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• Gymnastics - Hurt by 'negativity,' Douglas struggles on bars

  14-08-2016 23:59
  By Alexandra Ulmer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After a disappointing routine at the uneven bars women's final on Sunday, U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas said she was upset by "negative" online comments attacking her appearance, patriotism and support for team mates. Douglas, 20, has sparkled as part of the winning all-star U.S. women's team in Rio - but social media attacks have been so vicious they have ruined her Olympic adventure, Douglas' mother told Reuters. The London 2012 all-around gold medall
  
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• Rowing stars left counting cost of gold after successful Rio Olympics

  14-08-2016 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MIKE DICKSON IN RIO: With three gold medals, two silvers and finishing top of the national medal ladder, British rowing will try again to build on the temporary surge of Olympic interest.
  
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• Jack Butland injury setback was 'huge blow', says Stoke boss Mark Hughes after being held by Middlesbrough

  14-08-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CRAIG HOPE AT THE RIVERSIDE STADIUM: Hughes feared his No 1 keeper would be sidelined for most of this season when he broke down in training. but the prognosis is not as serious as feared.
  
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• Gymnastics - Sleep, lucky monkey help Russia's Mustafina win on bars

  14-08-2016 23:56
  By Mark Trevelyan and Pritha Sarkar RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - With the help of a toy monkey and an afternoon nap, Russia's Aliya Mustafina finally ended the U.S. women's stranglehold on gymnastics in Rio by winning the asymmetric bars for a second successive Olympics, with a routine full of grace and power. "The main thing is I managed to pull myself together after my injury, after the break, and deliver," said Mustafina. "It was painful, difficult, but I made myself work." She told reporters s
  
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• Questions being raised over talented Katarina Johnson-Thompson's future

  14-08-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Katarina Johnson-Thompson has not improved her heptathlon personal best since 2014. Senior figures in British Athletics would like her to part company with long-time coach Mike Holmes and leave Liverpool.
  
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• Joe Hart could leave Manchester City for £20m after being dropped by Pep Guardiola for season opener

  14-08-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS WHEELER AT THE ETIHAD: Hart is City’s longest-serving player, having spent a decade at the Etihad, but he reluctantly accepts that Guardiola simply doesn’t value him.
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill could be set to call time on glittering career after winning silver at Rio Olympics

  14-08-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jessica Ennis-Hill did not use the word retirement on Sunday morning when speaking after just three hours’ sleep, but it seemed her mind was made up as she reflected on her achievements.
  
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• Swimming - Spanish marathoner mingles with beach crowds at Copacabana

  14-08-2016 23:53
  By Angus MacSwan RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Erika Villaecija did as thousands of Rio de Janeiro’s residents and visitors did on Sunday afternoon – she went to the city's famed Copacabana Beach. On Monday, she will be back in the water taking part in one of the Olympics' most gruelling competitions, the 10km marathon swim, which will take place in the bay near the historic Copacabana Fort.
  
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• Mo Farah urges media to support him as Olympic 5,000m defence looms

  14-08-2016 23:52
  
  • Olympic champion says media ‘haven’t taken it easy on me’
  • Briton is concentrating on emulating the feat of Lasse VirénIf Rudyard Kipling’s adage about treating triumph and disaster the same is a standard trope for Olympians, then for the three-time champion Mo Farah it now might be rewritten to include elation and suspicion.The morning after the night on which he became Olympic 10,000m champion for the second time, Farah said defending his 5,000m
  
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• Joe Hart weighs up his options after being dropped by Pep Guardiola

  14-08-2016 23:51
  
  • England No1 left out of City’s Premier League opener
  • Hart may look abroad to ensure Champions League footballJoe Hart fears his Manchester City career may be over but is currently minded to stay at the club despite being dropped by Pep Guardiola for Saturday’s victory over Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium.The relationship between Hart and Guardiola is understood to be frosty and with City flying to Romania on Sunday for Tuesday night’s Champions League knockout fi
  
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• Golf - Dramatic last-round duel bolsters golf's case

  14-08-2016 23:51
  By Andrew Downie and Liana B. Baker RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Olympic champion Justin Rose appealed to Games chiefs to forget the withdrawals of top names and focus on the players and fans who did turn up and use that positivity to ensure golf remains as an Olympic sport. Golf's future in the Games will be debated over the next few years but Rose said Sunday's exciting finale in front of big crowds should guarantee its spot beyond Tokyo 2020."To anybody making the decision going forward, I woul
  
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• In twist, Chinese divers get engaged on Olympic medal stage

  14-08-2016 23:46
  By Brenda Goh RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's He Zi received the shock of her life when teammate and boyfriend Qin Kai rushed up with a diamond ring during the medal ceremony of the women's 3 metre springboard event, marking the second marriage proposal of the Olympics. Qin, who won a bronze medal in his own synchronized diving event last week, climbed up to the stage after He received her silver medal, getting down on one knee while holding a red box with the ring and a glass-encased rose. T
  
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• Injured Jack Butland out of England’s opening World Cup qualifier

  14-08-2016 23:44
  
  • Stoke goalkeeper hurt ankle during training for his club
  • Butland out for a few weeks but injury not as bad as first fearedThe Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland will not be available for Sam Allardyce’s first England squad after sustaining​ an ankle problem in training.Butland was absent during Stoke’s 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough on Saturday with Mark Hughes, the manager, admitting the injury “knocked us sideways” during training the previous day. Relate
  
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• Savannah Marshall off to positive start in her road toward redemption and boxing gold at Rio games

  14-08-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hartlepool shy sweetheart Savannah Marshall began the tortuous process of erasing the nightmare of her London Olympics with a unanimous and resounding points victory.
  
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• Diego Costa is staying - and his passion is a positive, says new Chelsea boss Antonio Conte

  14-08-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There has been uncertainty about Costa's future over the summer with former club Atletico Madrid keen to re-sign the Spain international - who seemed interested in a move.
  
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• Israel demands Games ceremony for killed athletes in 1972

  14-08-2016 23:41
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday demanded a commemoration for its athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics at each Games opening ceremony, telling the International Olympic Committee "a black flag" will always fly over its multi-sports event. Days after the IOC announced a mourning site at each Olympic village with a minute's silence in the memory of those killed by Palestinian gunmen, Israel's Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev urged the IOC to mark their deaths a
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Monday, August 15

  14-08-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Monday's meetings at Windsor, Thirsk and Chelmsford City.
  
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• Why can't the FA have the same gold ambitions as the BOA?

  14-08-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTIN SAMUEL: The FA have managed expectations so successfully, it is hard to think of any opponent England fans now confidently expect to beat. Olympic Britain, meanwhile, goes from strength to strength simply by aiming high.
  
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• Great Britain swimming coach Bill Furniss insists drugs cheats robbed Team GB of more Olympic medals

  14-08-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Team GB won a gold and five silver medals in the pool at the Rio Games but finished fourth seven times, on three occasions. behind swimmers who had failed drugs tests in the past.
  
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• Sir Bradley Wiggins backs suspended coach Shane Sutton

  14-08-2016 23:30
  
  • Australian accused of bullying and sexism recently appeared before independent review
  • ‘I think there’s a lot of bitter people that didn’t make the grade,’ Wiggins saidSir Bradley Wiggins has denied any knowledge of a culture of discrimination in British Cycling and thinks the organisation’s former technical director, Shane Sutton, will be cleared of allegations of sexism and bullying. Wiggins said Sutton should subsequently be reinstated and revealed t
  
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• Rose and Whitlock continue Team GB medal table tussle with China

  14-08-2016 23:30
  
  • Team GB set for best total at an overseas Games
  • Golfer Justin Rose and gymnast Max Whitlock win golds On a breathless day of success capped by double gold for gymnast Max Whitlock, Great Britain’s Olympians found themselves improbably duelling with China for second place in the medal table.As Team GB officials confirmed they were well on course to smash through their target of 48, which would represent their best ever overseas Games, there was a sudden avalanche of medals acr
  
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• Rio 2016 Games deficit could ruin Paralympics as organisers run out of funds to pay £6m travel costs

  14-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE: The Rio 2016 organising committee has run out of money and failed to pay as contracted the £6million travel costs of Paralympic competitors, coaches and chefs de mission.
  
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• Idrissa Gueye’s impressive Everton debut silences the doubters | Mark Tallentire

  14-08-2016 23:30
  
  Eyebrows had been raised when Ronald Keoman bought the 5ft 7in Senegal international defensive midfielder from Aston VillaEyebrows may have been raised when Ronald Koeman went to Aston Villa for his first outfield signing of the summer, activating a £7.1m release clause in Idrissa Gueye’s contract and signing the defensive midfielder on a four-year deal.Villa slipped out of the Premier League last season with a pitiful 17 points and the Senegal international had featured in 35 of tho
  
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• Judo - Towering Teddy chases 'pressure for perfection'

  14-08-2016 23:29
  By Amy Tennery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - France's Teddy Riner - all 6 foot 8 inches and roughly 300 pounds of him - was basking in the Olympic glow on Sunday after adding yet another golden moment to his impressive resume. Riner crushed Hisayoshi Harasawa of Japan in the men's +100kg category final on Friday, extending his six-year unbeaten streak in a career that includes eight world championship and two previous Olympic medals, including another gold at the 2012 Games. "It’s not a bad p
  
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• Golf - Proud Rose wins historic gold medal for Britain

  14-08-2016 23:28
  By Liana B. Baker and Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Justin Rose birdied the final hole to win the Rio Olympic golf tournament on Sunday, the first gold medallist in a sport returning to the Olympics after a 112-year absence. Rose, who hit a hole in one on his first day, carded a final round four-under-par 67 to beat Sweden's Henrik Stenson by two shots in a competition that went all the way to the final putts. "Honestly this is a dream come true," said Rose.
  
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• Cycling - Kenny outsprints team mate to land more British gold

  14-08-2016 23:28
  By Martyn Herman RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Jason Kenny showed fellow Briton Callum Skinner a clean set of wheels to defend his track cycling sprint title on Sunday, powering to his fifth Olympic gold medal. Kenny, who was a team mate of Skinner's when Britain won the team sprint earlier in the week, has now won as many gold medals as fellow cyclist Bradley Wiggins. Wiggins took his fifth gold and eighth Olympic medal by winning the team pursuit on Friday, and Kenny could match him when he conte
  
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• Basketball - U.S. takes top spot with nervy win over France

  14-08-2016 23:21
  By Steve Keating RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. men's basketball team closed out pool play with an unbeaten record and at the top of Group A but another nervy 100-97 win over France on Sunday confirmed getting to the top of the Olympic podium will not be an easy climb. "Personally I felt we were going to dominate these games that they were going to come easy," said USA guard Paul George. "But you start playing better competition you see these teams are pretty good." After a pair of blowouts
  
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• Adam Peaty’s Rio success signals a bright future for British swimming

  14-08-2016 23:20
  
  Peaty and Jazz Carlin have showed that Team’s GB’s swimmers can compete again at the highest level after their most successful Olympics since 1908Not for 108 years have British swimmers enjoyed a more productive time in the pool at an Olympic Games. Six medals – one gold and five silvers – may not sound much compared to the US’s stash of 33 medals but it represents a sharp improvement on four years ago and, historically, has been exceeded only once, in London in 190
  
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• Equestrian - Two riders disqualified for whip, spur overuse

  14-08-2016 23:17
  Two riders were disqualified from the individual show jumping competition that kicked off in Rio on Sunday for rough riding. A jury ruled Jur Vrieling of the Netherlands went too hard on the whip, while Belgium's Nicola Philippaerts was disqualified for excessive use of spurs under International Equestrian Federation guidelines. While the riders are out of the individual competition, they can continue competing for their teams.
  
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• Alex Rodriguez may soon get a call from Miami Marlins

  14-08-2016 23:15
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Alex Rodriguez may soon get a call soon from his hometown team.
  
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• The Latest: Diver wins silver, accepts poolside proposal

  14-08-2016 23:09
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Jason Kenny beats Callum Skinner to Olympic gold in the men's sprint as Great Britain secure cycling one-two 

  14-08-2016 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jason Kenny took the first race of the best-of-three competition to move to one win away from Olympic glory, before completing the job in straight rides to secure the gold medal ahead of Callum Skinner.
  
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• Borussia Dortmund 0-2 Bayern Munich: Carlo Ancelotti era begins with Supercup win thanks to goals from Arturo Vidal and Thomas Muller

  14-08-2016 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Second half goals from Arturo Vidal and Thomas Muller were the difference in a match that looked for long stretches at the outset like it might go the other way.
  
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• GB’s Nick Dempsey takes windsurfing silver and thinks twice about packing in

  14-08-2016 23:03
  
  • 36-year-old may carry on after third medal of Olympic career• Finishes second to reigning champion Dorian van RijsselbergheEven Nick Dempsey’s dad seemed to agree that windsurfing is not the most comprehensible Olympic spectator sport. “Oh, you won’t have a clue what’s going on from here,” said Mike Dempsey cheerfully, standing in sandals and shorts on the beach at Marina da Gloria. “All you need to know is that Nick is going to get another silver
  
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• Winning start for Ancelotti as Bayern claim Supercup

  14-08-2016 22:58
  (Reuters) - Bayern Munich gave new coach Carlo Ancelotti a winning start by beating arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund 2-0 to claim the German Supercup on Sunday in the Italian's first competitive game in charge. Midfielder Arturo Vidal and forward Thomas Mueller scored in the second half for the German double winners after Dortmund, contesting the match as league runners-up and playing in their own Westfalonstadion, enjoyed the better of the first half. Former Real Madrid, AC Milan, Juventus, Paris
  
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• Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner win gold and silver in individual sprint

  14-08-2016 22:54
  
  • Room-mates add to Team GB’s medal tally at Olympic Velodrome
  • Kenny wins all-British final 2-0 to claim his fifth Olympic goldJason Kenny cemented his status as the chairman of the velodrome boards by winning the men’s sprint final in Rio. In an all-British affair, he needed just two of three races to beat his comparatively inexperienced friend and British team‑mate Callum Skinner to win his second gold medal of these Games. Victories do not get much more comfortab
  
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• Kei Nishikori takes advantage of drained Rafael Nadal to win bronze

  14-08-2016 22:49
  
  • Japanese world No7 won third place play-off 6-2, 6-7, 6-3
  • US take gold and silver in mixed doubles finalAthletes do not, generally, regard losing as a victory, however the lily is gilded. Yet that has been the enduring curiosity of the Olympic Games since they were resurrected in 1896, one which Kei Nishikori was happy to embrace when he accepted bronze instead of the gold he and the other leading contenders had aimed for when they arrived a week ago.The Japanese world No7, who spe
  
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• Betts' 3 HRs carries Porcello, Red Sox to another Fenway win

  14-08-2016 22:46
  BOSTON (AP) — Mookie Betts hit three home runs and drove in a career-best eight runs and Dustin Pedroia collected five hits to power the Boston Red Sox to a 16-2 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
  
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• Diving - Shi wins gold for China in women's 3 metre springboard

  14-08-2016 22:45
  By Brenda Goh RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's Shi Tingmao dominated her competition to win gold in the women's 3 metre springboard event on Sunday, with teammate He Zi taking silver and Italy's Tania Cagnotto bronze. Chinese divers have won every gold medal in the women's individual event since the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Participating in her fifth Olympics, this is the first individual Olympic medal for Italy's Cagnotto, who also won a silver medal in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event
  
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• Boxing - Secret hobby brings silver, new home for Colombian fighter

  14-08-2016 22:40
  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When he first began boxing eight years ago, Yurberjen Martínez hid it from his parents. Now, with a silver medal hanging around his neck, the 24-year-old light-flyweight from a small Caribbean port town plans to buy a new home for them with about $60,000 (£46,408) in Olympic prize money awarded by the Colombian government.
  
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• Contrasting fortunes for Wenger and Mourinho

  14-08-2016 22:38
  
  LONDON (AP) — While a defeated Arsene Wenger was counting the cost of Arsenal's young defenders, a triumphant Jose Mourinho highlighted the value of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's experience to Manchester United on a day of contrasts for the two managers on Sunday.
  
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• Gymnastics - Let's get ready for Tokyo, says Chusovitina, 41

  14-08-2016 22:36
  By Mark Trevelyan RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Not content with seventh place at her seventh Olympics, Uzbek gymnast Oksana Chusovitina declared on Sunday she would be back to compete in Tokyo in 2020 at the age of 45. Minutes after taking part in the vault against gymnasts younger than her 17-year-old son Alisher, Chusovitina breezily announced she would keep going. Over the course of an extraordinary career, the diminutive Chusovitina has competed for the Soviet Union, Germany - where she lived
  
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• Max Whitlock becomes a double Olympic champion after pommel horse gold as Louis Smith takes silver 

  14-08-2016 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The floor title was Great Britain's first ever gymnastics gold, but Max Whitlock showed his dominance and versatility as he repeated the feat in the pommel horse to win his second OIympic title.
  
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• Klishina waiting to hear if she can compete at Olympics

  14-08-2016 22:26
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics is waiting to hear whether she will be allowed to compete.
  
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• Tennis - It's winning silver - not 'losing the gold' - for Kerber

  14-08-2016 22:15
  By Amy Tennery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Few could blame Angelique Kerber for being disappointed after her stunning loss to Puerto Rico's Monica Puig in Saturday's women's singles tennis final. "It feels great, it was always a dream to win a medal," Kerber, 28, told Reuters Sunday. "I was not losing the gold, I won my silver,” Kerber said.
  
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• Gymnastics - Russia's Mustafina wins asymmetric bars title

  14-08-2016 22:13
  Russia's Aliya Mustafina finally ended the American women's stranglehold at the Rio Games as she captured the asymmetric bars gold for a second successive Olympics with a routine full of grace and power. Until Mustafina mounted the bars, the United States had swept the board as Simone Biles scooped the team, all around and vault golds. With this being the only final not featuring Biles, her team mate and world champion Madison Kocian had hopes of continuing the American gold rush as she had earn
  
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• Proud Rose wins historic gold medal for Britain

  14-08-2016 22:11
  By Liana B. Baker and Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Justin Rose birdied the final hole to win the Rio Olympic golf tournament on Sunday, the first gold medallist in a sport returning to the Olympics after a 112-year absence. Rose, who hit a hole in one on his first day, carded a final round four-under-par 67 to beat Sweden's Henrik Stenson by two shots in a competition that went all the way to the final putts. "Honestly this is a dream come true," said Rose.
  
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• Justin Rose wins gold at Rio 2016 as Brit edges out Henrik Stenson in thrilling golf finale

  14-08-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DEREK LAWRENSON IN RIO: Justin Rose claimed gold for Team GB on Sunday and what a gold. Not only the first one awarded to a golfer for 112 years but in a style Mo Farah would recognise.
  
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• 'We rocked it today'': Ireland's marathoners proud of their Olympic moments

  14-08-2016 22:07
  
  Fionnuala McCormack crossed the line in 20th position.
  
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• Liverpool play down opening day gaps in defence

  14-08-2016 22:07
  By Patrick Graham LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet sought to quell early season concerns about a fragile defence after conceding three goals in a thrilling 4-3 win at Arsenal on Sunday. The Reds surged to a 4-1 lead after 63 minutes in the season opener at the Emirates before handing Arsenal a lifeline with strikes by substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and centre half Calum Chambers. "When we scored for 4-1, we have to make sure that we don't concede and it happened with a
  
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