Monday, September 18, 2000
Monday's Olympic highlights
The Associated Press
Six fights, six wins for the United States.
Ricardo Rocky Juarez, a 125-pounder, won his first bout Monday and so did 165-pound boxer Jeff Lacy to keep the American unbeaten streak alive at the Sydney Games. Both fights were stopped in the third round under the mercy rule because the Americans were up 15 points.
SOFTBALL: No no-hitter for the United States. Just another shutout.
Crystl Bustos homered twice as the U.S. softball team beat Cuba 3-0 in the second game of the Olympic tournament.
Lori Harrigan pitched a solo no-hitter in the Americans' first game, a 6-0 win over Canada.
DRUGS: A weightlifter from the drug-tainted Romanian team competed Monday over the objections of the IOC.
Olympic officials threw the Romanian team out of the Sydney Games on Sunday because two male lifters tested positive for drugs.
But the squad got a reprieve. The International Weightlifting Federation decided to fine the Romanian Olympic Committee and let four “clean” lifters compete.
That gave Marioara Munteanu a chance to lift Monday. She finished seventh in the women's 116 1/2-pound class.
CYCLING: For the first time in three Olympics, Erin Hartwell won't be making a trip to the medal podium.
Hartwell was part of a U.S. squad that finished 10th out of 12 in the prelims of the men's 4,000-meter team pursuit. Derek Bouchard-Hall, Mariano Friedick and Tommy Mulkey were the other riders. Britain had the fastest qualifying time, an Olympic record of 4 minutes, 4.030 seconds.
Hartwell won a cycling bronze in Barcelona and a silver medal in Atlanta.
BASKETBALL: Katie Smith sank three 3-pointers on the way to scoring 15 points as the U.S. women's basketball team stayed undefeated in the Olympic tournament with a 90-61 win over China.
The U.S. team started slow against Cuba, as it did in its opening win over South Korea, but took the lead midway through the first half and never trailed after that.
VOLLEYBALL: This one was easy for the U.S. women's volleyball team.
After upsetting China in the opening match of the Olympic tournament, the Americans beat overmatched Kenya 25-16, 25-6, 25-16 on Monday. Next up for the United States is Croatia, which also is unbeaten.
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