Women sport news

Lady Taveners’ President and former England women’s cricket captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint OBE will be at Lord’s tomorrow to make a cheque presentation for £25,884 to the ECB for The Lady Taverners Girls Cricket Competition.

Records tumbled at Lord's where Caroline Atkins and Sarah Taylor put their names up on the famous home dressing room honours board as England thrashed South Africa by 225 runs. photo Don Miles

BEIJING (Olympics) - China are hosts while Team USA and Australia are the gold medal favorites but one team that no one is discounting is Russia.

BEIJING (Olympics) - A convincing second-half performance against world championship semifinalists Brazil has set the NZ Tall Ferns up nicely for their Olympic opener in Beijing on Saturday.

The OB Cues Ladies Tour did a first on the weekend of July 26th-27th at Magoo's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Our stop at Magoo's this year was an inaugural event as we held our first Oklahoma State Women's 9-Ball Championship. As with all State Women's 9-Ball Championships, these are WPBA Qualifiers for the U.S. Open and pros are invited to play.

The Australian water polo team fine-tuned their training at outside venues today in preparation for the start of 2008 Olympic Games competition.

Having successfully completed the first Waterski Stop of the 2008 Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup series in Dubna, Russia last week, the event now moves on to the first 2008 Wakeboard Stop ever staged in Egypt.

The countdown clock has reached zero days to go, and the 2008 Olympic Games gets underway with the Opening Ceremony at 2008hrs in Beijing tonight. (1308 BST)

Winter Olympians are heading to China! Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) and silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO) might not be competing in the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing, but they'll be in the midst of the action all the same. Each will embark across the globe on journalistic endeavors working for NBC and Yahoo! Sports.

Day one of the archery competition begins with the women's ranking Round at the Olympic Green Archery Field on Saturday 9 August. photo FITA

Team USA's Shalane Flanagan, Kara Goucher, Deena Kastor, Anna Willard and Jenny Barringer are a few of the standout women's middle and long distance runners to watch for at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Today, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has taken further action to promote Paralympic sports and the Paralympic Movement by launching a Channel on YouTubeT, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos.

U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team Head Coach "Jenny" Lang Ping, Danielle Scott-Arruda and Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) participated in a United States Olympic Committee Press Conference in Beijing. photo US Volleyball

Are the citizens of the People’s Republic of China ready to have some fun? The U.S. beach volleyball teams are ready to help bring some West Coast style to the Far East this August.

Check out one of HTC's very own, #3 Brandy Jones, as she plays against the Legends of the WNBA in a Charity events for FEMALE athletes...The Basketball game is this Saturday, August 9th, 2008 for 5pm at Barnett Field House...Let's support her and her team the Houston Jaguars as they are raising funds for Lynette Woodard's All-Star Charity Weekend.

The stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour hope to shine brightly in Beijing this week, as the Olympic Tennis Event takes place at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in the Chinese capital.

Having won the toss South African captain, Cri-Zelda Brits opted to bowl and put England into bat. The hosts’ openers, Sarah Taylor and Caroline Atkins, made a solid start for England putting on 99 for the first wicket before Taylor was caught and bowled by Sunette Loubser after reaching 56, her fourth international half-century. photo Christopher Lee

England Women’s Cricket Team who recently powered to victory over Australia when they retained the Ashes down under, will play South Africa in two NatWest Women’s one-day internationals at Shenley Cricket Centre on August 11 and 14 2008. photo Christopher Lee

Live ball-by-ball commentary of England Women v South Africa Women will be available on the Lord’s website (www.lords.org). photo Christopher Lee

Shannon Bahrke (Tahoe City, CA) is by no means your average moguls skier. The Olympic silver medalist may seem like she runs bumps all day long, but with a passion for things like coffee, race cars, music and the color pink, Bahrke turns the ordinary into the extraordinary in a way only she knows how.

Designed and developed in association with The British Army Physical Training Corps (APTC), the PT-03 DESERT Running Shoe survived final wear testing in the extreme heat of Afghanistan whilst the PT-03 WINTER

At the Olympic Session in Beijing today, the International Archery Federation’s President, Prof. Dr. Ugur Erdener from Turkey, has been officially elected as a new International Olympic Committee (IOC) Member. Mr Sergey Bubka, from Ukraine, was also awarded this honour.

Korea has won all five women's archery titles since the team competition format was first included in the Olympic Games 20 years ago, and is again expected to be the team to beat at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. photo FITA

Led by some of the world's most accomplished track and field athletes, Team USA's throwers are ready to challenge the world's best at the 2008 Olympic Games this month in Beijing, China.

From 1 to 4 August, the 2008 International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS) took place in Guangzhou, China.

Having overseen the establishment of the highly-successful ANZ Championship featuring elite netball teams from Australia and New Zealand, General Manager Tony Holding is handing over the reins.