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Nelson Evora from Portugal has won the gold medal in the men’s triple jump at the Beijing Olympics.

Phillips Idowu from Great Britain won the silver medal and Leevan Sands won the Bahamas’ first medal.

The horses competing in the equestrian at the Beijing Olympics have become embroiled in a drug scandal.

Four horses have tested positive for the illegal drug capsaicin. Coster from Germany, Chupa Cup from Brazil, Camiro from Norway and Latinus from Ireland were the horses named in the scandal.

Norway could lose its bronze medal it won in the team jumping competition.

The United States have lost their second game ever in the the softball tonight in the Olympics, losing to Japan 3-1.

It is a huge upset for the United States team, who have been on a 22-game winning streak, with their last loss at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The United States may have a long time to wait to reclaim their title as softball won’t be played at the 2012 London Olympics.

Australia won the bronze medal.

Dayron Robles has won the men’s 110 meter hurdles at the Beijing Olympics in 12.93 seconds.

David Payne and David Oliver both from the United States won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

The United States have won every medal in the men’s 400 meters at the Beijing Olympics.

The gold medal went to LaShawn Merritt, silver to Jeremy Wariner and bronze to David Neville.

China continues to dominate the diving with Ruolin Chen winning the gold medal in the women’s 10m platform.

Emilie Heymans from Canada won the silver medal and Xin Wang, Chen’s partner in the synchronized diving event won the bronze medal.

China has now one all seven gold medals in the diving and has just one more to win in the men’s event to make it a clean sweep.

Barbora Spotakova of Czech Republic has won gold in the final of the women’s javelin at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with a throw of 71.42 meters.

Maria Abakumova from Russia won the silver with a throw of 70.78 and Germany’s Christina Obergfoll won the bronze.

Andrey Moiseev from Russia has won the gold medal in the men’s modern pentathlon at the Beijing Olympics.

Edvinas Krungolcas from Lithuania won the silver medal and Andrejus Zadneprovskis also from Lithuania won the bronze.

You can tell when an Olympics is coming to an end, and that’s when the Gymnastics Gala occurs. And today marks the closing straight as we have had 213 medals awarded (with 89 medals left be awarded) and I always find that during the Gala (as has happened today) there is a time when our minds cast forward to the next Games. But before we do that, let’s concentrate on the results from today and for the small nations it was a very mixed bag indeed. And nowhere was this demonstrated more than in the Men’s 200m. Bolt from Jamaica did the sprint double (winning both the 100m and 200m) and for Martina of Netherlands Antilles who was denied a bronze by less than a hundreth of a second, he got a silver. That was until several hours later when IAAF (the regulator of athletics) made the following observation:

“In a bizarre footnote to the scorching race, both of the apparent minor medalists - Churandy Martina and Wallace Spearmon - were eventually disqualified for lane violations”

But as I noted at the start of these Games, the moral of the Games is the taking part not the winning (but if you are reading this Martina, I’d happily e-mail you a picture of a Beijing silver medal if you would like me to)

Gold again on the track for Jamaica, with Melanie Walker setting an Olympic record of 52.64 in the women’s 400m hurdles.

Sheena Tosta from the United States won the silver with a time of 53.70.

Tasha Danvers from Great Britain won the bronze - 53.84.

Aksana Miankova from Belarus has won the gold medal in the women’s hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics with an Olympic record of 76.34 meters.

Yipsi Moreno of Cuba, threw 75.20m winning the silver and China’s Wenxiu Zhang, threw a season best of 74.32m to win bronze.

Usain Bolt has won his second gold medal and makes it a double in the 100 and 200 meters.

He also set a new world record of 19.30, breaking it by just 2/100ths of a second.

Bolt turns 22 tomorrow, so he has 2 more reasons to celebrate.

Churandy Martina from Netherlands Antilles came second with a time of 19.82 and Shawn Crawford from the United States won the bronze with a time of 19.96.

Australia takes home the bronze medal in softball after losing to Japan. Japan go on to play the United States for gold and silver.

Japan won the game in the 12th inning after the two teams were locked at 2-2 after seven innings.

Australia won silver at the Athens Olympics, bronze in Sydney and a bronze in Atlanta. Softball won’t be part of the Olympic program at the 2012 London Olympics.

Not all countries have the most ideal facilities to train at. Some African swimmers have to train at hotel pools. For Antipass Kwari from Zimbabwe, he uses game trails to train for mountain biking.

“We follow game trails, or very often the native people walking through the area will have a path from one village to the next village,” said Kwari’s coach, Wayne Davidson.

“Elephants make paths for themselves, 6-foot-wide, perfect for training. You can bump into one, and that’s dangerous.”

“One time there was a lion. (It) really made me go faster,” Kwari said.

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Guillermo Perez from Mexico has won the gold medal in the men’s 58kg men’s taekwondo.

Yulis Gabriel Mercedes from the Dominican Republic won the silver medal. Mu-Yen Chu of Chinese Taipei and Rohullah Nikpai of Afghanistan won bronze medals.

The BBC apologized today for an athlete swearing in a post-match interview.

Bryony Shaw won a bronze medal in the windsurfing today and said, “I am so f***ing happy.”

“It was such a hard race and I had such a hard week. It’s the best thing in the world.

“I love my mum and dad so much, they are so supportive. And my boyfriend Greg. My coach Tom is such a legend. I am so f***ing happy.

“I just wanted to sail as fast as I could. Well done to the Chinese and Italian girls, they have raced so well this week. I am so happy to be among the medals. It’s unreal, I am just so happy.”

A spokesman for the BBC said: “We apologise for any offense caused earlier today when Bryony Shaw swore live on air having just won an Olympic bronze medal in the windsurfing event.

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Jingyu Wu from China has won the gold medal in the women’s 49kg division of taekwando.

Buttree Puedpong from Thailand won the silver medal. Bronze medals went to Daynellis Montejo from Cuba and Dalia Contreras Rivero from Venezuela.

Ramazan Sahin from Turkey has won the gold medal in the men’s 66kg wrestling. Andriy Stadnik from Ukraine won the silver medal.

Otar Tushishvili from Georgia and Sushil Kumar from India won bronze medals.

Rashid Ramzi from Bahrain has won the gold in the men’s 1500 meters.

Asbel Kipruto Kiprop from Kenya won the silver medal and Nicholas Willis picked up the bronze medal.

Gerd Kanter of Estonia won the men’s discus with a throw of 68.82 meters.

Piotr Malachowski of Poland won the silver medal with a throw of 67.82. Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania took bronze at 67.79.