Scenes from the Bird’s Nest – August 22
August 23, 2008 by Sandy Mitchell
Filed under Sports Rumors
The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:
In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of Ethiopia for the Bronze Medal.
Dibaba also won the Gold Medal in the women’s 10,000 event. She is the first woman to win both long distance events in a single Olympics. American Kara Goucher finished ninth.
In the womens long jump competition, Brazil’s Maurren Higa Maggi …read more
Medal Tally – Melbourne 2006
March 30, 2006 by Sasha Manuel
Filed under Sports Rumors
The XVIII Commonwealth Games has been over for almost a week and I haven’t posted the final medal count till now. I’m terribly sorry about the delay. Anyway, like before, do let me know if I messed up with my math somewhere.
AUSTRALIA
84 69 68 221
ENGLAND
36 40 34 110
CANADA
26 29 31 86
INDIA
22 17 11 50
SOUTH AFRICA
12 13 13 38
