Sydney Glance

DAY 12 of the Sydney Olympics

Tuesday, Sept. 25

STARS

The U.S. beach volleyball team of Matt Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana beat a favored Brazil team in the gold-medal match.

Monica Seles won the bronze medal in women's tennis singles, defeating Australia's Jelena Dokic.

Matt Lindland, Gladstone, Ore., took the silver in the 76-kilogram class (167 1/2 pounds) of Greco-Roman wrestling. ... Garrett Lowney, Kalamazoo, Mich., won bronze at 97 kg.

MEDALS

After seven of 10 gold medals were awarded Tuesday, and 187 overall, the United States led with 61 total medals (24 gold, 15 silver and 22 bronze). Russia was next with 50 (17, 14, 19). China was third with 49 (21, 14, 14).

WEATHER

Rain fell throughout Tuesday morning and into the afternoon, with temperatures only in the low 60s, delaying the start of tennis and baseball.

SANCTIONED

Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold medal after testing positive for a banned drug. She is the first gymnast to lose a medal because of a drug violation and the second athlete in Sydney to lose a gold. She is the sixth positive drug case at the Sydney Games. Raducan was allowed to keep her gold from the team competition and a silver from the vault.

The team doctor who gave her the drug in two cold medicine pills was expelled and suspended by the IOC for the 2002 Winter Games and 2004 Summer Games.

STOPPED SHORT

In boxing, Jeff Lacy of St. Petersburg, Fla., lost in the quarterfinals to Russia's Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov on the 15-point rule (18-3). ... Three-time heavyweight gold medalist Felix Savon of Cuba beat Michael Bennett of Chicago 23-8.

SWIM, SWIM

Russia, which hasn't lost a duet since 1997, won the gold medal in synchronized swimming with a near-perfect routine by the team of Olga Brusnikina and Maria Kisseleva.

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