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

Thirty-six-year-old Satu Makela Nummela of Finland won the Gold Medal on Monday in the women’s trap shooting event, winning the second shooting medal for Finland of the day. She hit 21 of 25 target to best Zuzana Stefecekova of Slovakia.
Four women were tied for third at the end of the competition. American Corey Cogdell, at 21 the youngest competitor in the event, won the shoot-off for the Bronze Medal.
China’s Liu Yingzi, the favorite to win the competition, did not make it to the final round.
Finland’s Henri Hakkinen took the Bronze Medal in the men’s 10m air rifle event earlier in …read more

Abhinav Bindra, 24, bested the defending Olympic champion, Zhu Qinan of China, to win the Gold Medal in the men’s 10m air rifle competition. It is the first ever individual Gold Medal for India.
Bindra is the 2006 World Champion in this event and finished seventh in the Athens Games.
The Bronze Medal went to Henri Hakkinen of Finland.

Here are the four candidate cities for the First Winter Olympic Youth Games 2012, listed in no particular order:
Harbin (China)
Innsbruck (Austria)
Kuopio (Finland)
Lillehammer (Norway)
Now briefed and oriented with the concept of the Youth Olympic Games, these cities will now prepare their respective candidature files which will be submitted on 19 June 2008. The IOC will then evaluate draw up the shortlist by August 2008 and the shortlisted cities will be announced by December 2008.
Good luck to them all!
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In Ice Hockey, I heard that Sweden is the country to watch out for in the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
They are the first country to win both the Olympic gold and the World title in the same year. They beat Finland in the last Winter Olympics in Torino and beat the defending champion, Czech Republic in the Hockey World Championships.
Quite impressive, eh? Well, wait till you hear that no team has ever managed to win the double in international hockey. There have only been six instances that the Olympics and World Championships were played on separate tournaments in …read more