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Olympic results August 11, 2012
Posted: 08.10.2012 at 6:43 PM
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(AP) -- Kevin Durant scored 19 points, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James added 18 apiece and the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team pushed aside Argentina 109-83 to advance to the gold medal game.

The U.S. will play Spain for the gold, in a rematch of the gold medal game four years ago, which was won by the Americans.


Manu Ginobili scored 18 to lead Argentina, which will play Russia on Sunday for the bronze medal.


Spain rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to beat Russia 67-59 in the first semifinal. Jose Calderon scored 14 points, 12 in the second half, and Pau Gasol added 16.
      
Jordan Burroughs of the United States won the gold in men's 74-kg freestyle wrestling.

Burroughs beat an Iranian for top prize.

Burroughs, who grew up in New Jersey, has won 38 straight freestyle matches since leaving the University of Nebraska.

The United States women's 4x100m relay team won the gold medal and set a world record at the Olympic Stadium.

Theteam of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter  set the world record with a time of 40.82.

They are also the first women's 4x100m relay team to ever break the 41.0 second barrier in a race.

      
The men's 4X400 relay team had to settle for silver.

On the last leg of the race, Ramon Miller of the Bahamas chased down Angelo Taylor of the U.S.to win his country's first gold medal in a relay won by America at every Olympics since 1984.


Miller lifted the Bahamas to a time of 2:56.72, .33 seconds betterthan the U.S. Trinidad and Tobago took third.


The South African team, anchored by double amputee "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius, fell behind well before Pistorius received the baton and finished last.
      
      
American taekwondo fighter Paige McPherson knocked out British world champion Sarah Stevenson in the first round of the women's 67-kilogram division at the Olympics. Stevenson won a bronze medal at the 2008 Games in a heavier weight category.

Two-time Olympic champion Steven Lopez of the U.S. lost his first-round match.

 He got beat 3-2 by the No. 1 seed in the men's under-80-kilogram tournament.

After winning a silver medal four years ago in Beijing, the U.S. men's water polo team will finish no better than seventh in London.

 Spain will play for fifth place after slipping past the Americans 8-7.

(Copyright ©2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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