updated 6:43 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2004

ATHENS, Greece - Sarunas Jasikevicius rallied Lithuania to a thrilling 94-90 voctory over the United States, handing the Americans their second loss of the Athens Games.

The Lithuanian guard hit three consecutive three-pointers down the stretch, including a rare four-point play that put his team ahead to stay. He finished with 28 points.

The second loss for the U.S. matches the country’s total for the first 68 years of Olympic competition. But the U.S. team still can make it to the quarterfinals with a victory over winless Angola on Monday.

In other action, Luis Scola scored 25 points and Manu Ginobili added 19, leading Argentina past New Zealand 98-94 and into the Olympic quarterfinals for the first time since 1952.

A late three-point play by Carlos Arroyo lifted Puerto Rico, which defeated the U.S. in its opening game, to a 87-82 win over Australia. The win put Puerto Rico in the quarterfinals.

Spain defeated Serbia-Montenegro 76-68 to clinch first place in its group. The loss put Serbia-Montenegro in a must-win situation against China in its final preliminary round game Monday.

Giacomo Galanda scored 22 points for Italy in a 89-52 rout of China. It was China's third loss of the tournament. Italy can reach the quarterfinals with a win over Argentina in its final preliminary round game Monday.

Track and Field
Yuliya Nesterenko broke a 20-year American lock on the women's Olympic 100 meters Saturday, edging a 20-year-old who may be the next great U.S. sprinter.

Nesterenko, a Belarusian who had never broken 11 seconds before the Olympics but did it in all four rounds here, won gold in 10.93 seconds. Lauryn Williams, the NCAA champion from the University of Miami, was second in a personal-best 10.96. Veronica Campbell of Jamaica got the bronze in 10.97.

Americans had won the previous five gold medals in the women’s 100. Defending champion Marion Jones finished fifth at the U.S. trials. Gail Devers, the winner in 1992 and 1996, was eliminated in the semifinals. Florence Griffith Joyner won in 1988 and Evelyn Ashford was the 1984 champion.

Meanwhile, in the men's 100-meter qualifying races, Shawn Crawford made a fashion statement as he sped to victory in 10.02 seconds in the first round.

Crawford, wearing sunglasses and turning his white baseball cap backward, led three Americans into the second round of the 100, including Justin Gatlin, who won his heat in 10.07, and defending champion Maurice Greene.

Carolina Kluft of Sweden won the gold medal in the heptathlon with a score of 6,755. Austra Skujyte of Lithuania won the silver with 6,435. Kelly Sotherton of Britain won bronze.
Natalya Sadova of Russia won the discus gold medal with a throw of 209-10. Anastasia Kelesidou of Greece won silver and Irina Yatchenko of Belarus the bronze.

Gymnastics
The International Gymnastics Federation suspended three judges Saturday for a mistake in scoring the men’s all-around final, but said results won’t be changed and American Paul Hamm will keep his gold medal.

The error in Wednesday’s all-around cost bronze medalist Yang Tae-young of South Korea a tenth of a point that would have given him the gold.

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Yang received a start value of 9.9 on his parallel bars routine, a tenth lower than he received for the same set in team qualifying and finals.

After reviewing a tape of the all-around, FIG officials determined he should have been awarded a start value of 10. He scored a 9.712 on the event. With the extra 0.10, he would have finished with 57.874 points and defeated Hamm by 0.051.

Hamm won the meet over Kim Dae-eun of South Korea by 0.012 in the closest men’s all-around in Olympic history. Yang finished third, another 0.037 behind Kim.

Swimming
The United States won the men’s 400-meter medley relay in world-record time, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool.

Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, and Jason Lezak won in 3 minutes, 30.68 seconds, lowering the mark of 3:31.54 set by the Americans at last year’s world championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Germany took silver in 3:33.62. Japan earned bronze in 3:35.22.

Phelps gave up his spot in the final to Crocker, who finished second to the 19-year-old in the 100 butterfly Friday. Phelps sat with the U.S. team on the deck during the final, leading cheers during the race.

He earned a gold for swimming in the preliminaries, giving him six golds and two bronzes in the eight-day swimming competition. That ties Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin’s record of eight medals in one Olympics, set at the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.

Grant Hackett successfully defended his Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle title, winning gold in an Olympic record of 14:43.40 — nearly five seconds faster than his winning time at the Sydney Games.

Larsen Jensen earned silver in 14:45.29, lowering his American record by more than 11½ seconds. David Davies of Britain took bronze in 14:45.95.

Petria Thomas overtook Jenny Thompson on the third leg of the Olympic women’s 400-meter medley relay, helping Australia upset the United States in a world-record time of 3:57.32. It broke the record of 3:58.30 set by the United States at the Sydney Games.

Americans Natalie Coughlin, Amanda Beard, Thompson and Kara Lynn Joyce got silver in 3:59.12. Germany took bronze in 4:00.72.

Thompson became the most decorated American athlete in the Olympics with her record 12th career medal, including 10 from relays. She broke a tie with swimmers Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi and shooter Carl Osburn.

Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands won the 50-meter freestyle, becoming the first woman to win consecutive swimming sprint titles since the event was added to the Olympics in 1988.
De Bruijn won in 24.58 seconds. Malia Metella of France earned silver in 24.89 and Lisbeth Lenton of Australia took bronze in 24.91.

Men’s Soccer
Emad Mohammed’s 12-yard bicycle kick in the 64th minute gave Iraq a 1-0 victory over Australia in the quarterfinals, putting the war-torn country in position to compete for only the second Olympic medal in the nation’s history.

Iraq will play Paraguay, a 3-2 winner over South Korea, in the semifinals Tuesday. Even a loss would put the Iraqis in the bronze medal game, where they could become the first athletes from their country to win a medal since Abdul Wahid Aziz’s weightlifting bronze in Rome in 1960.

In other quarterfinals, Argentina beat Costa Rica 4-0 and Italy beat Mali 1-0.

Tennis
Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium won the singles gold medal, beating Amelie Mauresmo of France 6-3, 6-3 in the final. Alicia Molik of Australia beat Anastasia Myskina of Russia 6-3, 6-4 for the bronze.

Sidelined by a viral infection, Henin-Hardenne had won once in the past four months. She hadn’t played at all since May, when she was upset in the second round of the French Open as the defending champion.

Fernando Gonzalez of Chile saved two match points and outlasted Taylor Dent of the United States 6-4, 2-6, 16-14 to win the men’s singles tennis bronze medal in a 3½-hour match.

Paola Suarez and Patricia Tarabini gave Argentina its first Olympic tennis medal since 1992 by beating Shinobu Asagoe and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 for the doubles bronze.

Baseball
Greece won for the first time ever in Olympic baseball, getting 14 hits from its Greek-American lineup to beat Italy 12-7 in a showdown between the two weakest teams in the eight-nation tournament.

Japan beat Taiwan 4-3 in 10 innings on Michihiro Ogasawara’s sacrifice fly.

Antonio Scull hit a two-run home run to spark Cuba to a 5-2 win over Canada. Australia crushed the Netherlands 22-2. Australia and Canada are assured of advancing to the semifinals.

Boxing
Andre Dirrell advanced into the boxing quarterfinals, needing just two rounds to beat Algeria’s Nabil Kassel 27-7 in a middleweight bout.

Earlier, flyweight Ron Siler was the fifth American to be eliminated, losing 45-22 to Uzbekistan’s Tulashboy Doniyorov.

Three other U.S. fighters also reached the quarterfinals: light heavyweight Andre Ward, heavyweight Devin Vargas and super heavyweight Jason Estrada.

Cycling
Britain’s Bradley Wiggins won the gold medal in men’s individual pursuit, finishing the 4,000-meter final in 4 minutes, 16.304 seconds.

Wiggins’ time was 4.132 seconds ahead of silver medalist Brad McGee of Australia. Spain’s Sergi Escobar, with a time of 4:17.947, beat Britain’s Rob Hayles for bronze.

Germany’s team sprint trio of Jens Fiedler, Rene Wolff and Stefan Nimke edged Japan for the gold medal. The Germans finished in 43.980 seconds. Japan’s time for the three-lap gold medal race was 44.246 seconds. France won the bronze medal in 44.359 seconds.

In the 3-kilometer pursuit, New Zealand’s Sarah Ulmer set a world record to lead qualifying. She was timed in 3:26.279 to improve the mark of 3:29.945 Australia’s Katie Mactier had set minutes earlier.

Men’s Volleyball
Delighting the home crowd, Greece beat France to reach the medal round in the country’s first Olympic men’s volleyball appearance.

The Greeks won in five sets, 25-22, 14-25, 26-24, 23-25, 15-10, and clinched a berth in the quarterfinals with its third victory of the tournament.

Ryan Millar scored 17 points for the United States in a four-set victory over Australia. The U.S. grabbed the fourth and final spot in the quarterfinals from Pool B.

In Pool A, Michal Bakiewicz scored 18 points to lead Poland to a four-set victory over winless Tunisia. The Poles and the French are in contention for the final spot in the medal round.

Vladimir Grbic had 14 kills for defending gold medalist Serbia and Montenegro, which beat Argentina in four sets to move into a tie for first place in Pool A.

The Serbs, without starter Ivan Miljkovic because of a fever, and the Argentines have clinched spots in the quarterfinals.

Women's Beach Volleyball
The two American women’s pairs advanced to the quarterfinals with straight-set victories in their medal-round openers.

Fourth-ranked Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs defeated 12th-seeded Czech pair Eva Celbova and Sona Novakova 21-16, 21-16. Misty May and Kerri Walsh, the No. 1 seeds, beat seventh-seeded Chinese duo Tian Jia and Wang Fei 21-11, 21-18.

Diving
Defending Olympic champion Laura Wilkinson of the United States was fourth after the platform diving semifinals, needing a comeback and some mistakes by competitors for a chance at another medal.

Chinese teammates Lao Lishi and Li Ting were 1-2 heading into Sunday’s final. The duo already won gold in the synchronized platform.

Weightlifting
A former world champion Russian weightlifter was pulled from the Olympics because of a positive drug test.

Albina Khomich was barred from competing in the 165-pound (75-kg) heavyweight division by the international weightlifting federation after testing positive in a pre-competition screening by the Russian federation.

Also, Tang Gonghong of China broke world records in the clean and jerk and total lift for women’s super heavyweights while winning the gold medal.

Tang raised 402 pounds on her final attempt in the clean and jerk to break her own record of 385½ pounds, set in April. She used the record lift to overtake silver medalist Jang Mi-ran of South Korea. Agata Wrobel of Poland took bronze.
Tang’s total of 672 pounds also was a record, surpassing the 667 pounds (302.5 kg) she lifted in April.

George Asanidze of Georgia won the gold medal in the 85-kilogram class with 843 pounds.

Andrei Rybakou of Belarus won the silver medal. Pyrros Dimas of Greece, trying for a record fourth straight gold, won the bronze.

Equestrian
France was awarded the gold medal in the three-day equestrian team event and Britain’s Leslie Law got the individual gold after three countries won a joint appeal against an earlier decision that gave both victories to Germany.
The ruling Saturday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport means Germany drops to fourth in the team event while Britain gets silver and the United States takes the bronze.
Since the team event was also a qualifier for the individual medals, the decision stripped Bettina Hoy of her gold medal, giving it to Law. American Kim Severson moved up to silver from bronze and Pippa Funnell of Britain took third.

Rowing
Britain’s Matthew Pinsent won his fourth gold medal after his boat beat Canada in the coxless four in a finish that left every Briton in the venue cheering wildly.
Britain was first with a time of 6:06.98, or .08 seconds ahead of Canada. Italy took bronze, 3.43 seconds behind Britain.

Sailing
Americans Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham won the first Olympic titles of their long careers, dominating their British rivals in the 470 class.

Foerster and Burnham gained control over Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield during pre-start maneuvers and never let up. Rogers and Glanfield got the silver, and Kazuto Seki and Kenjiro Todoroki of Japan got the bronze.

Britain’s Ben Ainsley won the gold medal in the Finn class. Silver went to Rafael Trujillo of Spain, while Mateusz Kusznierewicz of Poland took bronze.

In the 470, Natalia Via Dufresne and Sandra Azon of Spain took silver and Sweden’s Therese Torgersson and Vendela Zachrisson got bronze. The gold was clinched earlier by Sofia Bekatorou and Aimilia Tsoulfa of Greece.

In the Yngling class, Ruslana Taran, Ganna Kalinina and Svitlana Matevusheva of Ukraine took the silver medal. The Danish crew of Dorte Jensen, Helle Jespersen and Christina Borregaard Otzen took bronze. The gold was clinched earlier by Britain’s Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton.

Men's Water Polo
Tamas Kasas and Gergely Kiss scored three goals apiece and Tibor Benedek and Peter Biros each scored twice as world and Olympic champion Hungary improved to 4-0 at the Athens Games with a 14-4 victory over Kazakhstan.

Alberto Angelini and Roberto Calcaterra each scored three times in Italy’s 13-4 win over Egpyt, while Greek center Theodoros Chatzitheodorou scored three goals, including the winner with 17 seconds remaining, in a 10-9 win over Australia.

The Germans beat Spain 11-5 with Tim Wollthan scoring three times. Italy, Greece and Germany are all 3-1 in Group B with one round remaining. Spain is 2-2 and in danger of missing the quarterfinals.

Shooting
Ralf Schumann of Germany shot 102.9 in the final round to win the gold medal in 25-meter rapid-fire pistol.

Russian Sergei Poliakov shot 100.7 in the final to finish with 692.7 and the silver. His countryman, Sergie Alifirenko shot 100.3 and won bronze.

Table Tennis
Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China won the gold medal in doubles table tennis, beating Lai Chak Ko and Ching Li of Hong Kong 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5.

Michael Maze and Finn Tugwell of Denmark won the bronze.

Trampoline
Yuri Nikitin of Ukraine won the men’s trampoline gold with 41.5 points, topping five-time world champion Alexander Moskalenko of Russia.

Moskalenko, who came out of retirement to win trampoline’s first gold medal in Sydney, won silver with 41.2 points. World champion Henrik Stehlik of Germany won the bronze with 40.80 points.

Weightlifting
A former world champion Russian weightlifter was pulled from the Olympics because of a positive drug test.

Albina Khomich was barred from competing in the 165-pound (75-kg) heavyweight division by the international weightlifting federation after testing positive in a pre-competition screening by the Russian federation.

In competition, Tang Gonghong of China won the gold medal in the 75-kilogram class with a total lift of 672 pounds. Jang Mi-ran of South Korea won the silver and Agata Wrobel of Poland the bronze.

Archery
South Korea beat Taiwan 251-245 to win the gold medal in men’s team archery.

Im Dong-hyun, Park Kyung-mo and Jang Yong-ho won South Korea’s third archery gold of these Olympics. Ukraine beat the United States 237-235 to win the bronze.

The Koreans also won three golds in 2000.

Fencing
After upsetting Germany in the quarterfinals, the United States men’s foil fencing squad lost to China in the semifinals and then to Russia in the bronze-medal bout.

Italy won the gold medal, fending off a late run by China to win 45-42.

In their medal match, the Americans were tied with 10 points to go, then were down 41-38 when Dan Kellner and Youri Motchan both recorded touches. The referee awarded the point to Russia and Moltchan went on to close it out.

Field Hockey
New Zealand scored a last-minute goal for a 2-1 win that denied India a chance at winning a ninth Olympic men’s field hockey gold medal.

New Zealand’s winning goal was scored by Hayden Shaw on a penalty corner. Claiming the game had ended, the Indian delegation lodged an official complaint immediately after the game. The appeal was rejected.

Also, Lee Jung-seon scored five goals to help South Korea beat Egypt 11-0. Eduardo Tabau scored three for Spain in its 4-0 win over Pakistan. The Netherlands improved to 4-0 in Group B with a 4-2 victory over Argentina, and Australia improved to 3-0-1 with a 3-2 win over South Africa.

Table Tennis
Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China won the gold medal in doubles table tennis, beating Lai Chak Ko and Ching Li of Hong Kong 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5.

Michael Maze and Finn Tugwell of Denmark won the bronze.

Badminton
Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China won the gold medal in women’s badminton, beating Huang Sui and Gao Ling of China 7-15, 15-4, 15-8. Ra Kyung-min and Lee Kyung-won of South Korea won the bronze.

Team Handball
Bojana Radulovics scored 10 goals to lead Hungary over Brazil 35-26.

Woo Sun-hee and Lee Sang-eun each scored seven goals for South Korea in its 36-21 win over Spain. Nataliya Lyapina had seven for Ukraine in a 29-20 win over Greece. Veronique Pecqueux Rolland led France with eight goals in a 29-21 victory over Angola.

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