Olympics
JONES LEADS U.S.: Marion Jones won twice Sunday in her first competition in more than three weeks, capturing the long jump and running the second leg for a U.S. 400-meter relay team that had the best time in the world this year.
Jones helped lead the United States to victory in a meet against Germany and France. The meet was used by U.S. coaches mostly as a chance to practice relays before the Athens Games, which begin Friday.
Jones leaped 22 feet, 4 1/2 inches on her last attempt to win the long jump. That was much shorter than the 23-4 she jumped to win at the U.S. Olympic trials in July, and was just the ninth-best jump in the world this year. Jones, a three-time champion at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has qualified only to compete in the long jump in Athens. She also hopes to be selected for a relay team, and there's a chance she could take a spot in the 100 if Torri Edwards is banned because of a drug suspension.
Edwards has not decided whether to appeal.
A review panel of the International Association of Athletics Federations has recommended Edwards be suspended for at least two years, even though she claims she inadvertently took the stimulant in a glucose supplement.
Unless she wins an appeal, Edwards will be knocked off the U.S. team for the Athens Games.
"We are, at best, disappointed, and at worst, cynical, about the ruling which took place in Torri's matter," said a statement posted by her HSInternational track club on its Web site. "Torri Edwards is being treated worse than other athletes who have clearly committed violations and acts that intentionally circumvent the IAAF and WADA codes."
PITTMAN HAS SURGERY: Jana Pittman, the 400-meter hurdles world champion and Australia's best hope for Olympic gold in track and field, could still run at Athens after having surgery Sunday on her injured right knee. Pittman's coach Phil King said late Sunday she was given a 60 percent chance of competing following the surgery in London. Pittman hurt the knee Friday while warming up for a race in Zurich.
"We're back in the mix," King said. "It was nowhere near as bad as first interpreted. The surgeon quoted there was a 60 percent chance of running in Athens."
"It certainly is better than the 1 percent chance we had yesterday."
Tennis
AGASSI DOWNS HEWITT: A resurgent Andre Agassi defeated tenth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on Sunday to win the Cincinnati Masters tournament.
"This certainly gives me a new life," Agassi said. "I came into this week with a lot of questions. So for me to end up winning was beyond what I could have expected."
Agassi, the 11th seed, beat 21-year-old Andy Roddick in the semifinals, then wore down the 23-year-old Australian on Sunday.
"It's been a tough 24 hours, but my body held up great," said the 34-year-old Agassi.
He broke Hewitt's serve three times, after Hewitt had been broken only once in five matches.
"He hit a lot of first serves and a lot of serves right on the line and corners and stuff," Hewitt said. "I just couldn't get into his service games."
Hewitt had problems with his serve in the first set. With Agassi leading 3-2, Hewitt was serving 40-0 but lost four straight points before rallying to tie the set at 3. Two games later, he lost the first point by double-faulting, then hit the deciding point into the net to put Agassi up 5-3. Still, Agassi had trouble putting away the set. Serving 15-40, he won the next four points, including a 120-mph ace.
"I felt I had chances throughout the first set and I just wasn't able to capitalize on them," Hewitt said.
Obituary
CORRECTION: The Associated Press erroneously reported Aug. 6 that former world record hurdler Milton Green had died. The Milton Green who died Aug. 4 in Palm Beach County was a businessman from Boca Raton, Fla., not the hurdler who boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.