2008
19
Aug
Shanaze Reade is hoping to win gold for Great Britain in the first women’s BMX event at an Olympic games.
Reade arrived in Beijing on Sunday and has been practicing at a replica of the Beijing Olympic course built in Manchester.
Qualifying races start tomorrow and the finals will be on Thursday.
2008
19
Aug
Paul Goodison of Great Britain has won the gold medal in the laser, men’s one person dinghy.
Vasilij Zbogar of Slovenia won the silver medal and Diego Romero of Italy won the bronze medal.
2008
18
Aug
Australia has won the gold medal in men’s 470 two person dingy sailing. Great Britain won the silver and France won the bronze medal.
Australia:
WILMOT Nathan
PAGE Malcolm
Great Britain:
ROGERS Nick
GLANFIELD Joe
France:
CHARBONNIER Nicolas
BAUSSET Olivier
2008
17
Aug
Australia and England have long been sporting rivals, mostly in cricket, but now with Great Britain doing well in Beijing, the country has their eyes on beating Australia in the medal tally.
The head of the Australian Olympic Committee John Coates accused Great Britain’s swimmers of having bad hygiene and was quoted as saying, “It’s not [...]
2008
17
Aug
Defending Olympic champion Ben Ainslie of Great Britain won gold in the Finn (Heavyweight Dinghy), sailing evnet. He is the third sailor to win gold in three consecutive Olympic games.
The silver went to Zach Railey of the United States and Guillaume Florent of France won the bronze medal.
2008
17
Aug
Canada has won the gold medal in the men’s eight rowing. Great Britain won the silver and the United States has won the bronze.
Canada team:
LIGHT Kevin
RUTLEDGE Ben
BYRNES Andrew
WETZEL Jake
HOWARD Malcolm
SEITERLE Dominic
KREEK Adam
HAMILTON Kyle
PRICE Brian
Great Britain:
PARTRIDGE Alex
STALLARD Tom
LUCY Tom
EGINGTON Richard
WEST Josh
HEATHCOTE Alastair
LANGRIDGE Matt
SMITH Colin
NETHERCOTT Acer
United States:
HOOPMAN Beau
SCHNOBRICH Matt
BOYD Micah
ALLEN Wyatt
WALSH Daniel
COPPOLA Steven
INMAN Josh
VOLPENHEIN Bryan
Mc ELHENNEY [...]
2008
17
Aug
Rebecca Romero from Great Britain has won the gold medal in the women’s individual pursuit.
Wendy Houvenaghel also from GB has won the silver medal and Lesya Kalitovska from Ukraine won the silver medal.
2008
17
Aug
China has come from behind to win the gold medal in the women’s quad fours, their first gold medal ever in rowing. Great Britain won the silver medal and Germany the bronze.
China:
TANG Bin
JIN Ziwei
XI Aihua
ZHANG Yangyang
Great Britain:
VERNON Annie
FLOOD Debbie
HOUGHTON Frances
GRAINGER Katherine
Germany:
OPPELT Britta
LUTZE Manuela
BORON Kathrin
SCHILLER Stephanie
2008
17
Aug
Great Britain’s Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter have won the gold medal in the men’s lightweight double scull.
Greece’s team of MOUGIOS Dimitrios Mougios and Vasileios Polymeros won the silver.
Mads Reinholdt Rasmussen and Rasmus Nicholai Quist Hansen from Denmark won the bronze medal.
2008
17
Aug
Great Britain’s Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson have won the first gold medal in the sailing at the Beijing Olympics.
Netherlands team of MULDER Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes and Merel Witteveen have won silver.
Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou, Sofia Papadopoulou and Virginia Kravarioti won the bronze medal