China leads with 41 golds, second in total medals
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 ~ Chris ~ Link ~ Comments (0)
As of 8:15 pm Beijing time on Tuesday, China had won two more golds, both in men's gymnastics, to bring their total number of gold medals to 41, or 16 more than Team USA's 25 golds. Great Britain was in third in the gold count with 15.In terms of overall medals, China trails the US, 77 to 72, with silver- and bronze-heavy Russia in third with 40 total medals.
Li Xiaopeng enters Chinese gymnastics pantheon
Li Xiaopeng (李小鹏) beat out Yoo Won-chul of South Korea and Anton Fokin of Uzbekistan to claim his fourth gold in men's gymnastics – this time in the parallel bars. This Olympics Li has surpassed Chinese gymnastics legend – and the star of these Olympics' opening ceremony – Li Ning as the winningest Chinese gymnast ever, with a total of 18 international first-place finishes to Li Ning's 14.
Zou Kai wins men's horizontal bar
Li's teammate Zou Kai (邹凯) beat out Jonathan Horton of the US and Fabian Hambuechen of Germany to win gold on the last day of artistic gymnastics competition. The medal is Zou's third gold medal in his first Olympics – earlier in the Beijing games he won gold in the men's team competition and also in the individual floor competition.
Li Xiaopeng image: news.cctv.com
Zou Kai image: english.people.com.cn
Tags: gymnastics, Li Ning, Li Xiaopeng, Zou Kai
Images from the Olympics
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 ~ Chris ~ Link ~ Comments (0)
The Olympics is a festival of images as much as it is a celebration of sports, and the Beijing games have already produced a number of memorable ones, from Michael Phelps' ecstatic celebration after his first gold to Liu Xiang crawling in agony on the track at the Bird's Nest.
Beijing-based photographer Toomanytribbles, has been covering the games from a spectator's perspective, her Flickr photostream features memorable images of Olympic venues, spectators, performers and even the Olympic flame attempting to consume the moon. They are of a different vein from typical media coverage of the Olympics and well worth a look.
Images: Toomanytribbles' Flickr photostream
Tags: Olympics, Toomanytribbles
China take men's, women's ping pong team gold
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (1)
With last night's men's team table tennis gold medal, and the women's team title the night before, China is halfway to a sweep of the top spots in its national sport.
China defeated Germany in the men's final, which requires teams to play a mix of singles and doubles matches. Wang Hao and Ma Lin each won their singles matches easily, and then Wang Hao went on to win the doubles with partner Wang Liqin.
On Sunday, the women's team denied rivals Singapore an Olympic gold medal, with a 3-0 victory.
The singles competition for the women started yesterday, and for the men it begins today. Anything less than gold will be a disappointment, and China has the talent to sweep all three medals on both sides.
Finally, we'd like to take this occasion as an excuse to share a recent story from Titan Sports newspaper (below) about Wang Hao, whose mother apparently used to dress the ping pong phenom up like a little girl.
Tags: Ma Lin, Olympics, ping pong, Wang Hao