Women's tennis
Venus moves into golden orbit
28 September: "Time to pick up the pens and pencils," Venus Williams said, "and to put down the racket. It's back to college for me. I don't want them calling to ask where I am, like they had to last year." Venus the Olympian
27 September: Picking up her third major title of the year, Venus Williams is in such confident form that she can win tournaments half-cocked, says Richard Williams in Sydney 27 September: Williams wins tennis gold Seles storms through tennis opener
19 September: Monica Seles came within one game of registering the first Olympic tennis whitewash for 80 years as she beat Hungarian Katalin Marosi-Aracama 6-0 6-1 in the first round. Men's tennis
Woodies sign off with silver
28 September: Two double-faults, a hug and a silver medal. That is how the most famous doubles team in tennis bowed out. Woodies advance past Indian guile
23 September: Venus Williams mounted a late attempt to steal the show as she cruised to the quarter-finals with her 29th straight win. But, while the American's 6-2, 6-2 win over the German Jana Kandarr was well received, the audience saved their most rapturous applause for their own Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge. Rusedski and Henman maintain gold standard on excuses
21 September: Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski have never done well in the Australian Open, so expectations of a successful games were never high. But after their two extremely indifferent performances, the British Olympic Association must wonder whether it was really worth having the two players in Sydney at all. Rusedski rocks boat with attack on blazers
20 September: British tennis was reverberating last night after a blistering attack from Greg Rusedski on the Lawn Tennis Association just as he and Tim Henman were about to launch their challenge for Olympic gold. Henman reaches for the sky
16 September: Tim Henman, the seventh seed, is Britain's best prospect for a medal. Olympic gamble on Rusedski
9 August: Great Britain's selectors have gambled by naming Greg Rusedski in a four-strong men's team for the Olympic Games next month. Badminton
Battered Archer and Goode win the battledore for bronze
22 September: Britain's first badminton medal was the prize in a match no one wanted to playPerfect pairing of hard voices and soft hands
19 September: It was so quiet in pavilion three that you could hear a mobile phone drop. It was worse when they rang. Simon Archer stopped mid-flow as one went off, waited till the noise was replaced by muffled speech.
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