BEIJING (Olympics) – Amaya Valdemoro was hampered by injuries in the build-up to the Olympics but the Spain veteran is starting to look like her old self again. photo FIBA Beijing 08
BEIJING (Olympics) – Russia led world champions Australia by as many as 16 points in the first half but the Opals increased the intensity on defense and finally found a way to score in 75-55 triumph. photo FIBA Beijing 08
(BEIJING, August 17) -- Britta Steffen of Germany sealed the sought-after Freestyle sprint double as she took gold in the Women's 50m Freestyle in an Olympic record of 24.06 seconds at the National Aquatics Center on Sunday, adding to the 100m Freestyle gold she won on Friday.
Beijing, China (August 17).— The Aussie Stingers are through to the semifinals of the Olympic Games women’s water polo competition following a nail-biting 12-11 quarterfinal victory over China at the Yingdong Natatorium here today.
Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb today become only the second British female athletes in history to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals after claiming Yngling class victory with crew Pippa Wilson at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Sailing Regatta in Qingdao this afternoon.
Beijing, China (August 18, 2008)—Day four of Olympic track cycling at the Laoshan Velodrome ended on a sour note for the U.S. squad after Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif.) crashed out of the women’s points race and Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.) was eliminated from medal contention with a quarterfinal loss in the women’s match sprint. photo US Cycling
(BEIJING, August 17) -- Rebecca Romero of Great Britain became the first British female athlete to win medals in two different Summer Olympic Games sports with a gold medal ride in the Women's Individual Pursuit on Sunday.
China won the Women's Quadruple Sculls Rowing gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics on Sunday, clocking 6:16.06 seconds in the final. Britain took the silver in 6:17.37, while Germany claimed the bronze in 6:19.56.
BEIJING, August 17) -- The United States, silver medalist at the Athens Olympics in the Women's Eight, claimed gold with a time of 6:05.34. The Netherlands earned silver with a time of 6:07.22, just 0.03 seconds ahead of third-place Romania.
Shawn added a third Olympic medal to her count, taking silver in the floor individual finals today. Romania’s Sandra Izbasa was first and teammate Nastia Liukin finished third. With Shawn's All-around and Team silver medals, she is now one of the most decorated U.S. gymnasts in Olympic history. Congratulations Shawn!
He Wenna of China claimed the Trampoline Women's gold medal with a score of 37.80 on Monday.Canada's Karen Cockburn took the silver and Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Khilko took the bronze.
The “Elite Eight†for the women’s Beach Volleyball competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is set with a lot of familiar faces, except for the young Austrian sisters after Doris and Stefanie Schwaiger gained a spot for the quarter-finals here Friday by upsetting the 2008 European champions. photo FIVB Beijing 08
Elena Dementieva and Dinara Safina moved into the gold medal match with straight set semifinal wins on Saturday. A medal sweep could be within reach, as Vera Zvonareva fights Li Na for bronze.
Team GB's Rebecca Adlington picked up her second individual gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is true style. She smashed the longest standing Women's world record and wrote her way into the record books, becoming the first British women to have won two individual swimming gold medals at the Olympic Games.
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe had a very strong swim, getting her first gold medal and first world record of these Games to add to the three silver medals she picked up earlier in the week. Previous world record holder Margaret Hoelzer (USA) finished second in 2:06.23 and Reiko Nakamura (JPN) finishing third in 2:07.13.
Forty-one year old Dara Torres (USA) qualified as fastest in 24.27, with Cate Campbell (AUS) second fastest in 24.42 and Britta Steffen third fastest qualifier in 24.43. World champion and world record holder Lisbeth Trickett (AUS) qualified fifth fastest in 24.47.
Jenna Sligar (Tempe, Ariz.) and Betsy Harris (Taylors, S.C.) won national overall titles in respective divisions Thursday as the 66th annual GOODE Water Ski National Championships, presented by Speedo, continued at Okeeheelee Park. The world's largest three-event water ski tournament, which began Tuesday, runs through Saturday.
(BEIJING, August 16) -- Thirty-three-year-old Zhang Ning fought against all odds to defend her Badminton Women's Singles title on August 16 after defeating her teammate Xie Xingfang in the final.
Rumyana Neykova from Bulgaria claimed the Women's Single Sculls title at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, clocking seven minutes and 22.34 seconds in the final. Michelle Guerette from the United States took the sliver in 7:22.78, while Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus got the bronze in 7:23.98.
(BEIJING, August 16) -- Pre-race favorites Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu of Romania grabbed gold in Rowing Women's Pair with a time of 7:20.60. Wu You of Gao Yulan of China finished with a time of 7:22.28, edging out Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh of Belarus by just .63 seconds to take silver.
(BEIJING, August 15) -- Russia has claimed the gold medal in the final of the Women's Team Sabre competition with a win of 28-11 over the United States at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 16.
BEIJING - Team USA's women had a relatively easy time in qualifying rounds Saturday morning at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium. Plus quotes. photo PA
New Zealand Shot star Valarie Vili won the Olympic Gold medal with a throw of 20.56, she won with her first throw out of 6. Silver and bronze went to Team Belarus Natallia Mikhnevich 20.28 and Nadzeya Ostapchuk 19.86.
Hyleas Fountain (Kettering, Ohio) became the only American woman other than Jackie Joyner-Kersee ever to win an Olympic medal in the heptathlon, coming away with a bronze-medal performance of 6,619 points.
The United States advanced two women’s teams to the quarter-finals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games along with Beach Volleyball pairs from Australia and China during the first of two sessions here Friday.
England Women’s Cricket Team will take on South Africa in the final match of the NatWest Women’s Series and the first of three NatWest Women’s International Twenty20s at Chesterfield on August 18 and 20, 2008 respectively.
