The men’s individual gymnastics competition concluded on Tuesday. The Chinese made a strong showing, seizing three of the four individual Gold Medals. Below are the results:
In the horizontal bar, Zou Kai of China earned the Gold Medal. Jonathon Horton of the United States took the Silver Medal and Fabian Hambuechen of Germany took the Bronze.
On the parallel bars, Li Xiaoping of China earned the Gold Medal. Yoo Wonchui of South Korea earned the Silver and Anton Fokin of Uzebekistan earned the Bronze.
On the vault, Leszek Blanik of Poland took the Gold Medal, Thomas Bouhil of France earned the Silver and …read more

The action continues over at the National Stadium. Here’s what happened on Tuesday:

In the women’s 100m hurdles, Dawn Harper of the United States won the Gold Medal, followed by Sally McLellan of Australia for the Silver Medal and Canada’s Priscilla Lopes-Schliep for the Bronze. Favorite and two-time indoor champion, Lolo Jones of the United States led the race before stumbling on the 9th hurdle. She ended up finishing seventh.

There was similar drama in the women’s 400m event. Great Britain’s Christine Ohurogu won the Gold Medal, followed by Shericka Williams of Jamaica for the Silver. Sanya Richards of the United States, …read more

Poland’s Tomasz Majewski won the Gold Medal in the shot put event, topping American Christian Cantwell, the two-time indoor world champion and the favorite to win the event. Cantwell took the Silver and Andrei Mikhnevich of Belraus was awarded the Bronze Medal.
Canada’s Dylan Armstrong finished in fourth place, missing a medal by just one centimeter.

The Olympic sailing events got underway in the Chinese port city of Qingdao on Saturday with a few unexpected results. American Zach Railey (pictured above), a first-time Olympian, finished the first Finn race ahead of three-time British medalist and favorite to win the men’s sailing event, Ben Ainsle, and finished the day at #2 after two of eleven races.
The winner of the first race, Greek Emilios Papathanasiou failed to finish the second race. Rafal Szukiel of Poland led overall after the two races, placing third and second.
Sailing resumes on Sunday.

The field is set for the Beijing Olympics in women’s volleyball. The final four of the twelve teams were chosen at the World Women’s Olympic Qualifying Match in Japan this weekend. Added to the roster are Poland (pictured above), Kazakhstan, Serbia, and Japan. They join the United States, China, Italy, Brazil, Algeria, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.
The volleyball matches will be held from August 9-23.
(photo © Newscom)

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