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• Miguel Angel Jimenez takes US Senior Open lead

  13-08-2016 23:59
  UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez was back on top on a Saturday, this time in the U.S. Senior Open at difficult Scioto County Club. The 52-year-old Spanish player was looking for a better late Sunday afternoon result after missing chances in his last two events.
  
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• Double dip: Argentina beats Brazil 111-107 in 2-OT thriller

  13-08-2016 23:51
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Argentina's players locked arms and danced in a circle near mid-court. In the stands, their fans were just warming up.
  
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• Unique Usain Bolt will reign again, says Olympic legend Michael Johnson

  13-08-2016 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Usain Bolt’s success relies on three things. Take one out and his career would not be what it is. One, he was fortunate to be blessed with a tremendous talent.
  
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• Watch Lineker present MOTD in his pants to keep his title promise

  13-08-2016 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gary Lineker keeps his promise and introduces the opening Match of the Day of the new season in his underpants.
  
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• Watch: GB guaranteed gold in men's sprint

  13-08-2016 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain are guaranteed gold and silver in the Olympic men's sprint as both Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner reach the final.
  
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• Gary Lineker presents MOTD in pants

  13-08-2016 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gary Lineker keeps his promise to present Match of the Day in his pants following Leicester's title triumph.
  
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• IOC fights cyberattacks during Olympics

  13-08-2016 23:42
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is fending off massive cyberattacks during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
  
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• Cycling - Flying Dutchwoman Ligtlee wins keirin gold

  13-08-2016 23:39
  By Martyn Herman RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Dutch rider Elis Ligtlee won gold in the track cycling women's keirin on Saturday, edging out Britain's Rebecca James. Australian Anna Meares took the bronze while world champion Kristina Voegel of Germany was out of the medals. Meares, an 11-times world champion, has now won a medal in four consecutive Olympics.
  
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• Lightweight rowing faces cut as Britain's most funded Olympic sport at £32m fails to deliver

  13-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British lightweight rowing faces a shake-up after leaving a blot on Britain’s most lavishly-funded Olympic sport.
  
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• Katherine Grainger ponders reality of her biggest challenge as she gets ready for life after rowing

  13-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Soul II Soul lyrics ‘back to life, back to reality’ could have been written for Katherine Grainger. After making history in Rio as Britain’s most decorated female Olympian.
  
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• Brazil's Olympic golden girl Rafaela Silva brings hope to a lost generation

  13-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER HOLT: Rafaela Silva was a poor, black kid from Rio who defied her surroundings and racism and emerged as a heroine for millions. She gave them the most priceless gift of all: hope.
  
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• Great Britain's women beat the United States to claim gold in the team pursuit final at Rio 2016

  13-08-2016 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Laura Trott became the first British woman to win three Olympic golds and she also proved that even in a team event the quality of the individual still counts.
  
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• The Latest: Venus Williams heading to mixed doubles final

  13-08-2016 23:21
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Britain's Justin Rose leads after third round

  13-08-2016 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain's Justin Rose leads the Olympic golf tournament by one shot heading into Sunday's final round.
  
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• Football - Germany cruise into semis with 4-0 win over Portugal

  13-08-2016 23:17
  By Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rampant Germany hammered Portugal 4-0 to progress to the semi-finals of the men's football tournament on Saturday, where they will face Nigeria, who beat Denmark 2-0. Arsenal's Serge Gnabry scored the opener for the Germans with a lovely angled shot seconds before half time and Matthias Ginter added a second with a commanding header from a corner 12 minutes into the second half. Davie Selke got a third in the 75th minute with a goal that was almost ide
  
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• Becky James wins silver in the women's keirin at Rio 2016

  13-08-2016 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Becky James ensured Great Britain's incredible run of medals at the Rio Olympic Velodrome continued after securing a hard-fought silver in the final of the women's keirin on Saturday.
  
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• Upset over Nadal puts del Potro in tennis final vs. Murray

  13-08-2016 23:12
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Juan Martin del Potro ended Rafael Nadal's bid for an unprecedented second Olympic singles gold medal in a thrill-a-minute semifinal, then celebrated as if the title were already his, kneeling to kiss the court before leaping into the stands.
  
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• Rossetti gets skeet gold; Al-Rashidi wins bronze and hearts

  13-08-2016 23:09
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Gabriele Rossetti made a golden addition to the family's medal collection.
  
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• Golf - Britain's Rose edges into lead ahead of gold medal round

  13-08-2016 23:09
  By Liana B. Baker RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Justin Rose has golf's first gold medal in 112 years in his sights after he edged ahead to take the lead in the Olympic tournament on Saturday. Rose got a blistering start by firing eagles on the third and fifth holes. "When you're looking at this situation, you're looking at the shiniest medal possible," Rose said.
  
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• Watch James win track cycling silver

  13-08-2016 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Becky James wins a silver medal for Great Britain in the women's keirin, with Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands taking gold.
  
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• Gold for Great Britain women in team pursuit - highlights & report

  13-08-2016 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Laura Trott is the first British woman to win three Olympic gold medals as Great Britain's women retain their team pursuit title.
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympics: Silver for Becky James in women's keirin

  13-08-2016 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Becky James works her way from the back of the pack to claim a terrific silver in the women's keirin, only 0.033 seconds behind Dutch winner Elis Liglee.
  
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• Kohli joy as India rout West Indies to win series

  13-08-2016 23:01
  (Reuters) - India crushed West Indies at the third test in St Lucia on Saturday, clinching the series and prompting captain Virat Kohli to say his team were going from "strength to strength". The victory gave Kohli's men an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series and ended a streak of six consecutive series defeats outside Asia. Paceman Mohammed Shami was the chief destroyer with three for 15 while spinner Ravindra Jadeja and fast bowler Ishant Sharma took two wickets apiece.
  
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• Shooting - Mustache! Brazilian fans adopt man with no country

  13-08-2016 22:56
  By Mary Milliken RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - From the beginning of the men's skeet semi-final on Saturday, there was something about Abdullah Al-Rashidi that grabbed the Brazilian fans. Maybe it was the fact that the Kuwaiti was competing under the Olympic flag, his country having been banned from competition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). For Brazilian spectator Daniel Grillo, it was simply his "bigode," Portuguese for mustache.
  
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• Watch: Advent calendar - GB women win team pursuit

  13-08-2016 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  GB knock two seconds off the world record to win gold in the women's team pursuit in a time of four minutes and 10.236 seconds.
  
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• Rio Most-Watched: No 20 - GB smash team pursuit record (again)

  13-08-2016 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  GB knock two seconds off the world record to win gold in the women's team pursuit in a time of four minutes and 10.236 seconds.
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympics: GB smash world record and win gold in Women's Team Pursuit

  13-08-2016 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  GB knock two seconds off the world record to win gold in the women's team pursuit in a time of four minutes and 10.236 seconds.
  
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• Refugee track runners 'representing peace'

  13-08-2016 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Refugee Olympic Team athletes say they are "representing peace" as they make their track and field debut in Rio.
  
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• England paceman Stuart Broad fined for Twitter blast at umpires over Alex Hales dismissal

  13-08-2016 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England's problems went from bad to worse on Saturday night when Stuart Broad became the second player fined for questioning an umpire's decision.
  
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• Cycling - Dutchwoman Elis Ligtlee wins gold in women's keirin

  13-08-2016 22:49
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Dutch rider Elis Ligtlee won gold in the track cycling women's keirin on Saturday, edging out Britain's Rebecca James. Australian Anna Meares took the bronze while world champion Kristina Voegel was out of the medals. (Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Alison Williams)
  
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• Nicola Adams is out to make boxing history, the lady from Leeds is an inspiration to us all

  13-08-2016 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There is a feeling here, not only among her fellow boxers, that Team GB missed a golden opportunity by not asking Nicola Adams to carry the flag at the opening ceremony.
  
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• Rose positioned for golf's 1st Olympic gold medal in century

  13-08-2016 22:46
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Rose is one round away from winning golf's first Olympic gold medal in 112 years.
  
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• Cycling - Britain beat U.S. to gold in women's team pursuit

  13-08-2016 22:45
  By Martyn Herman RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The two fastest women's track cycling pursuit teams locked horns for gold at the Olympics on Saturday but the expected close battle ended in a romp for Britain as they crushed their American rivals in another world record. After trailing early on the quartet of Laura Trott, Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Joanna Rowsell-Shand cranked up the pace to devastating effect, winning in 4:10.236 -- nearly two seconds quicker than the world record they set i
  
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• IOC to keep pushing for lifetime bans for doping cheats

  13-08-2016 22:43
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will continue pushing for a lifetime ban of doping offenders despite having failed twice to keep past drugs cheats from competing in the Olympics. IOC President Thomas Bach "started his career in sports administration... calling for lifetime bans," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams on Saturday. "He still believes in lifetime bans and would like to push towards that." The IOC attempted to block Russian athletes w
  
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• Out of options, Olympic officials opt to drain green pool

  13-08-2016 22:42
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials gave up on cleaning the green-tinged water in one of the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center. Instead, they began draining it Saturday and planned to transfer nearly 1 million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming.
  
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• Murray into gold-medal match - report & highlights

  13-08-2016 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray remains on course to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals after beating Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals.
  
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• Tennis - Del Potro advances to men's final, defeating Nadal

  13-08-2016 22:32
  By Joshua Schneyer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro won a semi-final thriller against Spain's Rafa Nadal on Saturday, outgunning the Spaniard 5-7 6-4 7-6(5) in a nervy final set tie-breaker to advance to the Olympic singles final. Del Potro will face Britain's defending Olympic champion Andy Murray in the final on Sunday. Nadal, who won singles gold at the 2008 Beijing Games and has already captured gold in Rio in the men's doubles, will face off against Japan's Kei N
  
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• Floyd Mayweather would have struggled to beat the best in Rio says Team GB coach Rob McCracken

  13-08-2016 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Floyd Mayweather, the best ever as he proclaims himself, would have had trouble beating the best of the Olympian boxers against whom Britain’s young medal prospects find themselves pitted.
  
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• Athletics - 'Sluggish' Bolt does enough in 100m heats

  13-08-2016 22:22
  
  By Scott Malone and Gene Cherry RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Jamaican Usain Bolt won his 100 metres heat after what he called a "sluggish" start on Saturday, but looked pained after the race as he prepared to fend off the challenge of American Justin Gatlin for the Olympic crown. Bolt, who turns 30 on the final day of the Games, is aiming high in what he has said will be his final Olympics, bidding to continue his streak of gold in the men's 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, the unprecedented "triple-t
  
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• Swimming - Ageless Ervin ready to keep going

  13-08-2016 22:21
  By Chris Gallagher RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - No one would blame Anthony Ervin if he walked off into the sunset after triumphing in the same Olympic event he won 16 years ago, but the 35-year-old U.S. swimmer has no intention of slowing down. Basking in the glow of the gold medal he won a day earlier in the Olympic 50 metres freestyle, Ervin -- now the oldest swimmer to win a men's individual gold -- said retirement was not on his mind and he would keep going for as long as possible. "I can guar
  
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• Miguel Angel Jimenez grabs 3rd-round lead at US Senior Open

  13-08-2016 22:17
  UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Another day, another leader at the U.S. Senior Open Championship.
  
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• Austin, Judge homer in 1st big league at-bats as Yanks win

  13-08-2016 22:16
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game, sparking the New York Yankees to an 8-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.
  
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• Urgent evacuation needed for Syrian girl shot by sniper

  13-08-2016 22:14
  
  Amnesty International calls on the US and Russia to rescue Ghina Wadi, 10, after being shot in the leg in Madaya.
  
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• Stepanova records illegally accessed after WADA hack

  13-08-2016 22:14
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova's electronic account at the World Anti-Doping Agency has been illegally accessed, WADA said on Saturday. "The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that Yulia Stepanova’s password for WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) was illegally obtained, which allowed a perpetrator to access her account on ADAMS," WADA said in a statement.
  
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• Brazil judge blocks disbursement of public funds to Games

  13-08-2016 22:10
  A Brazilian judge has ruled that the federal government and the city of Rio de Janeiro cannot provide some 270 million reais (£65.4 million) in public funds for the Olympics organising committee unless its accounts are made public. The decision late on Friday by Rio de Janeiro federal judge Marcia Maria Nunes was based on a request by federal prosecutors to prevent disbursements announced by a minister this month designed to prop up the accounts of the organising committee. If the transfer
  
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• Basketball - As good as gold, Argentina beat Brazil in OT

  13-08-2016 22:07
  By Steve Keating RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Argentina may not win gold in Olympic men's basketball but gave their fans the next best thing beating bitter rivals Brazil 111-107 in double overtime on Saturday, to all but end the host's hopes of reaching the knockout round. With the victory, Argentina (3-1) moved to the top of the Group B standings on seven points while Brazil sat fifth in the six team pool on five and little chance of advancing. At the final buzzer Brazil supporters, who had spent
  
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