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LONDON -- A U.S. boxing program struggling in recent Olympic Games received a double infusion of success Monday when female fighters Marlen Esparza and Claressa Shields won quarterfinal matches and assured the U.S. of at least two bronze medals. Each still has a chance for gold in this, the first Olympic women's boxing tournament. The event was limited to 12 fighters in each weight division, and each U.S. boxer drew a bye into the quarterfinals, putting each a victory away from a medal.

LONDON -- American shooter Matt Emmons has a history at the Olympics, and that's not necessarily a good thing. In 2004 in Athens, Emmons was leading the 50-meter three-position rifle competition with one shot left when he shot at the wrong target. No medal. In 2008 in Beijing, he again was leading with one shot left, but the gun fired before he was squared up with the target. No medal. Monday in the 50-meter three-position rifle competition, he was down to his last shot for a silver medal.

LONDON -- It's not often Gabrielle Douglas competes in gymnastics and expects to lose. But Monday, the 16-year-old Douglas, who has already won the all-around and team gold medals, was a little slow with her swings, a little low with her pirouettes, and she finished eighth among the eight qualifiers in the uneven bars event final. Sam Mikulak, 19, of Newport Coast, finished fifth in the men's vault. Yang Hak Seon became the first Korean gymnast to win a gold medal when he triumphed in that event.

LONDON -- The United States has locked down at least one medal in women's beach volleyball, the color or colors to be determined, after two quarterfinal wins Sunday. Defending Olympic champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings quickly defeated Italians Greta Cicolari and Marta Menegatti in two sets, and Jennifer Kessy and April Ross beat the Czech Republic's Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova to advance to the semifinal round. The victories mean the American teams can finish no lower than third and fourth, ensuring the U.S. at least a bronze medal in the tournament at Horse Guards Parade.

LONDON -- Sanya Richards-Ross  has been driven the last four years by the memory of her fade to third place down the final stretch of the 400 meters at the Beijing Games. On Sunday she put her demons to rest by rallying in the final 100 meters to win gold, the first gold medal for the U.S. track and field team at the London Olympics. Richards-Ross passed several runners -- including Britain's Christine Ohuruogu, who had beaten her in Beijing -- to win in 49.55 seconds. Ohuruogu was second in a season-best 49.70 seconds, with DeeDee Trotter of Orlando, Fla., outleaning Amantle Montsho of Botswana for third, 49.72 seconds to 49.75.

- Ten seconds. That's all that separated Sarah Groff from an Olympic medal Saturday. After four years of planning, thousands of hours of training and nearly 34 miles of racing in the Games' most demanding event, the triathlon, Groff could see the finish line - and a medal - just 400 yards away. But she couldn't get there fast enough, finishing fourth in a mad dash to the end that required a photo to separate winner Nicola Spirig of Switzerland fromSweden'sLisa Norden. Both were timed in 1 hour 59 minutes 48 seconds.

LONDON -- Ehtiopia's Tiki Gelana set an Olympic record in the women's marathon Sunday, holding off Kenya's Priscah Jeptoo with a time of 2:23:07. U.S. runner Shalane Flanagan finished 10th with a time of 2:25:51. Behind her in 11th was American runner Kara Goucher, who crossed the line at 2:26:07 at The Mall of London. It was the first time the U.S. ever had two women among the top 11 finishers, but Flanagan seemed disappointed. "It's a bummer to not be in it when you work so hard," said Flanagan, running in her third marathon ever.

LONDON - After the final dive, Christina Loukas smiled a perfunctory smile for the cameras and then, a few steps later along the pool deck, dropped her arms and buried her head into her coach's shoulder. On Sunday morning, Kenny Armstrong fortified his pupil with perspective: We've come a long way just to get here, he told Loukas. She'd gone from high school and college star to the Olympics to a mental wreck who couldn't manage the simplest dive to quitting the sport. And she returned to it, and it took her here.

With apologies to Disneyland, Disney World and any other Disney enterprise, the Olympic Velodrome was the happiest place on Earth on Friday. And not because Kobe Bryant was in the crowd. The British men's track cycling pursuit team successfully defended its 2008 Olympic gold medal, soundly beating the silver medalists from Australia and the bronze-medal bikers from New Zealand. Britain's Victoria Pendleton won the women's keirin gold medal. She held off a late surge from China's Guo Shuang by no more than the width of her bike tire.

The leader after one rotation of the Olympic gymnastics women's all-around competition? Gabrielle Douglas. After two rotations: Gabrielle Douglas. After three rotations: Gabrielle Douglas. And after four rotations -- the vault that requires precise strength, the uneven bars that ask for daredevil will and the desire to fly, the skinny balance beam that begs an athlete to fall off, the floor exercise that has a boundary that isn't always easy to respect -- the winner? Gabrielle Douglas.