SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Huseyin Ozkan of Turkey avenged his loss in last year's world championships by beating Larbi Benboudaoud of France to win the Olympic gold medal Sunday in the men's 66kg judo.

 Ozkan lost to Benboudaoud in the finals of the 1999 world championships at Birmingham, England. This time it was Bendoudaoud who settled for second and a silver medal.

 Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy and Giorgi Vazagashvili of Georgia shared the bronze.

 Legna Verdecia of Cuba won the gold medal in women's 52kg judo, defeating Noriko Narazaki of Japan in the championship match.

 Kye Sun Hui of North Korea and Liu Yuxiang of China shared the bronze. It was the first medal for North Korea at these games.

 Fans from Seoul, South Korea, rooted for competitors from North and South Korea -- another sign of reconciliation between the sides. The two nations marched together in Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony.

 Japan swept the gold in Saturday's first day of competition as Ryoko Tamura won the women's 48kg and Tadahiro Nomura took the men's 60kg.

 Kye beat Tamura to win the gold medal in 48kg at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

 Britain's Debbie Allan, the 1999 European champion and a leading contender for the 52kg gold, did not make the weight Sunday morning and was dismissed from the event.

 "She's let herself and her team down," team manager Dianne Bell said.

 When Allan tested the scales early Sunday morning, she saw her weight change as she moved. The scales were repaired, but Allan still could not make the weight.

 "The scales were recalibrated and were fully functional for the unofficial weigh-in," Michel Brousse of the International Judo Federation said.

 Allan weighed in at 52.3 grams at the beginning of the unofficial weigh-in. When she returned later, she was still 200 grams over. Allan waited until the last possible moment of the official weigh-in but came in at 52.1 kilograms.

 Both U.S. judo athletes competing Sunday were eliminated in the early rounds. Hillary Wolf of Chicago lost an opening round match to Kye, but returned in the repechage when Kye qualified for the semifinals. Wolf was then eliminated by Deborah Gravenstijn of the Netherlands.

 Alex Ottiano of Lawrence, Mass., opened with a referee's decision over Amar Meridja of Algeria after the 66kg match ended in a tie. In his second bout, Ottiano lost to Kiyoshi Uematsu of Spain and was eliminated when Uematsu was beaten by Bendboudaoud.