SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Capsules of Thursday's events at the Summer Olympics:
ARCHERY
After sweeping the individual medals, three South Koreans joined up to easily win the team archery for the fourth consecutive Olympics after setting an Olympic record against the United States.
BOXING
Michael Bennett kept U.S. boxers unbeaten and advanced to a quarterfinal showdown with great Cuban heavyweight Felix Savon with a victory in his Olympic debut.
The 29-year-old Bennett, who got serious about boxing after being released from prison two years ago, pounded out an 11-2 decision over Wojciech Bartnik of Poland at 201 pounds,
Savon, trying to join fellow Cuban Teofilo Stevenson and Lazlo Papp of Hungary as the only men to win three Olympic boxing golds, stopped Rasmus Ojemaye of Nigeria on the 15-point rule (18-3) with 35 seconds left in the second round.
CYCLING
Antonella Bellutti of Italy won the Olympic gold medal Thursday in the women's points race. Leontien Ziglaard of the Netherlands, who set a world record in winning the pursuit, was second.
EQUESTRIAN
David O'Connor of the United States conquered the cross-country course with a perfect ride to retain the lead in the Olympics individual three-day event.
O'Connor, of The Plains, Va., added no penalties to his lead after dressage on Custom Made, with 29.0. The other two U.S. riders also got around the course clean.
The medals will be decided by the show-jumping round on Friday. With his lead of 7.6 points, O'Connor, a member of the bronze-medal three-day team, can knock down one fence and still take the gold.
Two riders in the early going were hospitalized after falls — Roberto Macedo of Brazil with a broken pelvis and Nils Haagensen of Denmark with a bruised shoulder.
ROWING
The United States qualified two boats to the finals in five classes and Britain's Steve Redgrave is still on target for five.
The American pair of Ted Murphy and Sebastian Bea advanced along with a four headed by Michael Wherley, who moved from a three-time world champion eight to the four.
The doubles tandem of Mike Ferry and Henry Nuzum and soloists Don Smith and Monica Michini failed to qualify.
Wherley's crew was in the same heat as the British four spearheaded by Redgrave, who is trying to become only the third person from any sport to win gold at five straight Olympics.
SAILING
J.J. Isler watched her overall lead in the women's 470 competition disappear as she dropped into third place after four races. She finished 15th out of 19 boats in the third fleet race, then rebounded to finish third in the next race.
Isler and several other skippers flew protest flags at the end of the first race on the Pacific Ocean. Protests are heard at night back at the Rushcutters Bay marina.
While Isler faltered, brothers Jonathan and Charlie McKee of Seattle moved into first place in the 49er class despite having their worst day in the regatta.
The McKees finished 14th and 13th before rebounding to win the third race. Under regatta rules, they are allowed to throw out their worst finish to date.
The Soling fleet races concluded Wednesday, with American skipper Jeff Madrigali finishing fourth to earn a first-round bye in the match-racing series.
SHOOTING
Jonas Edman of Sweden fell one point short of a perfect 600 score in the opening round and then held on to win the men's 50-meter rifle prone event.
In the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol, Germany's Ralf Schumann failed in his attempt to win an unprecedented third straight gold medal.
Schumann scored 584 to place seventh in the eight-man final. Sergei Alifirenko of Russia won the event.
Zemfira Meftakhetdinova of Azerbaijan won the first women's skeet competition. Zhang Shan of China, who won the open skeet event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, failed to qualify for the final.
SOFTBALL
Lisa Fernandez gave up a two-run homer in the bottom of the 13th inning as Australia rallied to win 2-1 and send the United States to a shocking third consecutive loss.
Fernandez struck out 25 and gave up just two hits, but the Americans were unable to score until Christie Ambrosi's RBI single in the top of the 13th made it 1-0.
SWIMMING
American Lenny Krayzelburg, who emigrated from Ukraine 11 years ago, won his second Olympic gold. He swam an Olympic record 1 minute, 56.76 seconds — slightly less than a second off his world record in the 200-meter backstroke. He also broke the Olympic mark in the preliminaries and semifinals.
Inge de Bruijn of Netherlands won the 100-meter freestyle in 53.83 missing her world record of 53.77. She won the 100 butterfly Sunday.
Therese Alshammar of Sweden took silver in 54.33. Americans Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson tied for third.
Agnes Kovacs of Hungary won the 200-meter breaststroke and Massimiliano Rosolino of Italy won the men's 200-meter individual medley in an Olympic-record 1 minute, 58.98 seconds.
Tom Dolan of the United States, who set a world record in the 400 IM, was second.
Earlier Brooke Bennett followed up a magnificent American night in the Olympic pool by getting started on a second straight gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle being the top qualifier. Bennett will try to join Janet Evans (1988, '92) as the only back-to-back winners of the event.
TENNIS
Defending champion Lindsay Davenport withdrew because of an injury, ending a bid by the U.S. team for a medals sweep in women's tennis. The top-seeded Davenport aggravated her sprained left foot in a first-round victory.
Venus Williams extended her winning streak to 28 matches by beating Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand 6-2, 6-3 in the second round. Williams' victory left her one round from a quarterfinal showdown with the last player to beat her, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, who advanced to the third round by beating Patricia Wartusch of Austria 6-2, 6-4.
VOLLEYBALL (BEACH)
Rafer Johnson's daughter Jenny Johnson Jordan and Annett Davis rallied with a nine-point run to defeat Cuba's Dalixia Fernandez and Tamara Larrea 15-9 to reach the quarterfinals.
The victory by the tournament's third-seeded women's team set up a quarterfinal match against Japan's Yukiko Takahashi and Teru Saiki, who outclassed a Czech team in a 15-2 victory.
VOLLEYBALL (INDOOR)
The winless U.S. men's team was shut out by Yugoslavia 25-25, 25-20, 25-23.
While the Americans (0-3) aren't mathematically out of the tournament yet, they're at the bottom of Group B standings and need a lot of help to make the quarterfinals.