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.


Russia wins gold in synchronized swimming duet free

Russian’s Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming duet free gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Spain’s Andrea Fuentes and Gemma Mengual won the silver and Japan’s Saho Harada and Emiko Suzuki won the bronze medal.


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

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Marianne Vos of the Netherlands wins gold in the women’s points race – cycling

Marianne Vos of the Netherlands has won the gold in the women’s points race at the Beijing Olympics.
The silver medal was won by Cuban Yoanka Gonzalez and the bronze medal went to Leire Olaberria of Spain.

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Nadal defeats Gonzalez to win Olympic gold

Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3 to win the gold medal in the men’s single tennis at the Beijing Olympics.
Novak Djokovic from Serbia won the bronze medal.

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China’s Zou Kai wins gold in the men’s floor exercise

China’s Zou Kai won the gold medal after scoring 16.050 in the men’s floor exercise.
Gervasio Deferr of Spain won the silver medal with 15.775, while the bronze medal went to Anton Golotsutskov of Russia who scored 15.725.


Williams sisters win gold in women’s tennis doubles

Serena Williams and Venus Williams from the United States have defeated French Open champions Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain to capture the gold medal in the Women’s Doubles Tennis at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
China’s Yan Zi and Zheng Jie defeated Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-2, 6-2 to win [...]


U.S. pummel Spain as China advance

The United States delivered a powerful message of intent by pulverizing world champions Spain 119-82 in the men’s Olympic basketball tournament on Saturday.
A fired-up Yao Ming was close to tears after driving hosts China into the quarter-finals with a 59-55 victory over Germany.
The Spanish players wore the look of weary men as they trudged [...]

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Spain’s Joan LLaneras wins gold in the cycling track men’s point race

Spain’s Joan LLaneras won the cycling track men’s points race gold medal with 60 points at the Beijing Olympics.
Germany’s Roger Kluge took the silver with 58 points and Britain’s Chris Newton got the bronze with 56.


US vs Spain – men’s basketball

The US or the “redeem team” are they are being called in the press will play Spain tonight at 10:15 Beijing time.
The team are focused and playing every game as though it is their last.
“We are playing every game as if it is our last,” said James, who had 17 points, six rebounds and six [...]

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