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Mercury goes up in Olympics pool

AFP, Athens
The duel in the pool between Australia and the United States swim teams took centre-stage at the Olympics Sunday as organisers played down fresh concerns over thousands of unsold tickets and security.
Twelve more gold medals in 24 events were up for grabs on day two of the world's biggest sporting event, with all eyes on the unfolding battle between swimmers from Australia and the United States.
Australia stole an early march on their American rivals on Saturday's opening day, superstar Ian Thorpe and their women's relay team giving them two golds to the one earned by US sensation Michael Phelps.
The Australian womens' worldrecord breaking victory in the 4x100m freestyle relay was the biggest upset of the night, with the Americans failing to win gold for the first time since 1988.
On Sunday, the US men's 4x100m team gets the chance to avenge that defeat when they try to wrest back the
title that they lost to the Australians for the first time ever in Sydney four years ago.
US officials confirmed that Phelps had been drafted in to the relay team for Sunday night's 8.55pm (1755 GMT) final in a sign of the Americans' determination to regain their crown.
Phelps' participation opens the door to him challenging for a record eight gold medals in Athens, a quest that has generated huge excitement in the swimming competition.
Weightlifter Nurcan Taylan became the first Turkish woman to win an Olympic gold medal on Saturday yet her feat was achieved in a near-empty stadium.
And on Sunday tennis stars Venus Williams and Andy Roddick, used to playing to packed courts, both recorded straight sets victories in their opening Olympic matches against a backdrop of vacant stands.
US Open champion Roddick was not bothered by the thousands of
no-shows.
Sporting controversies also rumbled on as Greece digested the suspensions of local sprint heroes Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou pending the outcome of a drugs probe.
Meanwhile Sunday's judo competition will see Japan attempt to add to the two golds won by heroes Tadahiro Nomura and Ryoko Tani.
But the action was overshadowed by the failure of Iranian two-time world champion Arash Miresmaeili to make the weight for his contest against an Israeli fighter he had previously vowed to boycott.
Two more gold medals were decided on the shooting range, Ukraine's Olena Kostevych winning the women's 10-metre air pistol event and Alexei Alipov of Russia taking the men's trap final.