Breaking Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Second Of Three
by John Seo
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The Games of the 2008 Beijing Olympics are officially underway with 204 countries 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 the event heading. Congratulations to Michael Phelps on his eighth gold medal giving him the most gold medals in history.

August 21, 2008

Women's Athletics 20 Kilometer Walk

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1:26:31
Silver	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	1:27:07
Bronze	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	1:27:12

Women's Athletics Javelin Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Distance
Gold	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	71.42
Silver	Mariya Abakumova	Russia	70.78
Bronze	Christina Obergföll	Germany	66.13

Women's Athletics 200 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	21.74
Silver	Allyson Felix	United States	21.93
Bronze	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	22.00

Men's Athletics Triple Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Distance
Gold	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17.67
Silver	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.62
Bronze	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17.59

Men's Athletics 400 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	LaShawn Merritt	United States	43.75
Silver	Jeremy Wariner	United States	44.74
Bronze	David Neville	United States	44.80

Men's Athletics 110 Meter Hurdles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Dayron Robles	Cuba	12.93
Silver	David Payne	United States	13.17
Bronze	David Oliver	United States	13.18

Women's Diving 10 Meter Platform

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Chen Ruolin	China	447.70
Silver	Emilie Heymans	Canada	437.05
Bronze	Wang Xin	China	429.90

Open Equestrian Individual Jumping

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Eric Lamaze	Canada	38.39
Silver	Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Sweden	38.39
Bronze	Beezie Madden	United States	35.25

Women's Soccer

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	United States	N/A
Silver	N/A	Brazil	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Germany	N/A

Men's Modern Pentathlon

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Andrey Moiseev	Russia	5632
Silver	Edvinas Krungolcas	Lithuania	5548
Bronze	Andrejus Zadneprovskis	Lithuania	5524

Open Sailing Tornado Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Antón Paz Fernando Echavarri	Spain	44
Silver	Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby	Australia	49
Bronze	Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola	Argentina	56

Men's Sailing Star Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Antón Paz Fernando Echavarri	Great Britain	45
Silver	Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby	Brazil	53
Bronze	Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola	Sweden	53

Women's Softball

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Naho Emoto Motoko Fujimoto Megu Hirose Emi Inui Sachiko Ito Ayumi Karino Satoko Mabuchi Yukiyo Mine Masumi Mishina Rei Nishiyama Hiroko Sakai Rie Sato Mika Someya Yukiko Ueno Eri Yamada	Japan	N/A
Silver	Monica Abbott Stacey Nuveman Crystl Bustos Jennie Finch Laura Berg Lauren Lappin Lovieanne Jung Cat Osterman Tairia Flowers Andrea Duran Jessica Mendoza Victoria Galindo Kelly Kretschman Caitlin Lowe Natasha Watley	United States	N/A
Bronze	Jodie Bowering Kylie Cronk Kelly Hardie Tanya Harding Sandy Lewis Simmone Morrow Tracey Mosley Stacey Porter Melanie Roche Justine Smethurst Danielle Stewart Natalie Titcume Natalie Ward Belinda Wright Kerry Wyborn	Australia	N/A

Men's Swimming Marathon 10 Kilometer

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Maarten van der Weijden	Netherlands	1:51:51.6
Silver	David Davies	Great Britain	1:51:53.1
Bronze	Thomas Lurz	Germany	1:51:53.6

Women's Taekwondo 57 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Lim Su-Jeong	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Azize Tanrıkulu	Turkey	N/A
Bronze	Diana Lopez Martina Zubčić	United States Croatia	N/A

Men's Taekwondo 68 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Son Tae-Jin	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Mark Lopez	United States	N/A
Bronze	Servet Tazegul Sung Yu-Chi	Turkey Chinese Taipei	N/A

Women's Beach Volleyball

Rank	Participant	Country	Seed
Gold	Kerri Walsh Misty May-Treanor	United States	1
Silver	Tian Jia Wang Jie	China	2
Bronze	Xue Chen Zhang Xi	China	4

Women's Water Polo

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	Netherlands	N/A
Silver	N/A	United States	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Australia	N/A

Men's Wrestling 84 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Revazi Mindorashvili	Georgia	N/A
Silver	Yusup Abdusalomov	Tajikistan	N/A
Bronze	Taras Danko Georgy Ketoev	Ukraine Russia	N/A

Men's Wrestling 96 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Shirvani Muradov	Russia	N/A
Silver	Taimuraz Tigiyev	Kazakhstan	N/A
Bronze	Georgi Gogshelidze Khetag Gazyumov	Georgia Azerbaijan	N/A

Men's Wrestling 120 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Artur Taymazov	Uzbekistan	N/A
Silver	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov	Russia	N/A
Bronze	David Musuľbes Marid Mutalimov	Slovakia Kazakhstan	N/A

August 20, 2008

Women's Athletics Hammer Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Aksana Miankova	Russia	46.34
Silver	Yipsi Moreno	Great Britain	75.20
Bronze	Zhang Wenxiu	Russia	74.32

Men's Athletics 200 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19.30
Silver	Shawn Crawford	United States	19.96
Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	19.98

Women's Athletics 400 Meter Hurdles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	52.64
Silver	Sheena Tosta	United States	53.70
Bronze	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	53.84

Men's Sailing Sailboard

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Tom Ashley	New Zealand	52
Silver	Julien Bontemps	France	53
Bronze	Shahar Zubari	Israel	58

Women's Sailing Sailboard

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Jian Yin	China	39
Silver	Alessandra Sensini	Italy	40
Bronze	Bryony Shaw	Great Britain	45

Women's Swimming Marathon 10 Kilometer

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Larisa Ilchenko	Russia	1:59:27.7
Silver	Keri-Anne Payne	Great Britain	1:59:29.2
Bronze	Cassandra Patten	Great Britain	1:59.31.0

Women's Synchronized Swimming Duet

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Anastasia Davydova Anastasia Ermakova	Russia	N/A
Silver	Andrea Fuentes Gemma Mengual	Spain	N/A
Bronze	Saho Harada Emiko Suzuki	Japan	N/A

Women's Taekwondo 49 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Wu Jingyu	China	N/A
Silver	Buttree Puedpong	Thailand	N/A
Bronze	Daynellis Montejo Dalia Contreras	Cuba Venezuela	N/A

Men's Taekwondo 58 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Guillermo Pérez	Mexico	N/A
Silver	Yulis Gabriel Mercedes	Dominican Republic	N/A
Bronze	Chu Mu-Yen Rohullah Nikpai	Chinese Taipei Afghanistan	N/A

Men's Wrestling 66 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ramazan Sahin	Turkey	N/A
Silver	Andriy Stadnik	Ukraine	N/A
Bronze	Otar Tushishvili Sushil Kumar	Georgia India	N/A

Men's Wrestling 74 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Buvaisar Saitiev	Russia	N/A
Silver	Soslan Tigiev	Uzbekistan	N/A
Bronze	Murad Gaidarov Kiril Terziev	Belarus Bulgaria	N/A

August 19, 2008

Men's Athletics High Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Andrey Silnov	Russia	N/A
Silver	Germaine Mason	Great Britain	N/A
Bronze	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	N/A

Men's Athletics Discus Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	68.82
Silver	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	67.82
Bronze	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67.79

Women's Athletics 100 Meter Hurdles

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Dawn Harper	United States	12.54
Silver	Sally McLellan	Australia	12.64
Bronze	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	12.64

Men's Athletics 1500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:32.94
Silver	Asbel Kipruto Kiprop	Kenya	3:33.11
Bronze	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3:34.16

Men's Cycling Madison

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Juan Curuchet Walter Pérez	Argentina	8
Silver	Joan Llaneras Antonio Tauler	Spain	7
Bronze	Mikhail Ignatyev Alexei Markov	Russia	6

Women's Cycling Sprint

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain	N/A
Silver	Anna Meares	Australia	N/A
Bronze	Shuang Guo	China	N/A

Men's Cycling Sprint

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Chris Hoy	Great Britain	N/A
Silver	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	N/A
Bronze	Mickaël Bourgain	France	N/A

Men's Diving 3 Meter Springboard

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	He Chong	China	572.90
Silver	Alexandre Despatie	Canada	536.65
Bronze	Qin Kai	China	530.10

Open Equestrian Individual Dressage

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Anky van Grunsven	Netherlands	N/A
Silver	Isabell Werth	Germany	N/A
Bronze	Heike Kemmer	Germany	N/A

Men's Gymnastics Parallel Bars

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Li Xiaopeng	China	16.450
Silver	Yoo Won-Chul	South Korea	16.250
Bronze	Anton Fokin	Uzbekistan	16.200

Women's Gymnastics Balance Beam

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Shawn Johnson	United States	16.225
Silver	Nastia Liukin	United States	16.025
Bronze	Cheng Fei	China	15.950

Men's Gymnastics Horizontal Bar

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Zou Kai	China	16.200
Silver	Jonathan Horton	United States	16.175
Bronze	Fabian Hambüchen	Germany	15.875

Men's Gymnastics Trampoline

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Lu Chunlong	China	N/A
Silver	Jason Burnett	Canada	N/A
Bronze	Dong Dong	China	N/A

Men's Sailing Laser Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Paul Goodison	Great Britain	63
Silver	Vasilij Žbogar	Slovenia	71
Bronze	Diego Romero	Italy	75

Women's Sailing Laser Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Anna Tunnicliffe	United States	37
Silver	Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	Lithuania	42
Bronze	Lijia Xu	China	50

Men's Triathlon

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Jan Frodeno	Germany	1:48:53.28
Silver	Simon Whitfield	Canada	1:48:58.47
Bronze	Bevan Docherty	New Zealand	1:49:05.59

Men's Weightlifting 105+ kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Weight
Gold	Matthias Steiner	Germany	461 kg
Silver	Evgeny Chigishev	Russia	460 kg
Bronze	Viktors Ščerbatihs	Latvia	448 kg

Men's Wrestling 55 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Henry Cejudo	United States	N/A
Silver	Tomohiro Matsunaga	Japan	N/A
Bronze	Radoslav Velikov Besik Kudukhov	Bulgaria Russia	N/A

Men's Wrestling 60 kg Freestyle

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Mavlet Batirov	Russia	N/A
Silver	Vasyl Fedoryshyn	Ukraine	N/A
Bronze	Kenichi Yumoto Morad Mohammadi	Japan Iran	N/A

August 18, 2008

Women's Athletics Discus Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Stephanie Brown-Trafton	United States	64.74
Silver	Yarelis Barrios	Cuba	63.64
Bronze	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62.59

Women's Athletics Pole Vault

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	5.05
Silver	Jennifer Stuczynski	United States	4.80
Bronze	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4.75

Men's Athletics Long Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Irving Saladino	Panama	8.34
Silver	Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	8.24
Bronze	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	8.20

Men's Athletics 3000 Meter Steeplechase

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Brimin Kiprop Kipruto	Kenya	8:10.34
Silver	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8:10.49
Bronze	Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong	Kenya	8:11.01

Women's Athletics 800 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	1:54.87
Silver	Janeth Jepkosgei	Kenya	1:56.07
Bronze	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	1:56.73

Women's Athletics 400 Meter Hurdles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Angelo Taylor	United States	47.25
Silver	Kerron Clement	United States	47.98
Bronze	Bershawn Jackson	United States	48.06

Women's Cycling Points Race

Rank	Participant	Country	Points
Gold	Marianne Vos	Netherlands	30
Silver	Yoanka González	Cuba	18
Bronze	Leire Olaberria	Spain	13

Men's Cycling Team Pursuit

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	3:53.314
Silver	Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Mørkøv Alex Nicki Rasmussen	Denmark	4:00.040
Bronze	Sam Bewley Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Jesse Sergent	New Zealand	3:59.776

Open Equestrian Team Jumping

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Laura Kraut Beezie Madden Will Simpson McLain Ward	United States	N/A
Silver	Mac Cone Jill Henselwood Eric Lamaze Ian Millar	Canada	N/A
Bronze	Morten Djupvik Stein Endresen Geir Gulliksen Tony Andre Hansen	Norway	N/A

Men's Gymnastics Rings

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Chen Yibing	China	16.600
Silver	Yang Wei	China	16.425
Bronze	Oleksandr Vorobiov	Ukraine	16.325

Women's Gymnastics Uneven Bars

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	He Kexin	China	16.725
Silver	Nastia Liukin	United States	16.725
Bronze	Yang Yilin	China	16.650

Men's Gymnastics Vault

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Leszek Blanik	Poland	N/A
Silver	Thomas Bouhail	France	N/A
Bronze	Anton Golotsutskov	Russia	N/A

Women's Gymnastics Trampoline

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	He Wenna	China	37.80
Silver	Karen Cockburn	Canada	37.00
Bronze	Ekaterina Khilko	Uzbekistan	36.90

Men's Sailing 470 Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Australia	N/A
Silver	Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield	Great Britain	N/A
Bronze	Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier Bausset	France	N/A

Women's Sailing 470 Class

Rank	Participant	Country	Points
Gold	Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson	Australia	43
Silver	Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	Netherlands	53
Bronze	Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan	Brazil	60

Men's Table Tennis Team

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ma Lin Wang Hao Wang Liqin	China	N/A
Silver	Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Christian Süß	Germany	N/A
Bronze	Oh Sang-Eun Ryu Seung-Min Yoon Jae-Young	South Korea	N/A

Men's Weightlifting 105 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Weight
Gold	Andrei Aramnau	Belarus	436 kg
Silver	Dmitriy Klokov	Russia	423 kg
Bronze	Dmitry Lapikov	Russia	420 kg