Fencing
















Chinese Zhong Man crowned in fencing.

Chinese Zhong Man beat French Nicolas Lopez 15-9 in the men's sabre fencing gold medal at the Olympic Games today.

Romanian Mihai Covaliu defeated Julien Pillet of France 15-11 for the bronze medal.

Weightlifting
























China's Liao Hui wins men's 69kg weightlifting gold.

China's Liao Hui won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 69kg weightlifting class. Liao hoisted 158kg in snatch and 190kg in clean and jerk for a total of 348kg. Vencelas Dabaya-Tientcheu of France and Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan of Armenia were tied at 338kg, but Dabaya-Tientcheu secured the silver on lower body weight.
Judo



















Japanese Tanimoto wins women's 63kg judo Olympic gold.

Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan won over French woman Lucie Decosse by ippon to take the women's 63kg gold. The bronze medal was shared by Elisabeth Willeboordse of the Netherlands and Im Won Ok of DPR Korea.
























German Bischof wins men's 81kg judo Olympic gold.

German Ole Bischof beat South Korean Kim Jaebum to take the men's 81kg judo gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games. The bronze medal was shared by Brazilian Tiago Camilo and Ukrainian Roman Gontiuk.

Diving
























China takes women's synchro 10m platform gold.

Teenagers Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin gave China its third straight victory in Olympic diving, easily winning the women's 10-meter synchronized competition. Chen and Wang totaled 363.54 points in an event China has won since it was introduced at the 2000 Sydney Games.

"They were amazing as always," U.S. diver Mary Beth Dunnichay said.
Australia's Briony Cole and Melissa Wu took the silver at 335.16, while Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz earned the bronze at 330.06.

The Chinese also won synchro events in women's 3-meter springboard and men's 10-meter platform. Chen and Wang led through all five rounds, earning a perfect 10 for execution from one judge on their second dive, a reverse from the pike position.

Tennis















Roger Federer Monday eased past Russian big-server Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-2 for a step closer to Olympic gold in Beijing.

"I had some great winners and got some good balls back," Federer said. "I really felt I was playing very solid. That's what I was expecting from myself today and I'm really happy with the result because I knew the danger from Dmitry." He said.

Nadal survived 71st-ranked Italian Potito Starac with 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Chinese women players Zheng Jie, Li Na and Peng Shuai progressed into the second round, along with the Williams sisters and World No 1 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia.

Two high-ranked men's seeds were eliminated: No 5 David Ferrer of Spain lost to Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 7-6 (8), 6-2, while No 6 Andy Murray of Britain was beaten by Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei 7-6 (5), 6-4.

























Zheng overcame an early deficit to oust China Open champion Szavay 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Zheng was joined in the second round by Peng, who beat Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 7-5, 7-6(3), but Yan Zi, who won the doubles titles at the Wimbledon and Australian Opens with Zheng in 2006, lost to Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-1.

"The home crowd gave me the win," Zheng said, who beat Szavay in the Wimbledon fourth round two months ago.

"They've been with me throughout the match. This is a very, very difficult match for me - to compete against a solid baseliner like her in the first round at the Games, but I was encouraged by fans' support and I hope they enjoyed the match today."

Serena Williams finished her two-day competition that was delayed by rain Monday by beating Olga Govortsova 6-3, 6-1.

Chile's Nicolas Massu, ranked 125 won over Steve Darcis of Belgium with 6-4, 7-5, while Argentina's David Nalbandian saw off Zeng Shaoxuan of China 6-2, 6-1.

Former World No 1 Lleyton Hewitt beat Jonas Bjorkman to set up a clash with Nadal.

After the withdrawal of World No 1 Ana Ivanovic Monday, India's Sania Mirza became the second player to retire from the event. She was trailing 6-2, 2-1 against Czech Iveta Benesova in the first round when her right wrist became too painful.

"It was hurting before I even came to Beijing but it's the Olympics so you have to try and give it your best shot," Mirza told reporters as she clutched an ice pack.

"The timing is very bad. I've been on painkillers for the last six days and took four this morning, but what worries me is that I could still feel it with that many painkillers."

Canoeing
























Martikan undefeated in Olympic canoeing slalom C1 title.

Michal Martikan of Slovakia on Tuesday regained the Olympic canoeing slalom men's single (C1) title in Beijing, 12 years after he won the C1 gold medal in Atlanta.Martikan finished the semifinal and final in the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park with a combined result of 176.65 seconds, ahead of 178.61 seconds with David Florence of Britain. Robin Bell of Australia took bronze with a time of 180.59 seconds.Martikan's arch rival Tony Estanguet couldn’t get into finals.

The 29-year-old Slovak won his first C1 Olympic gold in 1996, when he was only 17. Estanguet won the C1 gold in Sydney, and retained the title in Athens, but only after a late review gave Martikan a two-second penalty for touching a gate and demoted him into second place narrowly.

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