United States swimmers won three more titles in the Pan-American Games pool Wednesday to take their gold tally to 15, but the regional heavyweights' volleyball women team was stopped by aggressive arch-rival Cuba. The US men won their 4x200 meters freestyle relay after Kimberly Vandenberg took the women's 200 butterfly and Amanda Kendall the women's 100 freestyle. Brazil, the only real challengers to US dominance, clinched its seventh title, with Thiago Pereira's fourth goal medal in the men's 200m individual medley. Christel Kobrich of Chile won the women's 800m freestyle gold. It was her second medal after bronze in the 400m freestyle. The United States swimmers' powered the overall tally to 82 medals with 32 gold, to keep well clear of second-placed Brazil, who have 12 and 36 respectively. The United States had one prized title slip from its fingers as Cuba's women defeated the regional heavyweights in a frenetic volleyball semifinal with local Mexicans in the stands fiercely behind their Latin neighbours. “They haven't really been cheering for us all tournament,” US captain Cynthia Barboza laughed after the 3-1 defeat to their arch-rivals. “But we love playing here.” Cuba will clash with Olympic champion Brazil, which easily accounted for Dominican Republic in the other semifinal, as it bids for more gold after its rowers took two titles on the third and last day of competition. At the new Guadalajara velodrome, Colombia continued to stake its claim as the Games' top cycling nation with Juan Arango winning his second gold medal in the men's Omnium. Venezuela, though, kept on its heels with Hersony Canelon's victory in the men's sprint, beating Colombian Fabian Puerta into second place and winning his second gold after the team's sprint victory two days ago. In shooting, Guatemalan Jean Pierre Brol won the men's trap, having equalled the Games record of 124 points, set by Brazilian Rodrigo Pimentel in Santo Domingo eight years ago, in the qualifying round. Arch-rival Argentina and Brazil drew 1-1 in their opening men's soccer match in Group B watched by former World Cup winner Romario, a losing Olympic finalist with Brazil in Seoul in 1988, who is in Guadalajara as a media pundit. There were massive wins on the opening day of women's hockey with world champions Argentina crushing Trinidad & Tobago 11-0 and Canada routing Barbados 10
