Day 14 of the Athens Olympics

Friday, Aug. 27

Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won the long jump with a leap of 23-21/2. Teammates Irina Simagina won silver and Tatyana Kotova got bronze - the first long jump sweep in Olympic history.Osleidys Menendez of Cuba set an Olympic record to win the javelin - throwing 234 feet, 8 inches (71.53 meters), just shy of her own world record.Liu Xiang of China won the 110-meter hurdles, setting an Olympic record and tying the world record of 12.91 seconds. It was China's first gold in men's track.Nia Abdallah won a silver medal in taekwondo, becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic match before advancing all the way to the final.German Birgit Fischer, 42, won in four-person kayak - the eighth gold of her career - and became the first woman to earn Olympic medals 24 years apart.Robert Korzeniowski of Poland won the fourth gold of his Olympic career, taking the 50-kilometer walk for the third straight time.

Shrugging off critics who said she had no place at the Olympics, Tammy Crow helped the United States to a synchronized swimming bronze. She will report to jail Oct. 25 after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter in a crash that killed her boyfriend and a 12-year-old.

A taekwondo competitor from the Central African Republic was hospitalized for precautionary tests after being knocked out during a preliminary bout. Bertrand Gbongou Liango was kicked in the head by Tuncay Caliskan of Austria during their 150-pound bout.

American divers didn't get any medals in Athens, their first Olympic shutout in 92 years. Caesar Garcia and Kyle Prandi sealed that fate by failing to advance out of the 10-meter platform preliminaries.

Police used tear gas to disperse more than 2,000 demonstrators who lit fires, smashed windows and beat up journalists as they marched through downtown Athens to protest the weekend visit of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The visit was called of Saturday.