Cycling

CYCLING
XNorway's Gunn-Rita Dahle dominated the women's mountain bike field for her 15th consecutive win in an internationally sanctioned race.
Since May 2003, Dahle -- whose time was 1 hour, 56 minutes, 51 seconds -- has won 28 of 32 races she's entered.
Mary McConneloug of Fairfax, Calif., the lone American in the Olympic women's field, placed ninth. Canada's Marie-Helene Premont won the silver in 1:57:50, and reigning world champion Sabine Spitz of Germany got the bronze in 1:59:21.
MEN'S FIELD HOCKEY
XJamie Dwyer scored off a penalty corner in overtime to give Australia its first men's field hockey gold medal and snap the Netherlands' run of Olympic titles. The Aussies, who trailed 1-0 after Ronald Brouwer scored in the 29th minute, tied the game in 37th when Travis Brooks scored from the run of play.
Late in the first period of overtime, Australia was awarded a penalty corner. With no time left on the clock, the Aussies put the ball in play, and after a teammate distracted the Dutch with a dummy swing, Dwyer shot and although Dutch goalkeeper Guus Vogels got a piece of the ball, it went into the net.
The Netherlands won the gold medal at the past two Olympics, while the Australians had to settle for bronze in Sydney and Atlanta.
MEN'S WATER POLO
XTamas Kasas scored three goals and Hungary moved within one victory of an eighth Olympic water polo gold medal after beating archrival Russia in the semifinals. The top-ranked Hungarians led 4-2 before Russia rallied to 5-5 at halftime.
Captain Tibor Benedek scored the go-ahead goal for a 6-5 lead. Later, Kasas scored a third time to give Hungary a two-goal cushion.
Serbia-Montenegro, bronze medalist at the 2000 Sydney Games, led all the way against Greece to set up a showdown with Hungary in the championship match. Aleksandar Sapic scored Serbia-Montenegro's last goal, increasing his haul to 16 for the tournament.
Tony Azevedo scored three goals and the United States advanced to a playoff for seventh place. The Americans led 3-0 in the first half and 5-2 in the third period. Pietro Figlioli scored three.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
XEvanthia Maltsi scored 29 points and Greece capped an impressive debut in Olympic basketball, finishing in seventh place. Greece was in the 12-team field because it was the host country. It had only been in two major international competitions before, finishing 10th in the 2001 European Championships and ninth in the same event last year.
Hana Machova scored 22 points to lead the Czechs in the fifth-place game. Zuzana Klimesova, who played at Vanderbilt, added 11 points and 14 rebounds for the Czech Republic.
MEN'S TEAM HANDBALL
XIvano Balic scored nine goals to lead Croatia, the reigning world champion, past Hungary. Mirsa Dzomba scored eight and Goran Sprem had six goals for Croatia, while Carlos Perez lead Hungary with eight.
Germany topped Russia in a low-scoring match and will face Croatia for the gold medal on Sunday. The Germans used a four-goal run in the second half to pull away. Goalkeeper Henning Fritz made 14 saves and Stefan Kretzschmar scored five goals for the Germans.
DIVING
XCaesar Garcia and Kyle Prandi failed to advance out of the 10-meter platform preliminaries, meaning that American divers would have their first Olympic shutout in 92 years.
Garcia, of Baton Rouge, La., finished 23rd with 388.77 points. Prandi, of Strongsville, dropped from second place to 21st after the second round and wound up 29th out of 33 divers with 346.53 points. Only the top 18 divers moved on.
Mathew Helm of Australia was the top qualifier with 513.06 points. Alexandre Despatie of Canada, silver medalist in 3-meter springboard, was second with 500.55.
MODERN PENTATHLON
XThree-time world champion Zsuzsanna Voros of Hungary won the gold medal in the women's modern pentathlon.
Voros had a 41-second head start on her nearest rival entering the final 3-kilometer run and had time at the end to grab a Hungarian flag from the stands and unfurl it while jogging down the home stretch.
Latvia's Jelena Rublevska was able to make up about half the difference, but couldn't catch Voros and ended up with the silver medal. Georgina Harland of Britain won the run, passing 11 women to move up from 14th place to take the bronze medal.
Harland struggled in the opening pistol competition -- scoring a three with her eighth shot. She was ranked 30th out of 32 after the shooting, but placed 12th in fencing, second in swimming, sixth in riding and dominated the run to take the bronze.
TAEKWONDO
XAmerican Nia Abdallah won the silver medal in taekwondo, advancing all the way to the final before losing 2-1 to Jang Ji-won of South Korea in the under 57-kilogram class. Iridia Salazar Blanco of Mexico won the bronze.
Later, Hadi Saei Bonehkohal of Iran won the gold medal in the men's 68-kilogram division, beating Chih Hsiung Huang of Taiwan 4-3. Song Myeong-seob of South Korea got the bronze.
Abdallah, from Houston, was the first American woman to win an Olympic match in taekwondo, added as an official sport in Sydney in 2000.
WRESTLING
XKerry McCoy was tossed by Marid Mutalimov of Kazakhstan 11 seconds into overtime, a 3-point move that sent Mutalimov into the medal round at 2641/2 pounds (120kg) and a somber McCoy home to Bethlehem, Pa. He announced his retirement immediately afterward.
McCoy's was the only American loss in 11 matches.
Cael Sanderson, the most successful college wrestler ever while going 159-0 at Iowa State, won three times at 185 pounds (84kg) and will meet Cuba's Yoel Romero in the semifinals Saturday.
EQUESTRIAN
XChris Kappler, of Pittstown, N.J., took bronze in show jumping and was relieved not just to win a medal but to learn his horse -- which broke down on the course -- was not seriously hurt.
Kappler's horse, Royal Kaliber, was taken from the Olympic arena in a trailer and examined at the onsite veterinarian clinic. Officials said the horse, which strained a front leg tendon during a timed jumpoff, would be fine.
Ireland's Cian O'Connor won the gold riding Waterford Crystal. Brazil's Rodrigo Pessoa won silver by default after Kappler pulled up.
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