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2012 Summer Olympics

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    Some Olympic Awards the IOC Neglected to Give OutRecognizing the best of the best, as well as the worst of the worst.
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    A Scary, But Still Celebratory, Team USA GoldIt was close there for a while.
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    Team USA Wins Gold, But Boy, It Wasn’t EasyThe United States outlasts Spain to win the Gold Medal.
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    Team USA Offers More Redemption for LeBronThe Heat champion can win everybody back over with one more win.
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    USA Basketball Pounds Argentina to Reach FinalBring it on, Spain.
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    Images From London: Week TwoSome of the best photography from the second week of competition at the Summer Olympics.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: So Many Greatest-EversNBC’s coverage still blows, though.
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    It’s Semifinal Time for Team USABring on Argentina.
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    USA Women’s Soccer Wins Gold MedalUSA! USA! USA!
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: How NBC and Matthew Perry Ruined the NightThe argument that NBC is serving the needs of the masses with its profit-minded prime-time broadcast has now gone out the window.
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    Team USA Rolls, But Questions RemainThe U.S. advances to the semifinals, but not dominantly.
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    Presenting the Doc Emrick Action-Verb Bingo Card: Water Polo EditionThere’s no waffleboarding in water polo.
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    Olympics: Horror-Movie Music and Doll Costumes!Honestly, everything about yesterday’s duet finals was dramatic and amazing.
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    The Casual Olympic Viewer’s Guide: Rhythmic GymnasticsAn outline of the basics for those who may not know what they’re looking at.
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    Gymnastics Wrap-up: What We Learned From the London GamesFirst lesson: Life isn’t fair, and neither are the Olympics.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: Aly Raisman’s Parents Can Breathe NowOh, Lynn and Rick, we’re going to miss you.
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    100-Person Poll: Londoners on the Olympic GamesSurveying locals in the East End.
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    Redemption for Aly Raisman Raisman came to these Games in the shadows, but she emerged today as the most decorated American gymnast of the 2012 Olympics.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: The Caribbean Is Going to Party Like CrazyIf this was what things were like in London, it was going to be nuts in Grenada.
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    Team USA Wins Group A and Readies for QuarterfinalsWhat do they need to work on?
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    The Casual Olympic Viewer’s Guide: KeirinAn outline of the basics for those who may not know what they’re looking at.
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    The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Just Won an Instant Classic Over CanadaThe U.S. Women’s National Team overcame Christine Sinclair’s hat trick with Alex Morgan’s game-winning header in extra time.
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    No Time Like First Time for Brazil and South KoreaThere’s only one day of gymnastics competition left.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: The Dark Day When the U.S. Only Got Two GoldsInstead of watching feats of greatness from non-Americans, we got a bunch of Americans running preliminary heats in track or winning yet another round of volleyball.
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    Should We Be Worried About Team USA?That Lithuania win was a scary one.
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    Swimming Wrap-up: What a Year for the AmericansJust a terrific year for the red, white, and blue.
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    Long Jumpers Who Look Like They Didn’t Expect to Be Long-JumpingThis is a face that long jumpers do sometimes.
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    Sunday’s a Day for Bolt and MurrayTwo champions yesterday, very different.
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    The London Games Have the Least Predictable Gymnastics EverNothing makes sense anymore!
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    Phelps, Franklin Win Themselves Some More GoldGold medals everywhere.
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    Images From London: Week OneSome of the best photos so far from the summer games.
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    Olympics Prime-Time Recap: We’re on Team GabbyAmerica loves Gabby Douglas, NBC.  You should, too.
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    In Their Final Showdown, Phelps Beats Out Lochte for GoldPhelps takes the 200-meter individual medley and captures his sixteenth Olympic gold medal.
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    Gabby Douglas Is Golden, and It’s a Three-Peat for the U.S. in the All Around Gymnastics fans were promised an exciting fight for the all-around gold — and they got it.
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    The Casual Olympic Viewer’s Guide: TrampolineAn outline of the basics for those who may not know what they’re looking at.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: Edited for American ExceptionalismNBC focuses on domestic athletes, but the Games are a global event, and the perfect chance to share stories about other people and other places.
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    Yet Another U.S. Swimmer Emerges As a StarAnd tomorrow, another Lochte–Phelps battle.
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    The Casual Olympic Viewer’s Guide: DressageAn outline of the basics for those who may not know what they’re looking at.
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    Uchimura Secures His Status As All-Time BestThe Japanese gymnast might be the best there ever was.
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    Bradley Wiggins Wins Cycling Gold for Britain in Time TrialThis is how it was supposed to be.
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    The Craziest, Most Scandalous Sport at the Olympics: BadmintonEight players were expelled from the Games for “match fixing.”
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    It’s All About the Love: Team USA Cruises AgainYeah, they’re not having much trouble so far.
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: NBC Puts a ‘Jordyn’ in TeamThis is a shared honor, though, made possible by shared performances. That’s the story NBC should tell.
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    The Casual Olympic Viewer’s Guide: Double Trap ShootingAn outline of the basics for those who may not know what they’re looking at.
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    Michael Phelps Now Most Decorated Olympian of All TimeThat’s 19 medals. Pretty good!
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    The Women’s Gymnasts Grab the GoldUSA! USA! USA!
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    Olympics Prime-time Recap: The Crybaby GamesJordyn Wieber unleashed an international sob fest on Sunday, but everyone else’s tears are of the crocodile variety.
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    Missy Franklin, 17, Wins Gold in the 100-Meter BackstrokeThis is great for her, and also for her coach.
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    Men’s Gymnastics Ends in Major [SPOILER!]If you don’t want to know what happens before you watch tonight, don’t read this.
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    So Far, So Good for Team USA HoopsLeBron, Carmelo, and the gang have no trouble with France.
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