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Gold medalists Serena Williams and Venus Williams celebrate during Sunday's medal ceremony for
the Women's Doubles Tennis at the London 2 0 1 2 Olympic Games.
More Gold for Serena and Venus
(AP) — Serena Williams relishes
her role as copycat little sister. Even
if it takes her 12 years.
Now, she has that remarkable
Olympic double - just like Venus.
The overpowering American pair
teamed to win the women's doubles
title at the Olympics on Sunday,
with Serena adding to'the singles
gold she won on Centre Court at
Wimbledon a day earlier.
"Crazy," Serena said. "I'm always
copying her. I forgot that she did it
in Sydney and I do it here. We're the
same doubles team, we just split this
to singles, so it's cool."
T h e s is te r s b e a t A n d re a
H lavackova and Lucie Hradecka
of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4
under the roof on a rainy after­
noon at the All England Club.
Venus - with her red, white and
blue braids pulled back into a bun
- closed out the match on the very
grass she has long loved with a
backhand volley winner after the
Czechs saved a pair o f match
points.
"We all talk about this, 'We have
so many medals,' but to be able to
add to that, it's like an unbelievable
feeling," Venus said. "You know
that in that count, there you are. It
feels amazing."
On Saturday, Serena beat Maria
Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 for the singles
gold. She joined Steffi Graf as the
only women to complete the Golden
Slam - winning the Olympics and the
four majors.
Serena became tennis' first double
gold medalist at an Olympics since
Venus won singles and doubles at
the 2000 Sydney Games. The sisters
also won the doubles gold at the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
With Sunday's victory, they each
have a record four Olympic tennis
gold medals, and the sisters didn't
drop a set through their five matches
at the London Games.
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Men’s Team Routs Argentina
(A P)— Draining five 3-pointers,
one deeper than the next, Kevin
Durant scored 17 points in the third
quarter and finished with 28 as the
U.S. men's team made adefense-be-
damned statement before entering
the medal round with a 126-97 win
over pesky rival Argentina on Mon­
day night.
With their fourth blowout in five
games, the Americans (5-0) moved
into the quarterfinals, where they'll
meet Australia (3-2) on Wednesday
night and proclaimed that if anyone
is to beat them in the days ahead
they're going to have to outshoot
these run-and-gunslingers from the
U.S.
T w o gam es a fte r C arm elo
Anthony's record-setting perfor­
mance, it was Durant's turn to put on
a show. Once Durant got hot, there
was nothing Argentina could do.
Leading by just one at halftime,
the U.S. outscored Argentina (3-2)
42-17 in the third quarter, which
began with LeBron James flexing
his muscles inside. James scored
seven quick points, forcing the Ar­
gentines to play defense a little
closer to the basket. They moved
and Durant made them pay.
He hit consecutive 3s to make it
85-66, sending center Tyson Chan­
dler high-stepping from the U.S.
bench toward the baseline and mak­
ing Andre Iguodala belly flop to the
floor. Moments later, Durant was at
it again, hitting two more long-range
shots in succession.
The U.S. only had one tough
game, beating Lithuania 99-94, a
close call that seemed to awaken
Kevin Durant reacts after
hitting a three-point basket in
route to a preliminary contest
win for the USA against
Argentina on Monday a t the
2 0 1 2 Summer Olympics.
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