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Big finish
Giant dolls are wheeled through the stadium during the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in the OIympic Stadium on Sunday.The next Summer Games will take place in Athens in 2004.
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EMILY deRIEL
USA -- Women's Modern Pentathlon
Her silver medal is the first in the Olympic debut of women's modern pentathlon, which is five events all completed in one day. It was the first pentathlon medal for an American since 1960, when Robert Beck won the bronze. The last American to win a silver was George Moore in 1948. |
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DREAM TEAM
USA -- Basketball
Continued their win streak, despite some close calls in the Sydney Games, to bring home the gold medal.
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AUDLEY HARRISON
Great Britain -- Boxing
He won the super-heavyweight boxing title by defeating Kazakhstan's Muktarkhan Dildabekov. He's the first British maximum weight class champion since 1920. |
GEZAHGNE ABERA
Ethiopia -- Marathon
He won the last event of the millennium Games by conquering a difficult hilly course. |
JEROEN DUBBELDAM
Germany -- Equestrian
He became the second Dutch equestrian rider to win gold in as many days with his victory in show jumping. He won a three-way jump-off to take the gold medal. |
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"It's no longer an automatic gold medal. Teams are coming at us with a different look in their eyes, they are certainly more talented than ever before and have nothing to fear and everything to gain." |
-- Dream Team guard Ray Allen on international competition
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Marathon Elias Rodriguez of Micronesia was in 81st place, but
he accomplished what 19 other men could not in the marathon -- he
finished, even if it was last. Rodriguez crossed the line in 3:09.14, more than 59 minutes
behind winner Gezahgne Abera of Ethiopia. Workers quickly gathered
the orange cones on the track and set the stage for the closing
ceremony to begin.
During the Olympics, athletes underwent about 3,600
doping tests -- more than in any previous games. Less than 0.5 percent
tested positive.
Cameroon has declared Monday a
public holiday to celebrate its national soccer team's Olympic
gold medal. Cameroon defeated Spain 5-3 on penalties in the final Saturday.
Bogongs, the big, fat hairy moths
that have plagued the Sydney Olympics, flooded in on the act at
the closing ceremony on Sunday.
One particularly large specimen landed on the bodice of a
salmon pink evening gown worn by Australian soprano Yvonne
Kenny just as she was hitting a high note in her rendition of
the Olympic anthem.
The moths, passing through Sydney on their migration route
to the Snowy Mountains, have been drawn to Olympic Park by the
floodlights.
-- ESPN.com news services contributed to this report
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ESPN The Magazine's Sue Hovey is in Sydney -- and she checks in with a guest daily postcard.
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DAN GABLE
U.S. wrestling co-coach
On four late losses
"They just weren't losses, they were unbelievably tough losses. All of them down to the end, all of them close."
MICHAEL JOHNSON
U.S. 400-meter runner, not Maurice Greene's best friend
On 4x100 team antics
"I didn't see it, but I can only imagine."
ALONZO MOURNING
Dream Team center
On tough road to gold
"It wasn't a cakewalk. I think that will make us appreciate it even more."
TAMAS KASAS
Hungary water polo team member
On winning gold medal
"I am speechless. It's unbelievable. We've been trying for this for 20 years."
EMILY deRIEL
U.S. pentathlete
On winning silver medal in inaugural Olympic women's pentathlon
"I can't believe it still. I feel like maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and it'll be the real thing. It's just like a dream. It really is. To go
down in the books as one of the first medalists in the Olympics, it means a tremendous amount."
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MULTIPLE MEDALS
SIX
Alexei Nemov -- Russia
Men's Gymnastics
2 gold, 1 silver, 3
bronze.
FIVE
Ian Thorpe -- Australia
Swimming
3 gold, 2 silver
Marion Jones -- U.S.
Track
3 gold, 2 bronze
Dara Torres -- U.S.
Swimming
2 gold, 3 bronze
FOUR
Michael Klim -- Australia
Swimming
2 gold, 2 silver
Gary Hall, Jr. -- U.S.
Swimming
2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
P. van den Hoogenband -- Netherlands
Swimming
2 gold, 2 bronze
Inge de Bruijn -- Netherlands
Swimming
3 gold, 1 silver
Leontien Zijlaard -- U.S.
Cycling
3 gold, 1 silver
Jenny Thompson -- U.S.
Swimming
3 gold, 1 bronze
Susie O'Neill -- Australia
Swimming
1 gold, 3 silver
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