Mexican Bibiana Candelas and Mayra Garcia victory in beach volleyball Olympic, after defeating Greece two sets to one
Bibiana Candelas played with a lot of momentum
Beijing - The Mexican Bibiana Candelas and Mayra Garcia got his first victory in beach volleyball Olympic Games of Beijing 2008 to imposed by two sets to one to the Greek team, and remain in the quarrel within the Group F.
Candelas and Garcia won in 53 minutes of play, a partial 21-17, 16-21 and 15-12, the Greek Vasiliki Karantasiou and Vasiliki Arvaniti, who added his second defeat in a row and were eliminated in the summer fair.
The pair began tricolor so Aguerre the encounter, as had the pressure of having lost in his debut with the Brazilian, so the victory was vital to continue living in the beach volleyball tournament being held in the Chaoyang Field.
The Greek went cold and could not be planted at ease in the sand so it lost several points due to a lack of communication, and gave battle but could not avoid defeat and the Mexican took the first by 21-17.
In the second period had a little trouble in the blockades and distribution area, because despite the high altitude of Candelas, block cost him a couple of Karantasiou auctions, which ended in points.
The Mexican managed to overcome a handicap of four points, and although they went up by a point when they arrived at 11 units, an oversight that succeeded the cartwheel at the end left the set 16-21 against.
So they went to 15 points, the first to achieve what could aspire to qualify in the tournament, so Candelas and Garcia had a good combination and became a machine points to achieve imposed 15-12.
The next meeting which will be playing for his Mexican go to the next round before the Austrian Doris Schwaiger and Stefanie Schwaiger the August 14.
Outcome of the meeting for the group F of the beach volleyball tournament of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: Candelas / Garcia (MEX) Karantasiou / Arvaniti (GRE) 21-17, 16-21 and 15-12.
Michael Phelps won a gold on the same day that China triumphed in the gymnastics men
The U.S. is going for his brand of eight gold in Beijing
BEIJING - The American swimmer Michael Phelps is the greatest sensation of the Games: on Tuesday added his third gold in Beijing on Wednesday and could become the most laureate Olympic athlete in history with ten titles.
United States and Spain joined his second triumph in the men’s basketball competition, while Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal advance with solvency in the tennis tournament.
The newt Baltimore, which won in the 200 free with a consequent world record (1:42.96), equalled his compatriot Mark Spitz with nine gold and metals is a step to overcome all records.
Phelps can also leave behind other legendary athletes who won nine gold, as the Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi, Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina and American athlete Carl Lewis.
Without forgetting its challenge round the neck of eight gold in Beijing. Still remaining five.
U.S. account of their basketball games by beating. Today was the victim Angola (97-76), while the world champion, Spain, suffered for a break in the additional 85-75 to host an exhibition of china with Pau Gasol, author of 29 points.
Argentina defender of gold, is rehizo his initial defeat to Lithuania and straightened the path to crush Australia by 85-68.
Rafael Nadal does not feel dizzy and being the only Spanish representative in the individual table tennis. The future of world number one Lleyton Hewitt overwhelmed the Australian, who until now had always lost in fast track, and only three games left to score (6-1 and 6-2).
The Salvadoran Rafael Arevalo went with their heads high before the Swiss Roger Federer, who needed eighty minutes to defeat Central American, who at times it complicated life for even better racket in the world (6-2 and 6-4).
Argentina v Australia
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Argentina recovered to win before Australia
Nicolas Massu will not be able to revalidate in Beijing gold in Athens because it beat the Argentine David Nalbandian, but has not lost the illusion that nothing else lose Olympic commented to the press which is already thinking of the Games in London.
The advantage in china medallero is more apparent each day. With 13 gold in four days almost doubled since the United States, which holds 7.
The success by the most precious moment of the Chinese is made on Tuesday in the competition in artistic gymnastics team, relegating the Americans to bronze.
Korea maintains the third largest of medallero (5 gold) and three titles include Italy, Australia, Japan and Germany. Russia on Tuesday was achieved its first two gold medals.
The table of honour at the Games already has a new tenant. Canoeing Benjamin Boukpeti, bronze in the test of K-1 canoeing in the waters Brave, gave him the first medal in its history to Togo.
Mexico also was installed in medallero in Beijing with his first presea, bronze Paola Espinoza and Tatiana Ortiz in the platform synchronized jumps.
The quarter-finals of female football are already served. Argentina lost all three matches and was eliminated. Brazil, however, demonstrated its potential to at least repeat the silver in Athens four years ago.
The Brazilian will be measured by one seat in semifinals to Norway. The other pairings are United States-Canada, China-Japan-Germany and Sweden.
Brazil is on track to retain the gold - volleyball Olympic games
The world and Olympic champions Serbia and went to send in Group B, while Venezuela fell again defeated by a tight 3 to 2.
Brazil, which on Tuesday beat Serbia, keeps intact its goals revalidate the Olympic gold, while Venezuela, debutant all in a Game, away from their own, after losing against China, in a game again agónico resolved in the fifth set.
Brazil started poorly and lost the first set. Perhaps the absence of best player in the world, Giba, a small lesion in the right shoulder, was the cause. The ball did not have the joy of other occasions, but as the beast was injured and began manufacturing volleyball fell to the powerful selection serbia almost to nothing.
When Brazil decided to receipt, other aspects of the game began to flow as if by magic. Pressing on defense, the selection of world and Olympic champion, recovered more balls, gave them his best output and attack became more effective, with Dante and Murilo as leaders in that foundation, contributing 17 points each.
Brazil has two victories in two matches and keeps well in high aspirations high.
The cross of the coin is Venezuela, which again reached the fifth set and lost again, at the last minute and against China.
With the 2-2, the Capital Gymnasium was a pressure cooker. Every point is struggling to death, shouting, protests, everything. A couple of questionable actions decided the arbitration for the local team and in the end, Venezuela lost the match.
Group B will complete the triumph of Russia on Germany by 3-2, as well as Poland beat Egypt (0-3). Now Brazil, Russia and Poland sent two victotias.
In other matches, the United States cede after the first set, to beat Italy by 3-1 in Group A, being one of the leaders of the same, along with Bulgaria to apabulló to Japan by 3 to 1.
Jelena Jankovic and Jackie Chan at Olympic games party
Jelena Jankovic play very good at Olympic games. She won in second round of Olypic games against Bondarenko 7:5, 6:1.She has problem with leg but she plays good tennis. Last night was great Olympic games party where are Jackie Chan famous actor.
What a picture….
The women’s gymnastics teams make war at Olympic games 2008
BEIJING - China (248275 points), United States (246800) and Russia (244400) shared escaped and left behind the other nine countries participating in the women’s artistic gymnastics competition of the Games, and are forced to make their way toward a codazos the top of the podium at the end of next Wednesday.
Romanian, Australian, French, Japanese and Brazilian’ll be in the final round, which remained outside the German, Italian, Ukrainian, fourth in Athens and the British.
For Brazil, reaching the finals is a collective show of force long sought after numerous individual medals won in recent years in continental and world championships.
Jade Barbosa, the surprise of 2007 with its world bronze, also played the final of eventing, after the twelfth better note, as well as the jump, and Daiana the Holy Land, now liberated from the nerves that gave the fifth Square in Athens despite came as world champion of the apparatus.
Spain had not classified his team for Beijing and its only two representatives, Laura Campos and Lenika de Simone, were eliminated from any final after a bad race, admitted as the selector Jesus Carballo. End in posts 47 and 49.
At the top, the Chinese gymnasts, who have never won the Olympic gold team, won today 248275 points, 246800 and 244400 U.S. from Russia, silver and bronze in Athens but they have completely changed their selections, with the exception Russian Anna Pavlova.
China moved to head in the first subdivision of the four disputed today and the day ended there. Yang Yilin took command, always above the 15-note, and gave the final push on with an asymmetrical 16650 which was the best score of the day.
His companion He Kexin, who was accused before the Games did not have the minimum age to compete (must be fulfilled in 2008, 16), to cut breathing National Stadium with a loose impossible in the same apparatus, but then fell in a much easier. With fall including his note was 15725 and will have a new opportunity in the bottom of this modality.
He holds the record for points in asymmetric with the 17,300 achieved this May.
The veteran Cheng Fei gave a jump in new exhibition (15912) and in soil and received the biggest show of public affection. Entered into those two finals and the bar.
The Americans shone a leap and slash and staged falls or exits in asymmetrical and soil, but not so severe as to distance itself from China.
The individual world champion Shawn Johnson spared no effort to immediately put in the head and accumulated 62725 points. Nastia Liukin follows with the 62375, two ahead of the local Yang Yilin, 62350.
Samantha Peszek injured left ankle during training and was only able to leave on an apparatus, the parallel when he was scheduled to make four.
Vanessa Ferari
Russia, plus third placed teams, got Ksenia Semenov, world and European champion asymmetrical, in fourth place and Anna Pavlova in the fifth in the individual classification, which leads to the best 24 in the final.
Ksenia Afanasyeva was sixth, but the limit of two per country outside the leave.
Among the more refined the Romanian was the runner global Steliana Nistor (60500), but the team does not seem capable of approaching that won gold in Athens.
It was also revealed as the public favorite Chinese veteran of the competition, the German Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbek origin. Sixteen years after winning gold in Barcelona 92 with the Unified Team, and now 33, Chusovitina was not only the best of all German, but was also put in the finals and individual jumping.
It came out in the last diagonal of a flashy floor exercise, but as always left an impression of serenity which is a balm for gymnastics. When asked to exit for its withdrawal, nor did not want to comment in jest: “I feel young and perfectly. I will withdraw when the time comes,” he said.
The Italian Vanessa Ferrari, the only western European who has been world champion in 2006, accused the injury suffered by the Achilles tendon. Lower the difficulty of departure for their exercises, but still fell from the parallel bar and balances. It is also in the final individual if his ailment is not what prevents.
Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic withdraws from the Olympic games 2008
BEIJING - The serbia Ana Ivanovic, number one female circuit in recent weeks, which will no longer be on Monday in favour of his compatriot Jelena Jankovic, announced its withdrawal from the Olympic Games in Beijing as a result of an injury to the thumb of his right hand.
The serbia is, at this time, the world’s No. 1
The tennis player from Belgrade, Roland Garros champion and first favourite table Beijing 2008, should face the Ukrainian Mariya Koryttseva in the first round of the tournament female, was unable to recover from his ailment and cope with competition, which was one of large claims.
Ivanovic admitted that he was unable exercised over these days by an illness that began to suffer a month ago. The Serbian team doctor recommended that he not play and take more time off.
“It’s one of the most difficult moments in my career. I’m very disappointed,” said Ivanovic, facing his first participation in Beijing Olympic.
Doctors have given a deadline of two weeks to recover from the hand of the tennis player, who still hopes to reach stores in time to play the U.S. Open, which begins on August 25.
It is a new setback to the table of female Olympic tournament that has already suffered casualties from the Russian Maria Sharapova and France’s Tatiana Golovin and also that of the American Lindsay Davenport, Olympic champion in Atlanta 1996 and chose not to participate in the tournament Individual and play only doubles.
One more look - great Olympic games 2008 openning
The opening ceremonies of major sporting events are often the portal lavish, exuberant, entertainers to come. A multidisciplinary show that, spurred by the anxiety of the stalls and global dimensions of the scene (stadiums not resist exhibits austere) end up becoming excessive. Boring. Devoured by the immediate competition (which actually interested) and sentenced to abstract television, this selection of moments that outgoing anyway quickly pass into oblivion, accompanied, of course, for the most laudatory adjectives. While you look, this is an effort that has no adequate compensation.
Something similar could be said of the presentation of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The contrasts, for example, between the dazzling visual explosion and a song meliflua, or between the sprint of air gymnast Li Ning and walk distracted by delegations, together with some sluggishness china gave a mixed assessment. A total that could be incorporated in the tradition of gender unchecked exceptions.
Perhaps, but before acquiescing this possibility, I would like to stress that China, perhaps as none of his predecessors, sent a resounding message not only about his identity, but on their abilities and powers of today.
In his case, with the polvareda that lifted the designation as the seat of power and its diffuse nature, subject to Western mythology, it was absolutely necessary. His letter should be categorical and very effective. And what was to spare.
The tour theme reviewed with pride culture China and their contributions to the world (those drums called fou, shocking resonance, the white paper of his invention, among other segments), and also projected into the future with appeals to international peace and care the environment.
But the most important thing was the language: those who moved multitudinarian choreography of color, which is spread by the stadium or Leviticus suddenly goes back to the circus tradition china and its prodigious precision, but also to illusionism.
The luxury apparel, the platoon of 14 thousand performers with its lights and harnesses, and to showcase technology (which folds flat, which opens to make way for a huge bubble that is now the globe and then Tingle for the duet singers) pointed to less ostentation that the climate of a different dimension, with its own laws, capable of causing the surprise of a magic pass. Or rather, a new imagination.
Therefore, no doubt, those responsible for this fiction, which was primarily responsible for the artistic filmmaker Zhang Yimou, were both zeal to maintain secrecy.
China wanted to tell the world that a par with his organizational skills, pride in a history that seeks to keep alive and technological development that puts on the table of the powerful girl, also has the most precious attribute of modernity: mastery of the image. And do not talk about a mere technical skill, but the resources to establish a narrative itself, ready to compete in the track symbolic.
Katerina Emmons won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games in Beijing
The Czech won the victory in the discipline of women’s air rifle from 10 meters and broke the Olympic record with 503.5 points to achieve a perfect score of 400 in the ranking.
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The Russian Lioubov Galkina won the silver and bronze Croatian Snjezana Pejcic.
The slingshot Czech Katerina Emmons prevented from China made with the first gold in the Olympic Games of Beijing-2008, to be awarded this Saturday’s victory in the modality carbine 10 metres in the Beijing Shooting Range Hall complex.
The china Du Li, Olympic champion in Athens-2004, finished in fifth position, disappoint the millions of Chinese who were waiting to start their Olympic Games winning the first metal.
Under pressure to get the ‘aoyun shoujin’, the first Olympic gold, Li was unable to contain the tears after his failure and refused to speak to the large number of Chinese journalists that he had hoped.
The china ran the same fate as his compatriot Zhao Yinghui, favorite to win the first gold in Athens, which also failed to climb the podium.
Among the 5,000 people who filled the stadium, was the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, who is responsible for delivering the first medals.
Emmons, 24 years, also beat the Olympic record in the qualifying round with 503.5 points, to be awarded the first of 302 gold medals at stake in Olympic competition which officially began on Saturday morning.
This is his first Olympic gold although they hung the bronze in Athens in 2004 and was world champion of the modality in 2002 in Lathi (India), plus runners behind Li in 2006 in Zagreb.
Nothing else proclaimed Olympic champion, was laid in the arms of her husband, American Matthew Emmons, also shooter, who won Olympic gold in 50 meter rifle in Athens-2004. “Could only say that I feel great,” he said before go with her husband, who met in Athens.
His father, Petr Kurka, was twice world champion shot.
Now, hopes for China to start to a good start this Saturday their quest for most of the gold in 15 tests and shot to overcome a Estados Unidos en el medallero remain in the hands of champion pistol 10 m, Peng Wei, entering liza later.
Final women’s 10m air carbine
.1. Katerina Emmons (CZE) 503.5 Gold
.2. Lioubov Galkina (RUS) 502.1 Silver
.3. Snjezana Pejcic (CRO) 500.9 Bronze
.4. Jamie Beyer (USA) 499.8
.5. Du Li (CHN) 499.6
.6. Olga Dovgun (KAZ) 498.1
.7. Marie Laure Gigon (FRA) 497.3
.8. Sylwia Bogacka (POL) 495.7.
The triumph of Emmons means the opening of the medals at these Olympics, on Friday morning lived its official opening with a spectacular ceremony.
There, the Olympic flame was lit by former Chinese gymnast Li Ning, who flew restrained by a rope around the stadium. The delegation paraded with the Colombian cyclist Maria Luisa Calle to the head.
