Liu Chunhong of China earned the Gold Medal in the women’s 69kg weighlifting event, the 6th Gold for the Chinese weighlifters. Liu, the defending Olympic champion in this event, set a world record in the snatch, the clean and jerk, and in total points.
Oxana Silvenko of Russia earned the Silver Medal and Natalya Davydova of Ukraine was awarded the Bronze.

Michael Phelps continues to show that he is worthy of all of the pre-Olympic hype as he set yet another World Record last night at the US Olympic Qualifying Meet in Omaha–this one in the men’s 200m individual medley. Phelps, driven by a great performance from 2nd place finisher, Brian Lochte, completed the race with a time of 1:54.98. Both men will compete in the event in Beijing. Here is a video of the race:

Athens Olympic champion Zhu Qinan, who smashed the world record of men’s 10m air rifle with 703.7 points at the Chinese City Games, was gearing up to defend his Olympic title in Beijing.
“My aim is the gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,” said Zhu. “If the Olympic Games open tomorrow, I am ready now.” Men’s 10-meter air rifle champion in Athens, the sharpshooter from Wenzhou of east China’s Zhejiang Province admitted that his goal in the ongoing City Games was not to break the world record, but the national one.
In fact, the national record of men’s 10-meter air …read more

Sprint and Relay Specialist Shirley Strickland de la Hunty was known to be a great athlete, competing in the sport, athletics, mainly in relay. She is also a record-breaker. She is the first woman to win seven Olympic medals and to successfully defend her Olympic title in the 80m hurdles (1952-1956).
Here’s a brief overview of career as an athlete and her stint in the Olympics:
In three successive Olympic Games, Shirley Strickland competed in the 4×100m relay:
London 1948: Shirley’s first Olympic Games, at the age of 23. The Australian women had to make do with silver behind the Dutch team, …read more

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American swimmer, Michael Phelps is a Baltimore native who has won seven gold medals and set five world records in his career, so far. Sheesh. He’s only 22 years old!
Phelps is also the current holder of four Olympic records and four individual and two team world long distance records. During 2004 Athens Games, he won six gold medals and two bronze ones. And currently holding 12 world titles.
How impressive a track record is that?! Goodness.

He goes by the name of Liu Xiang. He’s the superstar hurdler of China.
Liu broke the world record last 2006 in Luasanne, Switzerland. He clocked 12.88 seconds.
He’s currently scheduled to compete in the following 2007 competitions:

Osaka Grand Prix – May
Eugene Grand Prix – June
Shanghai’s Golden Grand Prix – September

However, his top target for 2007 is winning a World Championships title in Osaka, Japan.
The 23-year old Liu is an Olympic gold medallist during the 2004 Athens Games.
Source: People’s Daily Online

“Grant Hackett will continue to race Ian Thorpe.” The article began.
It’s been all over the news how everyone, athletes and fans alike, have been voicing out how it’s been too soon for Ian Thorpe to retire from his career. Thorpe and Grant Hackett have been household names in the Australian pools.
Also, according to the article, even when Thorpe won’t be competing in the upcoming world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hackett will continue to race as if the former was there. He’s working on beating Thorpe’s world record of 3 minutes and 40.08 seconds in the 400 …read more

Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion, Anna Meares, today broke her own World Record for the 500m time trial in the morning session of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome today.
The 23 year-old Queenslander posted a time of 33.944 sec to take eight thousandths off the mark she set to win gold at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. — cyclingnews.com
Really makes you wonder just how much effort and heart some athletes put into their game. Meares wasn’t just content for achieving something like a world record, she matched it, er, exceeded it the second …read more

Since we’re on the topic of world records and the 100m event, I thought I’d feature this bit of trivia on the evolution of the 100 metres world record.

10.6 Donald Lippincott (US) 1912
10.4 Charles Paddock (US) 1921
10.3 Percy Williams (Canada) 1930
10.2 Jesse Owens (US) 1936
10.1 Willie Williams (US) 1956
10.0 Armin Hary (West Germany) 1960
9.95 Jim Hines (US) 1968
9.93 Calvin Smith (US) 1983
9.92 Carl Lewis (US) 1988
9.90 Leroy Burrell (US) 1991
9.86 Lewis 1991
9.85 Burrell 1994
9.84 Donovan Bailey (Canada) 1996
9.79 Maurice Greene (US) 1999
9.78 Tim Montgomery (US) 2002
9.77 Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 2005

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