Share

Rio 2016: Team GB second in medal table, ahead of China

In athletics, Omar McLeod became Jamaica’s first Olympic 110m men’s hurdles champion as the 22-year-old clocked 13.05 seconds to finish 12 hundredths of a second ahead of Spain’s Orlando Ortega.

Advertisement

China is looking to cement its domination of table tennis by repeating in Rio what it did in London: sweeping gold in the singles and team competitions. A picture of the encounter from 2006 was recently discovered by ESPN’s Darren Rovell and has been retweeted over 28,000 times.

The U.S. hasn’t faced Japan since the 1996 quarterfinals when the Americans won by 15 points.

CHINA’S gymnastics team failed to claim a gold at the Rio Olympics, their worst ever performance in the Olympic Games. The 48th medal, won by boxer Josh Buatsi, had minutes earlier taken Team GB past the previous best at an away Games. He spend the next two years preparing for the 2004 Olympic Games where he looked to capture his first Olympic Medal. “You just run and jump as far and fast as you can”.

Olympic athletes who bring home medals also bring home cash awards. On the other hand, Stanford University has sent the most number of athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

There is set to be more sailing success on Wednesday with Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark on the brink of winning women’s 470 gold.

And in a startling oversight, the AOC’s benchmark for Rio last December of 37 medals, including 13 gold, is nearly certain to fall drastically short with just four days of competition remaining in Rio.

A lot of encomiums have already come the way of Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian ever, who, in an worldwide career spanning 16 years, has won everything in sight in the pool.

Former Olympic champion Du Li was denied a gold medal for shooting by American teenager Ginny Thrasher, swimming champion Sun Yang burst into tears after losing the 400m freestyle and, on Monday, China’s badminton doubles teams were dumped out of the competition.

But in a report on the gymnastics results it lamented that the “traditional powerhouse” only took two bronzes in the team events, adding it was the first Olympics where China had failed to win an individual gymnastics medal.

“We support our fellow athletes throughout the whole Olympic team, we’re always cheering them on throughout all the events”, Waterhouse said. As great as Phelps is, I’ve never seen anyone dominate the pool like Ledecky.

Advertisement

Greece earned a gold medal in men’s gymnastics when Eleftherios Petrounias won the rings competition, finishing ahead of Arthur Zanetti in second for Brazil and Denis Ablyazin of Russian Federation in third. After gaining a gold in the 200 meter fly with his googles filled with water, Phelps and Team USA won the 4 x 200 meter relay to give him six gold medals.

Super Sunday scoop for Team GB at Rio Olympics