Olympics News and Info

Preview: Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire

The International Figure Skating Union’s Grand Prix Series enters its 15th season this weekend with its first event: The Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire, in Paris. Competition starts Friday in competition, the first of six that will lead up to the Grand Prix Final in Tokyo in December and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. It will [...]

Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympics; Tokyo eliminated in 2nd round

Tokyo’s hopes of hosting the 2016 Olympics were shattered Friday as the Japanese capital was eliminated in the second round of voting by the International Olympic Committee.
Rio de Janeiro was named the winner of rights to stage the 2016 Games, beating Madrid in the final round of voting to become the first South American [...]

Tension mounts, tempers fly ahead of 2016 Olympic host city vote

The International Olympic Committee is no stranger to tough decisions. It took the risk of sending the games to Beijing and said “No” to New York in the aftermath of 9/11. Yet, despite all of that accumulated experience, some IOC members are struggling with their latest conundrum: choosing the Olympic host for 2016.
Just two [...]

France wins gold in men’s handball

France has won the gold medal in men’s handball, defeating Iceland in the final.
Spain beat Croatia for the bronze medal.

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.

Germany wins gold medal in men’s hockey

Germany defeated Spain 1-0 to win the gold medal in men’s hockey at the Beijing Olympics.
Christopher Zeller was the only goal scorer for the game.
Earlier in the day, Australia crushed the Netherlands 6-2 to win bronze.

Russia wins gold in synchronized swimming team event

Russia has won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming team event with a perfect score of 100.00 in the team free routine.
Spain won the silver medal and China won the bronze.
Russia:
DAVYDOVA Anastasia
ERMAKOVA Anastasia
GROMOVA Maria
ISHCHENKO Natalia
KHASYANOVA Elvira
KUZHELA Olga
ROMASHINA Svetlana
SHORINA Anna
OVCHINNIKOVA Elena
Spain
CABELLO Alba Maria
CORRAL Raquel
FUENTES Andrea
HENRIQUEZ Thais
LOPEZ Laura
MENGUAL Gemma
RODRIGUEZ Irina
TIRADOS Paola
MORON Gisela
China
GU Beibei
JIANG Tingting
JIANG Wenwen
LIU Ou
LUO [...]

Spain wins gold in men’s K2

Spain’s Saul Carviotto and Carlos Perez have won the gold medal in the men’s K2 – kayaking.

Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskotter from Germany won the silver medal. Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu from Belarus won the bronze.

Russia wins gold in mens C1 500 meters

Russia’s Maxim Opalez has won the gold medal in the men’s C1 500 meters. David Cal from Spain won the silver medal and the bronze medal went to Ukranie’s Iurii Cheban.

Attila Sandor Vajda wins gold in the men’s C1 1000m

Attila Sandor Vajda from Hungary has won the gold medal in the men’s C1 1000 meter event.
David Cal from Spain won the silver medal and the bronze went to Thomas Hall from Canada.