In another of the last competitions of the XXIX Olympiad, the United States men’s volleyball team defeated the two-time Olympic and world champion Brazilian team 20-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-23 to win the Gold Medal. The US team was thrust into the news early in the Games after their head coach’s father-in-law, Todd Bachman, was […]
It looked like the Chinese were going to go eight for eight Gold Medals in the Olympic diving competitions…at least until the last of five dives in the mens 10m platform event. China’s Zhou Luxin was leading by 30 points going in to the last round. However, Luxin buckled a little to the enormous […]
The track and field events of the XXIX Olympiad concluded on Saturday. Here are the results:
The American women took the Gold Medal in the women’s 4×400m relay, with anchor Sanya Richards passing Russian, Anastasia Kapachinskaya in the final meters. The Russian women took the Silver Medal and the Jamaican team earned the Bronze. In addition […]
The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:
In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of […]
Lyudmyla Blonska of Ukraine has been forced to relinquish the Silver Medal that she was awarded in the womens heptathlon event after testing positive for steroid use, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday. She had been temporarily suspended and removed from the long jump competition on Thursday pending verification of the test results. The […]
It was a crazy day at the Bird’s Nest on Thursday. Both the United States mens and womens 4×100m relay teams dropped their batons in the qualifying heats and were disqualified from the events. In addition, there were also a lot a positive things happening at the “Nest.” Here are the highlights:
Andrey Moiseev of […]
Germany’s Matthias Steiner is rightly the “Strongest Man in the World,” having won the super-heavyweight (105kg) Olympic weightlifting competition on Tuesday for the Gold Medal. He heaved an incredible 461kg (1016.3 lbs) and lifted 258kg (568.8 lbs) in the clean and jerk, besting Russian Eugeni Chigishev, the Silver Medalist, and Latvia’s Viktors Scerbaiths, the current […]
The Olympic track and field meet continued at the Bird’s Nest on Wednesday. In addition to Usain Bolt’s spectacular finish in the men’s 200m event, here is what happened:
Jamaica’s Melaine Walker won the Gold Medal in the women’s 400m hurdles event. Sheena Johnson of the United States took the Silver Medal and Tasha Danvers […]
The Russian pair of Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova successfully defended their 2004 Olympic Gold Medal on Wednesday. The pair received all perfect 10s in technical merit.
Earning the Silver Medal were Gemma Mengual and Andrea Fuentes of Spain. Saho Harada and Emiko Suzuki of Japan were awarded the Bronze Medal.
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The men’s individual gymnastics competition concluded on Tuesday. The Chinese made a strong showing, seizing three of the four individual Gold Medals. Below are the results:
In the horizontal bar, Zou Kai of China earned the Gold Medal. Jonathon Horton of the United States took the Silver Medal and Fabian Hambuechen of Germany took the Bronze.
On […]
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