
women's basketball victories. (Oly Bkb Aust Nightlead)

ATHENS - Australia's Kerri Pottharst said home crowd favouritism almost cost her and
Summer Lochowicz their Olympic beach volleyball match tonight. (Oly Bvo Daylead)

ATHENS - Not even Delta Goodrem could inspire Mark Philippoussis as he made a limp
exit from the Olympic Games overnight. (Oly Ten Aust Daylead)

ATHENS - World No 1 Roger Federer of Switzerland opened his Athens Olympic tennis campaign
with a surprisingly difficult three-set win over Nikolay Davydenko of Russia today. (Oly
Ten Nightlead)

ATHENS - Andy Roddick is watching his back with the Australian women's water-polo team
ready to pay $US500 ($A700) to the first girl who lands a kiss on the US Open champion
at the Athens Olympics. (Oly Ten Kiss)

ATHENS - Australian lightweight boxer Anthony Little won through to the second round
of the boxing after an assured win over Tunisian Taoufik Chobba. (Oly Box Aust Little)

ATHENS - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou won a two-day reprieve
at the Athens Olympics today so they could appear in person at a disciplinary hearing
into their missed drugs tests and protest their innocence. (Oly Second Nightlead)

ATHENS - A Danish Olympic sailor was detained and questioned by Greek police overnight
after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a car he was driving to a venue at the Athens
Games, the Danish delegation said. (Oly Sailor Arrest Nightlead)

ATHENS - Defending champion Venus Williams, playing with Chanda Rubin, crashed out
in the first round of the women's doubles at the Olympic tennis tournament here tonight.

(Oly Ten Venus)

ATHENS - World 100m champion Torri Edwards will learn tomorrow if she will be able
to compete in the Athens Olympics after a positive test for the stimulant nikethamide.

(Oly Ath Edwards)

ATHENS - Britain took a narrow lead in the Olympic equestrian three-day team event
after the dressage leg was completed today, opening the competition just in front of France
and Germany. (Oly Eqn)

ATHENS - Australia's equestrian eventing team, chasing a fourth consecutive gold medal,
finished the dressage stage in fifth place. (Oly Eqn Aust Daylead)

ATHENS - Japan revived memories of their glorious gymnastics past when they upstaged
favourites China and the United States to snatch the Olympic men's team gold for the first
time in 28 years. (Oly Gym Daylead)

ATHENS - Shi Zhiyong completed a golden day for China's weightlifters today, claiming
the 62kg men's Olympic title, but the cheers belonged to Leonidas Sampanis, who gave Greece
its first medal of the Athens Games. (Oly Wgt Men)

ATHENS - Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie might have to miss the Athens Olympics
due to injury, his representatives confirmed today. (Oly Ath )

ATHENS - Qatar's world 3,000m steeplechase champion Saif Saaeed Shaheen, formerly Kenya's
Stephen Cherono, will not be allowed to compete at the Athens Olympics, it was confirmed
here today. (Oly Ath Qatar)

ATHENS - Told to avoid inflaming anti-American sentiment, US athletes may have toned
down the bravado too much in the early days of the Athens Games. (Oly US)

ATHENS - The captain of the South Korean Olympic women's hockey team Mi Seong-lee was
badly injured today when she was struck by a ball in the temple. (Oly Hoc Korea)

ATHENS - Chen Yanqing put China back in charge of Olympic women's weightlifting today
when she claimed the 58kg gold medal with a record-setting effort. (Oly Wgt Women Nightlead)

ATHENS - World champion Lee Won-hee of South Korea added an Olympic judo crown to his
trophy cabinet by winning the men's under 73 kg category today. (Oly Jdo Nightlead)

ATHENS - Greek superstar Pyrros Dimas, who carried the host's flag at the Athens Games
opening ceremony, injured himself in training today and could miss his shot at a fourth
Olympic weightlifting gold. (Oly Wgt Dimas)

ATHENS - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou face a criminal investigation
over missed drugs tests and their motorcycle accident, a judicial source told Reuters
today. (Oly Doping Kenderis)

ATHENS - Olympics Games chief Gianna Angelopoulos could be sued and also faces a Greek
prosecutor's investigation after her fireworks party for foreign dignitaries sparked off
a fire in a nearby park. (Oly Fire Lead)

TO COME

ATHENS - Ian Thorpe saw off the pretender to his throne and confirmed his pre-eminent
place in swimming with his second gold medal at the Athens Olympics. (Oly Aust Nightlead
800 words)



ATHENS - Ian Thorpe says it was his destiny. (Oly Swm Aust Nightlead 780 words)

ATHENS - Is Ian Thorpe the best middle distance freestyle swimmer in history?(Oly Swm
History 750 words)

ATHENS - Battler Brooke Hanson knows you can't always get what you want. (Oly Swn Breast
Nightlead 570 words)

ATHENS - Superfish Ian Thorpe will relish being the hunter instead of the hunted when
he steps out for the 100m freestyle at the Athens Olympics. (Oly Swm 100 415 words)

ATHENS - Don't discount Libby Lenton. (Oly Swm Lenton 540 words)

ATHENS - Petria Thomas' first coach never doubted. (Oly Swm Thomas profile 800 words)

OLYMPIA - No matter how far he hurls the shot tomorrow into the hot, dry air of south-western
Greece, Australian muscleman Justin Anlezark will be heaving his way into history when
the Olympics return to their ancestral home for the first time in 1,611 years. (Oly Ath
Olympia 420 words)

ATHENS - The Olympic rowers, archers and shooters are desperately hoping the wild Athens
wind will go away but Suzy Balogh wants it to keep blowing furiously. (Oly Sho Balogh
465 words)

ATHENS - Most Australian women dismiss shooting as the bastion of pig hunters and rednecks.

(Oly Sho Women 300 words)

ATHENS - A sensational combination of events led to host nation Greece winning its
first gold medal of the 2004 Olympic Games and Australia its third bronze in diving. (Oly
Div Aust Nightlead 550 words)

ATHENS - If Australia's softball team is to improve on its past two Olympic bronze
medals, veteran pitcher Tanya Harding might have to be entrusted with the starting job.

(Oly Soft Aust Nightlead 565 words)

ATHENS - Michael Rogers has ridden the Olympic time trial course a thousand times in
his head and 20 times on his bike. (Oly Cyc Nightlead 480 words)

ATHENS - An untimely case of tendonitis that undermined his Olympic campaign is threatening
Mark Philippoussis's assault on the US Open starting in 13 days. (Oly Ten Aust Nightlead
550 words)

ATHENS - World No 1 Roger Federer of Switzerland for once lost his cool as he opened
his Athens Olympic tennis campaign with a surprisingly difficult three set win over Nikolay
Davydenko of Russia. (Oly Ten Nightlead 470 words)

ATHENS - Russian gymnastics sank to a new low when the men's team failed get a medal
in the Olympic team competition for the first time in more than 50 years. (Oly Gym Russia
430 words)

ATHENS - Shi Zhiyong handed China their second weightlifting gold medal within four
hours tonight while Leonidas Sampanis got hosts Greece off the mark with a bronze amid
frenzied scenes of jubilation. (Oly Wgt NIghtlead 570 words))

ATHENS - France's Brice Guyart was not afraid to resort to the rough stuff on his way
to winning the men's individual foil Olympic gold 15-13 in a final which often resembled
a rugby match against Italian Salvatore Sanzo. (Oly Fen Nightlead 280 words)

ATHENS - A surreal doping scandal has left the Olympics in a similar situation to the
characters in a Samuel Beckett play - Waiting for Kenteris. (Oly Doping Backgrounder 760
words)

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ATHENS SCHEDULE (All times AEST)

1530 - Archery

1600 - AOC team presser

1600 - Equestrian ind and team cross country.

1600 - Shooting - m50m pistol, double trap qual.

1630 - Water polo men Aust vs Italy

1700 - Swimming heats

1700 - Slalom canoe

1730 - Hockey men Aust vs Argentina

1815 - Basketball men Aust vs Angola

2100 - Volleyball men Aust vs Russia

2130 - Rowing repechages

0100 - Soccer women Aust vs US

0130 - Baseball Aust vs Italy.

0230 - Softball Aust vs Italy

0230 - Swimming finals

0330 - Soccer men Aust vs Argentina

0400- Gymnastics women team final.

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