Capsules of Wednesday's events at the Summer Olympics:
BADMINTONBoth Americans in singles badminton - Kevin Han and Erika Van Heiland - lost their opening-round matches.
BASEBALL
The unbeaten Americans hit four homers, two by Mark Kotsay, who also doubled and had four RBI, in a 15-3 win over Italy. The United States (3-0) has yet to play Cuba, the only other team without a loss. Jason Williams, Kotsay and Brian Loyd all homered in a six-run first inning. Cuba beat South Korea 14-11.
BASKETBALL (MEN)
The undefeated United States won its third game, reaching 100 points for the first time, in a 104-82 triumph over Lithuania. Charles Barkley scored 16 points, Reggie Miller and Karl Malone 14 each, and Shaquille O'Neal added several monster dunks in the final 10 minutes for the Dream Team.
NBA standouts Dino Radja and Toni Kukoc led Croatia to a 71-48 rout of Angola. Radja had 20 points and nine rebounds, while Kukoc had 16 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Shane Heal scored 13 of his 35 points in the second overtime, leading Australia to a 109-101 victory over Brazil. Yugoslavia overwhelmed South Korea 118-65, China defeated Argentina 87-77, and Greece beat Puerto Rico 80-69.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Americans Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes were 15-7 winners over Italy's Andrea Ghiurghi and Nicola Grigolo. Americans Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh won 15-10 over Australia's Julien Prosser and Lee Zahner.
BOXING
Light heavyweight Antonio Tarver struggled to an opening-round win over Russia's Dmitry Vybornov in a nearly punchless bout that left even U.S. fans booing his performance. Tarver won 5-2.
Tarver's victory and David Diaz's win at 139 pounds gave the United States a 9-1 record. Diaz stopped Jacobo Garcia of the Virgin Islands in the third round.
CYCLING
Erin Hartwell won America's first silver medal in cycling since the 1984 Games, finishing second in the 1-kilometer time trial. In individual pursuit, American Kent Bostick was ninth in qualifying.
EQUESTRIAN
Australia won the gold medal in the three-day event. The United States took the silver, with New Zealand getting the bronze. Bruce Davidson, on Heyday, knocked over three rails, and one more mishap could have dropped the United States to bronze.
FENCING
Russia beat Hungary 45-25 for its second straight gold medal in team sabre. Individual gold medalist Laura Flessel led the French to the gold medal in women's team epee - the first ever awarded at the Olympics.
FIELD HOCKEY
The U.S. men remained winless after a 4-0 loss to India. The men are 0-22-4 in five Olympic appearances. India attempted 18 shots to America's one.
Defending champion Germany beat Pakistan 3-1, and Spain defeated Argentina 2-1.
GYMNASTICS
China's Li Xiaoshuang, the world champion, won the all-around title, edging Russia's Alexei Nemov. Six-time gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus finished third. The Americans turned in their best performance in the all-around since 1984, as John Roethlisberger finished seventh, Blaine Wilson 10th and John Macready 29th.
After hurting her ankle while helping the U.S. women win the team gold medal Tuesday, Kerri Strug announced that she's going to skip Thursday's all-around individual finals. Strug has a sprained left ankle and two torn ligaments.
JUDO
Kenzo Nakamura, one of three brothers on the Japanese team, beat Kwak Dae-sung of South Korea 2-1 for the men's gold in the lightweight division. American Jim Pedro got the bronze.
Driulis Gonzalez of Cuba won the women's lightweight gold.
ROWING
The U.S. women's eight caught Canada in the final 100 meters to win its repechage and reach the Olympic final. Three of four U.S. crews advanced to semifinals, with only the women's quad failing to qualify.
SOCCER
The U.S. team was eliminated by a 1-1 tie with Portugal. The Americans still have never advanced past the first round at the Olympics. The game drew 58,012, a record for a sports event at RFK Stadium in Washington.
Spain, the defending Olympic gold medalist, rallied to beat Australia 3-2; unbeaten France defeated winless Saudi Arabia 2-1, and Tunisia tied co-favorite Argentina 1-1.
SOFTBALL
The unbeaten U.S. softball team won its fourth game, beating Taiwan 4-0. Lori Harrigan tossed a two-hitter and Sheila Cornell hit a two-run homer.
SHOOTING
Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia won the women's three-position rifle event. Irina Gerasimenok of Russia took the silver and Renata Mauer of Poland won the bronze.
"I'm very proud that I've proven to the world that despite the conditions in our country, sport people from Yugoslavia can succeed," said Ivosev.
SWIMMING
Ireland's Michelle Smith won her third gold medal, taking the 200-meter individual medley. She'll go for another gold Friday in the 200 butterfly. Earlier, she won the 400 IM and 400 freestyle events.
The Americans won their eighth gold and 18th overall medal as the women took the 400 medley relay. Janet Evans, seeking her fifth Olympic gold, qualified for Thursday's 800-meter freestyle.
Denis Pankratov of Russia broke his world record in winning the men's 100 butterfly in 52.27, and Hungary went 1-2 in the men's 200-meter breaststroke.
TEAM HANDBALL
Sweden posted a 23-19 victory over the United States in the opening game for both teams.
In other men's games, Croatia edged Switzerland 23-22, Russia beat Kuwait 32-20, France defeated Spain 27-25 and Egypt beat Algeria 19-16.
TENNIS
Croatia's Goran Ivanisevic, the men's No. 2 seed, was upset by South Africa's Marcos Ondruska 6-2, 6-4. American Richey Reneberg, slated to play both singles and doubles, aggravated a groin injury and had to quit in the third set of his opening match.
American women went 3-0 in first-round singles, with Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport winning.
VOLLEYBALL
The Chinese took advantage of American mistakes and beat the U.S. team 15-8, 15-2, 12-15, 15-12, and the Netherlands defeated Japan 15-3, 15-10, 15-3.
WATER POLO
The United States beat Croatia 10-8 to finish second in its preliminary group and will play Spain for a place in the semifinals. The Americans finished behind defending champion Italy, which was the only team to beat the United States.
Hungary beat Yugoslavia 12-8; Greece downed Ukraine 9-6; Spain defeated Russia 8-6, and Italy edged Romania 10-9.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Cuba's Pablo Lara tore a callus on his right ring finger during the second of his three lifts in the snatch, missed his final one, but came back in the clean-and-jerk to win the 1671/2-pound weight class.
Lara combined to lift 810 pounds, 11 shy of his world record.
YACHTING
For the second time in three days, a thunderstorm forced the postponement of many races.
In the Europes, American Courtenay Becker-Dey finished second and fourth in her two races and retained second place. Americans Kris Stookey and Louise Van Voorhis were second in the women's 470 class.