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Carlos Tevez scores and Argentina wins gold in the Olympic soccer tournament.
The Good...
Argentina crashed Italy 84-69 to win the gold medal in basketball, after beating the USA in the semifinal game. In the morning, the Argentinian men's football team coasted to victory against Paraguay, 1-0, and the gold medal, after 7 consecutive wins and a 18-0 goal tally in the tournament.
The USA women's basketball team beat Australia handily in the final and won the gold medal.
Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy snatched the Olympic men's 800 meters title, timing a late surge to the line to perfection. The 23-year-old, who won silver at last year's world championships, powered past Denmark's Wilson Kipketer and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi of South Africa in the final few strides to win in one minute 44.45 seconds.
Britain took a shock gold in the men's Olympic 4x100 meters relay, beating the favorite US relay team by just one hundredth of a second. Mark Lewis-Francis held off 2000 Olympic 100 m champion Maurice Greene in a blistering last leg to clinch the gold in 38.07 seconds. It was Britain's first in the event in 92 years.
Hicham El Guerrouj completed an historic Olympic 1,500-5,000 meters double after a battle royal with Kenenisa Bekele. The Moroccan emulated the achievement of Finn Paavo Nurmi in 1924 as he cruised to victory in the 5,000 in one of the most spectacular races of the Athens Games.
The Bad...
Hungarian weightlifting silver medalist Ferenc Gyurkovics and Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca were expelled from the Games Saturday after testing positive for steroids, the International Olympic Committee said.
nyloo's daily Olympic Diary
The Games are ending today, and yesterday's final day of track and field at the Athens Olympic Stadium was an appropriate cap to ten great nights of Athletics.
The wins by Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the men's 800 meters, Hicham El Guerrouj in the 5,000 meters, and the British 4x100 relay team, by only one hundredth of a second, over the US, were a spectacular finish to the athletics competition.
Argentina swept the gold medals in men's most popular team sports, football and basketball, in an unprecedented performance. The US did the same in women's football and basketball.
Brazil won gold easily in volleyball against Italy.
