Capsules of Thursday's events at the Summer Olympics:
ARCHERY
Californian Justin Huish, who often practices by shooting across the street and through his garage, had consecutive 10s to open the men's gold medal match and never trailed in a 112-107 victory over Sweden's Magnus Petersson.
BADMINTON
South Korea's Bang Soo-hyun, the 1992 silver medalist, defeated 16-year-old Mia Audina of Indonesia 11-6, 11-7 to win the women's gold. Denmark's Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen took the men's title, beating China's Dong Jiong 15-12, 15-10.
The South Korean team of Gil Young-ah and Kim Dong-moon won the gold medal in mixed doubles, defeating Ra Kyung-min and Park Joo-bong, also of South Korea, 13-15, 15-4, 15-12.
BASEBALL
Japan hit five home runs - three off Kris Benson - in an 11-2 semifinal victory over the United States. Instead of a Cuba-U.S. rematch for the gold Friday, it will be Japan trying to deny the Cubans a second Olympic gold. The United States will play Nicaragua for the bronze.
Orestes Kindelan hit his Olympic-record eighth homer as Cuba advanced to the gold-medal game with an 8-1 victory over Nicaragua. Kindelan and Juan Manrique hit three-run homers. Cuba has set an Olympic record with 30 home runs.
BASKETBALL (WOMEN)
Yelena Baranova scored 37 points, two off the Olympic record for women's basketball, and Russia finished with an 11-1 run for an 80-69 victory over Japan. Russia will play for fifth place Saturday against Cuba, which beat Italy 78-70.
BOXING
Americans Rhoshii Wells, Terrance Cauthen and Nate Jones all earned bronze medals after being decisioned in semifinal bouts. Wells was outpointed 17-8 by Ariel Hernandez of Cuba at 165 pounds. Cauthen lost 15-12 to Tontcho Tontchev of Bulgaria at 132 pounds. Jones lost 16-10 to Canadian David Defiagbon.
Besides Hernandez, a 1992 Olympic champion, three other Cubans advanced to the finals. Arnaldo Mesa beat world champion Raimkul Malakhbekov of Russia 75-73 on a tiebreaker after the computer called their 119-pound contest a draw 8-8. Juan Hernandez, a silver medalist at the 1992 Olympics, outpointed Romanian Marian Simion 20-7 at 147 pounds. Felix Savon, 1992 Olympic and five-time world champion at 201 pounds, won on a walkover when Germany's Luan Krasniqi couldn't compete because of an injured hand.
CANOE-KAYAK
The U.S. canoe and kayak team had five boats competing on Lake Lanier. All five failed to advance past the semifinals.
John Mooney and Peter Newton came close to the fourth place they needed to qualify for a chance at a medal, but were edged at the finish by Australians Peter Scott and Grant Leury in the 1,000-meter two-man race.
Two-time Olympian Mike Harbold was seventh in the 1,000-meter kayak semifinals; team captain Joseph Harper finished last in the 1,000-meter canoe; the four-woman kayak team, needing a second-place finish, ended up fourth, and the four-man kayak crew came in last.
DIVING
Russia's Dmitry Sautin was the top qualifier with 452.82 points in the platform preliminaries. China's Xiao Hailiang qualified second with 445.86 points and Tian Liang third with 425.73.
Americans Patrick Jeffrey qualified fifth and David Pichler sixth.
EQUESTRIAN
It came down to the last rider in the show jumping team competition. Unfortunately for the U.S. team, that rider was the world's best - Germany's Ludger Beerbaum. Led by Beerbaum, who won individual gold at the 1992 Games, Germany won the team event with only 1.75 time faults.
The United States won the silver medal with 12 faults and Brazil took the bronze with 17.25.
FIELD HOCKEY (MEN)
The U.S. men remain 0-for-the-Olympics, still looking for their first-ever victory at the games following a final loss. Malaysia beat the Americans 4-1, leaving the U.S. team 0-7 - and 0-26-4 in Olympic history.
"We're back in training the first of September," U.S. coach Jon Clark said. "Such are the demands of modern hockey that there isn't much time for sitting around with pizza, bad lights and moping. They've just got to get on with it."
FIELD HOCKEY (WOMEN)
Alyson Annan scored twice as the Australians beat South Korea 3-1, extending their unbeaten streak in tournament competition to 40 matches.
The Netherlands earned the bronze medal by winning a shootout from Britain 4-3.
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
Rhythmic group gymnastics made its Olympic debut, and the top six teams advanced to Friday's finals. Bulgaria, the defending world champion, finished first in the preliminary round. Italy and Germany were knocked out, along with the last-place United States. The Americans only made the Olympics because they're the hosts.
Ekaterina Serebryanskaya, who tied for first at last year's world championships, had a slight lead over fellow Ukrainian Elena Vitrichenko in the individual event after the first two preliminary rounds.
SOCCER (WOMEN)
The United States won the first Olympic women's title with a 2-1 victory over China. Goals by Shannon MacMillan in the 19th minute and Tiffeny Milbrett in the 62nd clinched it.
The victory ended a yearlong journey for the American women, who lost their World Cup title to Norway in 1995. They pointed toward the Olympics for their vindication, and got it by beating Norway in the semifinals, then downed the Chinese for the second time in the tournament.
The bronze medal went to Norway, which downed Brazil 2-0.
TABLE TENNIS
The tournament was a sweep for China. Liu Guoling took the final gold medal, winning the men's singles crown over teammate Wang Tao 21-12, 22-24, 21-19, 15-21, 21-5. The Chinese won all four gold medals and three of the silvers.
TEAM HANDBALL
South Korea will play for its third straight women's handball gold medal when it meets Denmark on Saturday. The South Koreans (4-0), winners in their home country in 1988 and at Barcelona in 1992, beat Hungary 39-25. Denmark eliminated Norway, winner of the silver medal in 1988 and 1992, 23-19.
China edged Germany 28-26 for fifth place, and Angola defeated the United States 24-23 for seventh place.
TENNIS
Andre Agassi advanced to the final of his first Olympics, erasing two set points in the opening set and beating Leander Paes of India 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. Agassi will go for the gold Saturday against Spaniard Sergi Bruguera, who beat Fernando Meligeni of Brazil 7-6 (11-9), 6-2.
TRACK AND FIELD
Michael Johnson completed his historic golden double in world-record time, adding the 200-meter title to his Olympic 400 crown. Johnson won in 19.32 seconds, knocking .34 seconds off the world record he set on the Olympic Stadium track during the U.S. trials in June. Johnson is the first man to win both events at an Olympics.
France's Marie-Jose Perec beat Johnson to the golden double, winning the women's 200 meters a few minutes before Johnson completed his historic sweep. Perec caught Jamaica's Merlene Ottey in the final 15 meters to win in 22.12. The only other woman to accomplish the 200-400 double was American Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984.
Derrick Adkins won the men's 400-meter hurdles in 47.54 and American teammate Calvin Davis took the bronze medal.
Dan O'Brien became the first American decathlon winner since Bruce Jenner in 1976, finishing then 10-event competition with 8,824 points.
Carl Lewis moved closer to a shot at history when his friend Leroy Burrell pulled out of the U.S. 400-meter relay team with a heel injury.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee needed only one attempt to qualify for the long jump final. With her right leg heavily bandaged, she jumped 21 feet, 11 3/4 inches.
VOLLEYBALL
The U.S. women's team beat Germany 17-16, 15-6, 5-15, 15-6 to finish seventh. Most of the players then tossed their jerseys into the appreciative crowd.
China moved within one victory of claiming its second gold medal, beating Russia 12-15, 15-5, 15-8, 15-12 in the semifinals. The Chinese will play Cuba for the gold. The Cubans beat Brazil 5-15, 15-9, 10-15, 15-13, 15-12 in the other semifinal.
WRESTLING (FREESTYLE)
Bruce Baumgartner, seeking his third gold medal, lost 6-1 to Russia's Andrei Shumilin in a second-round 286-pound match. Baumgartner can wrestle back and win a bronze medal, but is assured of his worst finish in an Olympics. He has won two golds and a silver.
Americans Kenny Monday (163 pounds) and Tom Brands (1361/2) won their first two matches. American Lou Rosselli, still in contention for a bronze medal, was forced to drop out with a fractured right elbow. Rosselli was injured in a 4-2 consolation round victory over Constantin Corduneanu of Romania at 114 1/2 pounds.
YACHTING
Americans Kris Stookey and Louise Van Voorhis had a chance to win a medal in the women's 470 class, but they struggled to an 11th-place finish in the final race and dropped from third to fourth with 47 points overall.
Defending gold medalists Theresa Zabell and Begona Via Dufresne of Spain won the gold with 25 points.
Ukraine captured the gold in the men's 470. Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko didn't even have to race Thursday to finish with a 21-point spread over John Merricks and Ian Walker of Britain.