Breaking Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Third Of Three
by John Seo
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are almost finished amid controversy and protest 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 medal winners of the events under the event heading. Congratulations to Michael Phelps on his eight gold medals giving him the most gold medals in history.

August 24, 2008

Men's Athletics Marathon

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Samuel Kamau Wanjiru	Kenya	2:06:32
Silver	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	2:07:16
Bronze	Tsegay Kebede	Ethiopia	2:10:00

Men's Basketball Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	United States	N/A
Silver	N/A	Spain	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Argentina	N/A

Men's Boxing Light Flyweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Zou Shiming	China	N/A
Silver	Pürevdorjiin Serdamba	Mongolia	N/A
Bronze	Paddy Barnes  Yampier Hernández	Ireland Cuba	N/A

Men's Boxing Bantamweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan	Mongolia	N/A
Silver	Yankiel León	Cuba	N/A
Bronze	Bruno Julie Veaceslav Gojan	Mauritius Moldova	N/A

Men's Boxing Bantamweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Aleksei Tishchenko	Russia	N/A
Silver	Daouda Sow	France	N/A
Bronze	Yordenis Ugás Hrachik Javakhyan	Cuba Armenia	N/A

Men's Boxing Welterweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Bakhyt Sarsekbayev	Kazakhstan	N/A
Silver	Carlos Banteaux Suárez	Cuba	N/A
Bronze	Hanati Silamu Kim Jung-Joo	China South Korea	N/A

Men's Boxing Light Heavyweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Zhang Xiaoping	China	N/A
Silver	Kenneth Egan	Ireland	N/A
Bronze	Tony Jeffries Yerkebuian Shynaliyev	Great Britain Kazakhstan	N/A

Men's Boxing Super Heavyweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Roberto Cammarelle	Italy	N/A
Silver	Zhang Zhilei	China	N/A
Bronze	David Price Vyacheslav Glazkov	Great Britain Ukraine	N/A

Women's Gymnastics Rhythmic Team All-Around

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Margarita Aliychuk Anna Gavrilenko Tatiana Gorbunova Elena Posevina Daria Shkurikhina Natalia Zueva	Russia	35.550
Silver	Cai Tongtong Tao Chou Lu Yuanyang Sui Jianshuang Sun Dan Zhang Shuo	China	35.225
Bronze	Olesya Babushkina Anastasia Ivankova Zinaida Lunina Glafira Martinovich Ksenia Sankovich Alina Tumilovich	Belarus Ukraine	34.900

Men's Handball Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	France	N/A
Silver	N/A	Iceland	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Spain	N/A

Men's Volleyball Indoor Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Lloy Ball Sean Rooney David Lee Rich Lambourne William Priddy Ryan Millar Riley Salmon Tom Hoff Clay Stanley Kevin Hansen Gabe Gardner Scott Touzinsky	United States	N/A
Silver	Dante Amaral Marcelo Elgarten Gustavo Endres Bruno Rezende Gilberto Godoy Filho André Heller Murilo Endres Andre Nascimento Anderson Rodrigues Samuel Fuchs Sergio Dutra Santos Rodrigo Santana	Brazil	N/A
Bronze	Alexander Korneev Semen Poltavskiy Alexander Kosarev Sergey Grankin Sergey Tetyukhin Vadim Khamuttskikh Yury Berezhko Alexei Ostapenko Alexander Volkov Alexey Verbov Maxim Mikhaylov Alexey Kuleshov	Russia	N/A

Men's Water Polo Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	Hungary	N/A
Silver	N/A	United States	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Serbia	N/A

August 23, 2008

Men's Athletics Javelin Throw

Rank	Participant	Country	Distance
Gold	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	90.57
Silver	Ainars Kovals	Latvia	86.64
Bronze	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland	86.16

Women's Athletics High Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Height
Gold	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	2.05
Silver	Blanka Vlasic	Croatia	2.05
Bronze	Anna Chicherova	Russia	2.03

Men's Athletics 800 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:44.65
Silver	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:44.70
Bronze	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1:44.82

Women's Athletics 1500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Nancy Lagat	Kenya	4:00.23
Silver	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:01.63
Bronze	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:01.78

Men's Athletics 5000 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	12:57.82
Silver	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	13:02.80
Bronze	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi	Kenya	13:06.22

Women's Athletics 4 X 400 Meter Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Mary Wineberg Allyson Felix Monique Henderson Sanya Richards Natasha Hastings	United States	3:18.54
Silver	Yulia Gushchina Lyudmila Litvinova Tatyana Firova Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Elena Migunova Tatyana Veshkurova	Russia	3:18.82
Bronze	Shericka Williams Shereefa Lloyd Rosemarie Whyte Novlene Williams	Jamaica	3:20.40

Men's Athletics 4 X 400 Meter Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	LaShawn Merritt Angelo Taylor David Neville Jeremy Wariner Kerron Clement Reggie Witherspoon	United States	2:55.39
Silver	Andretti Bain Michael Mathieu Andrae Williams Chris Brown Avard Moncur Ramon Miller	Bahamas	2:58.03
Bronze	Maksim Dyldin Vladislav Frolov Anton Kokorin Denis Alekseyev	Russia	2:58.06

Men's Baseball

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Hyun-Jin Ryu Ki-Joo Han Jin-Man Park Hyuk Kwon Taek-Keun Lee Dae-Ho Lee Seung-Hwan Oh Jung-Keun Bong Young-Min Ko Jong-Wook Lee Keun-Woo Jeong Min-Jae Kim Kab-Yong Jin Jin-Young Lee Won-Sam Jang Seung-Jun Song Kwang-Hyun Kim Yong-Kyu Lee Dong-Joo Kim Min-Ho Kang Hyung-Soo Kim Seung-Yeop Lee Tae-Hyon Chong Suk-Min Yoon	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Ariel Pestano Yoandry Urgellés Alfredo Despaigne Luis Rodríguez Alexei Bell Yadier Pedroso Jonder Martínez Adiel Palma Luis Navas Giorvis Duvergel Alexander Mayeta Eriel Sánchez Rolando Meriño Héctor Olivera Michel Enríquez Yuliesky Gourriel Vicyohandry Odelín Pedro Luis Lazo Eduardo Paret Norberto González Norge Luis Vera Frederich Cepeda Elier Sánchez Miguel La Hera	Cuba	N/A
Bronze	Brett Anderson Blaine Neal Matt Brown Nate Schierholtz Jeremy Cummings Michael Koplove Terry Tiffee Kevin Jepsen Brian Duensing Dexter Fowler Brandon Knight Mike Hessman Casey Weathers Jason Donald Jayson Nix Taylor Teagarden Stephen Strasburg Jake Arrieta Lou Marson Matt LaPorta Trevor Cahill Brian Barden John Gall Jeff Stevens	United States	N/A

Women's Basketball Tournament

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

Men's Boxing Flyweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Somjit Jongjohor	Thailand	N/A
Silver	Andry Laffita	Cuba	N/A
Bronze	Georgy Balakshin  Vincenzo Picardi	Russia Italy	N/A

Men's Boxing Featherweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Vasyl Lomachenko	Ukraine	N/A
Silver	Khedafi Djelkhir	France	N/A
Bronze	Yakup Kiliç Shahin Imranov	Turkey Azerbaijan	N/A

Men's Boxing Light Welterweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Manuel Félix Díaz	Dominican Republic	N/A
Silver	Manus Boonjumnong	Thailand	N/A
Bronze	Alexis Vastine Roniel Iglesias	France Cuba	N/A

Men's Boxing Middleweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	James DeGale	Great Britain	N/A
Silver	Emilio Correa	Cuba	N/A
Bronze	Vijender Kumar Darren Sutherland	India Ireland	N/A

Men's Boxing Heavyweight

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Rakhim Chakhkeiv	Russia	N/A
Silver	Clemente Russo	Italy	N/A
Bronze	Deontay Wilder Osmay Acosta	United States Cuba	N/A

Men's Canoeing K-1 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Ken Wallace	Australia	1:37.252
Silver	Adam van Koeverden	Canada	1:37.630
Bronze	Tim Brabants	Great Britain	1:37.671

Men's Canoeing C-1 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Maxim Opalev	Russia	1:47.140
Silver	David Cal	Spain	1:48.397
Bronze	Yuriy Cheban	Ukraine	1:48.766

Women's Canoeing K-1 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Inna Osypenko-Radomska	Ukraine	1:50.673
Silver	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:50.677
Bronze	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:51.022

Men's Canoeing K-2 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Saul Craviotto Carlos Perez	Spain	1:28.736
Silver	Ronald Rauhe Tim Weiskotter	Germany	1:28.827
Bronze	Raman Piatrushenka Vadzim Makhneu	Belarus	1:30.005

Men's Canoeing C-2 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Meng Guanliang Yang Wenjun	China	1:41.025
Silver	Sergey Ulegin Aleksandr Kostoglod	Russia	1:41.282
Bronze	Christian Gille Thomas Wylenzek	Germany	1:41.964

Women's Canoeing K-2 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics	Hungary	1:41.308
Silver	Beata Mikolajczyk Aneta Konieczna	Poland	1:42.092
Bronze	Marie Delattre Anne-Laure Viard	France	1:42.128

Women's Cycling Cross-Country

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Sabine Spitz	Germany	1:45:11
Silver	Maja Wloszczowska	Poland	1:45:52
Bronze	Irina Kalentieva	Russia	1:46:28

Men's Diving 10 Meter Platform

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Matthew Mitcham	Australia	537.95
Silver	Luxin Zhou	China	533.15
Bronze	Gleb Galperin	Russia	525.80

Men's Field Hockey Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	N/A	Germany	N/A
Silver	N/A	Spain	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Australia	N/A

Men's Soccer Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	N/A	Argentina	N/A
Silver	N/A	Nigeria	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Brazil	N/A

Women's Gymnastics Rhythmic Individual All-Around

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Evgeniya Kanaeva	Russia	N/A
Silver	Inna Zhukova	Belarus	N/A
Bronze	Anna Bessonova	Ukraine	N/A

Women's Handball Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	N/A	Norway	N/A
Silver	N/A	Russia	N/A
Bronze	N/A	South Korea	N/A

Women's Synchronized Swimming Team

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Anastasia Davydova Anastasia Ermakova Maria Gromova Natalia Ishchenko Elvira Khasyanova Olga Kuzhela Svetlana Romashina Anna Shorina Yelena Ovchinnikova	Russia	N/A
Silver	Abla Maria Cabello Raquel Corral Andrea Fuentes Thias Henriquez Laura Lopez Gemma Mengual Irina Rodriguez Paoloa Tirados Gisela Moron	Spain	N/A
Bronze	Gu Beibei Jiang Tingting Jiang Wenwen Liu Ou Luo Xi Sun Qiuting Wang Na Zhang Xiaohuan Huang Xuechen	China	N/A

Men's Table Tennis Singles

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Ma Lin	China	N/A
Silver	Wang Hao	China	N/A
Bronze	Wang Liqin	China	N/A

Women's Taekwondo 67+ kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Maria Espinoza	Mexico	N/A
Silver	Nina Solheim	Norway	N/A
Bronze	Sarah Stevenson Natália Falavigna	Great Britain Brazil	N/A

Men's Taekwondo 80+ kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	Cha Dong-Min	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Alexandros Nikolaidis	Greece	N/A
Bronze	Chika Chukwumerije Arman Chilmanov	Nigeria Kazakhstan	N/A

Women's Volleyball Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Score
Gold	N/A	Brazil	N/A
Silver	N/A	United States	N/A
Bronze	N/A	China	N/A

August 22, 2008

Men's Athletics 50 Kilometer Walk

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Alex Schwazer	Italy	3:37:09
Silver	Jared Tallent	Australia	3:39:27
Bronze	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia	3:29:27

Women's Athletics Long Jump

Rank	Participant	Country	Distance
Gold	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	7.04
Silver	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	7.03
Bronze	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6.91

Men's Athletics Pole Vault

Rank	Participant	Country	Height
Gold	Steven Hooker	Australia	5.96
Silver	Yevgeny Lukyanenko	Russia	5.85
Bronze	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	5.70

Women's Athletics 5000 Meter

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	15:41.40
Silver	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	15:42.74
Bronze	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	15:44.12

Women's Athletics 4 X 100 Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Evgeniya Polyakova Aleksandra Fedoriva Yulia Gushchina Yuliya Chermoshanskaya	Russia	42.31
Silver	Olivia Borlée Hanna Mariën Élodie Ouédraogo Kim Gevaert	Belgium	42.54
Bronze	Franca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Halimat Ismaila Oludamola Osayomi Agnes Osazuwa	Nigeria	43.04

Men's Athletics Decathlon

Rank	Participant	Country	Points
Gold	Bryan Clay	United States	8791
Silver	Andrei Krauchanka	Belarus	8551
Bronze	Leonel Suárez	Cuba	8527

Men's Athletics 4 X 100 Meter Relay

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Usain Bolt Asafa Powell Dwight Thomas	Jamaica	37.10
Silver	Keston Bledman Marc Burns Emmanuel Callender Richard Thompson Aaron Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago	38.06
Bronze	Naoki Tsukahara Shingo Suetsugu Shinji Takahira Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	38.15

Men's Canoeing K-1 1000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Tim Brabants	Great Britain	3:26.323
Silver	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway	3:27.342
Bronze	Ken Wallace	Australia	3:27.485

Men's Canoeing C-1 1000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Attila Vajda	Hungary	3:50.467
Silver	David Cal	Spain	3:52.751
Bronze	Thomas Hall	Canada	3:53.653

Women's Canoeing K-4 500 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Conny Wassmuth	Germany	1:32.231
Silver	Katalin Kovács Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Nataša Janic	Hungary	1:32.971
Bronze	Lisa Oldenhof Hannah Davis Chantal Meek Lyndsie Fogarty	Australia	1:34.704

Men's Canoeing K-2 1000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Martin Hollstein Andreas Ihle	Germany	3:11.809
Silver	Kim Wraae Knudsen René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3:13.580
Bronze	Andrea Facchin Antonio Massimiliano Scaduto	Italy	3:14.750

Men's Canoeing C-2 1000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Andrei Bahdanovich Aliaksandr Bahdanovich	Belarus	3:36.365
Silver	Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	Germany	3:36.588
Bronze	György Kozmann Tamás Kiss	Hungary	3:40.258

Men's Canoeing K-4 1000 Meters

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Raman Piatrushenka Aliaksei Abalmasau Artur Litvinchuk Vadzim Makhneu	Belarus	2:55.714
Silver	Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlcek Juraj Tarr	Slovakia	2:56.593
Bronze	Lutz Altepost Norman Brockl Torsten Eckbrett Bjorn Goldschmidt	Germany	2:56.676

Women's Cycling BMX

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Anne-Caroline Chausson	France	35.976
Silver	Laëtitia Le Corguillé	France	38.042
Bronze	Jill Kintner	United States	38.674

Men's Cycling BMX

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Maris Štrombergs	Latvia	36.190
Silver	Mike Day	United States	36.606
Bronze	Donny Robinson	United States	36.972

Women's Field Hockey Tournament

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	N/A	Netherlands	N/A
Silver	N/A	China	N/A
Bronze	N/A	Argentina	N/A

Women's Modern Pentathlon

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Lena Schöneborn	Germany	N/A
Silver	Heather Fell	Great Britain	N/A
Bronze	Victoria Tereshuk	Ukraine	N/A

Women's Table Tennis Singles

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Zhang Yining	China	N/A
Silver	Wang Nan	China	N/A
Bronze	Guo Yue	China	N/A

Women's Taekwondo 67 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Hwang Kyung-Seon	South Korea	N/A
Silver	Karine Sergerie	Canada	N/A
Bronze	Sandra Šaric Gwladys Épangue	Croatia France	N/A

Men's Taekwondo 80 kg

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Hadi Saei	Iran	N/A
Silver	Mauro Sarmiento	Italy	N/A
Bronze	Zhu Guo Steven Lopez	China United States	N/A

Men's Volleyball Beach

Rank	Participant	Country	Time
Gold	Phil Dalhausser Todd Rogers	United States	N/A
Silver	Marcio Araujo Fabio Luiz Magalhães	Brazil	N/A
Bronze	Ricardo Santos Emanuel Rego	Brazil	N/A