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 Olympic track and field meet continued at the Bird’s Nest on Wednesday. In addition to Usain Bolt’s spectacular finish in the men’s 200m event, here is what happened:

Jamaica’s Melaine Walker won the Gold Medal in the women’s 400m hurdles event. Sheena Johnson of the United States took the Silver Medal and Tasha Danvers of Great Britain earned the Bronze.

In the women’s 20 km walk, Russia’s Olga Kaniskina prevailed in the rainy Beijing weather to win the Gold Medal, setting a new Olympic record of 1:26:31. Kjersti Tysse Platzer of Norway won the Silver Medal and Elisa Rigaudo of …read more

The Americans may have had a solid lead coming into the final day of the equestrian jumping competition, but the Canadians brought their best effort today, moving from fourth to tie for first at the end of the regular competition. Anchored by 61-year-old Ian Miller, the Canadian riders had two clear rides and one four-penalty ride in the final round, compared to the United States’ one clear ride.
The jump-off couldn’t have been closer. All three US riders had clear rides as well as two of the three Canadian riders. The third rider for Canada dropped a rail, leaving them …read more

Vincent Hancock, 19, of the United States became the second member of the US Army Marksmanship Unit to win a Gold Medal in shooting at the Beijing Games when he won the skeet shooting event on Friday. Hancock hit 121 of 125 targets in the qualifying round and a perfect 25/25 in the final. He tied with Norway’s Tore Brovold in the competition, but won when Brovold missed one of his targets in the shoot-off. Anthony Terras of France won the Bronze Medal.
Glenn Eller of the United States, also of the US Army Marksmanship Unit, won Gold in the double …read more

World records were breaking again today at the “water cube” in Beijing. Here is a summary of all of the action:

Rebecca Soni of the United States set a new world record of 2:20.22 in her Gold Medal win in the women’s 200m breast stroke event. She was followed by Leisel Jones of Australia, the former world record holder, for the Silver Medal and Sara Nordenstam of Norway for the Bronze.

Germany’s Britta Steffen won the Gold Medal in the women’s 100m freestyle event, setting a new Olympic record of 53.12. She was followed by Lisbeth Trickett of Australia and Natalie Coughlin …read more

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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