Archive for 2012/08/10
BBC Sport’s Gabby Logan asks former Olympic champion Ian Thorpe why his native Australia are suffering a medal drought during London 2012.
Olympic boxing: Freddie Evans into boxing final
Italy shock pre-tournament favourites Serbia to reach the men’s water polo final in which they will face Croatia.
Anthony Joshua is into the Olympic boxing super-heavyweight final at London 2012 after a 13-11 win over Ivan Dychko of Kazakhstan.
British diving star Tom Daley endured a torrid preliminary round in the 10m platform as he edged through to Saturday’s semi-finals.
South Korea become only the second Asian nation to win an Olympic men’s football medal by beating near neighbours Japan 2-0 in a feisty bronze-medal match in Cardiff.
The USA will play Spain in the Olympic basketball final on Sunday, in a repeat of the 2008 Olympic showdown.
Belarus’s Vadim Kaptur performs an inward three-and-a-half somersault dive and narrowly avoids hitting his head on the 10m platform.
Favourites Brazil beat Italy in their semi-final to book a clash with Russia for the men’s volleyball gold medal.
British diving star Tom Daley endured a torrid preliminary round in the 10m platform as he edged through to Saturday’s semi-finals.
Golden girls: Netherlands on the podium – hockeyimages.co.ukLONDON, August 10 – Netherlands became only the second team in history to retain their Olympic hockey title with a 2-0 victory against world champions Argentina in the women’s gold medal match at the Riverbank Arena on Friday. Chances were even in a scoreless first half before Netherlands got the opening goal of the match in the 45th minute. Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel followed up an Eva de Goede penalty corner flick to slap the ball into the goal for a 1-0 lead
South Korea beat Japan 2-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Olympic bronze medal.
CIARAN Williams hopes the home nation’s Olympic performances have inspired a new generation of British handballers. Team GB were unable to win any of their fixtures, but improved with each game and won over many new fans in the Copper Box at Olympic Park.
Tom Daley talks about the expectations on him at London 2012 and who he thinks will win the 10m platform final.
Great Britain finish sixth in the team event in synchronised swimming, scoring 175.440.
1 Gold + 4 Silver = 1 Happy Manager
Daniel Fogg raises concerns about potential funding cuts to swimming following Great Britain’s performance at London 2012.
Great Britain’s Liam Phillips crashes out of the men’s cycling BMX final as Maris Strombergs secures gold for Latvia.
Russia complete a clean sweep of synchronised swimming gold medals for the fourth successive Olympics, with victory in the London 2012 team event.