How are the Beijing Olympics Medals Made?

Selecting stones

Jade cutting

Jade polishing

Checkup details

Medal mould

Bronze medal

Medal machine tool

Medal after punching

Groove making machine

Groove checking-up

Putting jade into the medal

Finishing

Source: beijing2008.cn

Another Jamaican digs gold in 400m Hurdles...

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...

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-year-old had already broken the 100m world mark in the Games when he became the fastest man in the world in 9.69 seconds.

Churandy Martina of the Dutch Antilles got the silver in 19.82 seconds and Shawn Crawford of the United States won the bronze in 19.96 seconds.

Easy for Bayeva.....

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 broke the record in her 3rd attempt itself.

26-year-old Isinbayeva's only close competitor was United States' Jennifer Stuczynski. But her challenge ended in 4.80m.

"I was trying to do my best for the crowd," she said afterwards. "It makes me happy, so happy, I felt that I could not go out without the world record because of the support the crowd gave me." She said.

So, with 50,000 spectators clapping her on, she set about an assault on her own records, beginning with the Olympic mark of 4.92m that she set in the Athens final.

Sergey Bubka, the great Ukrainian vaulter who set 35 world records himself, was in the stadium to watch. He would have approved of the manner in which Isinbayeva has raised the mark one centimetre at a time, just as he did, making himself rich in reward money as he did so. "I will do it," she replied when asked whether she could surpass Bubka's tally, "I just have 12 more to go. Life would be boring without records to break, so I want to continue on forever."

"It is hard to be more perfect than this. I will still improve and the next goal is London," she confirmed.

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Romanian ruled the floor..not Johnson or Liukin

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 somersaults and twists at the end drew a roar from the crowd — and the mark she seemed to need to hold on: 15.50.

But Izbasa, the final competitor, wowed the judges, who gave her a 15.65. Izbasa also helped her country get bronze in the team finals.

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

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 final 100 meters to catch the medal and broke the African record.

Volkova, last year's gold winner at the Osaka world championships, finished to claim the bronze in 9:07.64.

It was Russia's first athletics gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.

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Lin Dan claims Badminton singles Gold

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

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 previous day, the ROK's two Lees stunned another Indonesian pair, third-seeded Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa, in a thrilling three-game match to qualify for the finals.
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French outruns USA in fencing to take Gold..

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, 40-28 to lose to the French
Sabre team 45-37.

The bronze medal goes to Italy after they outscored Russia 45-44.

"We were very unlucky in the semifinals but we're still very happy with our bronze medal. It is an important medal to win, especially on the last day of Fencing," said Italian fencer Luigi Tarantino.
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Thunder "Bolt"...in 9.69 Seconds

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 chest before crossing the line in 9.69 seconds unofficially. If he had held his form through the tape, he may have run in the 9.5’s.

His rival Jamaican Asafa Powell could finish only fifth..

Zhang Ning wins badminton women's singles Olympic gold

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 Ning

Xie Xingfang

Earlier, Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia beat Chinese Lu Nan 11-21, 21-13 and 21-15 to take the bronze medal.

Maria Kristin Yulianti

Lu Nan