Olympic Updates
August 10, 2008 by admin
Filed under Sports Rumors
By Guest Blogger Bo Durkop
In Sunday morning’s events swimming dominated the news. Michael Phelps earned his first Olympic Gold of the 2008 Beijing games, shattering his previous record in the Men’s 400-meter individual medley. With one event down, Phelps still has seven more gold medals to win in order to surpass Mark Spitz record for most gold medals won in a single olympics. Spitz won his seven gold medals during the 1972 Olympics.
Several countries made good showings today in Beijing. In the Women’s 400-meter individual medley, Stephanie Rice of Australia won the gold medal in record fashion with a mark of 4 minutes and 29 seconds.
Australia was not so fortunate in the men’s 400 freestyle. Grant Hackett, though he at one point led the race and was favored to win it, finished sixth. It was Park Tae-hwan of South Korea who won the gold medal.
In Women’s Gymnastics, China recieved an outstanding performance from Deng Linlin on the vault. Despite a poor exhibition by He Kexin on the uneven bars, China remains far ahead of its closet competitor Romania. As America prepares for Sunday’s qualification, the team will have to do so without Samantha Peszek, who sprained her left ankle during warmups.
Among the competitions continuing tomorrow are basketball, boxing, rowing, badminton and fencing.
