Day 4: Golden Moments of 2012 London Summer Olympics

London. July 31. The fourth day of the competition offered 15 gold medals in canoeing, diving, equestrian, fencing, artistic gymnastics, judo, shooting, swimming and weightlifting. 

Canoe-Kayak offered its first medal in men's canoe single (C1) event. Tony Estanguet of France took the gold medal, silver for Sideris Tasiadis of Germany and bronze for Michal Martikan of Slovakia.

Women's synchronized 10m platform was dominated by Raolin Chen and Hao Wang of China with a convincing victory of 368.40 total points. Silver medal was awarded to Mexico who scored 343.32 and bronze for Canada scoring 337.62.

In equestrian, Germany proved that they are the team to beat pocketing all gold medals offered on that day. Germany captured the gold medal in team event while the host Great Britain settled for silver and still seeks for their first gold medal. New Zealand took the bronze in that event. For the individual event, Michael Jung of Germany took the gold while Sara Algotsson Ostholt of Sweden and Sandra Auffarth of Germany settled for silver and bronze medals respectively.

In fencing, Sheng Lei of China captured the men's individual foil event stopping Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt for clinching the gold. Bronze was awarded to Byungchul Choi of Korea after disposing Andrea Baldini of Italy.

In the women's team event for artistic gymnastics, team USA took the gold medal with total combined score of 183.596.  Team Russia took the silver by registering a total score of 178.530 and team Romania took the bronze with a total points of 176.414. China came fourth overall.

Judo offers two gold medals in the women's -63kg category and men's -81kg category. Urska Zolnir of Slovenia bagged the gold medal in the women's -63kg and Lihi Xu of China went home with silver and bronze medal for Yoshie Ueno of Japan and Gevrise Emane of France. For the men's -81kg category, Jae-Bum Kim of South Korea pocketed the gold besting Ole Bischof of Germany while Ivan Nifontov of Russia and Antoine Valois-Fortier of Canada settled for bronze medals.

Shooting offered gold in the men's skeet. Delivering the gold for United States of America is Vincent Hancock with 148 final score. Vincent Hancock becomes the first to win back-to-back titles in the men's Skeet. Settling for silver is Anders Golding of Denmark who collected a total score of 146 and bronze was taken by Nasser Al-Attiya of Qatar scoring 144.

Chad le Clos of South Africa celebrates after winning the gold in the Men's 200m Butterfly final.

Swimming offers four golds on the fourth day of competition. United States of American again demonstrated their might in the pool capturing two golds. The American took the gold in men's 4x200m freestyle with the of 6:59.70. Settling for silver is France who clocked 7:02.77 and China took the bronze with 7:06.30 time. Setting new Olympic record is Allison Schmitt of USA in women's 200m freestyle with 1:53.61 time. Silver medal went to Camille Muffat of France with 1:55.58 and bronze medal to Bronte Barratt of Australia who clocked 1:55.81. Other gold medalist of the day is Chad le Clos of South Africa in the men's 200m butterfly clocking 1:52.96. Michael Phelps the most decorated swimmer placed second only with the time of 1:53.01 and bronze was given to Takeshi Matsuda of Japan clocking 1:53.21. For the women's 200m individual medley, China ruled as Shiwen Ye clocked 2:07.57 and set a new Olympic record. Alicia Coutts of Australia went home with silver clocking 2:08.15 and Caitlin Leverenz of USA came with bronze with the time of 2:08.95.

Weightlifting offered two gold medals in the women's -63kg category and men's -69kg category. On the way to the golden podium is Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan with a total combined score of 245kg in the snatch and clean & jerk for the women's -63kg category. She was followed by Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia lifting 237kg who settled for silver and bronze for Christine Girard of Canada who lifted 236kg. For  men's -69kg category, Qingfeng Lin of China lifted a total weight of 344kg snatching the gold. He was followed by Triyatno Triyatno of Indonesia lifting a total 333kg and bronze for Razvan Constantin Martin
of Romania who lifted 332kg.

Day 3: Golden Moments of 2012 London Summer Olympics

London. July 30.: About 12 gold medals are at stake on the third day of the on-going London Olympics in diving, swimming, weightlifting, shooting, judo, gymnastics and fencing.

Let's start the golden podium in diving. In men's synchronized 10m platform gold was captured by Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang of China while silver was bagged by Mexico and bronze was taken by United States.

In fencing, women's individual epee Yana Shemyakina of Ukraine and Britta Heidimann of Germany battled for gold but Ukraine prevails. Germany settled for silver while Yujie Sun of China took the bronze medal.

In artistic - gymnastics, men's team competition was the first medal to be contested in the sports of gymnastics. Winning the gold medal is team China over-scoring the team from Japan who settled for silver while Great Britain completed the top three podium placing third. China scored 275.997, Japan 271.952 and Great Britain 271.711. United States of American scored 269.952 but not sufficient for medal podium. They landed fifth overall.

In judo, two golds were being battled in the women's -kg category and men's -73kg category. Russian Mansur Isaev dominated the men's -73kg category in the finals over Japanese Riki Nakaya while Mongolia and France took the bronze medal.

Shooting offered one gold medal in the men's 10m air riffle. Alin George Moldoveanu of Romania shoot for gold with 702.1 final score. This is the first gold of Romania in this 2012 quadrennial meet. Settling for silver is Niccolo Campriani of Italy with 701.5 final score and Gagan Narang of India shoot 701.1 total score clinching the bronze.

Matt Grevers of the USA reacts after he won the final of the men's 100m Backstroke

In swimming, the United States of America got two of the four gold medals at stake on the third day of swimming competition. Leading the American flag was Missy Franklin in the women's 100m backstroke clocking 58.33 for gold , Emily Seebohm of Australia settled for silver with a time of 58.68 and Japanese Aya Terakawa clocked 58.83 who took for bronze. In men's 100m backstroke, the Americans made a one-two finish. Matthew Grevers set a new Olympic record who clocked 52.16 and fearlessly took the gold while fellow swimmer Nick Thoman settled for silver with the time of 52.92. Completing the medal podium is Japanese Ryosuke Irie. Meanwhile, France added another gold (from yesterday two) in men's 200m freestyle with Yannick Agnel clocking 1:43.14. On second place was Taehwan Park with 1:44.93 and Yang Sun of China clocking 1:44.93 settled for bronze. In women's 100m breaststroke, Lithuania made their presence when Ruta Meilutyte clocked 1:05.47 and grab the gold. American swimmer Rebecca Soni settled for silver clocking 1:05.55 and Satomi Suzuki of Japan clocked 1:06.46 for bronze.

Weightlifting continuous with two golds to be contested. For the women's -58kg category, Xueying Li of China lifted a total 246kg while Pimsiri Sirikaew of Thailand lifted 236kg who settled for second place and Yulina Kalina of Ukraine lifted 235kg for bronze. In men's 62kg category, Un Guk Kim of North Korea took the gold with a total lift of 327kg. Settling for second and third were Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera of Colombia and Irawan Eko Yuli of Indonesia respectively.

Great Britain is still seeking for its first gold medal as the host of this 2012 quadrennial meet.

Day 2: Golden Moments of 2012 London Summer Olympics

14 Golds are for grab on day two of the on going 2012 Olympics in London and China started the day with gold colors in shooting. Chinese captured gold in Women's 10m Air Pistol event. Wenjun Guo took the gold scoring 488.1 over Celine Goberville of France and Olena Kostevych of Ukraine who took silver and bronze respectively.

Meanwhile, Kimberly Rhode of United States stopped China's Ning Wei in Women's Skeet as she takes the gold leaving silver for China and Danka Bartekova of Slovakia settled for bronze.

Netherlands first gold medal came from Cycling - Women's Road race courtesy of Marianne Vos.

China dominates the diving as they secured the Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard event while United States took the silver medal.

In Archery, Korea bagged the Women's team event while China placed second and Japan third.

Aron Szilagyi of Hungary snatch the gold in the Men's Individual Sabre in fencing. Settling for silver is Italian Diego Occhiuzzi and bronze medal for Nikolay Kovalev of Russia. 

In Judo, Georgia took their first gold medal in the -66kg category courtesy of Lasha Shavdatuashvili defeating Hungarian Miklos Ungvari while Japan and South Korea took the bronze. In women's -52kg category, North Korean Kim Ae An bested Cuban Yanet Bermoy Acosta to clinch the gold while Italy and France settled for bronze.

Gold medallist Camille Muffat of France poses on the podium during the Victory Ceremony following the women's 400m Freestyle final on Day 2 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre. 

In swimming, American Dana Vollmer ruled the 100m butterfly. China's Ling Yu settled for silver and Australian Alicia Coutts took the bronze medal. In men's 100m breaststroke, South Africa Cameron van der Burgh took the gold followed by Australian Christian Sprenger and bronze for American Brendan Hansen. But the big surprised of the day was France winning two gold medals in 4 x 100m freestyle relay and in women's 400m freestyle. The French clocked 3:09.93 in the relay while USA landed for silver with a time of 3:10.38 and Russia made their presence in the pool by taking the bronze with the time of 3:11.41. Camille Muffat duplicate the gold for France by clocking 4.01.45 for women's 400m freestyle. Allison Schmitt settled for silver and bronze for Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain.

Kazakhstan added another gold by taking the women's -53kg category in weightlifting. Zulfiya Chinshanlo lifted a total 226 kg. Settling for silver is Taiwan's Shu-Shing Hsu and bronze for Cristina Iovu of Moldova. North Korea lifted for gold medal as Yun Chol Om rasied a total of 293kg in the men's 56kg category. Jingbiao Wu of China landed silver and Valentin hristov of Azerbaijan clinched the bronze.

2012 London Olympics: Opening Day & the Day After

The opening day of the 2012 London Summer Olympics has shown its best - nation’s history, culture and British contributions to the world. It started with a English rural idyll with sheep, cows and farmers. As the program progresses, it transforms into a industrialize place which shows London's transition. Music and dances created a more understanding of the culture of the British. Part of the program featured James Bond and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who jumped down from the helicopter scene, Mr. Bean in a comedic part of the program, and Mary Poppins. JK Rowling author of the famous book Harry Potter took part also. Famous names who took part in the ceremony were Olympic boxer Muhammad Ali, the English soccer icon David Beckham, former Beatles' member Paul McCartney who sung “Hey Jude”, and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The ceremony was not the usual thing of the Olympics with field-liked demonstration of dances. Not thrilling and not exciting in appearance but smoothly entertaining show which was directed by Oscar winner for “Slumdog Millionaire” film director Danny Boyle.

 The parade of nations came after with Greece entering first on the stadium (because Greece was the birth place of Olympics) and Great Britain being host the last delegation as part of the traditional Olympic parade. After 204 nations parade, Olympic flag was raised, Oaths were pronounced and the Queen commenced the beginning of the games. What is most genius part of the program was the lighting of the torch.  

 Congratulations London! Job well done.

 Day 1 - Golden Moments

China dominated the first day with 4 gold medals and 2 bronzes. The first gold medal was captured by Siling Yi in Women's 10m Air Riffle event in Shooting. Also in that event was Dan Yu who took the bronze. China splashes with two golds in the pool. Yang Sun took the gold in Men's 400m Freestyle while Shiwen Ye and LI Xuanxu took the gold and bronze in the Women's 400 Individual Medley respectively. Weightlifting added another gold courtesy of WANG Mingjuan in the Women's 48kg.

Italy dominated the Fencing arena at the first day of competition. It was a 1-2-3 finish for Italy in the Women's Individual Foil. Elisa Di Francisca took the gold, silver for Arianna Errigo and bronze for Valentina Vezzali. Archery contributed another gold for Italy in the Men's team event. 

Ryan Lochte grabbed the first gold medal for the United States in the 400m Individual Medley clocking 4:05.18 while Michael Phelps ended 4th with 4:09.28.

Asian countries who took gold on the first day were Alexandr Vinokurov of Kazahkstan in Men's Road Race, Korea's Jongoh Jin in Men's 10m Air Pistol while Japan is still seeking for its first gold. 

Russia's gold came from Judo's Arsen Galstyan in the Men's -60kg event. 

The land down under took the Women's 4 x 100 Freestyle event. The first gold medal for Australia.

Rounding the gold medal haul is Brazil's Sarah Menezes in the Women's -48kg category in Judo.

The host Great Britain is still on the hunt for gold.

Men's Football Schedules at the 2012 London Summer Olympics

First Round Schedules

The men's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics is to be held in London and five other cities in Great Britain from 26 July to 11 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's U-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain reached the final tournament. Men's teams are allowed to augment their squads with three players over the age of 23. It is the first major FIFA affiliated men's tournament to be held within the United Kingdom since the 1966 FIFA World Cup and will be the first men's Olympic football tournament to feature a team representing Great Britain since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.


July 26, 2012 Schedules

Time	Team		Team
12:00	- First Round Group D	Honduras	vs	Morocco
14:30	- First Round Group B	Mexico	vs	Korea
14:45	- First Round Group D	Spain	vs	Japan
17:00	- First Round Group A	UA Emirates	vs	Uruguay
17:15	- First Round Group B	Gabon	vs	Switzerland
19:45	- First Round Group C	Belarus	vs	New Zealand
19:45	- First Round Group C	Brazil	vs	Egypt
20:00	- First Round Group A	Great Britain	vs	Senegal

July 29, 2012 Schedules

Time	Team	Score	Team
12:00	- First Round Group C	Egypt	vs	New Zealand
14:30	- First Round Group B	Mexico	vs	Gabon
15:00	- First Round Group C	Brazil	vs	Belarus
17:00	- First Round Group A	Senegal	vs	Uruguay
17:00	- First Round Group D	Japan	vs	Morocco
17:15	- First Round Group B	Korea	vs	Switzerland
19:45	- First Round Group A	Great Britain	vs	UA Emirates
19:45	- First Round Group D	Spain	vs	Honduras

August 1, 2012 Schedules

14:30	- First Round Group C	Brazil	vs	New Zealand
14:30	- First Round Group C	Egypt	vs	Belarus
17:00	- First Round Group B	Mexico	vs	Switzerland
17:00	- First Round Group B	Korea	vs	Gabon
17:00	- First Round Group D	Japan	vs	Honduras
17:00	- First Round Group D	Spain	vs	Morocco
19:45	- First Round Group A	Senegal	vs	UA Emirates
19:45	- First Round Group A	Great Britain	vs	Uruguay

* Estimated start time

London2012 reserves the right to amend the competition schedule at any time.