In this wild and unpredictable tournament, Pearce said the only certainty is that any team with ambitions of winning the gold medal will have to come up with a way to beat Brazil.
Loch's teammates Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, winners of five of seven World Cup doubles events to date, were not threatened either in winning the gold medal ahead of compatriots Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken.
"Obviously this is a big step up for me but, with respect to Audley, I had only started boxing when he was winning the gold medal in Sydney, " he explained in more measured tones than in his original outburst.
"It's really awesome, " said Clark when asked how she felt about winning the first gold medal for the United States.
Winning the football gold medal has become an obsession for Brazil - it is the only trophy they have never lifted.
In February, he scored the game-winning overtime goal in the Gold Medal game at the Olympics for his home country in Vancouver.
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Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte won her country's first swimming medal ever as an independent nation, winning gold in the final medal event of the night, the women's 100-meter breaststroke.
But at the Olympics, believes Hansen, the gold medal-winning leap will have to be close to the longest in history.
American athlete Mal Whitfield caught the Tube after winning the 800 metres, carrying his gold medal and towel in a bag on his way to the home of a volunteer host family.
Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury came out six years after winning a gold medal in the backstroke at the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Williams was presented with a ring from USA Basketball for his help in winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.
In Sheffield, the home of gold medal-winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis, 60% of parents say their children do less than the stipulated two hours a week.
He also played on the gold medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team in Los Angeles as a college sophomore.
It was against this background of tightly regimented Nazi showcasing that, on August 3, Owens started competing in Berlin's 100, 000-seater Olympic Stadium, winning his first gold medal in the 100 meters (equaling the Olympic record with his time of 10.3 seconds).
Mohammed Ali described it as "the single most courageous act of this century, " while Wyomia Tyus, anchor of the U.S. women's gold-medal winning 4x100 meter relay team, dedicated the team's victory to the two ostracized sprinters.
The jury heard a statement from four-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower Sir Matthew Pinsent, who was assistant umpire of the race.
Lloyd struck what proved to be the winning goal in the 54th minute, four years after scoring the winner in the gold-medal match in Beijing.
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She was part of Australia's gold medal winning 4x400m team at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester last year.
The network also came under fire for spoiling the results of U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin's gold medal-winning race when it ran a "Today" show promo that revealed the outcome of the race before it was telecast that night.
Postboxes were painted in the hometowns of every gold medal-winning Team GB Olympic and Paralympic athlete last year.
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Cameron Meyer added a third gold medal to his collection, winning the men's scratch ahead of compatriot Michael Freiberg.
The 28-year-old judoka explains why winning a gold medal would mean everything to him -- and his father.
"They're living walls, and they come in all sorts of colors, not just green, " Richard Sabin of BioTecture told CNN, and whose walls have been incorporated in Gold and Silver Gilt medal-winning gardens at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, London.
Olympic gold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott has been awarded the honorary freedom of the borough of Bedford.
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During their gold-medal-winning team competition last week, the "fab five" of Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber shared a whopping 55 individual hugs with teammates and coaches.
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Among others at the event on Thursday were Mayor Ken Livingstone, Olympic gold medal winning sailor Shirley Robertson and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell.
Be sure to stop by the Roundhouse Lodge, at the top of Whistler mountain, to check out its Olympic Legacy display , which includes such prized memorabilia as Swiss Olympian Didier Defago's gold medal winning Rossignol skis and a wood-carved replica of the medals podium - where every athlete, no matter how skilled, can snap a photograph of a personal Olympic moment.
The day before, the president of Nauru, Marcus Stephen (a Commonwealth gold-medal-winning weightlifter) stood down after allegations that he took kickbacks on earnings from phosphate exports.
Adding to the night's Caribbean theme, the Olympics' biggest celebrity, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, collected his gold medal for winning Sunday night's 100-meter race.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton and actresses Emilia Fox and Joanna Lumley were also seen admiring the displays.
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