Claiming silver, Iceland marks its first ever Olympic medal in history.

Iceland's Olafur Stefansson scored a team-high of five goals out of eleven attempts while Nikola Karabatic nailed eight goals for the French team.

The game marked the first Olympic final for the United States since losing at Seoul 1988. In 1984, the US team claimed the silver but not from a final. Instead the competition was played as a round robin.

The bout between Zhang and Egan was hard-fought and intense.

World champions Spain trailed by as many as 14 points in the first half but pulled to within two on a Rudy Fernandez three-pointer with 8:13 left in the gold medal showdown.

Brazil kicked off the match with a strong 25-20 win in a first set plagued by service errors on both sides. The United States powered back gaining a 6-0 lead in the beginning of the second set, and held on to win.

In the third, Brazil kept the game tight, but lost on a service fault. America trailed for much of the fourth set, but pulled even from a two-point deficit near the end and drove ahead to win 25-23.

Russia won the bronze.

Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia won the silver. Paddy Barnes of Ireland and Yampier Hernandez of Cuba the bronze.

China won the silver and Belarus the bronze.

The predicted fireworks failed to materialize as the Americans obliterated their fierce rivals 92-65 in a totally one-sided Beijing final to win their sixth Olympic title.

"I'm just so overwhelmed right now," said US captain Lisa Leslie, her gold medals from the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Games clinking around her neck alongside her newest one.

European champions Russia took bronze for the second consecutive Olympics by overpowering tournament hosts China 94-81.

Wanjiru crossed himself and sank to his knees after finishing in an Olympic record time of two hours six minutes 32 seconds, looking fresh despite the heat and sealing a fifth gold for his country in athletics.

Despite their pedigree of distance running and big-city marathon wins, it was Kenya's first Olympic marathon title.

Jaouad Gharib of Morocco won the silver, and in a close finish Tsegay Kebede of Ethiopia overtook exhausted compatriot Deriba Merga on the last lap to claim the bronze.

The Bhiwani pugilist won a bronze medal in the 75kg category event, which made him the national hero.

Army marksman Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was India's flag bearer during the spectacular opening ceremony of the Games on August 8.

"We have decided to give the honour to Vijender," IOA spokesman Sandeep Mehta said.

Christopher Zeller netted the winner in the 16th minute with a ferocious penalty corner before the Germans warded off repeated Spanish attacks to win their first gold since Barcelona in 1992.

It was two-in-a-row for coach Markus Weise, who had led the German women's team to their maiden Olympic title in Athens before taking up the men's job after Bernhard Peters switched to football.

Mitcham totaled 537.95 points in the six-dive final, edging Zhou Luxin of China by 4.80 points and sending the platform title Down Under for the first time.

He's the first Aussie man since 1924 to win a diving gold, and just the third Aussie ever.

Zhou, who had a crooked entry on his last dive, took the silver with 533.15 points. Gleb Galperin of Russia earned the bronze with 525.80.

Chakhkiev, 25, who had lost to Russo in the final of last year's world championships in Chicago, decided a tense, tactical affair by landing two telling blows in the fourth and final round to win a 4-2 points decision.

Russo, hoping to become Italy's first Olympic boxing champion since Giovanni Parisi won featherweight gold in 1988 in Seoul, displayed sweet body moves but showed too little initiative.

Cuba's Osmay Acosta and American Deontay Wilder lost in the semi-finals and share the bronze.

The Cubans, the superpower of the sport, suffered double disappointment. Flyweight Andry Laffita, their other boxer involved on the first of two days of final action, lost to Thailand's Somjit Jongjohor.

DeGale, who had created a major upset when he ousted 2004 Olympic welterweight champion Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals, entered the ring draped in the Union Jack.

The Briton had a fine start, counter-punching efficiently to lead 6-1 on the scoreboard at the end of the first round.

Correa, dreaming of emulating his father who won welterweight gold at the 1972 Games in Munich, fought bravely after that but failed to catch up his opponent.

The 26-year-old, who retained his 10,000 title last Sunday, raced home in an Olympic record time of 12 minutes 57.82 seconds to clinch his first major 5,000m gold and match the double of compatriot Miruts Yifter in Moscow 28 years ago.

Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge was unable to follow Bekele when the world record-holder broke for home after the bell and finished second in 13.02.80. His compatriot Edwin Cheruiyot Soi took bronze in 13.06.22.

Bekele, who won silver in Athens four years ago, gave Ethiopia a sweep of the long-distance events at the Games after Tirunesh Dibaba sealed the women's double on Friday.

Daley, who in March became the youngest European champion on record two months before his 14th birthday, recovered from a shaky start in the semi-final to take eighth place among the 12 qualifiers for the evening's final.

"I'm really excited. I can't wait to be out there because if someone told me about four years ago that I was going to be in an Olympic final I wouldn't have been able to believe it," Daley said.

After failing to qualify for the Athens Games, the bronze restored a bit of US pride before the sport is dropped from the Olympics following the gold medal game between Cuba and South Korea later on Saturday.

Matt Brown led the US assault with a third-inning three-run homer while Taylor Teagarden added a two-run shot and Matt LaPorta a solo blast.

Masahiro Araki and Norichika Aoki homered for Japan, which fails to return home with a medal for just the second time since the sport was introduced at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Angel Di Maria struck in the 58th minute to help the South Americans to victory.

With more than a 40-second lead over her closest rival, Spitz grabbed a German flag from someone in the crowd and waved it as she neared the finish line. She got off her bicycle and held it high as she walked over the finish to take the gold.

Maja Wloszczowska of Poland took silver and Russian Irina Kalentyeva fought off a battle against Canadian Catharine Pendrel to win the bronze.

Huo's teammate, preliminary-round leader Zhou Luxin came in third with a total of 526.20. World No. 1 in Men's Platform Sascha Klein of Germany fell to the bottom of the field after he missed three of six dives.

Diving specialist in synchronized 10m Platform Huo Liang overwhelmed the field with six near-perfect dives, five of which were awarded more than 90 points. Huo Liang clinched the gold medal in the synchronized platform event with Lin Yue earlier in the Games.

The Spaniards will play either the United States or 2004 champions Argentina in Sunday's Beijing final after a physical game of flying elbows and flagrant fouls.

Forward Pau Gasol scored 19 points, while guard Rudy Fernandez sparked a fourth-quarter charge to add 18 as Spain fought back from four points down after three periods.

Spain's only Olympic medal in men's basketball came at the 1984 Games when they took silver behind the U.S. Their only loss in Beijing was a 119-82 blowout by the Americans in the group stage.

The Spaniards will play either the United States or 2004 champions Argentina in Sunday's Beijing final after a physical game of flying elbows and flagrant fouls.

Forward Pau Gasol scored 19 points, while guard Rudy Fernandez sparked a fourth-quarter charge to add 18 as Spain fought back from four points down after three periods.

Spain's only Olympic medal in men's basketball came at the 1984 Games when they took silver behind the U.S. Their only loss in Beijing was a 119-82 blowout by the Americans in the group stage.

Clay virtually wrapped up victory after the javelin, the second event of the evening, meaning he could coast home in the 1500 meters that concluded the 10 events.

Belarusian Andrei Krauchanka was second, with Cuba's Leonel Suarez producing a surging finish to sneak into the bronze medal position.

Evgeny Lukyanenko of Russia won the silver and Denys Yurchenko (Ukraine) the bronze.

Trinidad won the silver and Japan the bronze.

Jamaica had won all four individual speed golds in a dominating performance on the track, led by the dazzling Usain 'lightning' Bolt.

They have eclipsed the United States, the traditional track superpower, and embarrassing baton drops by the U.S. teams in both the men's and women's 100m heats had made the Jamaicans firm favorites for two more golds.

That was until Sherone Simpson failed to get the baton across to Kerron Stewart, the woman she shared the 100m silver medal with, and the Russian sprinters seized their chance.

AS van Naomi and Maartje Goderie scored in the space of 11 minutes in the second half to ensure the Dutch their first gold since Los Angeles in 1984.

The Dutch had finished second in Athens (losing to Germany) four years back and third in Sydney in 2000.

Earlier, Argentina beat Germany 3-1 to win the bronze for the second successive time.

The 23-year-old world record holder, who won the 10,000m a week ago in the second fastest time ever, outsprinted Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse and Athens champion Meseret Defar to cross the line in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds.

Abeylegesse, who also won silver in the 10,000m, finished in 15.42.74, while world champion Defar held on to take bronze in 15.44.12.

The women's 5,000m has only been in the Olympics since 1996 when it replaced the 3,000m. No athlete had won both the 3,000m and 10,000m at a single Games.

The team of Satti Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Mandeep Kaur clocked 3:28.83s in the eight-team heat number one, bringing curtains down on India's overall campaign at the Games.

Russia (3:23.71s), Cuba (3:25.46s) and Britain (3:25.48s) were top three finishers in the heat.

1. Nataliia Dobrynska (Ukraine) 6733 points
2. Hyleas Fountain (U.S.) 6619
3. Tatiana Chernova (Russia) 6591
4. Kelly Sotherton (Britain) 6517
5. Jessica Zelinka (Canada) 6490
6. Anna Bogdanova (Russia) 6465
7. Karolina Tyminska (Poland) 6428
8. Lilli Schwarzkopf (Germany) 6379
9. Jolanda Keizer (Netherlands) 6370
10. Kylie Wheeler (Australia) 6369
11. Jennifer Oeser (Germany) 6360
12. Marie Collonville (France) 6302
13. Olga Kurban (Russia) 6192
14. Ganna Melnichenko (Ukraine) 6165
15. Kamila Chudzik (Poland) 6157
16. Sonja Kesselschlager (Germany) 6140
17. Lucimara Silva (Brazil) 6076
18. Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida (France) 6055
19. Aiga Grabuste (Latvia) 6050
20. Liu Haili (China) 6041
21. Ida Marcussen (Norway) 6015
22. Rebecca Wardell (New Zealand) 5989
23. Niina Kelo (Finland) 5911
24. Argyro Strataki (Greece) 5893
25. Gretchen Quintana (Cuba) 5830
26. Yuliya Tarasova (Uzbekistan) 5785
27. Pramila Ganapathy Gudanda (India) 5771
28. Gyorgyi Farkas (Hungary) 5760
29. Shobha Jagadeeshappa Javur (India) 5749
30. Linda Zublin (Switzerland) 5743
31. Julie Hollman (Britain) 5729
32. Sushmita Singha Roy (India) 5705
33. Kaie Kand (Estonia) 5677
34. Yana Maksimava (Belarus) 4806
. Laurien Hoos (Netherlands) DNF
. Jackie Johnson (U.S.) DNF
. Austra Skujyte (Lithuania) DNF
. Viktoriya Zemaityte (Lithuania) DNF
. Denisa Scerbova (Czech Republic) DNF
. Wassana Winatho (Thailand) DNF
. Irina Naumenko (Kazakhstan) DNF
. Diana Pickler (U.S.) DNF
. Lyudmila Blonska (Ukraine) DSQ
DNF = Did not finish
DSQ = Disqualified

Brabants, who took bronze at Sydney in the event and finished fifth at Athens, had a fast start and was pushed hard by Canada's Adam van Koeverden for much of the race.

But he started to pull away from the field before half way, leaving van Koeverden to drop back.

Brabants jumped onto the podium to accept his medal, cheered by the British fans and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Bayeaux got off to a good start, taking two-point lead in the first round.

However, Vijender staged a strong fightback in the second round winning three points, while his Cuban opponent claimed two as the score read 4-3 after two rounds. The Indian drew a blank in the third round, while Bayeaux bagged three points to take a commanding 7-3 lead.

In the fourth and final round, Vijender put in all his efforts, but could not catch up with his opponent.

Vijender had already ensured the bronze medal for India when he beat Carlos Gongora of Ecuador 9-4 in the quarter-finals.

In the gold medal match Bayeaux will face Great Britain's James DeGale, who beat Darren John Sutherland 10:3 in the first semi-final.

Glazkov failed the medical examination, meaning his Chinese opponent Zhang Zhilei will move to the final by walkover to meet the winner of the other semi-final between Britain's David Price and Italian Roberto Cammarelle.

Glazkov will get a bronze medal like all semi-final losers, he added.

Rogers and Dalhausser came into the Olympics as favorites for the title but had a shocking start to the Games, losing to lowly Latvia. That poor form was gone on Friday as they fought through a tense match to win 23-21, 17-21, 15-4.

Earlier another Brazilian pair, Athens gold medalists Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos, won bronze against Jorge Terceiro and Renato Gomes, two more Brazilians who now play for Georgia.

Schwazer, a double world championship bronze medallist, broke clear around the 42km mark and covered the longest race in the athletics programme in three hours, 37 minutes, nine seconds.

Australia's Jared Tallent, who took bronze in the 20km event, went one better with silver on Friday, coming in two minutes, 18 seconds behind in a personal best.

World record holder Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia, 50km silver medallist in Athens, took bronze.

In the sport's debut before a packed, cheering stadium, American Mike Day took silver and his team mate Donny Robinson won the bronze.

South African Sifiso Nhlapo crashed out in the curve after the biggest jump of the track and took out a few other riders. He also got hit in the head by the wheel of one rider who managed to avoid a crash.

Robinson was just in front of Nhlapo and skated by without falling then pushed his way into third. Stombergs took the lead early and safely navigated the turns while Day tried hard to pass but failed.

The International Olympic Committee has asked the International Gymnastics Federation to investigate claims that He is younger than the eligible age of 16 to compete.

"The women athletes we had in these Olympics were in total compliance with the age requirement," Chinese gymnastics head coach Huang Yubin told a news conference.

"Since Asian bodies are not the same as Westerners', there have been questions. But there shouldn't be."

He, registered at the Beijing Olympics as 16, won team gold and a gold on the asymmetric bars. She was registered as having been born on Jan. 1, 1992. Gymnasts must turn 16 in the year of the Games to be allowed to compete.

The 24-year-old Evora won with a best leap of 17.67 metres on the fourth of his six attempts, just five centimetres ahead of Britain's Phillips Idowu.

The Briton took the silver with 17.62 after winning this year's world indoor title in Valencia. Leevan Sands of the Bahamas the bronze with 17.59.

Evora joined 1984 marathon winner Carlos Lopes as the only Portuguese men to win Olympic gold titles in athletics.

Carli Lloyd rifled the winner with a low shot from the edge of the area six minutes into extra-time after the South Americans had dominated most of the game.

Brazil were also runners-up to the U.S. in Athens four years ago and lost to Germany in last year's World Cup final.

World Player of the Year Marta, who played in all three finals and missed a penalty against Germany, hit the post in the second half.

Marta, often too individualistic, produced plenty of mazy runs but was repeatedly shut out by the U.S. rearguard.

Brazil forward Cristiane, leading scorer with five goals, had the best first-half chance when she broke clear of the defense but Hope Solo rushed out of her goal to block the danger.

Trailing by as many as seven points in the first half, the Americans opened an eight-point lead at the end of three quarters to break Russia's resistance.

The U.S. pulled away in the final period to avenge a shock defeat by the Russians in the semi-finals of the 2006 world championships.

"From top to bottom, one through 12 we're the best," slam-dunking WNBA rookie sensation Candace Parker told Reuters. "We're the deepest. We just reload whenever we come out. We were never nervous. We didn't panic. We took care of business."

Guard Diana Taurasi scored a game-high 21 points for a U.S. team who had won their first six games by an average of more than 43 points. Maria Stepanova top-scored for Russia with 14.

Merritt sealed a seventh straight gold in the event for the US, starting relatively slowly before blasting down the final straight to cross the line in a personal best of 43.75 seconds.

Wariner, visibly frustrated and distraught, finished a distant second in 44.74 seconds and David Neville took third with a spectacular dive for the line to complete a US sweep of the medals.

The 24-year-old Wariner has dominated the 400m over the past four years but lost twice to Merritt this season, including at the US Olympics trials.

After three consecutive gold medals the Americans saw their Olympic reign come to a stunning end on the same day softball was officially dropped from the Summer Games program.

It was a night of mixed emotions at Fengtai Field, which played host to both a celebration and a funeral.

As the Japanese team stepped forward to claim their gold medals, the party was tinged by sadness as weeping players were struck with the realization it was the last time softball would be played at the Olympics.

But as the Japanese flag was raised and the national anthem played, the sport's uncertain future was -- for a moment -- pushed into the background.

Since the softball was introduced in 1996 at the Atlanta Games, the Americans had ruled supreme over the Olympic diamond, no other country having set foot on the top perch of the podium.

The U.S. roared into Thursday's gold medal game unbeaten in 22 Olympic contests, a streak of dominance stretching all the way back to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The world champion overtook Russian Maria Abakumova whose 70.78 metre throw proved only to be good enough for a silver medal.

Germany's Christina Obergfoll took the bronze medal with her throw of 66.13 metres.

Cuba Osleidys Menendez, the 2004 gold medallist and world record holder, was never in serious contention for a medal.

Victory seemed a formality as Darvis Patton approached Tyson Gay on the final changeover but the pair made a mess of it and the baton tumbled to the floor.

The US were chasing their 16th gold medal in the 4x100m relay and were hoping to make up for Athens four years ago when they were surprisingly beaten by Britain.

Gay has endured a miserable Olympics after also failing to reach the 100 meters final.

Medal prospects Nigeria also failed to get the baton round along with South Africa and Poland.

Danielle de Bruijn masterminded the Dutch victory with seven goals and her teammates managed to resist fierce pressure from the Americans in the dying seconds to become Olympic champions for the first time.

The unheralded Dutch side raced to a four-goal lead within the first four minutes of the encounter, stunning the United States who were one of the tournament favorites and had been confident of victory.

Earlier, Australia took the bronze medal by beating Hungary 12-11 after a penalty shoot out.

Bajramaj put Germany ahead in the 69th minute, 10 minutes after coming on, when she snapped up a rebound to score from a narrow angle after Miho Fukumoto saved a Kerstin Garefrekes header.

Three minutes from time, she cut inside her marker and drilled home Germany's second.

Brazil plays the United States in the final later in the evening.

The teams were locked 1-1 after extra-time.

Germany will take on the winners of the other semi-final between Australia and Spain.

American Allyson Felix took silver and another Jamaican Kerron Stewart took bronze.

The win completed Jamaica's clean sweep in the sprint events but failed to repeat the women's 100m achievement, where Jamaica took all three places.

Campbell-Brown's timing was, however, well short of the Olympic and world mark of 21.34s set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in Seoul in 1988.

Women's 200m final result:
1. Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) 21.74 seconds
2. Allyson Felix (U.S.) 21.93
3. Kerron Stewart (Jamaica) 22.00
4. Muna Lee (US) 22.01
5. Marshevet Hooker (US) 22.34
6. Sherone Simpson (Jamaica) 22.36
7. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (Bahamas) 22.61
8. Cydonie Mothersill (Cayman Islands) 22.68

Taimuraz Tigiev of Kazakhstan took the silver. George Gogshelidze of Georgia and Khetag Gazyumov of Azerbaijan won bronze medals.

Topping a weight class dominated by wrestlers from former Soviet republics, Mradov, the 2007 European champion, beat Tigiev 3-0.

Sandeep, who had Daleep Singh -- known in the WWF circle as 'The Great Khali' -- as his colleague in his Punjab Police days, lost his first round bout against Yusup Abdusalomov.

But with the world number two grappler from Tajikistan reaching the final, the repechage door opened for the 25-year-old.

Sandeep got a bye in the repechage round one before running into Ukrainian Taras Danko, who thwarted his medal bid by beating him in the second round.

The Asian giants finished eighth among twelve teams when they was emphatically beaten 4-2 by New Zealand in the seventh-eighth place classification.

They had previously finished fifth in the Olympics — at Athens in 2004 and at Seoul in 1988.

Pakistan had reached at least the top four in 11 of the 13 Olympics it contested between 1948 and 2000, winning gold three times.

Tomar lost to Steve Mocco of the United States at the Chinese Agricultural University Gymnasium.

Dutchman Van der Weijden was diagnosed with leukemia seven years ago but pulled through after a stem cell transplant and a course of chemotherapy.

He battled back to become the world's leading open water swimmer and added the Olympic title to his world crown with a sprint finish to win a thrilling inaugural 10km Games race after a three-man fight for gold which lasted nearly two hours.

With the end in sight, Van der Weijden pulled out from a three-way dogfight and charged past Briton David Davies to win in one hour 51 minutes 51 seconds.

Davies, who led for most of the race, looked destined to win gold after streaking two body lengths clear in the last 400 meters but he had no answer to the 27-year-old Dutchman's stunning sprint finish.

Swimming in only his third open water race, Davies finished two seconds behind Van der Weijden, with German Thomas Lurz taking bronze.

World champion Kaniskina jumped to the lead on her first step and slowly pulled away from the pack as she built a decisive one-minute lead going into the final kilometers to finish in an Olympic record of one hour, 26 minutes and 31 seconds.

Norway's Kjersti Platzer finished second with a 36-second deficit, while Italy's Elisa Rigaudo took bronze after a late surge brought her back into medal contention.

Tian and Wang fought back from a hefty deficit at the start of the second set and for a while went point-to-point but it was not enough to get past the triple world champions who eventually won 21-18 21-18.

Bolt, a day short of his 22nd birthday, completed the first Olympic sprint double in 24 years at the Bird's Nest stadium.

Bolt, who dominated the 100m final with a world record time (9.69s), had said prior to the race that he thought the double last achieved by American icon Carl Lewis at Los Angeles in 1984 was on the cards, and that he had another spectacular performance in him.

Bolt held the three fastest 200m times this season going into the race.

Defending champion Shawn Crawford of USA, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra for a TV show, failed to repeat his Athens feat, finishing third in 19.96s.

Churandy Martina (19.82s) of the Netherlands Antilles was second after the United States' Spearmon Wallace was disqualified for cutting lanes.

Vijender had a good start, winning the opening round 2-0. He also pocketed the second round 2-1. The third also went his way 3-2 and so did the fourth 2-1.

Vijender stormed into the last eight after overwhelming Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand 13-3 in a lop-sided pre-quarter-final bout on Saturday night.

Earlier, he thoroughly dominated his opening bout against Gambia's Jack Badou, scoring a facile 13-2 win.

The 30-year-old's A sample tested positive for a banned substance, but the results of the B sample are still awaited.

The Ukrainian had already served a previous ban for testing positive in 2003 for stanozolol.

Blonska now faces a life ban for the latest offence.

Should Blonska be stripped of her medal, the silver would go to American Hyleas Fountain while Tatiana Chernova of Russia would get the bronze.

After falling behind 2-1 in the opening round, Jitender came back well in the second to end even on points (5-5). But the Russian pulled clear in the third, taking a 13-8 lead. Though Jitender made a good comeback in the fourth, but the Russian eventually won 15-11.

The Asian Championship bronze medallist had defeated Uzbek rival Tulashboy Doniyorov by 13-6 in the pre-quarter-finals on Saturday.

Earlier, Jitender, making his Olympic debut, had pummelled his Turkish opponent Ulas Furkan Memis in less than three rounds in the opening round.

Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova, undefeated at a major championships since finishing second at the 2001 worlds, scored a perfect 10 for technical merit from all five judges and earned another three 10s for artistic impression.

Added to a commanding lead from Monday's technical routine, they easily claimed victory with 99.251 points, bagging a second gold medal for a collection started in Athens.

Spain's Gemma Mengual and Andrea Fuentes won silver, their country's first medal in the sport, with a second-placed free routine that won the only other perfect 10 of the final.

Japan's Saho Harada and Emiko Suzuki came in third, narrowly edging Chinese twin hopefuls Jiang Tingting and Jiang Wenwen who were aiming for the host nation's first medal.

Ramazan Shahin of Turkey took the gold, defeating Ukraine's Andry Stadnik in the final.

Wang Wei, executive vice-president and secretary-general of BOCOG, made the announcement at an IOC/BOCOG joint press conference on Wednesday, August 20.

He said that as of August 19, 14 events out of the 38 disciplines of the 28 Olympic sports have been completed, including Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline, Fencing, Archery, Tennis, Shooting, Track Cycling, Road Cycling, Rowing, Canoe/Kayak Slalom, Triathlon, Judo, Weightlifting and Badminton.

Shahar Zubari of Israel finished second in the medal race to grab bronze with 58 points overall and give Israel's its first medal of the Beijing Olympic Games.

"It's a long time since I've seen Brazil so stingy and defensive," the former Argentina captain was quoted in his country's media as saying.

"I didn't think they could do any damage. They never managed to play their way out of defence, nobody helped Ronaldinho and they never played coherently. I think Argentina were better in every metre of the field."

Maradona watched Tuesday's 3-0 win at the Workers' stadium. He has also been to see Argentina's men's basketball and women's hockey teams in action in Beijing.

Marcio and Fabio Luiz, the 2005 world champions, have been in sporadic form in Beijing but pulled it all together in the semi, winning 22-20 21-18. They will play reigning world champions Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser in the final.

Yin, 29, went one better than in Athens four years ago, a third-place finish in the medal race enough to secure gold and cue frenetic celebrations at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre.

An ecstatic Yin punched the air in triumph after crossing the finish before being mobbed by her support team. She donned a half-gold, half-red jacket before being towed up and down the main breakwater to take the applause from a large gathering of Chinese fans.

The 38-year-old Sensini took silver to add to her gold in Sydney in 2000 and bronze in 1996 and 2004 and has now won more Olympic sailing medals than any other woman. Briton Bryony Shaw won bronze.

A promising swimmer from South Africa, du Toit lost her left leg below the knee in a scooter accident in 2001.

Ilchenko powered past leaders Cassie Patten and Keri-Anne Payne with 100 metres to go, clocking one hour 59 minutes 27 seconds to become the first Olympic gold medallist in the event.

The three-times world champion swam a tactical race, riding in the wake of the leaders before darting past them with the finish in sight.

Payne took the silver medal in one hour 59 minutes 29 seconds and Patten was third in one hour 59 minutes 31 seconds.

Sharath Kamal staged a fightback in the fourth game but eventually went down 5-11, 12-14, 2-11, 11-8, 10-12 to the experienced Chen in the second round on Wednesday.

The day before his 22nd birthday, the Jamaican is strong favourite to add the half-lap crown to the 100 metres title he so sensationally won in world record time on Saturday.

The 200 is Bolt's speciality. He is the fastest man this year and would have been the man to beat even before his stunning success in the shorter sprint.

Bolt's personal best is the 19.67 seconds he clocked in Athens last month but, given the way he has been running in Beijing, an assault on Michael Johnson's 12-year-old world record of 19.32 is not out of the question.

World champion Tyson Gay's injury at the US trials meant he failed to qualify for the event in Beijing so defending champion Shawn Crawford should lead the American challenge.

The defending champions will face African powerhouse Nigeria in the decider.

After a goalless but interesting opening half, Sergio Aguero gave Argentina the lead in the 52nd minute.

The 20-year-old, who plays for Atletico Madrid in Spain, scored his second just six minutes later.

Captain Juan Roman Riquelme slotted home a penalty in the 76th minute to put the result beyond doubt.

Brazil finished the match withe nine men.

Earlier, a goal in the first half and three in the second put 1996 Atlanta Olympic champions Nigeria into the final as they thrashed minnows Belgium 4-1.

The 24-year-old came from behind to cross the line first in 49.62 seconds, adding the Olympic crown to the world title she won in Japan last year.

Shericka Williams of Jamaica was second in 49.69 and American Sanya Richards finished third in 49.93.

Ohuruogu was set to miss the Games after the British Olympic Association banned her from competing at the Olympics following three missed doping tests. She won an appeal, however, allowing her to take part after serving a 12-month suspension.

Choking back the tears, Steiner held up a photo of his late wife Susann as he stood on the winner's podium. She died in a car crash last year.

Steiner snatched 203kg, a weight far below his closest competitors, but he raised his weights dramatically for his final lift in the clean and jerk and hoisted up 258kg.

He claimed the title of strongest man in the world with a total of 461kg -- just one kilo more than Russia's Evgeny Chigishev, who took silver.

Latvian politician and weightlifter Viktors Scerbatihs won the bronze in the over 105kg class.

The 16-year-old outshone rivals Nastia Liukin and Cheng Fei with her deft footwork on the balance beam to end a run of three silver-medal winning performances in Beijing.

She had been expected to go home with a stash of gold after picking up three titles at the world championships in 2007. But she had to wait until the final day of the gymnastics competition to make her mark at the Games, with a score of 16.225.

She edged out fellow American and all-round champion Liukin by 0.200 of a point, while Cheng of China took bronze with 15.950.

Johnson kept her poise on the beam while performing a series of solid twists and flips and was rewarded for packing her routine with a series of difficult elements.

That cemented Britain's unexpected third place in China, with 15 golds the best since the 1908 London Games and the perfect way to fire up enthusiasm at home for the next Olympics.

Nowhere have the Britons been cockier than on bikes.

Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton won a couple more golds in the men's and women's sprints, making it a remarkable eight Beijing golds on road and track for the new cycling superpower.

They take on the winners of the second semi-final between Brazi and Argentina, which will be played later on Tuesday.

1996 champions Nigeria were just too good for Belgium, who had upset former champions Italy in the quarter-finals.

Gintare Volungeviciute of Lithuania secured silver and China's Xu Lijia grabbed bronze, the host nation's first medal of the regatta.

The British-born Tunnicliffe, 25, was struggling in the medal race until benefiting from a large windshift that propelled her from ninth to third by the third mark.

Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga won the silver. Besik Kudukhov of Russia and Bulgaria's Radoslav Velikov won bronze medals.

The Dutch also reached the last four when they beat Pakistan 4-2 in a Pool B match, penalty-corner specialist Taeke Taekema scoring twice with his drag-flicks.

Defending champions Australia are effectively guaranteed a semi-final berth after three wins and a draw with the Dutch.

The Australians play Britain in their last final match later on Tuesday. Britain trail Australia by three points and have a much inferior goal difference.

Spain take on South Korea in a match that will determine the second team from Pool A and the semifinal line-up.

He next plays Austria's Weixing Chen.

Canada's Simon Whitfield won the silver and New Zealand's Bevan Docherty the bronze.

The 31-year-old, who finished sixth at the Athens Olympics four years ago, fouled in all her three attemps and bowed out of the competition on Tuesday morning.

Women's long jump qualification results:

Group A: 1. Maurren Higa Maggi (Brazil) 6.79 metres Q
2. Lyudmila Blonska (Ukraine) 6.76 Q
3. Carolina Kluft (Sweden) 6.70 Q
4. Grace Upshaw (US) 6.68 Q
5. Oksana Udmurtova (Russia) 6.63 Q
6. Tabia Charles (Canada) 6.61 Q
6. Funmilayao Jimoh (US) 6.61 Q
8. Chelsea Hammond (Jamaica) 6.60 Q
9. Hrysopiyi Devetzi (Greece) 6.57
10. Yargelis Savigne (Cuba) 6.49
11. Denisa Scerbova (Czech Republic) 6.46
12. Patricia Sylvester (Grenada) 6.44
13. Viktoria Rybalko (Ukraine) 6.43
14. Karin Melis (Turkey) 6.42
15. Nina Kolaric (Slovenia) 6.40
16. Naide Gomes (Portugal) 6.29
17. Volha Senrgeenka (Belarus) 6.25
18. Pamela Mouele-Mboussi (Congo) 6.06
19. Rhonda Watkins (Trinidad & Tobago) 5.88
20. Tricia Flores (Belize) 5.25
*Jana Veldakova (Slovakia) NM

Group B
1. Brittney Reese (US) 6.87 Q
2. Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia) 6.70 Q
3. Keila Costa (Brazil) 6.62 Q
4. Jade Johnson (Britain) 6.61 Q
5. Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) 6.59
6. Tatyana Kotova (Russia) 6.57
7. Concepcion Montaner (Spain) 6.53
7. Bronwyn Thompson (Australia) 6.53
9. Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk (Belarus) 6.48
10. Kumiko Ikeda (Japan) 6.47
11. Viorica Tigau (Romania) 6.44
12. Ruky Abdulai (Canada) 6.41
13. Ksenija Balta (Estonia) 6.38
14. Jung Soon-ok (South Korea) 6.33
15. Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) 6.30
15. Ivana Spanovic (Serbia) 6.30
17. Oleksandra Stadnyuk (Ukraine) 6.19
18. Marestella Torres (Philippines) 6.17
19. Arantxa King (Bermuda) 6.01
*Anju Bobby George (India) NM
*Jacqueline Edwards (Bahamas) NM

Q=Qualified for final

Olympic all-round champion Yang Wei has become so used to scooping gold medals, he did not know what to do when he actually won a silver.

So he decided to put it to good use.

"I want to auction my silver medal to give the money to the Sichuan province to help them so that this silver medal can fulfill its value," said Yang, who looked rather bemused on the podium as he closely examined the silver medal he won in the rings final behind fellow Chinese Chen Yibing on Monday.

"The IOC donated money to Sichuan province and at the time I made up my mind to make my own contribution."

Three months ago more than 70,000 died in a massive tremor in the southwestern Chinese province.

Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva won the gold medal in the Olympic women's pole vault on Monday and then broke her own world record when she leapt 5.05 meters.

Jennifer Stuczynski of the United States won silver medal with 4.80m and Svetlana Feofanova took the bronze with a best jump of 4.75m.

Isinbayeva, who won gold in Athens four years ago and has dominated the sport since, spent most of the competition lying under her towel relaxing and did not take her first jump until 4.70.

China lost its main hope for a track gold on Monday when 110 meters hurdles Olympic champion and national hero Liu Xiang pulled out injured from the Games.

His painful departure in front of shocked fans at the Bird's Nest stadium took the gloss off an otherwise magnificent Games for China, who lead with 35 golds on Day Ten and look untouchable even by perennial medal-league winners the United States.

After a false start in his first-round heat, Liu, whose face adorns billboards across China, clutched his leg and walked off the track. Fans in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium looked stunned and volunteers were seen openly weeping.

Kenyan Pamela Jelimo added a golden lustre to her all-conquering season when she won the women's Olympic 800 metres in great style on Monday.

Jelimo, 18, has ruled the race in the big European meetings this year and was in unstoppable form after hitting the front at halfway.

She drove home to win easily in one minute 54.87 seconds ahead of team mate Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei, with Morocco's Hasna Benhassi taking bronze.

Women's 800m final result:

1. Pamela Jelimo (Kenya) 1 minute 54.87 seconds
2. Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei (Kenya) 1:56.07
3. Hasna Benhassi (Morocco) 1:56.73
4. Svetlana Klyuka (Russia) 1:56.94
5. Maria Mutola (Mozambique) 1:57.68
6. Kenia Sinclair (Jamaica) 1:58.24
7. Yuliya Krevsun (Ukraine) 1:58.73
8. Tatiana Andrianova (Russia) 2:02.63

Brimin Kiprop Kipruto held on for victory in the Olympic men's 3,000m steeplechase on Monday to retain Kenya's 24-year iron grip on the event.

The 23-year-old, a silver medallist in Athens four years ago, held off a surprise final-lap charge from Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad to win in 8 minutes 10.34 seconds.

Mekhissi-Benabbad outsprinted Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong after the final jump to claim silver in a personal best 8.10.49 and the Kenyan had to be content with bronze in 8.11.01.

The last non-Kenyan to win the event was Pole Bronislaw Malinowski who took gold at the 1980 Moscow Games which the Kenyans boycotted.

Usain Bolt negotiated the next step in his bid to win both Olympic sprints when he strolled through the second round of the 200 meters on Monday.

Bolt, who coasted to 20.64 seconds in his morning heat, was marginally faster at 20.29 in the second round but he was in cruise mode for the last 70 meters in both races.

Things did not go so well for Jamaican compatriot Marvin Anderson, however, who pulled up injured in his heat.

The US trio of defending champion Shawn Crawford, Wallace Spearmon and 100 meters bronze medalist Walter Dix also went through comfortably.

Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai again looked impressive as the fasted qualifier in 20.23 and Paul Hession maintained Ireland's push for an unlikely medal when he won his heat in 20.32.

The semi-finals are on Tuesday and final on Wednesday.

Men's 200m quarter-finals results:

Quarter-final 1
1. Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 20.29 seconds Q
2. Shawn Crawford (U.S.) 20.42 Q
3. Kim Collins (St. Kitts & Nevis) 20.43 Q
3. Marlon Devonish (Britain) 20.43 Q
5. Jared Connaughton (Canada) 20.45 Q
6. Amr Seoud (Egypt) 20.55
7. Rolando Palacios (Honduras) 20.87
8. Angel David Rodriguez (Spain) 20.96

Quarter-final 2
1. Brian Dzingai (Zimbabwe) 20.23 Q
2. Walter Dix (U.S.) 20.27 Q
3. Christopher Williams (Jamaica) 20.28 Q
4. Christian Malcolm (Britain) 20.30 Q
5. Stephan Buckland (Mauritius) 20.37 Q
6. Roman Smirnov (Russia) 20.62
7. Shinji Takahira (Japan) 20.63
8. Matic Osovnikar (Slovenia) 20.95

Quarter-final 3
1. Brendan Christian (Antigua and Barbuda) 20.26 Q
2. Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles) 20.42 Q
3. Kristof Beyens (Belgium) 20.50 Q
4. Marcin Jedrusinski (Poland) 20.58
4. Aaron Armstrong (Trinidad & Tobago) 20.58
6. Obinna Metu (Nigeria) 20.65
7. Sandro Viana (Brazil) 21.07
8. Marc Schneeberger (Switzerland) 21.48

Quarter-final 4
1. Paul Hession (Ireland) 20.32 Q
2. Wallace Spearmon (U.S.) 20.39 Q
3. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (Norway) 20.45 Q
4. Rondell Sorrillo (Trinidad & Tobago) 20.63
5. Ramil Guliyev (Azerbaijan) 20.66
6. Visa Hongisto (Finland) 20.76
7. Thuso Mpuang (South Africa) 21.04
. Marvin Anderson (Jamaica) DNF
Q = Qualified for semi-final
DNF = Did not finish

Brazil rallied from a goal down to beat Germany 4-1 in the Olympic women's football semi-finals on Monday.

They will play the winner of the United States - Japan match in the final, on August 21, at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing.

Captain Birgit Prinz put the Germans ahead 10 minutes into the first hal, but Brazil grabbed the equalizer with three minutes remaining in the session through a goal by Formiga.

In the second half, Cristiane's goal in the 49th minute gave Brazil the lead, before Marta widened it four minutes later, and Cristiane's second goal in the 76th minute sealed a comfortable victory.

Cristiane's second goal ensured that she became the equal-highest goal scorer in Olympic history with ten goals, together with Prinz of Germany.

Stephanie Brown Trafton hurled her way to women's Olympic discus gold on Monday to claim the title for the United States for the first time in 76 years.

The 6ft 4in (1.93m) Californian's first throw of 64.74 metres was enough for victory, giving a huge boost to a US team, which had a thin few days in the athletics.

Yarelys Barrios of Cuba took silver with her second throw of 63.64m and Olena Antonova of Ukraine clinched bronze with a season's best 62.59m, which she achieved on her penultimate effort.

The 28-year-old Brown Trafton's victory at the Bird's Nest was the first in the event for her country since Lillian Copeland claimed gold in Los Angeles in 1932 with a throw of 40.58m.

India’s Akhil Kumar failed to make it to the semi-finals in the 54 kg bantamweight class at the Olympics boxing competition. He was beaten by Republic of Moldova’s Veaceslav Gojan 10-3 in the quarter-final in Beijing on Monday.

The Indian, who upset Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the earlier round, was at the receiving end for most of the contest.

After a reasonably good first two round, the Indian was unable to break through the defences of his opponent and paid the price in the last two in which the Maldovan scored heavily.

Results men's bantamweight quarter-final:

Badar-Uugan Enkhbat (Mongolia) beat Khumiso Ikgopoleng (Botswana) 15-2; Veaceslav Gojan (Moldova) beat Akhil Kumar (India) 10-3; Bruno Julie (Mauritius) beat Hector Rangel Manzanilla (Venezuela) 13-9; Yankiel Leon (Cuba) beat Worapoj Petchkoom (Thailand) 10-2.

Poland's Leszek Blanik somersaulted with style to scoop the men's vault gold at the Olympics on Monday, beating second-placed Thomas Bouhail of France on the tiebreak rule.

The world champion's two vaults earned an average score of 16.537 points, the same as Bouhail, but based on a complicated system of averages relating to points awarded for execution Blanik triumphed.

Russia's Anton Golotsutskov won his second bronze of the Games after picking one up in Sunday's floor final.

Top qualifier Marian Dragulescu of Romania had looked to be heading for gold after notching the highest score of the day of 16.800 for his first vault before landing his second one sprawled out on the mat to finish fourth.

Bouhail's was France's second gymnastics medal of the Olympics after Benoit Caranobe's surprise bronze in the all-around. Caranobe put himself out of the running for another medal when he landed his second vault on his bottom.

It was the only apparatus final to feature no Chinese gymnasts, who have dominated the rest of the events.

Chen Yibing of China won the Olympic gold medal in the men's gymnastics rings on Monday.

Yang Wei of China won the silver and Oleksandr Voribiov of Ukraine the bronze.

Britain overpowered Denmark to win the Olympic gold medal in the men's team pursuit cycling on Monday, shattering its own one-day-old world record by more than two seconds.

In the bronze medal race New Zealand took an early lead to beat out Australia, who were racing without veteran pursuit rider Bradley McGee, for the bronze.

Pursuit ace Bradley Wiggins, who already won the individual pursuit and is biding for three golds, helped lead Britain to the new record with an average speed of 61.7 km per hour.

Britain was clearly aiming for a new record, setting off at a blistering pace. Denmark never came close to matching it and the margin between the two teams grew throughout the 16-lap race.

Despite a ninth-place finish in the medal race, Australia's Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson won the second 470 (Two Person Dinghy) gold of the Olympics with 43 points overall, matching the gold won by the Australian Men's 470 pair just one hour earlier.

Rechichi and Parkinson went into the final race with an 18-point lead over Marcelien de Koning and Lobke Berkhout of the Netherlands, who finished sixth in the medal race and won silver with 53 points overall.

Fernanda Oliviera and Isabel Swan of Brazil won the medal race and the bronze medal with 60 net points.

With disqualification the only thing standing in the way of gold for Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page of Australia in the men's 470 (Two Person Dinghy), the pair put an exclamation mark on their victory by finishing first in the medal race.

Wilmot and Page, who won the 2004, 2005, and 2007 World Champions but had never won at the Olympics, took over first place after the third race and never looked back, building an insurmountable 22 point lead before the final race and winning with 44 points overall.

Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield of Great Britain jumped from fourth to second (75 net points) after a third-place finish in the medal race and Nicolas Charbonnier and Olivier Bausset of France (78 points) held off Sven and Kalle Coster of the Netherlands for bronze with a better finish on the final day of racing.

Indian athlete Renjith Maheswary jumped much lower than his best and finished last among the 18 finishers in Group B of the Triple Jump qualifying round of the Olympic track and field competition on Monday.

Renjith's jump of 15.77m, which he achieved in his first attempt, was much below then his personal best of 17.04 meters. It placed him overall 35th in a field of 37th finishers.

Britain's Phillips Idowu with 17.44m topped the field and the last qualifier was Ukrain's Victor Kuznyetsov who had a jump of 17.09m.

Men's Triple Jump Group A and B results:
Group A:
1. Phillips Idowu (Britain) 17.44 metres Q
2. Nelson Evora (Portugal) 17.34 Q
3. Arnie David Girat (Cuba) 17.30 Q
4. Igor Spasovkhodskiy (Russia) 17.23 Q
5. Marian Oprea (Romania) 17.17 Q
6. Jadel Gregorio (Brazil) 17.15 Q
7. Viktor Kuznyetsov (Ukraine) 17.11 Q
8. Alexis Copello (Cuba) 17.09
9. Dmitrij Valukevic (Slovakia) 17.08
10. Kim Duk-hyun (South Korea) 16.88
10. Rafeeq Curry (U.S.) 16.88
12. Fabrizio Donato (Italy) 16.70
13. Kenta Bell (U.S.) 16.55
14. Dzmitry Platnitski (Belarus) 16.51
15. Jefferson Sabino (Brazil) 16.45
16. Roman Valiyev (Kazakhstan) 16.20
17. Ibrahim Babikir Mohamdein (Qatar) 16.03
18. Zhong Minwei (China) 15.59
19. Redzep Selman (Macedonia FYR) 15.29
Group B
1. Li Yanxi (China) 17.30 metres Q
2. Leevan Sands (Bahamas) 17.25 Q
3. Onochie Achike (Britain) 17.18 Q
4. Hector Fuentes (Cuba) 17.14 Q
5. Momchil Karailiev (Bulgaria) 17.12 Q
6. Randy Lewis (Grenada) 17.06
7. Mykola Savolainen (Ukraine) 17.00
8. Aleksandr Petrenko (Russia) 16.97
9. Nathan Douglas (Britain) 16.72
10. Danila Burkenya (Russia) 16.69
11. Dimitrios Tsiamis (Greece) 16.65
12. Vladimir Letnicov (Moldova) 16.62
13. Viktor Iastrebov (Ukraine) 16.52
14. Colomba Fofana (France) 16.42
15. Lucien Hugo Mamba Schlick (Cameroon) 16.01
16. Aarik Wilson (U.S.) 15.97
17. Gu Junjie (China) 15.94
18. Maheswary Renjith (India) 15.77
. Ndiss Kaba Badji (Senegal) NoM
. Tarik Bouguetaib (Morocco) NoM
Q = Qualified
NoM = No mark

Emma Snowsill of Australia won the gold medal in the women's Triathlon with a time of one hour, 58 minutes and 27.66 seconds.

The silver medal went to Portugal's Vanessa Fernandes, who finished in one hour, 59 minutes and 34.63 seconds, while another Australian, Emma Moffatt, won the bronze medal with a time of one hour, 59 minutes and 55.84 seconds.

Emma Snowsill of Australia won the gold medal in the women's Triathlon with a time of one hour, 58 minutes and 27.66 seconds.

The silver medal went to Portugal's Vanessa Fernandes, who finished in one hour, 59 minutes and 34.63 seconds, while another Australian, Emma Moffatt, won the bronze medal with a time of one hour, 59 minutes and 55.84 seconds.

China's Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Liu Xiang pulled out of his race injured on Monday.

After a false start in his first-round heat, Liu, whose face adorns billboards across China, clutched his leg and walked off the track.

Men's 110m hurdles heats fastest qualifiers:
1. David Oliver (U.S.) 13.30 Q seconds
2. Paulo Villar (Colombia) 13.37 Q
3. Ryan Brathwaite (Barbados) 13.38 Q
4. Dayron Robles (Cuba) 13.39 Q
5. Jackson Quinonez (Spain) 13.41 Q
6. David Payne (U.S.) 13.42 Q
7. Petr Svoboda (Czech Republic) 13.43 Q
8. Shamar Sands (Bahamas) 13.45 Q
9. Konstadinos Douvalidis (Greece) 13.49 Q
10. Gregory Sedoc (Netherlands) 13.50 Q
11. Ladji Doucoure (France) 13.52 Q
12. Shi Dongpeng (China) 13.53 Q
12. Artur Noga (Poland) 13.53 Q
14. Marcel van der Westen (Netherlands) 13.54 Q
15. Andrew Turner (Britain) 13.56 Q
15. Allan Scott (Britain) 13.56 Q
17. Wei Ji (China) 13.57 Q
18. Salim Nurudeen (Nigeria) 13.58 Q
19. Igor Peremota (Russia) 13.59 Q
19. Ronald Forbes (Cayman Islands) 13.59 Q
21. Richard Phillips (Jamaica) 13.60 Q
21. Samuel Coco-Viloin (France) 13.60 Q
23. Maurice Wignall (Jamaica) 13.61 Q
23. Daniel Kiss (Hungary) 13.61 Q
25. Mohammed Al-Thawadi (Qatar) 13.64 Q
26. Lee Jung-joon (South Korea) 13.65 Q
27. Mikel Thomas (Trinidad & Tobago) 13.69 Q
28. Hector Cotto (Puerto Rico) 13.72 Q
29. David Ilariani (Georgia) 13.75 Q
30. Dudley Dorival (Haiti) 13.78 Q
31. Anselmo de Silva (Brazil) 13.81 Q
32. Damjan Zlatnar (Slovenia) 13.84 Q
33. Maksim Lynsha (Belarus) 13.86
34. Stanislav Sajdok (Czech Republic) 13.89
35. Evgeniy Borisov (Russia) 13.90
36. Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja (Madagascar) 13.91
37. Masato Naito (Japan) 13.96
38. Oleg Normatov (Uzbekistan) 14.00
39. Jurica Grabusic (Croatia) 14.18
40. Abdul Rashid (Pakistan) 14.52
. Liu Xiang (China) DNF
. Terrence Trammell (U.S.) DNF
. Stanislavs Olijars (Latvia) DNS
Q = Qualified
DNF = Did not finish
DNS = Did not start

India's Neha Aggarwal bowed out of the women's singles in the table tennis event at the Beijing Games on Monday morning, losing to Australia's Fang Jiang Lay 12-10, 8-11, 11-13, 8-11, 4-11 in 34 minutes.

Usain Bolt took the initial, loping steps towards securing the first Olympic sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1984 when he cruised through his first-round 200 metres heat on Monday.

Jamaica's Bolt claimed the 100 metres gold with a spectacular world record on Saturday but has said all along that the 200, in which he was a world championship runner-up last year, is the race closest to his heart.

In Monday's heats he caught Nicaragua's Juan Zeledon within about four strides before going on to ease home in 20.64 seconds, just behind Trinidad's Sorillo Rondell.

Defending champion Shawn Crawford and this year's 100 metres bronze medallist Walter Dix also went through comfortably. Wallace Spearmon completed the U.S. trio progressing.

The second round takes place later on Monday with the semi-finals on Tuesday and final on Wednesday.

Heat 1 1. Shawn Crawford (U.S.) 20.61 seconds Q
2. Marcin Jedrusinski (Poland) 20.64 Q
3. Stephan Buckland (Mauritius) 20.98 Q
4. Jiri Vojtik (Czech Republic) 21.05
5. Fanuel Kenosi (Botswana) 21.09
6. Adam Harris (Guyana) 21.36
7. Khalil Al-Hanahneh (Jordan) 21.55
8. Solomon Bayoh (Sierra Leone) 22.16.
Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) DNS

Heat 2 1. Brian Dzingai (Zimbabwe) 20.25 Q
2. Christian Malcolm (Britain) 20.42 Q
3. Christopher Williams (Jamaica) 20.53 Q
4. Shinji Takahira (Japan) 20.58 Q
5. Amr Seoud (Egypt) 20.75 Q
6. Thuso Mpaung (South Africa) 20.87 Q
7. Daniel Grueso (Colombia) 21.15
8. Arnaldo Abrantes (Portugal) 21.46

Heat 3 1. Marlon Devonish (Britain) 20.49 Q
2. Kim Collins (St. Kitts & Nevis) 20.55 Q
3. Marvin Anderson (Jamaica) 20.85 Q
4. Matic Osovnikar (Slovenia) 20.89 Q
5. Chris Lloyd (Dominica) 20.90
6. Heber Viera (Uruguay) 20.93
7. Cristian Reyes (Chile) 21.20
8. Franklin Nazareno (Ecuador) 21.26

Heat 4 1. Roman Smirnov (Russia) 20.76 Q
2. Walter Dix (U.S.) 20.77 Q
3. Rolando Palacios (Honduras) 20.81 Q
4. Angel David Rodriguez (Spain) 20.87 Q
5. Bruno de Barros (Brazil) 21.15
6. Desislav Gunev (Bulgaria) 21.55
7. Vyacheslav Muravyev (Kazakhstan) 21.68
8. Nicolai Portelli (Malta) 22.31

Heat 5 1. Rondell Sorrillo (Trinidad & Tobago) 20.58 Q
2. Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 20.64 Q
3. Kristof Beyens (Belgium) 20.69 Q
4. Marc Schneeberger (Switzerland) 20.86 Q
5. Jose Acevedo (Venezuela) 21.06
6. Ihor Bodrov (Ukraine) 21.38
7. Mohamad Siraj Tamim (Lebanon) 21.80
8. Oleg Juravlyov (Uzbekistan) 22.31
9. Juan Zeledon (Nicaragua) 23.39

Heat 6 1. Wallace Spearmon (U.S.) 20.46 Q
2. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (Norway) 20.54 Q
3. Paul Hession (Ireland) 20.59 Q
4. Seth Amoo (Ghana) 20.91
5. Ronalds Arajs (Latvia) 21.22
6. Jayson Jones (Belize) 21.54
7. Nabie Foday Fofanah (Guinea) 21.68.
Brian Barnett (Canada) DNF


Neat 7 1. Obinna Metu (Nigeria) 20.62 Q
2. Ramil Guliyev (Azerbaijan) 20.78 Q
2. Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles) 20.78 Q
4. Sandro Viana (Brazil) 20.84 Q
5. Jamaal Rolle (Bahamas) 20.93
5. Shingo Suetsugu (Japan) 20.93
7. Omar Juma Al-salfa (United Arab Emirates) 21.00.
Alex Nelson (Britain) DNS


Heat 8 1. Aaron Armstrong (Trinidad & Tobago) 20.57 Q
2. Brendan Christian (Antigua and Barbuda) 20.58 Q
3. Jared Connaughton (Canada) 20.60 Q
4. Visa Hongisto (Finland) 20.62 Q
5. Marco Cribari (Switzerland) 20.98
5. James Dolphin (New Zealand) 20.98
7. Zhang Peimeng (China) 21.06.
Samuel Francis (Qatar) DNS

Q = Qualified DNF = Did not finish DNS = Did not start

Champions Germany qualified for the semi-finals in women's Olympic hockey on Monday with a 1-0 victory over Japan to top Pool B with 12 points.

The third-ranked Germans became the second team to book a last four berth after the top-ranked Netherlands, silver medalists four years ago, sealed a spot from Pool A on Saturday with a game to spare.

Three-times champions Australia will take on Asian Games champions China in their final group match on Monday with the winner taking the other semi-final spot from pool A.

Argentina (eight points) can not afford anything short of a victory against New Zealand later on Monday to book their berth as the second team from Pool B with Britain, who play the United States, just a point behind.