The U.S. U-23 team missed out on qualifying for the Olympics.
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According to the U.S. account, a 150-man U.S.-Afghan commando team near the Pakistan border came under attack and called in air support.
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About a half-hour after the U.S. men's team botched its handoff, the U.S. 4 x 100-meter women's team dropped the baton and headed for the exits, too.
The report says the 150-man U.S.-Afghan commando team came under attack from positions along a ridgeline.
He previously spent seven seasons coaching USA Hockey's National Team development program, where he became the first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals.
That's what O'Reilly, the former soigneur -- part masseuse, part go-fer for the U.S. Postal Service cycling team -- says Armstrong called her when she went public with accusations against him.
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Majid says the drop is because he, like the U.S.-funded team that works with him, travels from district to district to convey the anti-opium message in person.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
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.
After playing for both the U-17 and U-20 U.S. teams, he earned his first cap for the senior team last November in a friendly against South Africa.
The U.S. report found that the U.S.-Afghan commando team on the ground reported the correct coordinates to their supervisors.
During that time, he became first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals (2005, 2009, 2011).
The 30-year-old, who is on World Cup qualifying duty with Australia, has struggled to command a regular first-team place under U's boss Paul Lambert.
By my unofficial count, NBA superstar LeBron James (age 27) is the hands-down U.S. Team leader in Twitterdom, with slightly more than 5.5 million followers.
However, the injury-weakend U.S. team showed it would not be a walkover for the Chinese when they took the overall lead at the end of the third of six rounds.
Amid the violence, a five-member U.N. team with expertise in politics, peacekeeping and mediation was on the ground in Syria, according to Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.
The 300-strong U.N. team in Syria, whose mission is to observe and help implement the plan, has been unable to do its work as envisioned because of present conditions, the document states.
Fijian golfer Vijay Singh also won the PGA Championship in August, and finished the year as a member of the international squad that gave the star-studded U.S. team a severe drubbing in the President's Cup in Australia.
After a reciprocal visit to the U.S. by a Chinese ping-pong team, President Richard Nixon was the first American president to visit China, and full U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations were restored in 1979.
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The confidence will help Douglas as she competes for her third gold medal at London, where the 16-year-old already has led the U.S. women to a team victory and became the first African-American to win the individual all-around title.
On Sunday, the U-17 Americans posted an impressive 3-0 against a talented Czech Republic team.
In case anyone thinks the Americans are a one-sport team, the U.S. men's archery team has a decent shot at gold on Saturday.
"When you have the pleasure of working with the No. 1 athlete in the world, that's a no-brainer, " said Glance, who won gold as part of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team at the Montreal Games in 1976.
Meanwhile, fallout continued over legal wrangling concerning doping and Armstrong's involvement in the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored cycling team.
The U.S. team matched its best-ever winning percentage in 2012, but struggled with consistency on the road during World Cup qualifying.
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The move all but hijacked the Olympic basketball tournament and overshadowed the U.S. team's 109-83 victory, which advanced them into Sunday's gold-medal game against Spain.
Yes, Nike owned the gold-winning U.S. Olympic basketball team.
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Bailey, the former GM of the U.S. national team from 2007-11, says the NWSL is in the final stages of landing a major apparel sponsor to help promote the league.
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