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

Germany’s Matthias Steiner is rightly the “Strongest Man in the World,” having won the super-heavyweight (105kg) Olympic weightlifting competition on Tuesday for the Gold Medal. He heaved an incredible 461kg (1016.3 lbs) and lifted 258kg (568.8 lbs) in the clean and jerk, besting Russian Eugeni Chigishev, the Silver Medalist, and Latvia’s Viktors Scerbaiths, the current world champion.At the medal ceremony, Steiner took out a picture of his wife Susanna, who died in 2007 in a car accident. Said Steiner, “I thought of her before the competition. I won this for her, for friends and family. But mostly for her.”