"This year, I'm going to put my ass on the line and tell you he's going to win the gold medal, " Siegel said.
The US failed to win the gold medal in Athens - the first time an NBA-based team had done so at the Olympics.
New Zealand beat Australia 66-64 in sudden death overtime to win the gold medal after the two sides had been locked together 58-58 after extra-time.
The "flying housewife" went on to win the gold medal in the 80m hurdles by a whisker, but dominated in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
"I wanted to win the gold medal as a gift for Thailand's Queen, who celebrated her 72nd birthday last Thursday, " said Udomporn, who was congratulated on the phone by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra minutes after her triumph.
The 27-year-old became the first Irishman to win a gold medal at the championships for 117 years.
Ye Shiwen took seconds off her personal best to break the world record and win a gold medal in the 400m medley on Saturday, swimming faster in the last 50m than the winner of the men's event.
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Overall, Douglas will leave London with much to celebrate: A gold medal win with Team USA, re-writing history with her gold medal win in the all-around, and a plethora of opportunities by which to earn endorsement dollars.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
In 2002 he qualified for the Olympic team and went on to win a gold medal in the half-pipe competition in Salt Lake City.
The win handed Daley his second gold medal of the 2010 Games, having won 10m synchro gold with Max Brick on Tuesday.
Dr. Norman Borlaug is one of only three Americans to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal (America's highest civilian honor) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She remained a force on the tour into the early 1990s, highlighted by a gold medal win at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
The Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto, who, in the 1976 Games, in Montreal, stuck his dismount from the rings on a broken leg and helped his team win the all-around gold medal, gave another.
The first one is special in some respects because you have a dream to try and achieve something and if you have your dream of trying to win Olympic gold medal the first one is that becoming reality.
The win hands Zhang her fourth gold medal over two Olympics, after success in the women's singles and doubles in Athens and team and singles competition in Beijing, equally the great Deng Yaping's gold medal haul.
On the field and off, Australian sport is arguably at its lowest ebb since the Montreal Olympics in 1976, when the country failed to win a single gold medal - a setback that led to the creation of the much-admired, and much-aped, Australian Institute of Sport.
He changed the face of the Games forever by being the first Chinese man to ever win a track gold medal, with victory in the 110m hurdles.
He went on to win a gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
What hurt is that we lost the chance to win a gold medal that we could take home and show our family and our kids.
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Earlier, Katrin Wagner-Augustin of Germany lost out on her second attempt at becoming the second woman in Olympic history to win a gold medal at four consecutive Games after helping take silver in the women's kayak four (K4).
Joshua ensured a golden end to London 2012 with victory in his super-heavyweight bout on the final day of competition, beating Italian Roberto Cammarelle to win GB's 29th gold medal of the Games.
With yet another dramatic gold medal win in the Olympics, the women have only lengthened that shadow.
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On "Thrilling Thursday" Jonnie Peacock's gold medal win in the T44 100m attracted the UK's biggest ever Paralympic sports audience with a peak of 6.7m viewers.
Williams will be looking to win her third gold medal in the British capital, after clinching the doubles title alongside Venus at the 2000 and 2008 Games.
Mohamed Salah increased the pressure on Brazil, who are seeking to win their first Olympic football gold medal, with his goal 14 minutes from the end, but Egypt couldn't find an equalizer.
The latest winner is Nicola Adams, from Leeds, who became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
Now, after the test, they believe they can win another gold medal.
Since that thrilling night and excellent party in Accra, I've gone on to win a United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal in the Richard Ortega Prize for coverage of the UN and its agencies in Uganda.
"I have lost to that doubles pairing three times before so it was really nice to come away with a win and go home with a gold medal from the Youth Olympic Games - I never expected that, " said Golding.
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