Olympics News and Info

United States defeat Spain to win gold in men’s basketball

The United States ‘redeem team’ have certainly redeemed themselves at the Beijing Olympics, not losing a single game and defeating Spain 118-107 in the final to win the gold medal.
The bronze medal was won by Argentina, who defeated Lithuania 87-75.

Messi and Aguero Lead Argentina to Soccer Olympic Gold

Argentina defeated Nigeria, 1-0, at the Bird’s Nest stadium, to win the gold, and continue a run of success by Argentine youth teams that may herald a resurgence of the South American power at the senior level.
Leading that resurgence will be Lionel Messi, the Argentine forward who garnered the loudest applause every time [...]

Argentina defeats Nigeria 1-0 to win Olympic gold in men’s football

Angel di Maria of Argentina scored the only goal against Nigeria, earning them the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Argentina also won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens games.

Brazil beat Belgium yesterday to win the bronze medal.

Argentina wins bronze in women’s hockey

Argentina have won the bronze medal in the women’s hockey, beating Germany 3-1.
Claudia Burkart (11th minute), Carla Rebecchi (23rd) and Noel Barrionuevo (62nd) scored the goals for Argentina. Anke Kuehn scored Germany’s only goal.

Pele disappointed with Brazil’s loss to Argentina

Pele who is in Beijing helping with Rio de Janeiro’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics, said Argentina were better prepared than Brazil in the men’s football.
“I think Argentina were better prepared than Brazil,” said Pele. “Once again, Brazil couldn’t win the gold medal.”
“It’s not good for us but this is what happens in football, [...]

Spain wins gold medal in Tornado (Multihull)

Spanish sailor’s Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz have won the gold medal in the tornado (Multihull) sailing event at the Beijing Olympics.
Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby of Australia won the silver medal and Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola of Argentina won the bronze medal.

Argentina defeat Brazil 3-0 to advance to final

In the much anticipated football clash between Argentina and Brazil, Argentina won 3-0 to advance to the final against Nigeria.
Lionel Messi scored and two goals came from Sergio Aguero.
A crowd of 52,968 fans packed the Worker’s Stadium including Diego Maradona.
Nigeria thrashed Belgium 4-1 in Shanghai.

Argentina wins gold in men’s madison - cycling

Argentina has won the gold medal in the men’s madison at the Beijing Olympics. Spain won the silver medal and the bronze was won by Russia.
Argentina
CURUCHET Juan Esteban
PEREZ Walter Fernando
Spain
LLANERAS Joan
TAULER Antonio
Russian Fed.
IGNATYEV Mikhail
MARKOV Alexei

Argentina plays Brazil in the football semi-final tonight

Argentina play Brazil tonight in the semi-final of the men’s football. The match starts at 9:00 p.m and will be played at the Worker’s Stadium in Beijing.
Belgium and Nigeria will play in Shanghai in the other semi-final.
The Argentina - Brazil match is being billed as the Ronaldinho-Lionel Messi clash.
“It’s a match between [...]

Argentina defeats Australia 1-0 in men’s soccer

Argentina had a win over Australia and they now move on to the quarter finals. Ezequiel Lavezzi was the only goal scorer of the game.
Lionel Messi had missed three chances, Lavezzi scored in the 78th minute of the game.
“We have three goals from two games, that might not sound enough but you can score 10 [...]