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Steffen Peters, on Ravel, won the freestyle Sunday in the dressage trials in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
(By Denis Poroy -- Associated Press)
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BOXING: Light flyweight Luis Yanez has been removed from the U.S. team because of a conflict with coaches over when to return to Colorado Springs to train, according to a report on the Dallas Morning News Web site. Yanez is appealing the decision.
EQUESTRIAN: Steffen Peters won the freestyle event last weekend at the dressage trials at Oaks Blenheim Farms in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Peters won aboard Ravel, a Dutch warmblood gelding. Debbie McDonald finished second overall on Brentina, a Hanoverian mare, and Courtney King took third on Harmony's Mythilus, another Dutch warmblood gelding. All three secured Olympic berths.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won their 34th Swatch FIVB World Tour gold medal, beating Greece's Vassiliki Arvaniti and Vasso Karadassiou in Stavanger, Norway. At the same tournament, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers became the first U.S. men's team to win back-to-back Swatch World Tour events.
SOFTBALL: The sport's quest to win reinstatement to the 2016 Games -- this summer marks its last on the program -- got a boost with the announcement from Beijing organizers that all of the more than 300,000 available tickets have been sold, softball officials said.
TRACK AND FIELD: Jamaican world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown made up for her disappointing fourth place in the 100 meters at her country's trials Saturday by winning the 200 in world-leading time (21.94 seconds) Sunday night. Usain Bolt completed the men's sprint double, winning the 200 in 19.97 seconds. Marvin Anderson was second (20.17) and Christopher Williams was third (20.20).
-- From Staff and Wire Reports
