C2 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2012 SPORTS SUNDAY LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM NUMBERS: 29 |||||London Olympics FAN FARE The number of gold medals won in the London Olympics by American women, MEDALS RACE KENTUCKIANS outdistancing the 15 won by U.S. men. The IN THE GAMES SUNDAY women have won 59 of our 102 total medals. U.S. clinches overall, in lead for golds Athletes with ties to Kentucky who are competing in Olympic events Swimming, track and field, on Sunday (All times EDT): basketball, women’s soccer, Serena Williams and Aly Raisman. Anthony Davis (University of They all found their way onto U.S. Kentucky) — Men’s basketball: Olympic Committee chairman USA vs. Spain in gold medal game Larry Probst’s highlight list from at 10 a.m. the London Games. SATURDAY’S RESULTS “I like to hear The Star-Span- How Kentucky athletes fared: gled Banner — a lot,” Probst said. With one day left, the U.S. has Tyson Gay (Lafayette High locked up the overall medals race School) — Track and field: Men’s over China, and continues holding 4-by-100 relay for USA. Gay won off the Chinese in the chase to win his first Olympic medal when the the most gold medals. It will be MICHAEL SOHN | ASSOCIATED PRESS Americans finished second to the fifth straight Summer Games American David Boudia edged Usain Bolt and Jamaica. where U.S. athletes took home China’s Qui Bo for the the Angel McCoughtry (University of more prizes than anyone else from Louisville) — Women’s basketball: an Olympics. gold medal in men’s 10-meter platform diving. She scored seven points in Team Through Saturday’s medal USA’s victory against France in the events, U.S. Olympians in London gold medal game. had claimed 102 medals, 15 more MEDAL than the Chinese. Americans were COUNT Gavin Smellie (Western Kentucky University) — Track and field: also leading the gold-medal chase Country G S B T over China, 44-38. Men’s 4-by-100 relay for Canada. United States 44 29 29 102 Smellie and his teammates BASKETBALL China 38 27 22 87 finished third but were disqualified Russia 21 25 32 78 after officials determined that one of his teammates, Jared Con- U.S. women win Britain 28 15 19 62 CHARLES BERTRAM | STAFF FILE PHOTO naughton, stepped on the line. Rich Brooks, right, knows what it’s like on the hot seat Joker Phillips, left, faces this season. fifth straight title Germany 11 19 14 44 The Americans won their fifth Japan 6 14 17 37 any dive in the finals. straight gold medal, routing France Australia 7 16 12 35 Qiu followed him and scored 86-50 and putting more distance France 10 11 12 33 100.80, not quite enough. WE’VE BEEN between themselves and the rest of the world heading to Rio for the South Korea 13 7 7 27 ETC. 2016 Games. Italy 8 7 8 23 Candace Parker scored 21 Netherlands 6 6 8 20 Farah doubles up points, including eight straight dur- HERE BEFORE ing the game-changing run in the Ukraine 5 4 9 18 in distance races second quarter as the U.S. won its Canada 1 5 12 18 Before Usain Bolt and Co. took 41st straight Olympic game since Hungary 8 4 5 17 over the track, Mo Farah sent a taking a bronze medal in 1992. Joker’s predecessors faced similar doubts Spain 3 9 4 16 charge through the capacity crowd In that stretch, the Americans at Olympic Stadium when he won have won by nearly 30 points a Brazil 3 4 8 15 the 5,000 meters to complete an for a second season. at Mississippi State, a home game. Only one team has stayed New Zealand 5 3 5 13 Olympic long-distance double for MARK Ticket sales felt the upset of Georgia and a bowl within single digits of them, and Iran 4 5 3 12 Britain. Farah surged ahead late STORY impact. Even though UK victory over Clemson. they’ve lost just once in major and held on to win in 13:41.66. Jamaica 4 4 4 12 HERALD-LEADER had upset No. 17 Louisville Brooks went on to lead international competitions, to Farah said he had extra motiva- SPORTS COLUMNIST on the road the week before, Kentucky to four straight Russia in the semifinals of the Cuba 4 3 5 12 tion to win the race. He already had only 59,213 turned out for winning seasons and four 2006 world championship. Belarus 3 4 5 12 one gold medal — won a week ago At long last, The Long- the 2002 Kentucky home straight bowl games and France, which came into in the 10,000 meters — and it was the gold medal game unbeaten, Kazakhstan 6 0 4 10 Suffering Kentucky Football opener in Commonwealth retired after the 2009 season imperative that he make a pair. stayed with the U.S. for the first 12 Fan may have had enough. “These two gold medals mean Stadium (capacity of some on his own terms. minutes before Parker took over. Late last month, the Her- 70,000) with UTEP. Now, Phillips is very the world to me, because my wife She scored eight straight points the 3-meter springboard at the ald-Leader’s Jennifer Smith Yet Morriss led the Cats much on the hot seat in is carrying twins,” Farah explained. during a 13-2 run that gave the U.S. 1992 Barcelona Games. “I didn’t want to have just one gold reported that 2012 UK 2012. to a feel-good 7-5 record in a 37-23 advantage. Twice Parker “Oh, my God, I don’t have medal, and then have twins.” football season ticket sales 2002. Rather than a place His situation is not grabbed the rebound on the defen- words for it,” said Greg Louganis, ■ Allyson Felix won her third were running 27 percent holder, Morriss became a entirely analogous to that of sive end and dribbled up through the diving great who swept the gold medal as the Americans down from 2011’s final tally. coach so coveted by another Morriss or Brooks because the defense to score on the other. springboard and platform events rolled to an easy victory in the Early last week, the Univer- BCS school, that he landed Joker inherited UK football There was no disappointment at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics women’s 4x400 relay. sity of Louisville announced a hefty raise to become head in the midst of the bowl for France in taking home the silver and who has mentored Boudia. The United States finished in (somewhat gleefully, I man at Baylor. streak, not in a situation of medal. The French knew they were On the medals stand, Boudia 3 minutes, 16.87 seconds — good thought) that Kentucky had Rich Brooks was on a perceived adversity. up against an almost unbeatable wiped his brow as if to say, “Whew!” for a 3.36-second rout over Rus- returned unsold 2,060 of the scalding-hot seat in 2006. By The rationale for elevating American team. It was that close. sia, the biggest margin in the final 5,500 tickets that UK had that season, much Phillips into the posi- “It’s amazing,” point guard The American scored 568.65 of the long relay at the Olympics Celine Dumerc said of her medal. been allotted for the season points in the six-dive final. Qiu since East Germany beat the U.S. of the Kentucky fan tion of Top Cat from “It’s heavy. It’s wonderful. It’s huge. opener against the Cardinals base had long since his role as assistant took the silver at 566.85. by 3.58 seconds in 1976. It’s a dream.” Tom Daley of Britain settled for “By the time I got the stick,” in Papa John’s Cardinal on Brooks’ staff was run out of patience the bronze at 556.95 after leading Sanya Richards-Ross said, “it was Stadium. with the grandfa- that it was the best DIVING going into the final dive in front of basically a victory lap.” This lack of enthusiasm in therly Brooks. way to maintain a raucous home crowd. ■ Mexico earned its first the marketplace, obviously, is The hiring of recruiting continuity Boudia edges Qiu “Tom Daley dove the lights Olympic gold medal in men’s not good news for third-year Brooks to replace and allow Kentucky out, Qiu Bo dove the lights out,” soccer. Oribe Peralta scored 29 UK head coach Joker Phil- Morriss had been Morriss to take the proverbial for surprise gold Boudia said. “I only did what I do seconds into the finals at Wembley lips. As the venerable former met with wide- “next step up.” David Boudia ended a gold- in practice.” Stadium and added another goal Kentucky radio play-by-play spread, initial skepti- With an 11-14 medal drought for the United Daley scored 90.75 on his in the second half, leading Mexico man Cawood Ledford used cism (including by a sports overall record after two years States with a dramatic last dive last dive, including one 10, but to the 2-1 upset of Brazil. to often say, losing games columnist who looks remark- as head man, Joker has not so that scored the most points of the Boudia and Qiu each did the same ■ Jaqueline Carvalho had 18 does not get coaches fired. ably like me). The old coach far achieved that next step.