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Brazil upsets US to win women's volleyball gold

The U.S. women totally and utterly dominated the first set of Saturday's Gold Medal Match against Brazil. The final three sets couldn't have been any different. Brazil reversed every shred of American momentum after dropping the first set and rallied to dominate the final three sets to bring home a second-consecutive Olympic title.

 

Bolt’s Last Run in London Results in 3rd Gold, World Record

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica’s 4x100-meter relay team to a new world record on Saturday night, becoming the first track and field athlete to win three events at consecutive Olympics since 1904.

 

US women win 5th straight gold, rout France 86-50

The names change, not the results. Just call the U.S. women's basketball team Olympic champion - again. The Americans won their fifth straight gold medal Saturday, routing France 86-50 and putting more distance between themselves and the rest of the world heading into the 2016 Rio Games.

 

NBC's London Olympics ratings defy expectations

NBC Olympics Ratings

NBC's coverage of the London Olympics has blown away the most optimistic projections for audience performance in an increasingly fractured media landscape.

 

McKeever wins Britain's 26th gold

Ed McKeever wins the men's 200m kayak sprint, adding a 26th gold to Great Britain's medal tally at the London Olympics.

 

The Who, Spice Girls to rock Olympic closer

2012 Olympics

The London Games are set to end in a blazing tribute to British pop and pizazz, with a closing ceremony that will see stars from the Spice Girls to The Who turn Olympic Stadium into a giant jukebox of musical hits....

 

London 2012: U.S. Men’s Basketball Team Advances to Gold Medal Game

In a semifinal men’s basketball game, the United States defeated Argentina 109-83 and will play Spain for the gold medal at the London Olympics.

 

U.S. Women Break 4x100 World Record

4x100m relay

The Americans won their first gold medal in the sprint relay in 16 years. Their time, 40.82 seconds, broke the previous mark, 41.37, which was set by East Germany in 1985.

 

Missing athletes may have defected

The seven missing in London. That's what the headlines in the West African nation of Cameroon call the athletes who walked away from the Olympic village at the London Games.

 

U.S. women use head, heart and Solo to win soccer gold

A year after blowing two leads in losing to Japan in the World Cup championship game, the USA women's soccer team was once again the best on the planet, and they wept at the power of it all.

 

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