American water polo player Kelly Rulon battles Hungary's Dora Antal during a preliminary round at the 2012 London Olympics on Monday. The win on Monday puts the U.S. team atop Group A along with Spain.

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Lauren Wenger tries to get a shot off on Hungary's Ildiko Toth during a preliminary round that the U.S. team won at the 2012 London Olympics on Monday.

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Candace Parker, a star of the WNBA's L.A. Sparks, tries to drive past Angola's Ngiendula Filipe during a preliminary round at the 2012 London Olympics on Monday. Parker had 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead the U.S. team's 90-38 rout of the Angolan team.

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Team USA player Diana Taurasi drives past Angola's Catarina Camufal during the preliminary round Monday. Next up for the U.S. team is Turkey.

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Jacob Dalton competes for the U.S. on the rings in the men's team final at the 2012 London Olympics on Monday. The U.S. men's team endured a disappointing day Monday.

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Samuel Mikulak competes on the parallel bars for Team USA in the men's team final on Monday.

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Jonathan Horton releases from the rings as he competes for the U.S. in the men's team final on Monday.

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American gymnast John Orozco makes a mistake on the pommel horse in the men's team final on Monday. Several mistakes for the team during the day, including two by Orozco on the pommel horse, dropped the U.S. team to fifth.

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U.S. gymnast Danell Leyva receives support from teammate Jonathan Horton after the team finished fifth in the men's team final at the London Olympics on Monday.

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John Orozco has tears in his eyes after his team finished in fifth play after Monday's competitions. Orozco, who was ranked fourth overall after Saturday, had two major mistakes on the pommel horse and fell on a vault Monday.

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Matt Grevers launches into the water in lane four on his way to setting an Olympic record time of 52:16 in the men's 100-meter backstroke final at the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Center.

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U.S. swimmer Matt Grevers, left, embraces teammate Nick Thoman after they finished one-two in the men's 100-meter backstroke final.

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American Missy Franklin launches from the starting block on her way to a gold medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke.

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Missy Franklin of the U.S. shows off her new gold medal after winning the 100-meter backstroke competition.

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Missy Franklin begins to emerge from the water at the start of her gold medal backstroke swim on Monday.

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Facundo, a Mexican comedian, celebrates outside the Aquatics Center moments after the team of German Sanchez Sanchez and Ivan Garcia Navarro of Mexico won the silver medal in the 10-meter sychronized platform final.

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U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin shows a brief look of disbelief after winning the Women's 100m Backstroke final at the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Center.

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Victor Minibaev and Ilya Zakharov compete during the men's synchronized 10-meter platform diving final. Russia placed sixth in the competition.

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Chinese gymnast Chen Yibing performs on the rings during the men's team final Monday.

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Venus Williams of the United States returns to Sara Errani of Italy at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, at the 2012 Olympic Games on Monday.

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Netherlands' Billi Bakker, left, goalkeeper Jaap Stockmann and India's Sandeep Singh, in white, collide during the men's field hockey preliminary round Monday..

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Britain's David Florence and Richard Hounslow compete in the Olympic men's canoe doubles at Lee Valley Water Park on Monday.

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Chinese gymnast Feng Zhe competes on the parallel bars during the Olympic men's team final on Monday.

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Brazil players celebrate winning a point in the Olympic women's volleyball preliminary match against the United States on Monday.

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Australia's Clayton Fredericks gets up after falling as he competes in the cross country phase of the eventing competition of the 2012 London Olympics in Greenwich Park.

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U.S. gymnast John Orozco competes on the pommel horse during the men's team final at the London Olympics.

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Lina Marcela Rivas of Colombia falls while competing during the women's 58-kg weightlifting competition at the 2012 London Olympics.

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Automne Pavia of France reacts after winning a bronze medal during the women's 57-kg judo competition.

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U.S. divers David Boudia and Nick McCrory earn the bronze in the men's 10-meter synchronized diving at the 2012 London Olympics.

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Yanquan Zhang, left, and Yuan Cao of China earn the gold in the men's 10-meter synchronized diving.

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From left; Nick D'Arcy of Australia, Michael Phelps of the United States and Dinko Jukic of Austria compete in Heat 5 of the men's 200-meter butterfly on Day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. This image was shot with a fish-eye lens.

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U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps competes in the men's 200-meter butterfly at the 2012 London Olympics.

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Slovakia's Pavol and Peter Hochschorner compete in the men's first-round canoe double at the Lee Valley Water Park in London.

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Russia's men's cycling team practices at the velodrome venue in the Olympic park.

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Veronica Cepede Royg of Paraguay throws her tennis racket during a singles match against Varvara Lepchenko of the U.S. on Day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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Nadine Zumkehr of Switzerland digs one out during a beach volleyball match against China at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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China's Wang Hao serves to Austria's Werner Schlager in the men's table tennis singles round match at the Excel Centre in London.

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South Korea's Ki-Chun Wang (in white) competes with Russia's Mansur Isaev during their men's 73kg semifinal judo match.

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Serena Williams returns the ball to Poland's Urszula Radwanska during their second-round singles match at the All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon.

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In this multiple-exposure photo, Annie Moniqui of Canada competes during the women's 58-kg, group B, weightlifting competition.

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Turkey's Neriman Ozsoy, top left, slams the ball past China's Qiuyue Wei, bottom left, and Junjing Yang during a women's preliminary-round match.

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Children play on the Olympic rings at the rowing venue in Eton Dorney, near Windsor, England.

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Susie Scanlan of the United States, left, faces Olena Krybytska of Ukraine in a first-round epee match.

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