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U.S. GYMNAST Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Tuesday in London.
U.S. GYMNAST Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Tuesday in London.
Five things to know about Tuesday, Day 11 of the London Olympics:

Floored: Aly Raisman finishes Olympics in style with floor gold.

All-American final set for women’s beach volleyball.

Bolt breezes into 200- meter semifinals; Pearson wins women’s hurdles.

 
 
It’s over: U.S. men shut out in boxing tournament.

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On top: Hoy sets British record with 6th Olympic gold.

Aly Raisman’s reaction was right on. She put together a crisp floor routine Tuesday, then mouthed, “Wow” after she saluted the judges.

Wow, indeed.

Raisman became the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold on floor, and she picked up a bronze on balance beam on the final day of the gymnastics competition at the London Olympics.

“It definitely went better than I thought it would,” Raisman said.

Raisman just missed a medal in the all-around, finishing with the same score as Russia’s Aliya Mustafina but dropping to fourth on a tiebreak. She was on the right end of the rules for beam Tuesday, bumping Romania’s Catalina Ponor off the podium.

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The U.S. captain initially finished fourth, with a score of 14.966. But she questioned it, and judges added an extra tenth to her routine’s difficulty after a review.

That gave her and Ponor identical scores of 15.066, but Raisman got the bronze because her execution score was higher.

“A gold medal is a gold medal, but I definitely felt like (beam) was redemption from the other night in the allaround,” Raisman said. “I was in the same exact position, but it went in my favor this time.”

More for China

China collected two more golds when Feng Zhe won the parallel bars and Deng Linlin the beam competition. Epke Zonderland won the high bar, the first medal for a Dutch man and only the second Olympic medal overall for the Netherlands in the sport.

It will be an All-American party at beach volleyball when Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor take on April Ross and Jennifer Kessy in tonight’s final.

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Walsh Jennings and May- Treanor won gold medals in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 without losing a match, and they ran their unbeaten streak to 20 with their victory over China in the semifinals.

Ross and Kessy advanced with a three-set win against top-ranked Brazilians Juliana and Larissa.

“We want to seal the deal that we’re the best team that’s ever happened,” Walsh Jennings said. “Misty has changed my life. I just love her. I want to win tomorrow for us.”

Usain Bolt is eyeing another gold after he cruised through 200-meter qualifying, jogging down the stretch on his way to a stress-free firstround heat of 20.39 seconds.

The World’s Fastest Man repeated in the 100 on Sunday night when his 9.63-second run set an Olympic record. He is trying to become the only man with two Olympic titles in the 200.

“I was taking it as easy as possible. It’s my first (200) run,” Bolt said Tuesday.

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Algeria’s Taoufik Makhloufi (men’s 1,500 meters), Australia’s Sally Pearson (100-meter hurdles), Germany’s Robert Harting (men’s discus) and Russia’s Ivan Ukhov (men’s high jump) won gold medals on the fifth day of the track and field competition.

A second chance

Makhloufi made the most of his second chance after he was disqualified when track and field officials ruled he didn’t try hard enough during a heat in the 800. The DQ was overturned after a medical officer reviewed the evidence, and Makhloufi completed the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 34.08 seconds.

Pearson got the best of a strong field by clocking an Olympic record 12.35 seconds to edge defending champion Dawn Harper of the U.S. It was Australia’s fourth gold medal of the games.

While Bolt moved on with ease, Liu Xiang failed to make it out of the preliminary heats of the 110-meter hurdles for the second straight Olympics.

The 2004 Olympic champion from China stumbled into the first barrier, crumpled to the ground and stayed down for a few moments, clutching his lower right leg. The head of China’s track team, Feng Shuyong, said Liu might have ruptured his right Achilles tendon.

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The last American boxer in the men’s tournament was eliminated, giving the U.S. team its first Olympic medal shutout.

Welterweight Errol Spence dropped a 16-11 decision to Russia’s Andrey Zamkovoy in the quarterfinals. The Dallasarea fighter started slowly and never got going in his team’s ninth loss in 10 fights.

Spence only reached the quarterfinals after the Americans successfully protested a loss to India’s Krishan Vikas over an accumulation of uncalled holding fouls last week.

Given a second chance to avoid the shutout, Spence said he had no reason to argue about this loss.

“I’m glad a better guy beat me this time, because I didn’t like the way I went out last time,” Spence said. “I didn’t think about the pressure on the team. I just tried to fight my fight, and it didn’t work out. He was the better man.”

Track cycling wrapped up at the London Velodrome, and Chris Hoy gave the boisterous crowd one last memory.

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Hoy broke the British record with his sixth Olympic gold medal, defending his keirin title to finish off a dominating performance by the home nation.

“Because this is the end, the last Olympics I’m doing, the last Olympic medal I can win, the nature of the whole event,” Hoy said, “this one was probably the best.”

Hoy’s gold gave Britain seven out of 10 awarded at the London Velodrome, matching its haul from the Beijing Games.

Anna Meares of Australia won the women’s sprint earlier in the day, beating British rival Victoria Pendleton in the final


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