The track and field events of the XXIX Olympiad concluded on Saturday. Here are the results:

The American women took the Gold Medal in the women’s 4×400m relay, with anchor Sanya Richards passing Russian, Anastasia Kapachinskaya in the final meters. The Russian women took the Silver Medal and the Jamaican team earned the Bronze. In addition to Richards, the US team included Allyson Felix, Monique Henderson, and Mary Weinberg.

Nancy Langat of Kenya took the Gold Medal in the women’s 1500m event, followed by Iryna Lishchynskia and Nataliya Tobias of Ukraine for the Silver and Bronze Medals, respectively. American Shannon Rowbury finished …read more

The woman to beat in the women’s high jump competition is not from the US or Russia or China. She’s a 24-year-old Croatian woman, Blanka Vlasic. Vlasic is named for the Moroccan port city of Casablanca, where her father competed in the 1983 Mediterranean Games at the time of her birth. She’s the current World Champion and 2008 World Indoor Champion.
Vlasic, 24, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, but failed to medal.

The match between Australia and Croatia resulted to a draw, 2-2. It secured a spot in the Cup’s Round of 16 [Stage 2], though. Brilliant!
After that news about Owen, I really needed this upper. And guess what? Harry Kewell played a big role in this last win. He scored the 4th goal of the match, the equaliser. I knew there’s a reason why I have a huge crush on him. Hahaha;)
Australia is certainly making history. Go Socceroos!
Photo credit: BBC Sport

Well, I’m talking about the Draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
It’s a list of the qualified countries divided into groups which will play during the finals group stage that can somehow be translated to a “how-to-get-rid-of-World-Cup-wannabes” process.
There is a mixture of opinions and emotions about the draw. I reckon particularly in Australia since it’s their first time to qualify for the World Cup in years only to get Brazil in the draw or England who got Sweden, a team they haven’t beaten in 37 years. But you’ll never know. I do believe that anything …read more