鹦鹉 - 2008-8-19 9:51:00
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Liu Xiang (Photo credit: Xinhua)
After a frantic weekend when more than 60 medals were handed out, Day 10 by comparison looked like a much quieter day on paper. What a mistaken belief that was! Day 10 of Beijing 2008 was one of the most sensational of the Games yet.
The undoubted story of the day didn't actually involve competition, more the cruel hand of fate -- or injury -- as China's main Athletics hopeful Liu Xiang pulled out of his opening qualifying heat in the Men's 110m Hurdles with repetition of an Achilles tendon injury which has dogged his season.His absence will undoubtedly leave a vacuum in the hearts of Chinese sports fans -- but no one can question the efforts of today's track and field finalists who lived up to their billing as champions.
Kenya struck double gold to thrill the National Stadium with a case of old and new. The old being Kenya retaining the Men's 3000m Steeplechase gold, which the African country has now won for the seventh consecutive time, thanks to 2007 world champion Brimin Kiprop Kiprut. Mahiedine Mekhissi-B. of France finished with a personal best to take silver, with another Kenyan, Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong, the 2008 African champion, collecting the bronze medal.
The new was 18-year-old sensation Pamela Jelimo earning Kenya's second gold of the night -- but hard to believe, given the country's amazing middle-distance success, Kenya's first ever Women's Athletics gold medal.
The United States wasn't to be outdone though -- sweeping all three medals in the Men's 400m Hurdles, with Sydney gold medalist Angelo Taylor, 2005 World Champion Kerron Clement, and 2007 world champion Bershawn Jackson winning gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, with times of 47.25s, 47.98s, and 48.06s.
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61 year old equestrian rider Ian Millar (Photo credit: Getty)
Stephanie Brown Trafton earned the United States's second gold of the night in the Women's Discus Throw with a distance of 64.74m. The 2007 World Championships bronze medalist, Yarelys Barrios from Cuba, threw 63.64m to take silver, while Olena Antonova of Ukraine earned bronze with a throw of 62.59m. 附件: 您所在的用户组无法下载或查看附件
Pamela Jelimo celebrates. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
Defending champion Elena Isinbaeva of Russia underlined her credentials as the World's undisputed No. 1 by winning the Women's Pole Vault with ease, only needing two clearances, at 4.70 and 4.85, to take the actual title, but then set a new world record of 5.05m on her third and final jump, Jennifer Stuczynski of the United States took silver with 4.80m but failed at 4.90, while Isinbaeva's compatriot Svetlana Feofanova claimed bronze with a height of 4.75m, the same height cleared by fellow Russian Yulia Golubchikova, but Feofanova took the bronze medal on countback.Familiar names, familiar flags -- but there was also a new flag raised in the National Stadium tonight when 2007 world champion Irving Saladino won Panama's first-ever Olympic gold medal by taking the Men's Long Jump with a leap of 8.34 meters. Khotso Mokoena of South Africa grabbed silver with 8.24m, and Cuba's Ibrahim Camejo earned the bronze medal with 8.20m.
In the day's qualifying rounds, Usain Bolt was still on course to take a sprint double gold. The Men's 100m champion qualified for the semifinals of the Men's 200m, although only as the fifth fastest qualifier out of 16 in the second round heats.
Lolo Jones of the United States ran a personal best of 12.43 seconds in the semifinals to the Women's 100m Hurdles to qualify for Tuesday (August 19) evening's final. Other favorites to qualify include 2007 World Championships bronze medalist Delloreen Ennis-London and Bridgitte Foster-Hylton, (both of Jamaica), Sally McLellan of Australia and Damu Cherry of the United States.
In the Men's 400m preliminary round Christopher Brown of the Bahamas qualified fastest for the semifinals with a time of 44.79 seconds. Pre-event favorite Jeremy Wariner and Lashawn Merritt of the United States also qualified with ease.
World indoor champion Phillips Idowu of Great Britain is ranked first for the Men's Triple Jump after topping the qualifying round with a leap of 17.44m, while Athens 2004 silver medalist Yipsi Moren of Cuba qualified first for Wednesday's Women's Hammer Throw final with a throw of 73.92m.
And Liu Xiang was the only Men's 100m hurdler to miss out. Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 silver medalist Terrence Trammell of the United States is also out after failing to finish his first round qualifying race due to injury.
From one track to another – and life at the Laoshan Velodrome is proving just fine for Great Britain's Track Cycling team, whose fifth gold medal of Beijing 2008 came in the Men's Team Pursuit final, in which Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins took gold with a final time of 3:53.314. This medal means Wiggins now equals the Olympic record for total medals won (six) in Cycling – but the winner of the Men's Individual Pursuit can pass that if he wins the Madison with partner Mark Cavendish in Tuesday's final day of competition (August 19).
Marianne Vos of the Netherlands powered home to win the Women's Points final ahead of Yoanka Gonzalez, who claimed Cuba's first Olympic medal in Track Cycling. Leire Olaberria of Spain claimed the final spot on the podium
Out in the open it was a golden day for Australia. An Emma of a day, you might say, in the Women's Triathlon, arguably the most arduous event of the Games, which was won by Emma Snowsill, with teammate Emma Moffatt, both of Australia, bronze. The silver medal went to Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal.
Snowsill's gold came after she established a lead in the final of the three disciplines, the 10Km run, in a time of one hour, 58 minutes and 27.66 seconds, 54 seconds ahead of Fernandes, while Moffatt trailed Fernandes by 20 seconds.
Australia's success translated to the open waters, too, in the Sailing competition at Qingdao, where both gold medals in the Men's and Women's Two-Person Dinghy-470 races went to the gold-and-green country. Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson won the Women's race, while Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page secured gold in the Men's 470.
Another remarkable performer of the day was 20-year-old Andrei Aramnau of Belarus, who shattered three world records en route to winning the Men's 105 kilogram Weightlifting crown. Aramnau lifted 200kg in the Snatch, followed by 236kg in the Clean and Jerk, to get a total of 436kg, 13kg ahead of Russians Dmitriy Klokov and Dmitry Lapikov, who took silver and bronze, respectively.
And how about this for a story -- 61-year-old Ian Millar of Canada won a silver medal as part of Canada's Equestrian Jumping Team event to become the seventh oldest medal winner in Olympic history. Incredibly it is Millar's first medal in his record-equaling ninth Olympic Games. The United States took gold after a jump off.
So to what has become a daily glut of gold medals for host China. The place to start has to be gymnastics, where 23-year-old Chen Yibing, the co-called "Lord of The Rings," won China's first gold medal in the Men's Rings since the legendary Li Ning shared gold with Japan's Gushiken Koji at Los Angeles 1984. Chen scored 16.600 to win. The silver medal went to his compatriot Yang Wei, who scored 16.425. The bronze medal was won by Ukraine's Oleksandr Vorobiov, who scored 16.325.
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He Wenna competes during the final. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
The winners of both the Women's Uneven Bars and Men's Vault finals won their gold medals thanks to the technical merit of their performances rather than the quantity of points they earned over unfortunate silver medalists.He Kexin won her second gold medal of the Games in the Women's Uneven Bars, having already been a triumphant member of the Chinese squad to win the Women's Team event. He scored the same number of points as Nastia Liukin of the United States but was judged to have made fewer mistakes so took gold. Liukin has now won four medals at Beijing 2008, her three other medals being the gold medal in the All-Around, the silver medal in the Team final and the bronze medal in the Floor Exercise.
From one He to another – this time He Wenna, who won China's first Olympic Games Trampoline gold medal, by impressing the judges with a routine worth 37.80 points. Karen Cockburn of Canada won her second consecutive silver Olympic medal and third Olympic medal in total, having secured a bronze medal in Sydney 2000 and silver from Athens 2004.
Leszek Blanik of Poland won the Men's Vault gold medal with a score of 16.537, sharing the same score as Thomas Bouhail of France. However Bouhail was placed second due to inferior execution. The bronze medal went to Anton Golotsutskov of Russia who scored 16.475.
There was more gold for China at the PKU Gymnasium, where to the delight of a passionate 7,500 capacity crowd, No. 1 seed China won the Men's Table Tennis Team title, beating No. 2 seed Germany 3-0 in the final.
Wang Hao gave China a winning start, proving too fast for 19-year-old Dimitrij Ovtcharov. Then Ma Lin triumphed 2-1 in a classic encounter against Timo Boll, who was also selected by German coach Richard Prause for Doubles with partner Christian Suss, but proved no match for Chinese duo Wang Hao and Wang Liqin. Like the Chinese women, the men captured gold without losing a single individual match in the tournament.
Away from the medals, the Beijing 2008 Women's Football finalists have been decided with both of today's semifinals played in the Shanghai Stadium. Two goals from tournament top-scorer Christiane helped Brazil come from behind to book a place in the final with an emphatic 4-1 win over Germany. They will face defending champion the United States, who have reached the final by defeating Japan, 4-2.
There was lots more competition at Beijing 2008 today – but those are the highlights of a dramatic day.