Breaking Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
by John Seo
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The Games of the XXIX Olympiad are officially underway with 204 countries represented competing in 302 events in 28 sports. The games are being held in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China from August 8 to August 24. You can find the results of the games under their respective event. Congratulations to Michael Phelps on his eighth gold medal giving him the most gold medals in one games.

August 17, 2008

Women's Athletics Marathon

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Constantina Dita-Tomescu	Romania	2:26:44
Silver	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:27:06
Bronze	Zhou Chunxiu	China	2:27:07

Men's Athletics Hammer Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	82.02
Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	81.61
Bronze	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	81.51

Women's Athletics 3000 Meter Steeplechase

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina	Russia	8:58.81
Silver	Eunice Jepkorir	Kenya	9:07.41
Bronze	Yekaterina Volkova	Russia	9:12.33

Women's Athletics Triple Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Distance
Gold	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15.39
Silver	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	15.32
Bronze	Hrysopiyí Devetzí	Greece	15.23

Women's Athletics 100 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	10.78
Silver	Sherone Simpson Kerron Stewart	Jamaica Jamaica	10.98 10.98
Bronze	N/A	N/A	N/A

Men's Athletics 10000 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	27:01.17
Silver	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	27:02.77
Bronze	Micah Kogo	Kenya	27:04.11

Men's Badminton Singles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Lin Dan	China	N/A
Silver	Lee Chong Wei	Malaysia	N/A
Bronze	Chen Jin	China	N/A

Men's Badminton Mixed Doubles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Lee Yong-dae Lee Hyo-jung	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Nova Widianto Lilyana Natsir	Indonesia	N/A
Bronze	He Hanbin Yu Yang	China	N/A

Women's Cycling Individual Pursuit

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rebecca Romero	Great Britain	3:28.321
Silver	Wendy Houvenaghel	Great Britain	3:30.395
Bronze	Lesya Kalitovska	Ukraine	3:31.413

Women's Diving 3 Meter Springboard

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Guo Jingjing	China	415.35
Silver	Julia Pakhalina	Russia	398.60
Bronze	Wu Minxia	China	389.85

Men's Fencing Team Sabre

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Julien Pillet Boris Sanson Nicolas Lopez	France	N/A
Silver	Tim Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams	United States	N/A
Bronze	Aldo Montano Luigi Tarantino Giampiero Pastore Diego Occhiuzzi	Italy	N/A

Men's Gymnastics Floor

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Zou Kai	China	16.050
Silver	Gervasio Deferr	Spain	15.775
Bronze	Anton Golotsutskov	Russia	15.725

Women's Gymnastics Floor

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Sandra Izbasa	Romania	15.650
Silver	Shawn Johnson	United States	15.500
Bronze	Nastia Liukin	United States	15.425

Men's Gymnastics Pommel Horse

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Xiao Qin	China	15.875
Silver	Filip Ude	Croatia	15.725
Bronze	Louis Smith	Great Britain	15.725

Women's Gymnastics Vault

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Hong Un Jong	North Korea	15.650
Silver	Oksana Chusovitina	Germany	15.575
Bronze	Cheng Fei	China	15.562

Women's Rowing Lightweight Double Sculls

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Kirsten van der Kolk Marit van Eupen	Netherlands	6:54.74
Silver	Sanna Sten Minna Nieminen	Finland	6:56.03
Bronze	Melanie Kok Tracy Cameron	Canada	6:56.68

Men's Rowing Lightweight Double Sculls

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Zac Purchase Mark Hunter	Great Britain	6:10.99
Silver	Dimitrios Mougios Vasileios Polymeros	Greece	6:11.72
Bronze	Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist	Denmark	6:12.45

Men's Rowing Lightweight Coxless Four

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ebert Joergensen Ebbesen Andersen	Denmark	5:47.76
Silver	Pawlowski Pawelczak Bernatajtys Randa	Poland	5:49.39
Bronze	Brambell Beare Lewis Parsons	Canada	5:50.09

Women's Rowing Quadruple Sculls

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Tang Xi Jin Zhang	China	6:15.06
Silver	Vernon Flood Houghton Grainger	Great Britain	6:17.37
Bronze	Oppelt Lutze Boron Schiller	Germany	6:19.56

Men's Rowing Quadruple Sculls

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Wasielewski Kolbowicz Jelinski Korol	Poland	5:41.33
Silver	Agamennoni Venier Galtarossa Raineri	Italy	5:43.57
Bronze	Coeffic Peltier Bahain Berrest	France	5:44.34

Women's Rowing Eight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Cafaro Shoop Goodale Logan Cummins Francia Lind Davies Whipple	United States	6:05.34
Silver	Dekker Smulders Kingma Repelaer van Driel van Rumpt Tanger Siegelaar de Haan Workel	Netherlands	6:07.22
Bronze	Burcica Susanu Serban Barabas Musat Papuc Andrunache Ignat Georgescu	Romania	6:07.25

Men's Rowing Eight (M8+)

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Light Rutledge Byrnes Wetzel Howard Sieterle Kreek Hamilton Price	Canada	5:23.89
Silver	Partridge Stallard Lucy Egington West Heathcote Langridge Smith Nethercott	Great Britain	5:25.11
Bronze	Hoopman Schnobrich Boyd Allen Walsh Coppola Inman Volpenhein McElhenney	United States	5:25.34

Open Sailing Finn

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Ben Ainslie	Great Britain	23
Silver	Zach Railey	United States	45
Bronze	Guillaume Florent	France	58

Women's Sailing Yngling

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson	Great Britain	24.0
Silver	Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen	Netherlands	33.0
Bronze	Sofia Bekatorou Sofia Papadopoulou Virginia Kravarioti	Greece	48.0

Open Sailing 49er Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp Ibsen	Denmark	N/A
Silver	Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Xabier Fernández	Spain	N/A
Bronze	Jan Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt	Germany	N/A

Women's Swimming 50 Meter Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Britta Steffen	Germany	24.06
Silver	Dara Torres	United States	24.07
Bronze	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.17

Men's Swimming 1500 Meter Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	14:40.84
Silver	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:41.53
Bronze	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:42.69

Women's Swimming 4 X 100 Meter Medley Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Emily Seebohm Leisel Jones Jessicah Schipper Lisbeth Trickett Tarnee White Felicity Galvez Shayne Reese	Australia	3:52.69
Silver	Natalie Coughlin Rebecca Soni Christine Magnuson Dara Torres Margaret Hoelzer Megan Jendrick Elaine Breeden Kara Lynn Joyce	United States	3:53.30
Bronze	Zhao Jing Sun Ye Zhou Yafei Pang Jiaying Xu Tianlongzi	China	3:56.11

Men's Swimming 4 X 100 Meter Medley Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Aaron Peirsol Brendan Hansen Michael Phelps Jason Lezak Matt Grevers Mark Gangloff Ian Crocker Garrett Weber-Gale	United States	3:29.34
Silver	Hayden Stoeckel Brenton Rickard Andrew Lauterstein Eamon Sullivan Ashley Delaney Christian Sprenger Adam Pine Matt Targett	Australia	3:30.04
Bronze	Junichi Miyashita Kosuke Kitajima Takuro Fujii Hisayoshi Sato	Japan	3:31.18

Women's Table Tennis Team

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Guo Yue Wang Nan Zhang Yining	China	N/A
Silver	Feng Tianwei Li Jiawei Wang Yuegu	Singapore	N/A
Bronze	Dang Ye Seo Kim Kyung Ah Park Mi Young	South Korea	N/A

Men's Tennis Singles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rafael Nadal	Spain	N/A
Silver	Fernando Gonzalez	Chile	N/A
Bronze	Novak Djokovic	Serbia	N/A

Women's Tennis Singles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Elena Dementieva	Russia	N/A
Silver	Dinara Safina	Russia	N/A
Bronze	Vera Zvonareva	Russia	N/A

Women's Tennis Doubles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Serena Williams Venus Williams	United States	N/A
Silver	Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual	Spain	N/A
Bronze	Zi Yan Jie Zheng	China	N/A

Men's Weightlifting 94 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ilya Ilin	Kazakhstan	N/A
Silver	Szymon Kolecki	Poland	N/A
Bronze	Khadjimourad Akkayev	Russia	N/A

Women's Wrestling 63 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Kaori Icho	Japan	N/A
Silver	Alena Kartashova	Russia	N/A
Bronze	Yelena Shalygina Randi Miller	Kazakhstan United States	N/A

Women's Wrestling 72 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Wang Jiao	China	N/A
Silver	Stanka Zlateva	Bulgaria	N/A
Bronze	Kyoko Hamaguchi Agnieszka Wieszczek	Japan Poland	N/A

August 16, 2008

"Men's Athletics 20 Kilometer Walk"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1:19.01
Silver	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	1:19:15
Bronze	Jared Tallent	Australia	1:19.42

"Women's Athletics Shot Put"

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	20.56
Silver	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	20.28
Bronze	Nadzeya Astapchuk	Belarus	19.86

"Women's Athletics Heptathlon"

Rank	Participant	Country	Points
Gold	Nataliya Dobrynska	Ukraine	6733
Silver	Lyudmila Blonska	Ukraine	6700
Bronze	Hyleas Fountain	United States	6619

"Men's Athletics 100 Metres"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9.69
Silver	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	9.86
Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	9.91

"Women's Badmitton Singles"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Zhang Ning	China	N/A
Silver	Xie Xingfang	China	N/A
Bronze	Maria Kristin Yulianti	Indonesia	N/A

"Men's Badmitton Doubles"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Indonesia	N/A
Silver	Fu Haifeng Cai Yun	China	N/A
Bronze	Lee Jae-jin Hwang Ji-man	South Korea	N/A

"Men's Cycling Points Race"

Rank	Participant	Country	Points
Gold	Joan Llaneras	Spain	60
Silver	Roger Kluge	Germany	58
Bronze	Chris Newton	Great Britain	56

"Men's Cycling Individual Pursuit"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	N/A
Silver	Hayden Roulston	New Zealand	N/A
Bronze	Steven Burke	Great Britain	N/A

"Men's Cycling Keirin"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Chris Hoy	Great Britain	N/A
Silver	Ross Edgar	Great Britain	N/A
Bronze	Kiyofumi Nagai	Japan	N/A

"Women's Fencing Team Foil"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Svetlana Boiko Aida Chanaeva Victoria Nikichina Evgenia Lamonova	Russia	N/A
Silver	Emily Cross Hanna Thompson Erinn Smart	United States	N/A
Bronze	Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Margherita Granbassi Ilaria Salvatori	Italy	N/A

"Women's Rowing Single Sculls"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rumyana Neykova	Bulgaria	7:22.34
Silver	Michelle Guerette	United States	7:22.78
Bronze	Ekaterina Karsten	Belarus	7:23.98

"Men's Rowing Single Sculls"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Olaf Tufte	Norway	6:59.83
Silver	Ondrej Synek	Czech Republic	7:00.63
Bronze	Mahe Drysdale	New Zealand	7:01.56

"Women's Rowing Coxless Pair"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Georgeta Andrunache Viorica Susanu	Romania	7:20.60
Silver	Wu You Gao Yulan	China	7:22.28
Bronze	Yuliya Bichyk Natallia Helakh	Belarus	7:22.91

"Men's Rowing Coxless Pair"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Drew Ginn Duncan Free	Australia	6:37.44
Silver	Dave Calder Scott Frandsen	Canada	6:39.55
Bronze	Nathan Twaddle George Bridgewater	New Zealand	6:44.19

"Women's Rowing Double Sculls"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell	New Zealand	7:07.32
Silver	Annekatrin Thiele Christiane Huth	Germany	7:07.33
Bronze	Elise Laverick Anna Bebington	Great Britain	7:07.55

"Men's Rowing Double Sculls"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Australia	6:27.77
Silver	Tõnu Endrekson Jüri Jaanson	Estonia	6:29.05
Bronze	Matthew Wells Stephen Rowbotham	Great Britain	6:29.10

"Men's Rowing Coxless Four"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Tom James Steve Williams Peter Reed Andrew Triggs-Hodge	Great Britain	6:06.57
Silver	Matt Ryan James Marburg Cameron McKenzie Francis Hegerty	Australia	6:07.85
Bronze	Julien Desprès Benjamin Rondeau Germain Chardin Dorian Mortelette	France	6:09.31

"Men's Shooting 25 Meter Rapid Fire Pistol"

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Oleksandr Petriv	Ukraine	780.2
Silver	Ralf Schumann	Germany	779.5
Bronze	Christian Reitz	Germany	779.3

"Men's Shooting Skeet"

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Vincent Hancock	United States	145
Silver	Tore Brovold	Norway	145
Bronze	Anthony Terras	France	144

"Women's Swimming 200 Meter Backstroke"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:05.24
Silver	Margaret Hoelzer	United States	2:06.23
Bronze	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:07.13

"Men's Swimming 100 Meter Butterfly"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Michael Phelps	United States	50.58
Silver	Milorad Cavic	Serbia	50.59
Bronze	Andrew Lauterstein	Australia	51.12

"Women's Swimming 800 Meter Freestyle"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	8:14.10
Silver	Alessia Filippi	Italy	8:20.23
Bronze	Lotte Friis	Denmark	8:23.03

"Men's Swimming 50 Meter Freestyle"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	21.30
Silver	Amaury Leveaux	France	21.45
Bronze	Alain Bernard	France	21.49

"Men's Tennis Doubles"

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	Switzerland	N/A
Silver	Simon Aspelin Thomas Johansson	Sweden	N/A
Bronze	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	United States	N/A

"Women's Weightlifting 75+ kg "

Rank	Participant	Country	Weight
Gold	Jang Mi-Ran	South Korea	326 kg
Silver	Olha Korobka	Ukraine	277 kg
Bronze	Mariya Grabovetskaya	Kazakhstan	270 kg

"Women's Wrestling Freestyle 48 kg "

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Carol Huynh	Canada	N/A
Silver	Chiharu Icho	Japan	N/A
Bronze	Mariya Stadnik Irini Merleni	Azerbaijan Ukraine	N/A

"Women's Wrestling Freestyle 55 kg "

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Saori Yoshida	Japan	N/A
Silver	Xu Li	China	N/A
Bronze	Tonya Verbeek Jackeline Rentería	Canada Colombia	N/A

August 15, 2008

Men's Archery Individual

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Viktor Ruban	Ukraine	N/A
Silver	Park Kyung-Mo	South Korea	N/A
Bronze	Bair Badënov	Russia	N/A

Men's Athletics Shot Put

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21.51
Silver	Christian Cantwell	United States	21.09
Bronze	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	21.05

Men's Athletics 10,000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	29:54.66
Silver	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	29:56.34
Bronze	Shalane Flanagan	United States	30:22.22

Women's Badmiton Doubles

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Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Du Jing Yu Yang	China	N/A
Silver	Lee Kyung-Won Lee Hyo-Jung	South Korea	N/A