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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

ot: An update on Ronda and judo.

The bronze medal wasn't the color she would have preferred, but 21-year-old Ronda Rousey's burst into a smile with a faced reddened by scratches and scrapes Wednesday after she made history by winning the first medal ever for a U.S. woman in Olympic judo.

"I didn't hold anything back," Rousey said after she finished the day 5-1 by defeating Annett Boehm of Germany, a 2004 Olympic bronze medalist, in their bronze final in the 154.3-pound class.