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London 2012 Olympics: China's Yi Siling wins first gold medal of the Games
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I agree buddy. :cheer:
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congrats to the athletes and the countries winning medals..!!
Hey anyone can tell me, how will olympic committee find out if some over zealous country uses gender changing surgery in order to make men compete in women's category... it can be done to win gold medals in women's category. isnt it?
any views.
a) it will definately be caught by Olympics committee
b) if you change it, you get to win the medal
Hey anyone can tell me, how will olympic committee find out if some over zealous country uses gender changing surgery in order to make men compete in women's category... it can be done to win gold medals in women's category. isnt it?
any views.
a) it will definately be caught by Olympics committee
b) if you change it, you get to win the medal
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Exactly bro, we should condemn such disgraceful acts no matter of nationality
Indian woman athlete arrested over 'rape' charges... and claims she is a MAN | Mail Online
I agree that needs to be condemned.. but it still doesn't answer my question. Can it be done by some over zealous country in OLMYPICS? or is there some regulation in Olympics to catch such acts by a country?
I think It will be interesting if someone brings out the data on ratio of Man to Women medals for each country in previous games and these games.!
Here a jealousy and delusional indian go mad.
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did I say something to you. why you going mad! Don't you think it is something that needs to be avoided and discouraged and punished badly for such a activity at OLYMPICS. I fully condemn any such practice.!!
I dont know much about the kinds of checks at Olympics that r used to avoid cheating and fraud by athletes. And gender change is a fruad, so I want to know if there is some mechanism at Olympics to detect this?
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One step at a time buddy , at the moment we stay focus on the pool and once we dominate that event we will turn our attention to track and field
In the mean time you can watch us humiliate Us at track and field >
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Thts realy a great news and one have to admit beijin olympic was better thn this( arrangemnt done by china)London 2012 Olympics: China's Yi Siling wins first gold medal of the Games in 10m air rifle
China's Yi Siling shot straight into the history books today, clinching the first gold medal of the London 2012 Games in the women's 10m air rifle discipline.
London 2012 Olympics: Yi Siling wins the first gold medal of the Games in shooting
Golden girl: Yi Siling has won the first gold medal of the Games Photo: PA
By Tom Rowley, at the Royal Artillery Barracks
11:34AM BST 28 Jul 2012
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China all smiles but Miley is left in the wake
Two golds and a world record for hosts of the last Olympics sink hopes of an early British medal
It was an evening that opened to the sound of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' echoing around the London Aquatics Centre but it was a night that belonged to China, emphatically so. In less than half an hour two stunning swims produced two Chinese gold medals and already they have doubled the total they managed in home waters four years ago.
First Sun Yang, a swimming superstar in the making, claimed an utterly dominant victory in the 400m freestyle and then, minutes later, 16-year-old Ye Shiwen shattered the world record with an even more remarkable success in the 400m individual medley.
Ye left the American favourite Elizabeth Beisel trailing in her wake over the last 50 metres. The sheer strength of the Chinese swimmer shattered the field – Hannah Miley, carrying Britain's hope of a first home medal, could not compete and finished fifth, nearly six seconds adrift. The bronze went to China, too, through 18-year-old Li Xuanxu.
Ye had set the fastest time of the year in the morning heats amid a growing sense that China could become the story of the pool in London. Before last night they had a historic total of seven golds – they won six medals of all colours in 2008 – but theirs is a strident ambition to improve in sports beyond their traditional strengths and in the pool it is coming to fruition.
Yang destroyed the field in the 400m freestyle to claim the first gold medal China's men have ever won in the pool. The 20-year-old was under intense pressure to deliver in London; in the build-up to the Games his membership of the Communist Party was hurried through. He is the world record-holder at 1500m – breaking Grant Hackett's 10-year-old mark at last year's World Championships – and looks set to dominate the middle and long-distance events.
In Beijing before departing for London, Yang climbed on to a table at a team meeting and yelled: "We are coming – London, Chinese men are coming." His confidence was not misplaced, but his facts were wrong – the women are here too.
The 6ft 6in Yang eased away from Korea's Park Tae-hwan early on and the defending champion never looked like closing the gap. Yang finished in an Olympic record time having threatened to break another world record for much of the race.
That record was not long delayed. Ye, who took up swimming at the suggestion of a primary school teacher who noticed she had extremely large hands for her age, had finished fifth at last year's World Championships but has improved spectacularly since then in the most gruelling event in the pool. And the biggest worry for her rivals is that the 400m is not her specialist event – she is world champion in the 200m IM. There will be more Chinese medals to come.
Beisel had seemed to have the race under control but could not handle Ye's brutal acceleration over the final length. She touched in 4min 28.23sec, more than a second inside the record set by Stephanie Rice in Beijing.
Miley was never in contention. She started slowly and was sixth at the halfway stage. She used her strong breaststroke to regain some ground but, like the rest of field, could do nothing about Ye's power. The 22-year-old Scot, who was ranked third in the world going into the Games, broke down in tears. But it was Rice who summed it up best. A double Olympic gold medallist in Beijing, she came sixth last night. "Oh my god, it was so tough," she said.
Britain's Ellen Gandy qualified seventh fastest for tonight's final of the 100m butterfly. The Australian-based 20-year-old finished fifth in her heat behind the dominant Dana Vollmer of the USA. The 100m is Gandy's weaker event – she is a world silver medallist at the 200m fly – but she cut half a second off her morning time to reach a first Olympic final.
Fran Halsall failed to make the final. The 22-year-old faded over the second 50 metres to finish seventh in her semi-final. Halsall later produced a stirring second leg of the 4x100m relay to help Britain finish a creditable fifth. It bodes well for Halsall later in the week. Australia took the gold, the Dutch silver and the USA bronze to give Missy Franklin the first of a possible seven medals.
China all smiles but Miley is left in the wake - Swimming - Olympics - The Independent
Two golds and a world record for hosts of the last Olympics sink hopes of an early British medal
It was an evening that opened to the sound of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' echoing around the London Aquatics Centre but it was a night that belonged to China, emphatically so. In less than half an hour two stunning swims produced two Chinese gold medals and already they have doubled the total they managed in home waters four years ago.
First Sun Yang, a swimming superstar in the making, claimed an utterly dominant victory in the 400m freestyle and then, minutes later, 16-year-old Ye Shiwen shattered the world record with an even more remarkable success in the 400m individual medley.
Ye left the American favourite Elizabeth Beisel trailing in her wake over the last 50 metres. The sheer strength of the Chinese swimmer shattered the field – Hannah Miley, carrying Britain's hope of a first home medal, could not compete and finished fifth, nearly six seconds adrift. The bronze went to China, too, through 18-year-old Li Xuanxu.
Ye had set the fastest time of the year in the morning heats amid a growing sense that China could become the story of the pool in London. Before last night they had a historic total of seven golds – they won six medals of all colours in 2008 – but theirs is a strident ambition to improve in sports beyond their traditional strengths and in the pool it is coming to fruition.
Yang destroyed the field in the 400m freestyle to claim the first gold medal China's men have ever won in the pool. The 20-year-old was under intense pressure to deliver in London; in the build-up to the Games his membership of the Communist Party was hurried through. He is the world record-holder at 1500m – breaking Grant Hackett's 10-year-old mark at last year's World Championships – and looks set to dominate the middle and long-distance events.
In Beijing before departing for London, Yang climbed on to a table at a team meeting and yelled: "We are coming – London, Chinese men are coming." His confidence was not misplaced, but his facts were wrong – the women are here too.
The 6ft 6in Yang eased away from Korea's Park Tae-hwan early on and the defending champion never looked like closing the gap. Yang finished in an Olympic record time having threatened to break another world record for much of the race.
That record was not long delayed. Ye, who took up swimming at the suggestion of a primary school teacher who noticed she had extremely large hands for her age, had finished fifth at last year's World Championships but has improved spectacularly since then in the most gruelling event in the pool. And the biggest worry for her rivals is that the 400m is not her specialist event – she is world champion in the 200m IM. There will be more Chinese medals to come.
Beisel had seemed to have the race under control but could not handle Ye's brutal acceleration over the final length. She touched in 4min 28.23sec, more than a second inside the record set by Stephanie Rice in Beijing.
Miley was never in contention. She started slowly and was sixth at the halfway stage. She used her strong breaststroke to regain some ground but, like the rest of field, could do nothing about Ye's power. The 22-year-old Scot, who was ranked third in the world going into the Games, broke down in tears. But it was Rice who summed it up best. A double Olympic gold medallist in Beijing, she came sixth last night. "Oh my god, it was so tough," she said.
Britain's Ellen Gandy qualified seventh fastest for tonight's final of the 100m butterfly. The Australian-based 20-year-old finished fifth in her heat behind the dominant Dana Vollmer of the USA. The 100m is Gandy's weaker event – she is a world silver medallist at the 200m fly – but she cut half a second off her morning time to reach a first Olympic final.
Fran Halsall failed to make the final. The 22-year-old faded over the second 50 metres to finish seventh in her semi-final. Halsall later produced a stirring second leg of the 4x100m relay to help Britain finish a creditable fifth. It bodes well for Halsall later in the week. Australia took the gold, the Dutch silver and the USA bronze to give Missy Franklin the first of a possible seven medals.
China all smiles but Miley is left in the wake - Swimming - Olympics - The Independent
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SO UNFORTUNATE. I was watching it, and the commentator said that Sun Yang "glided in" at the end to finish 1st, which meant that he missed beating the world record by a fraction of a second. But at least he got the Gold.
It would have been nice if both Ye Shiwen AND Sun Yang beat two world records on the first day!!!
Ye Shiwen sets world record at Olympics aged 16 | guardian.co.uk
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These 2 swim medals came as a surprise to me, we were always left out of this party for a while. I remember we were strong in the 90s but got set back by doping charges, now these 2 kids might have 2 more Olympics ahead of them plus in these games atleast 2 more gold level races, very promising future.
I see the real trouble ahead for us is the gymnastics team. Did we lose all our veterans from 2008?
One vet suffered an injury and now pulled out and the guys left are falling all over the place. How could we allow the brits to get ahead. Our decade of dominance looks like it's over.
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