Beijing Olympics 2008

How are the Beijing Olympics Medals Made?

noreply@blogger.com (Prathik) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:02:36 PDT

Selecting stones Jade cutting Jade polishingCheckup details Medal mould Bronze medal Medal machine tool Medal after punchingGroove making machine Groove checking-upPutting jade into the medal Finishing Source: beijing2008.cn

Medal standings as of 20th Aug

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:35:17 PDT

TV Schedule for 20th,21st and 22th of Aug

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:53:45 PDT

Wednesday, Aug. 20NBC and NBC HD, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. — Men's Volleyball Quarterfinal (LIVE); Women's Diving - Platform Competition8 p.m.-Midnight — Track & Field - Gold Medal Finals: Men's 200-meter, Women's 400-meter Hurdles; Gymnastics Gala Exhibition; Women's Beach Volleyball Gold Medal Match (LIVE); Women's Diving - Platform Semifinal (LIVE); Cycling - BMX Gold Medal Finals (LIVE)12:35-2 a.m. —

Jitender follows Akhil Kumar while Vijender ensures another medal..

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:24:54 PDT

Bhiwani volcano erupted on the Equadorian.....Indian boxer Vijender Singh ensured another medal for India at the Beijing Olympics by outpunching Carlos Gongora of Ecuador in the quarterfinal of the 75kg category bout today.With this victory, he is now assured of at least a bronze medal.He led all the rounds over Equadorian and clinched the bout 9-4. Although Carlos managed to close the gap in the

Another bronze for India through Sushil Kumar

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:56:08 PDT

Freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar wins a historic bronze medal in the 66kg category in the Beijing Olympics. Sushil Kumar beat Kazakhistan’s Leonid Spiridonov in a play-off bout for the Bronze medal..Against Leonid, Sushil grabbed early initiative by scoring two technical points that proved decisive in the end.Though the Kazakh wrestler scored one in the second period and managed to thwart Sushil,

Another Jamaican digs gold in 400m Hurdles...

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:02:57 PDT

Another Jamaican Melanie Walker wins the 400m Hurdles in Beijing Olympics 2008...She set a new Olympics record of 52.64s in the final..

Terrific run by Bolt...Gold in 200m...

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:53:03 PDT

Terrific man....terrific..He looks into the electronic timer and screams.....oh....The 200m race won by the Jamaican with a world record time of 19.30S leaving behind the others over 5m..The world record of 19.32S set by American Michael Johnson in the 1996 Olympic Games has become history in the "Lightning Bolt".Usain Bolt is dancing now....His win comes day before his 22th birthday....The 21-

Medal standings upto 50 as of 19th..

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:39:23 PDT

Easy for Bayeva.....

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:58:00 PDT

The cute bird of Russia flies over the pole as well as bird's nest..Yelena Isinbayeva won a second consecutive gold in the pole vault and broke her world and Olympic records in the process.With a world record if 5.05m, Yelena Isinbayeva won the gold medal in Beijing Olympics. This is the 24 time she breaking the world record set by herself. The last world record 4.95m was only 20 days old. She

Romanian ruled the floor..not Johnson or Liukin

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:41:09 PDT

Romania's Sandra Izbasa grabbed the gold medal on floor away from world champion Shawn Johnson at the Beijing Olympics.All-around champ Nastia Liukin took bronze, giving the United States two medals in the event and its women's team five total medals.Johnson, who also won silver in the all-around, had the unwanted chore of going first. Her performance lacked the usual flair, but a series of

Medal standings as of 17th..

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:24:21 PDT

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Russia's first athletics gold medal from women's Steeplechase

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:25:34 PDT

Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia led all the way to win the women's steeplechase gold medal with a world record performance at the Beijing Olympic Games .The 30-year-old finisehd in 8 minutes 58.81 seconds, breaking the previous record of 9:01.59 set by herself four years ago.Eunice Jepkorir of Kenya claimed the silver medal in 9:07.41. She outsprinted another Russian Ekaterina Volkova in the

Lin Dan claims Badminton singles Gold

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:17:45 PDT

Chinese shuttler Lin Dan claimed the Men's Singles title at the Beijing Olympics, beating Lee Chong-wei from Malaysia 21-12, 21-8 in the final.China's Chen Jin beat Lee Hyun-il from the Republic of Korea 21-16,12-21, 21-14 in the bronze medal match.

Koreans took over Indonesians

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:11:42 PDT

World No. 1 pair Liliyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia failed utterly in the final of Mixed Doubles Badminton final in Beijing to World No. 10 Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yong-dae of the Republic of Korea.The final gone in 39 minutes with a 21-11, 21-17 ROK victory, turned out to be a disastrous ousting for the heavily favored World No. 1, who dominated the event in recent years. On the

French outruns USA in fencing to take Gold..

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:12:24 PDT

The final gold medal in Fencing goes to France. .It gained one more Gold medal by defeating the United States 45-37 in the Men's Team Sabre final.In the outstanding Fencing final, France's Boris Sanson, Nicolas Lopez and Julien Pillet took a comfortable 20-11 lead after only four bouts. The US athletes Keeth Smart, Tim Morehouse and James Williams weren't able to catch up and trailed 30-21, 35-23

Table Tennis: First Gold to China

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:55:37 PDT

The first gold medal ever for the Table Tennis Team event went to China. The silver medal went to Singapore .They fought well and the match was so hard from the host they couldn't outrun Chinese at the Peking University Gymnasium.Olympic veteran Wang Nan of China played the first match against Singapore's Feng Tianwei winning 3-1. World No. 1 Zhang Yining (CHN) faced a determined Li Jiawei (SIN)

Phelps Creates History!! Crosses Spitz Record of 7!

noreply@blogger.com (Prathik) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:23:42 PDT

Phelps became the first man to win eight gold medals at the one OlympicsMichael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.Jason Lezak held on to the lead Phelps gave him, anchoring the United States to a world record in the 400-meter medley relay against an Australian team that did its best to spoil history.But Phelps, with

Medal standings as of 16th Eve..

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:03:40 PDT

Thunder "Bolt"...in 9.69 Seconds

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:06:02 PDT

Oh man......what a magnificent run.....The world record of 9.72 is history now...The fastest man on earth is now Usain Bolt..Jamaica's Usain Bolt crashed the 100 m race for men in Beijing Olympics in 9.69 seconds...Starting in Lane 4, Bolt got a mediocre start out of the blocks but blew away the rest of the field in the final 50 meters, spreading his arms with three strides to go and pounding his

Boxer Vijender Kumar Enters Quarters in Style!!

noreply@blogger.com (Prathik) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:37:45 PDT

Indian boxer Vijender Kumar defeated Thailand's Angkhan Chomphuphuang in the 75 kg category of the boxing event on Saturday.Vijender dominated the bout and trounced his Thai rival 13-3.Earlier in the day, pugilist Jitender Kumar advanced to the quarterfinals in the flyweight category.he Haryana government Saturday announced that any boxer from the state who reaches the quarter-final stage at the

Medal Standing as of 16th.

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:03:07 PDT

Spaniard in Final....

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:51:39 PDT

Spaniard Rafael Nadal reached the men's singles final at the Olympic tennis event after thrashing Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the semifinals on Friday. The Serbian world number three hit a volley long to give the incoming world number one the first win on hard surface this season after battling for two hours and 10 minutes. Nadal now leads 10-4 over Djokovic in career. The 22-year-old

Zhang Ning wins badminton women's singles Olympic gold

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:02:02 PDT

Zhang Ning beat Xie Xingfang 21-12, 10-21 and 21-18 to take the women's badminton singles gold medal in an all-Chinese final at the Beijing Olympic Games.Zhang NingXie XingfangEarlier, Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia beat Chinese Lu Nan 11-21, 21-13 and 21-15 to take the bronze medal.Maria Kristin YuliantiLu Nan

Phelps got away with 7th gold...

Creative.Prodigy.2008@gmail.com (Third Eye) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:41:41 PDT

Phelps crowned in the 100-m butterfly...Phelps surpassed Milorad Cavic of Serbia by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly. He has one more event left to usurp Mark Spitz and stand alone with eight golds in a single games. "I was starting to hurt a little bit with probably the last 10 meters," Phelps said after winning the 100 butterfly in 50.58 seconds. "That was my last individual

World Champion Hammered By Indian Juggernaut!! Enters QuarterFinal

noreply@blogger.com (Prathik) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:28:26 PDT

India's Akhil Kumar (R) fights Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the men's bantamweight (54kg) round of 16 boxing match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics August 15, 2008.India's medal hope is still one more fight away, yet Akhil Kumar’s patriotic win must rank as one of finest performances by an Indian in an Olympic boxing ring. The Haryana boxer gave India a perfect Independence day gift