Jones reaches long jump final, tabbed for relay

ATHENS, Greece -- Marion Jones will be part of the U.S. Olympic 400-meter relay team, coach Sue Humphrey announced Wednesday.

Jones also qualified for the long jump finals with the seventh-best jump of the qualifying round: 21 feet, 11 3/4 inches.

Allen Johnson, a four-time world champion and the 1996 Olympic gold medalist, made a shocking exit from the second round of the 110-meter hurdles. He tripped over the ninth hurdle, then stumbled and fell underneath the last one.

Allyson Felix narrowly missed becoming a teenage gold medalist when she was beaten in the 200 by Jamaica's Veronica Campbell. Campbell won in a personal-best 22.05 seconds.

Women's basketball

The United States hushed a boisterous crowd, putting six players in double figures and advancing to the semifinals with a 102-72 victory against Greece.

Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson led the Americans with 20 points each.

Russia beat the Czech Republic and will meet the Americans in the semifinals, a rematch of the final of the 2002 world championships, which the U.S. team won.

Sailing

A windsurfer whose first name means "wave" in Hebrew gave Israel its first Olympic gold medal ever. Gal Fridman sailed a remarkably consistent regatta, never finishing worse than eighth in the 11-race series. He placed second in Wednesday's decisive race.

Women's triathlon

Kate Allen of Austria passed half of the field during the final leg of the swim-cycle-run endurance test, finishing in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 43.45 seconds.

Closer to the rear of the pack than the front for most of the race, she passed everyone during the closing 10-kilometer run, including leader Loretta Harrop of Australia only a few strides before the finish.

Baseball

With a relentless, balanced offense, Cuba rolled over upstart Australia 6-2 to win the gold medal -- its third in four tries since the sport gained Olympic status.

The Cubans pounded out 13 hits, including a two-run home run by Frederich Cepeda, a two-run double by Eduardo Parent and a two-run single by Eriel Sanchez.

With the United States failing to even make the eight-team field, Cuba had been expected to vie for the gold medal with a Japanese "dream team" stocked with top pros. But Australia stunned the favored Japanese 1-0 in the semifinals.

Openly frustrated by its loss, Japan routed Canada 11-2 to win the bronze medal.

Men's volleyball

Russia defeated defending Olympic champion Serbia-Montenegro in a four-set quarterfinal match -- avenging a loss in the 2000 final in Sydney to the team then known as Yugoslavia.

The United States beat Greece 25-20, 22-25, 25-27, 25-23, 17-15 with a wild five-set comeback and advanced to play Brazil in the other semifinal. The Americans overcome a 20-12 deficit in the fourth set and fended off match point in the fifth.

Synchronized swimming

Americans Alison Bartosik and Anna Kozlova earned a bronze medal in the Olympic duet final, finishing behind the Russians and Japanese.

Boxing

Andre Dirrell of the United States narrowly beat Cuba's Yordani Despaigne to advance to the Olympic middleweight semifinals.

In another quarterfinal, Thailand middleweight Suriya Prasathinphimai upset Ukraine's Oleg Mashkin 28-22.

Suriya next faces Russia's Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov, the silver medalist four years ago in Sydney..

-- From wire reports