Olympics Games 2008- Beijing : Results / expectations and discussion thread

Today is the first day of medal events in Olympics at Beijing.

The first Gold Medal was won by Katerina Emmons of Czech Republic in Women`s 10 m air rifle.



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She was a bronze medalist in Athens and she improved here with specacular performance.

Defending champion Du Lin from china returned disappointed wiht fifth finish.

The way world athletes are performing i dont think India will have any medals in shooting.

Well Chinese were gung Ho about getting the gold in 10m actually. I saw Chinese news sites wanted that medal to kick start a great campaign


Btw i cam across this interesting news about the Olympics Opening ceremony
Beijing disperses rain to dry Olympic night -- china.org.cn
Last i think this happened was when the Russians did it as part of (world war D day celebrations)? in Moscow. The Chinese have just taken it further.

China gets its first gold medal in weightlifting.

In womens 48 kgs category chinese champion chen outclassed everone by a huge margin by lifting 212 kg. and creating a olympic record.

got more update on cycling.

13:52 ICT 137.4km/108km to go
3h51 of racing as the peloton passes the finish line to start the final three loops. It is 3'40" behind the leaders.

Gerald Ciolek (Germany)
Photo ©: Roberto Bettini

13:52 ICT
Gerald Ciolek (Germany) retires from the race.

13:58 ICT
The Sastre group of 24...
Marzio Bruseghin (Italy)
Carlos Sastre (Spain)
Bert Grabsch (Germany)
Jens Voigt (Germany)
Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
Aleksandr Kuschynski (Belarus)
Rémi Pauriol (France)
Gatis Smukulis (Latvia)
Jurgen Van den Broeck (Belgium)
Ryder Hesjedal (Canada)
Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)
Kim Kirchen (Luxembourg)
Murilo Fischer (Brazil)
Simon Gerrans (Australia)
Matija Kvasina (Croatia)
Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)
Jan Valach (Slovakia)
Petr Bencik (Czech Republic)
Borut Bozic (Slovenia)
Tadej Valjavec (Slovenia)
Andrey Mizourov (Kazakhstan)
Ruslan Podgornyy (Ukraine)
Stef Clement (Netherlands)
Dainius Kairelis (Lithuania)

The leaders have 3'15" over the peloton led mostly a Russia-USA alliance.


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Am there only

First of all, please shoot the DD production team
How foolish can it get. 17km to go they start showing football match of women's team
And top it all after that an interview with Kalmadi These foolish federations won't even let us watch a sport and they want the sport to develop :2

Anyway,, Surprize suprize (and rubbing salt on the wound, the DD team is bragging about how good the sprint was at the end between 6 riders but no one showed the highlights ) Samuel Sanchez won it for Spain
Considering he has Valverde, Sastre, Contador for company, how good was that guy

Final Results
Gold - SANCHEZ Samuel Spain
Silver - REBELLIN Davide Italy
Bronze - CANCELLARA Fabian


Andy Schleck was fifth(We have a champion coming for next tour de france)
Cycling - Road Men's Road Race Partial Results - The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games

DD is showing a delayed highlights now
EDIT
What morons They showed the race till 1 km to go and then stopped it and went to gymnastics
Lame.. This is what happens when you get the rights of a major sporting event just like that. They are showing sports for the sake of it

Cancellara was absolutely flying today(i thought he would save himself for the timetrial)
None of the biggies were even in contention

Cancellara was amazing.... he came flying through, picked up a flagging Mickey & the Russian and dragged them all through for a six man sprint to the finish..........

I was so happy for Sanchez & Rebellin, (who's 37 today... silver's a pretty nice present), Schleck looked upset with himself, maybe he thought there was still enough time to make his final move... He's deffo someone to watch for next years Tour

DD,

DD,

DD

i had to catch the action on internet in words due to idotic editing of DD.

lame lame lame lame

anyways sanchez run fabulous race. contador was down out way back because of acceleration for Valverde. but in the last lap the group was all in disarray.

Stephanie Rice took gold for Australia in the women's 400 metre individual swimming, coincidently, it was the 400th medal Australia has ever won in Olympic competition.... Pleased for her