2012 Olympic Medal Count

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Teresa Edwards


Country         : USA
Date of birth  : 19 July 1964
Medal tally    : 4 gold, 1 bronze
Athletes         : Basketball

The most decorated Olympic Basketball player ever, Teresa Edwards holds the record as both the youngest and the oldest Olympic gold medallist in women’s Basketball.

In an Olympic career spanning five Games, she won a medal at each one of them. Her journey began at Los Angeles 1984 where, aged just 20, she was part of the triumphant USA team.

Seoul 1988 saw Edwards at the heart of another USA triumph and, despite having to settle for a bronze at Barcelona 1992, she won gold again at both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 – the latter at the age of 36.
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Friday, August 10, 2012

200M Final


Mia Hamm



Country         : USA
Date of birth  : 17 March 1972
Medal tally    : 2 gold, 1 silver
Athletes         : Football
The most dominant women's football player of the 1990s, Mia Hamm has been an inspiration to young players around the world.


At the inaugural women's Olympic Football tournament in 1996, Hamm helped her team to the gold medal, defeating China in the final.

Although the USA were beaten by Norway in the final at Sydney 2000, four years later Hamm and the team won the gold medal, beating Brazil 2-1 after extra time. 

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

USAIN BOLT 100M FINAL 9.63 2012 HD


Steve Redgrave


Country           :  Great Britain
Date of birth    : 23 March 1962 
Medal tally      : 5 gold, 1 bronze
Athletes           : Rowing


Often considered to be Britain’s greatest ever Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave was the first athlete to win gold medals at five successive Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

His streak began at Los Angeles 1984 as a member of the Coxed Four crew, and this was followed by Coxless Pair gold in 1988, 1992 and 1996.

At the age of 38, Redgrave competed in the Sydney 2000 Games and earned an incredible fifth gold medal, this time as a member of the British Coxless Four team. 
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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Paul Elvstrom



Country           :  Denmark
Date of birth    : 25 February 1928  
Medal tally      4 gold
Athletes           : Sailing


A Danish sailing legend, Paul Elvstrom won four Olympic gold medals over his 40-year Games career.
Elvstrom first competed at London 1948, where he claimed a gold medal in the Firefly class. This class evolved into the Finn monotype class, which he then won at the next three Olympic Games in 1952, 1956 and 1960.
Despite glory eluding him from this point, Elvstrom took part in another four Games. At his last two Games in 1984 and 1988, he competed together with his daughter, Trine – the only time a father and daughter have appeared together at the Games.

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Results - 2 August 2012


Beach volleyball
Menʼs
Repêchage
Germany 2  Czech Republic 1
Volleyball
Menʼs
Pool A
 Italy 3  Great Britain 0
Basketball
Menʼs
Group A
 USA 156  Nigeria 73
Beach volleyball
Menʼs
Repêchage
 Italy 2  Canada 0
Handball
Menʼs
Group A
 Iceland 33  Sweden 32
Boxing
Menʼs 75 kgs.
Round of 16
 JPN Ryota Murata 21
 ALG Abdelmalek Rahou 12
Hockey
Womenʼs
Pool B
 Argentina 2  New Zealand 1
Beach volleyball
Womenʼs
Repêchage
 Austria 2  Great Britain 0
Beach volleyball
Womenʼs
Repêchage
 Netherlands 2  Czech Republic 0
Boxing
Menʼs 75 kgs.
Round of 16
 TUR Adem Kilicci 20  SRB Aleksandar Drenovak 11
Boxing
Menʼs 75 kgs.
Round of 16
 IND Vijender 16  USA Terrell Gausha 15
Volleyball
Menʼs
Pool B
 USA 3  Brazil 1
Basketball
Menʼs
Group B
 Spain 79  Great Britain 78
Boxing
Menʼs 75 kgs.
Round of 16
 UZB Abbos Atoev 12  ROU Bogdan Juratoni 10
Beach volleyball
Menʼs
Pool B
 USA 2  Czech Republic 0
Boxing
Menʼs 60 kgs.
Round of 16
 KOR Han Soonchul 13  BLR Vazgen Safaryants 13
Boxing
Menʼs 60 kgs.
Round of 16
 UZB Fazliddin Gaibnazarov 15  USA Jose Ramirez 11
Swimming
Men's 100m butterfly
Semi-finals
1  RSA Chad le Clos 51.42s 2
 USA Tyler McGill 51.61s 3
SRB Milorad Cavic 51.66s 4
NED Joeri Verlinden 51.75s 5
RUS Evgeny Korotyshkin 51.85s
Handball
Menʼs
Group B
 Denmark 26  Serbia 25
Boxing
Menʼs 60 kgs.
Round of 16
 LTU Evaldas Petrauskas 16  TUR Fatih Keles 12
Swimming
Men's 100m butterfly
Semi-finals
1  USA Michael Phelps 50.86s 2
GER Steffen Deibler 51.76s 3
POL Konrad Czerniak 51.78s 4
AUS Chris Wright 52.11s 5
CHN Zhou Jiawei 52.30s
Water polo
Menʼs
Group A
 Croatia 11  Italy 6
Beach volleyball
Menʼs
Pool A
 Switzerland 2  Austria 0
Boxing
Menʼs 60 kgs.
Round of 16
 ITA Domenico Valentino 15  GBR Josh Taylor 10
Swimming
Women's 100m freestyle
Final
●1  NED Ranomi Kromowidjojo 53.00s
●2  BLR Aliaksandra Herasimenia 53.38s
●3  CHN Tang Yi 53.44s
Fencing
Women's team foil
Finals
●1  Italy 45 ●2  Russia 31
Hockey
Womenʼs
Pool A
 Great Britain 3  Belgium 0
Swimming
Men's 200m individual medley
Final
●1  USA Michael Phelps 1:54.27s
 ●2  USA Ryan Lochte 1:54.90s
●3  HUN Laszlo Cseh 1:56.22s
Swimming
Women's 200m backstroke
Semi-finals
1  USA Missy Franklin 2:06.84s 2
ZIM Kirsty Coventry 2:08.32s 3
CAN Sinead Russell 2:08.76s 4
GBR Stephanie Proud 2:09.04s 5
AUS Belinda Hocking 2:09.35s
Tennis
Women's singles
Quarter-finals
 RUS Maria Sharapova 2  BEL Kim Clijsters 0
Tennis
Mixed doubles
First round
 Great Britain 2  Czech Republic 1
Swimming
Women's 200m backstroke
Semi-finals
1  USA Elizabeth Beisel 2:06.18s 2
AUS Meagen Nay 2:07.42s 3
RUS Anastasia Zueva 2:07.88s 4
FRA Alexianne Castel 2:08.24s 5
GBR Elizabeth Simmonds 2:08.48s
Swimming
Men's 200m backstroke
Final
●1  USA Tyler Clary 1:53.41s
●2  JPN Ryosuke Irie 1:53.78s
●3  USA Ryan Lochte 1:53.94s
Swimming
Women's 200m breaststroke
Final
●1  USA Rebecca Soni 2:19.59s
●2  JPN Satomi Suzuki 2:20.72s
●3  RUS Iuliia Efimova 2:20.92s
Swimming
Men's 50m freestyle
Semi-finals
1  BRA Bruno Fratus 21.63s 2
TRI George Richard Bovell 21.77s 3
  FRA Florent Manaudou 21.80s 4
 RSA Roland Schoeman 21.88s 5
 RUS Andrey Grechin 21.98s
Swimming
Men's 50m freestyle
Semi-finals
1  USA Cullen Jones 21.54s 1
BRA César Cielo 21.54s 3
USA Anthony Ervin 21.62s 4
AUS Eamon Sullivan 21.88s 5
RSA Gideon Louw 21.92s
Tennis
Women's doubles
Quarter-finals
 USA 2  Italy 0
Water polo
Menʼs
Group B
 USA 13  Great Britain 7
Fencing
Women's team foil
Finals
●3  South Korea 45
Tennis
Women's doubles
Quarter-finals
 Russia 2  China 1
Badminton
Men's singles
Quarter-finals
 KOR Lee Hyun-il 2
CHN Chen Jin 0
Badminton
Women's doubles
Semi-finals
 Japan 2  Canada 1
Beach volleyball
Womenʼs
Pool E
 Brazil 2  Australia 1
Basketball
Menʼs
Group B
 Russia 75  Brazil 74
Cycling - track
Men's team sprint
Finals
●1  Great Britain 42.600s ●2  France 43.013s
Cycling - track
Men's team sprint
Finals
●3  Germany 43.209s
Badminton
Women's doubles
Semi-finals
 China 2  Russia 0
Badminton
Men's singles
Quarter-finals
 CHN Lin Dan 2  JPN Sho Sasaki 1
Volleyball
Menʼs
Pool A
 Poland 3  Argentina 0
Cycling - track
Women's team sprint
Finals
●2  China ●1  Germany 32.798s

Thursday, August 2, 2012

2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony videos





Results - 1 August 2012


Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool C
        USA 2
        Austria 1
Basketball
    Womenʼs Group A
        USA 89
        Turkey 58
Volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool B
        South Korea 3
        Brazil 0
Boxing
    Menʼs over 91 kgs. Round of 16
        GBR Anthony Joshua 17
        CUB Erislandy Savon Cotilla 16
Boxing
    Menʼs over 91 kgs. Round of 16
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool C
        Czech Republic 2
        Australia 1
Boxing
    Menʼs over 91 kgs. Round of 16
        CAN Simon Kean 16
        FRA Tony Yoka 16
Handball
    Womenʼs Group A
        Croatia 30
        Russia 28
Boxing
    Menʼs over 91 kgs. Round of 16
        KAZ Ivan Dychko 14
        GER Erik Pfeifer 4
Hockey
    Menʼs Pool B
        Germany 1
        South Korea 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 91 kgs. Round of 16
        BLR Siarhei Karneyeu 21
        ECU Julio Castillo Torres 12
Boxing
    Menʼs 91 kgs. Round of 16
Boxing
    Menʼs 91 kgs. Round of 16
Tennis
    Men's singles Third Round
        JPN Kei Nishikori 2
        ESP David Ferrer 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 91 kgs. Round of 16
        AZE Teymur Mammadov 12
        AUS Jai Tapu Opetaia 11
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool C
        Germany 2
        Switzerland 0
Football
    Menʼs Group A
        Great Britain 1
        Uruguay 0
Basketball
    Womenʼs Group A
        Czech Republic 89
        Croatia 70
Volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool B
        USA 3
        China 0
Football
    Menʼs Group A
        Senegal 1
        United Arab Emirates 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 56 kgs. Round of 16
Boxing
    Menʼs 56 kgs. Round of 16
        ALG Mohamed Amine Ouadahi 16
        DOM William Encarnacion Alcantara 10
Swimming
    Women's 4x200m freestyle relay Final
        ●1 USA 7:42.92s
        ●2 Australia 7:44.41s
        ●3 France 7:47.49s
Handball
    Womenʼs Group B
        Spain 24
        Denmark 21
Boxing
    Menʼs 56 kgs. Round of 16
        BUL Detelin Dalakliev 14
        AUS Ibrahim Balla 10
Tennis
    Mixed doubles First round
        Belarus 2
        Germany 0
Swimming
    Men's 200m individual medley Semi-finals
        1 HUN Laszlo Cseh 1:56.74s
        2 BRA Thiago Pereira 1:57.45s
        3 JPN Kosuke Hagino 1:57.95s
        4 JPN Ken Takakuwa 1:58.31s
        5 RSA Chad le Clos 1:58.49s
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool F
        Brazil 2
        Canada 0
Fencing
    Women's sabre Finals
        ●1 KOR Kim Jiyeon 15
        ●2 RUS Sofya Velikaya 9
Water polo
    Womenʼs Group B
        Australia 16
        Great Britain 3
Swimming
    Men's 200m individual medley Semi-finals
        1 USA Ryan Lochte 1:56.13s
        2 USA Michael Phelps 1:57.11s
        3 GBR James Goddard 1:58.49s
        4 ISR Gal Nevo 1:59.17s
        5 BRA Henrique Rodrigues 1:59.58s
Boxing
    Menʼs 56 kgs. Round of 16
        GBR Luke Campbell 11
        ITA Jahyn Vittorio Parrinello 9
Swimming
    Women's 200m breaststroke Semi-finals
        1 USA Rebecca Soni 2:20.00s
        2 JPN Satomi Suzuki 2:22.40s
        3 RSA Suzaan van Biljon 2:23.21s
        4 CAN Martha McCabe 2:24.09s
        5 MAR Sara El Bekri 2:25.86s
Fencing
    Men's épée Finals
        ●1 VEN Ruben Limardo Gascon 15
        ●2 NOR Bartosz Piasecki 10
Swimming
    Women's 200m breaststroke Semi-finals
        1 DEN Rikke Pedersen 2:22.23s
        2 RUS Iuliia Efimova 2:23.02s
        3 USA Micah Lawrence 2:23.39s
        4 AUS Sally Foster 2:24.46s
        5 KOR Back Suyeon 2:24.67s
Tennis
    Mixed doubles First round
        Italy 2
        Sweden 1
Hockey
    Menʼs Pool A
        Pakistan 2
        Argentina 0
Swimming
    Men's 100m freestyle Final
        ●1 USA Nathan Adrian 47.52s
        ●2 AUS James Magnussen 47.53s
        ●3 CAN Brent Hayden 47.80s
Tennis
    Mixed doubles First round
        USA 2
        Italy 0
Swimming
    Women's 200m butterfly Final
        ●1 CHN Jiao Liuyang 2:04.06s
        ●2 ESP Mireia Belmonte Garcia 2:05.25s
        ●3 JPN Natsumi Hoshi 2:05.48s
Fencing
    Women's sabre Finals
        ●3 UKR Olga Kharlan 15
Tennis
    Women's singles Third Round
        DEN Caroline Wozniacki 2
        SVK Daniela Hantuchova 0
Swimming
    Men's 200m backstroke Semi-finals
        1 USA Tyler Clary 1:54.71s
        2 CHN Zhang Fenglin 1:55.66s
        3 JPN Kazuki Watanabe 1:56.81s
        4 NED Nick Driebergen 1:57.35s
        5 HUN Gabor Balog 1:57.56s
Swimming
    Men's 200m backstroke Semi-finals
        1 USA Ryan Lochte 1:55.40s
        2 JPN Ryosuke Irie 1:55.68s
        3 POL Radoslaw Kawecki 1:56.74s
        4 AUS Mitch Larkin 1:56.82s
        5 ISR Yakov Toumarkin 1:57.33s
Swimming
    Women's 100m freestyle Semi-finals
        1 NED Ranomi Kromowidjojo 53.05s
        2 USA Missy Franklin 53.59s
        3 CHN Tang Yi 53.60s
        4 DEN Jeanette Ottesen Gray 53.77s
        4 GBR Francesca Halsall 53.77s
Badminton
    Women's singles Round of 16
        DEN Tine Baun 0
        JPN Sayaka Sato 0
Swimming
    Women's 100m freestyle Semi-finals
        1 AUS Melanie Schlanger 53.38s
        2 BLR Aliaksandra Herasimenia 53.78s
        3 USA Jessica Hardy 53.86s
        4 SWE Sarah Sjostrom 53.93s
        5 BAH Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace 54.12s
Fencing
    Men's épée Finals
        ●3 KOR Jung Jinsun 12
Swimming
    Men's 200m breaststroke Final
        ●1 HUN Daniel Gyurta 2:07.28s
        ●2 GBR Michael Jamieson 2:07.43s
        ●3 JPN Ryo Tateishi 2:08.29s
Tennis
    Men's doubles Second round
        France 2
        India 1


Results - 31 July 2012


Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool D
        USA 2
        Netherlands 1
Basketball
    Menʼs Group A
        USA 110
        Tunisia 63
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        SWE Anthony Yigit 13
        PUR Francisco Vargas Ramirez 9
Volleyball
    Menʼs Pool B
        Brazil 3
        Russia 0
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool A
        Austria 2
        Italy 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        TUN Abderrazak Houya 19
        AZE Gaybatulla Gadzhialiyev 16
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        AUS Jeffrey Horn 19
        ZAM Gilbert Choombe 5
Hockey
    Womenʼs Pool B
        Australia 3
        Germany 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        MGL Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg 20
        CZE Zdenek Chladek 12
Handball
    Menʼs Group A
        France 32
        Argentina 20
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool B
        USA 2
        Spain 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        MRI Richarno Colin 16
        MAR Abdelhak Aatakni 10
Table tennis
    Men's singles Quarter-finals
        GER Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4
        DEN Michael Maze 3
Boxing
    Menʼs 64 kgs. Last 32
        IND Manoj Kumar 13
        TKM Serdar Hudayberdiyev 7
Tennis
    Men's singles Second round
        ESP David Ferrer 2
        SLO Blaz Kavcic 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 49 kgs. Last 32
        BUL Aleksandar Aleksandrov 22
        MOZ Juliano Fernando Gento Maquina 7
Basketball
    Menʼs Group A
        France 71
        Argentina 64
Football
    Womenʼs Group E
        New Zealand 3
        Cameroon 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 49 kgs. Last 32
        THA Kaeo Pongprayoon 19
        ALG Mohamed Flissi 11
Football
    Womenʼs Group E
        Great Britain 1
        Brazil 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group F
        NED Jie Yao 2
        ISL Ragna Ingolfsdottir 0
Badminton
    Men's doubles Group C
        Russia 2
        South Africa 0
Badminton
    Men's singles Group F
        HKG Wong Wing Ki 2
        FRA Brice Leverdez 0
Volleyball
    Menʼs Pool A
        Australia 3
        Great Britain 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 49 kgs. Last 32
        ECU Carlos Quipo Pilataxi 14
        ESP Jose de la Nieve Linares 11
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool F
        Russia 2
        Canada 1
Handball
    Menʼs Group B
        Denmark 24
        Spain 23
Boxing
    Menʼs 49 kgs. Last 32
        TUR Ferhat Pehlivan 16
       TRI Carlos Suarez 6
Tennis
    Women's doubles Second round
        Russia 2
        Germany 0
Swimming
    Men's 4x200m freestyle relay Final
        ●1 USA 6:59.70s
        ●2 France 7:02.77s
        ●3 China 7:06.30s
Badminton
    Women's doubles Group C
        South Korea 2
        Indonesia 0
Badminton
    Mixed doubles Group B
        Poland 2
        Canada 0
Water polo
    Menʼs Group B
        USA 10
        Romania 8
Badminton
    Mixed doubles Group D
        China 2
        Taiwan 0
Swimming
    Women's 200m individual medley Final
        ●1 CHN Ye Shiwen 2:07.57s
        ●2 AUS Alicia Coutts 2:08.15s
        ●3 USA Caitlin Leverenz 2:08.95s
Boxing
    Menʼs 49 kgs. Last 32
        PUR Jantony Ortiz Marcano 20
        GHA Tetteh Sulemanu 6
Swimming
    Men's 200m breaststroke Semi-finals
        1 HUN Daniel Gyurta 2:08.32s
        2 GBR Andrew Willis 2:08.47s
        3 USA Scott Weltz 2:08.99s
        4 JPN Kosuke Kitajima 2:09.03s
        5 AUS Brenton Rickard 2:09.31s
Hockey
    Womenʼs Pool B
        USA 1
        Argentina 0
Swimming
    Men's 200m breaststroke Semi-finals
        1 GBR Michael Jamieson 2:08.20s
        2 USA Clark Burckle 2:09.11s
        3 JPN Ryo Tateishi 2:09.13s
        4 BRA Tales Cerdeira 2:09.77s
        5 LTU Giedrius Titenis 2:09.95s
Table tennis
    Men's singles Quarter-finals
        TPE Chuang Chih-Yuan 4
        ROU Adrian Crisan 0
Badminton
    Men's singles Group K
        GER Marc Zwiebler 2
        UKR Dmytro Zavadsky 1
Badminton
    Men's doubles Group A
        China 2
        Taiwan 0
Badminton
    Mixed doubles Group B
        Denmark 2
        Japan 0
Fencing
    Men's foil Finals
        ●1 CHN Lei Sheng 15
        ●2 EGY Alaaeldin Abouelkassem 13
Swimming
    Women's 200m butterfly Semi-finals
        1 USA Kathleen Hersey 2:05.90s
        2 ESP Mireia Belmonte Garcia 2:06.62s
        3 HUN Zsuzsanna Jakabos 2:06.82s
        4 CHN Liu Zige 2:06.99s
        5 GBR Jemma Lowe 2:07.37s
Swimming
    Women's 200m butterfly Semi-finals
        1 CHN Jiao Liuyang 2:06.10s
        2 JPN Natsumi Hoshi 2:06.37s
        3 USA Cammile Adams 2:07.33s
        4 HUN Katinka Hosszu 2:07.69s
        5 SLO Anja Klinar 2:07.84s
Tennis
    Women's singles Second round
        RUS Maria Sharapova 2
        GBR Laura Robson 0
Swimming
    Men's 200m butterfly Final
        ●1 RSA Chad le Clos 1:52.96s
        ●2 USA Michael Phelps 1:53.01s
        ●3 JPN Takeshi Matsuda 1:53.21s
Swimming
    Women's 200m freestyle Final
        ●1 USA Allison Schmitt 1:53.61s
        ●2 FRA Camille Muffat 1:55.58s
        ●3 AUS Bronte Barratt 1:55.81s
Fencing
    Men's foil Finals
        ●3 KOR Choi Byungchul 15


Results - 30 July 2012


Volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool A
        Great Britain 3
        Algeria 2
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool C
        USA 2
        Czech Republic 0
Basketball
    Womenʼs Group A
        USA 90
        Angola 38
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool C
        Austria 2
        Australia 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 81 kgs. Last 32
        GER Enrico Kolling 15
        CMR Christian Donfack Adjoufack 6
Boxing
    Menʼs 81 kgs. Last 32
        NCA Osmar Bravo Amador 16
        MNE Bosko Draskovic 11
Hockey
    Menʼs Pool B
        Germany 2
        Belgium 1
Handball
    Womenʼs Group B
        Norway 24
        Sweden 21
Boxing
    Menʼs 81 kgs. Last 32
        UKR Oleksandr Gvozdyk 18
        BLR Mikhail Dauhaliavets 10
Boxing
    Menʼs 81 kgs. Last 32
        IRI Ehsan Rouzbahani 12
        COL Jeysson Monroy Varela 10
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool D
        Poland 2
        USA 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 81 kgs. Last 32
        ECU Carlos Gongora Mercado 9
        AZE Vatan Huseynli 8
Tennis
    Men's doubles First round
        Switzerland 2
        Japan 1
Volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool A
        Italy 3
        Japan 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 52 kgs. Last 32
        KAZ Ilyas Suleimenov 13
        SWE Salomo Ntuve 8
Basketball
    Womenʼs Group B
        Canada 73
        Great Britain 65
Boxing
    Menʼs 52 kgs. Last 32
        CUB Robeisy Ramirez Carrazana 19
        JPN Katsuaki Susa 7
Tennis
    Men's doubles First round
        Serbia 2
        Slovakia 0
Tennis
    Women's doubles Second round
        China 2
        Spain 0
Tennis
    Women's doubles First round
        Poland 2
        Slovakia 0
Tennis
    Women's doubles First round
        Germany 2
        Great Britain 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group B
        MAS Jing Yi Tee 2
        ITA Agnese Allegrini 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group I
        FRA Hongyan Pi 2
        EGY Hadia Hosny 0
Badminton
    Men's singles Group L
        CHN Chen Jin 2
        POL Przemyslaw Wacha 0
Boxing
    Menʼs 52 kgs. Last 32
        THA Chatchai Butdee 24
        TUR Selcuk Eker 10
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool C
        Switzerland 2
        Russia 1
Fencing
    Women's épée Finals
        ●1 UKR Yana Shemyakina 9
        ●2 GER Britta Heidemann 8
Swimming
    Women's 200m individual medley Semi-finals
        1 CHN Ye Shiwen 2:08.39s
        2 AUS Alicia Coutts 2:09.83s
        3 USA Caitlin Leverenz 2:10.06s
        4 USA Ariana Kukors 2:10.08s
        5 AUS Stephanie Rice 2:10.80s
Handball
    Womenʼs Group A
        Brazil 27
        Montenegro 25
Boxing
    Menʼs 52 kgs. Last 32
        GHA Duke Micah 18
        MRI Jason Lavigilante 14
Swimming
    Women's 200m individual medley Semi-finals
        1 HUN Katinka Hosszu 2:10.74s
        2 GBR Hannah Miley 2:10.89s
        3 ZIM Kirsty Coventry 2:10.93s
        4 HUN Evelyn Verraszto 2:11.53s
        5 ESP Mireia Belmonte Garcia 2:11.54s
Water polo
    Womenʼs Group A
        USA 14
        Hungary 13
Badminton
    Women's singles Group L
        ESP Carolina Marin 2
        PER Claudia Rivero Modenesi 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group N
        GER Juliane Schenk 2
        UKR Larisa Griga 0
Badminton
    Men's singles Group A
        MAS Chong Wei Lee 2
        FIN Ville Lang 1
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 4
        ROU Adrian Crisan 4
        GER Timo Boll 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 52 kgs. Last 32
        FRA Nordine Oubaali 22
        AFG Ajmal Faisal 9
Swimming
    Men's 200m butterfly Semi-finals
        1 USA Michael Phelps 1:54.53s
        2 AUT Dinko Jukic 1:54.95s
        3 POL Pawel Korzeniowski 1:55.04s
        4 SRB Velimir Stjepanovic 1:55.13s
        5 HUN Bence Biczo 1:55.36s
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 4
        TPE Chuang Chih-Yuan 4
        CRO Andrej Gacina 2
Fencing
    Women's épée Finals
        ●3 CHN Sun Yujie 15
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 4
        CHN Wang Hao 4
        SIN Ning Gao 1
 Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 4
        JPN Seiya Kishikawa 4
        KOR Oh Sangeun 1
Swimming
    Men's 200m butterfly Semi-finals
        1 JPN Takeshi Matsuda 1:54.25s
        2 RSA Chad le Clos 1:54.34s
        3 CHN Chen Yin 1:54.43s
        4 USA Tyler Clary 1:54.93s
        5 CHN Wu Peng 1:55.65s
Hockey
    Menʼs Pool A
        Great Britain 4
        Argentina 1
Swimming
    Women's 100m breaststroke Final
        ●1 LTU Ruta Meilutyte 1:05.47s
        ●2 USA Rebecca Soni 1:05.55s
        ●3 JPN Satomi Suzuki 1:06.46s
Badminton
    Men's singles Group G
        DEN Peter Gade 2
        POR Pedro Martins 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group F
        ISL Ragna Ingolfsdottir 2
        LTU Akvile Stapusaityte 0
Badminton
    Women's singles Group G
        DEN Tine Baun 2
        POL Kamila Augustyn 0
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 4
        HKG Jiang Tianyi 4
        PRK Kim Hyok-bong 3
Swimming
    Men's 100m breaststroke Final
        ●1 USA Matt Grevers 52.16s
        ●2 USA Nick Thoman 52.92s
        ●3 JPN Ryosuke Irie 52.97s


Wednesday, August 1, 2012

1948 - London

The 1948 Olympic Games in London, Kingdom

July 29 - August 14, 1948
Mascot - none
59 countries, 4099 athletes (385 women)
17 sports (handball, polo dropped), 136 events
Opening - King George VI (UK)
Torch lit by - John Mark

Candidates: Baltimore, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia
The "Flying Housewife", as she came to be unjustly known, arrived in London late in her career. However, this did not stop Fanny Blankers-Koen from winning a total of four gold medals, outshining the entire field at the Games.
Austerity and hope
After the Second World War the Games in London, like so many European cities affected by the conflict, could not avoid austerity. Over 4000 competitors from 59 countries descended on the capital between July 29 and August 14, but the war, which terminated three years previously, was still fresh in the minds of the people. As such, and at the request of several countries, Germany and Japan were absent. Italy willingly accepted the invitation. The Soviet Union remained true to its 1917-established policy of non-attendance.
Yet, in England, the decision to propose hosting the 14th Olympiad was frowned upon by the Press and certain politicians, who argued that it should be a time of reconstruction.
For the first time women outstaged the men with mother-of-three (Francina) Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands winning four golds in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and 80m hurdles. France's Micheline Ostermeyer, a concert pianist, also took gold in the discus and shot.
Czechoslovakian Emil Zatopek won the 10,000m which marked the start of a long and illustrious career. Conversely, his compatriot, gymnast Maxie Provaznikova, grabbed the headlines for more controversial reasons - she became the first ever Olympic athlete to defect to the west. American Bob Mathias, 17, won a gold in the decathlon - a title he would retain four years later.
The Games lacked innovation of any kind, except for the decision not to compete on Sundays. Having been introduced in Berlin, television continued to develop in importance. This, of course, made way for the BBC to buy the rights to transmit the Games, for a cost of $3000 dollars, to an official audience of 500,000 people, although there were reports of residents as far away as the Channel Islands being able to receive the images.
LONDON 1948 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
107 Men, 19 Women, 10 Open Events
12 new events
1 Sailing, 2 Canoe/Kayak, Handball/Polo (1 each) removed
ATHLETICS, Men
100m: Harrison Dillard, USA
200m: Mel Patton, USA
400m: Arthur Wint, Jamaica
800m: Mal Whitfield, USA
1500m: Henry Eriksson, Sweden
5000m: Gaston Reiff, Belgium
10000m: Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia
4x100m: United States
4x400m: United States
110m Hurdles: Bill Porter, USA
400m Hurdles: Roy Cochran, USA
10km Walk: John Mikaelsson, Sweden
50km Walk: John Ljunggren, Sweden
3000m Steeplechase: Tore Sjorstrand, Sweden
Marathon: Delfo Cabrera, Argentina
Discus Throw: Adolfo Consolini, Italy
Hammer Throw: Imre Nemeth, Hungary
High Jump: John Winter, Australia
Javelin Throw: Tapio Rautavaara, Finland
Long Jump: Willie Steele, USA
Pole Vault: Guinn Smith, USA
Shot Put: Wilbur Thompson, USA
Triple Jump: Arne Ahman, Sweden
Decathlon: Bob Mathias, USA
ATHLETICS, Women
100m: Fanny Blankers-Koen, Netherlands
200m: Fanny Blankers-Koen, Netherlands
4x100m: Netherlands
80m Hurdles: Fanny Blankers-Koen, Netherlands
Discus Throw: Micheline Ostermeyer, France
High Jump: Alice Coachman, USA
Javelin Throw: Herma Bauma, Austria
Long Jump: Olga Gyarmati, Hungary
Shot Put: Micheline Ostermeyer, France
BASKETBALL
Team, men: United States
BOXING
51kg: Pascual Perez, Argentina
54kg: Tibor Csik, Hungary
58kg: Ernesto Formenti, Italy
62kg: Gerald Dreyer, South africa
67kg: Julius Torma, Czechoslovakia
73kg: Laszlo Papp, Hungary
80kg: George Hunter, South Africa
80+kg: Rafael Iglesias, Argentina
CANOE/KAYAK
M\C1 1000m: Josef Holecek, Czechoslovakia
M\C1 10000m: Frantisek Capek, Czechoslovakia
M\C2 1000m: Bohumil Kudrna/Jan-Felix Brzak, TCH
M\C2 10000m: Stephan Macknowski/Stephen Lysak, USA
M\K1 1000m: Gert Fredriksson, Sweden
M\K1 10000m: Gert Fredriksson, Sweden
M\K2 1000m: Hans Berglund/Lennart Klingstrom, Sweden
M\K2 10000m: Gunnar Akerlund/Hans Wetterstrom, Sweden
W\K1 500m: Karen Hoff, Denmark
CYCLING, Men
Road Race; Jose Beyaert, France
Team Road Race: Belgium
1km Time Trial: Jacques Dupont, France
2000m Sprint: Ferdinando Terruzzi/Renato Perona, ITA
Sprint: Mario Ghella, Italy
Team Pursuit: France
EQUESTRIAN, Open
Individual Dressage: Hans Moser, Switzerland
Individual Jumping: Humberto Mariles Cortes, Mexico
Individual 3-Day Event: Bernard Chevalier, France
Team Dressage: France
Team Jumping: Mexico
Team 3-Day Event: United States
FENCING
M\Individual Epee: Luigi Cantone, Italy
M\Individual Foil: Jehan Buhan, France
M\Individual Sabre: Aladar Gerevich, Hungary
M\Team Epee: France
M\Team Foil: France
M\Team Sabre: Hungary
W\Individual Foil: Ilona Elek, Hungary
FOOTBALL
Team, men: Sweden
GYMNASTICS
M\Floor Exercise: Ferenc Pataki, Hungary
M\Horizontal Bar: Josef Stalder, Switzerland
M\Parallel Bars: Michael Reusch, Switzerland
M\Pommel Horse: Veikko Huhtanen, FIN & Paavo Aaltonen, FIN & Heikki Savolainen, FIN (tie)
M\Rings: Karl Frei, Switzerland
M\Vault: Paavo Aaltonen, Finland
M\Individual All-Around: Veikko Huhtanen, Finland
M\Team: Finland
W\Team: Czechoslovakia
HOCKEY
Team, men: India
MODERN PENTATHLON 
Individual: William Grut, Sweden
ROWING
Single Sculls: Mervyn Wood, Australia
Double Sculls: Bertie Bushnell/Richard Burnell, Great Britain
Coxless Pair: John Wilson/W. George Laurie, Great Britain
Coxed Pair: Denmark
Coxless Four: Italy
Coxed Four: United States
Eight: United States
SAILING
X\6m Class: United States
X\Dragon: Norway
X\Star: United States
X\Swallow: Great Britain
M\Finn: Paul Elvstrom, Denmark
SHOOTING, Men
25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Karoly Takacs, Hungary
300m Free Rifle 3x40: Emil Grunig, Switzerland
50m Free Pistol: Edwin Vasquez Cam, Peru
50m Small-Bore Rifle prone: Arthur Cook, USA
SWIMMING, Men
100m Freestyle: Walter Ris, USA
400m Freestyle: William Smith, USA
1500m Freestyle: James McLane, USA
100m Backstroke: Allen Stack, USA
200m Breaststroke: Joseph Verdeur, USA
4x200m Freestyle Relay: United States
3m Springboard: Bruce Harlan, USA
10m Platform: Samuel Lee, USA
WATER POLO: Italy
SWIMMING, Women
100m Freestyle: Greta Andersen, Denmark
400m Freestyle: Ann Curtis, USA
100m Backstroke: Karen Margrete Harup, Denmark
200m Breaststroke: Nel van Vliet, Netherlands
4x100m Freestyle Relay: United States
3m Springboard: Victoria Draves, USA
10m Platform: Victoria Draves, USA
WEIGHTLIFTING
56kg: Joseph Di Pietro, USA
60kg: Mahmoud Fayad, Egypt
67.5kg: Ibrahim Shams, Egypt
75kg: Frank Spellman, USA
82.5kg: Stanley Stanczyk, USA
82.5+kg: John Davis, USA
WRESTLING FREESTYLE
52kg: Lennart Vilho Viitala, Finland
57kg: Nasuh Akar, Turkey
62kg: Gazanfer Bilge, Turkey
67kg: Celal Atik, Turkey
73kg: Yasar Dogu, Turkey
79kg: Glenn Brand, USA
87kg: Henry Wittenberg, USA
87+kg: Gyula Bobis, Hungary
WRESTLING, GRECO-ROMAN
52kg: Pietro Lombardi, Italy
57kg: Kurt Pettersen, Sweden
62kg: Mehmet Oktav, Turkey
67kg: Gustav Freij, Sweden
73kg: Gosta Andersson, Sweden
79kg: Axel Gronberg, Sweden
87kg: Karl-Erik Nilsson, Sweden
87+kg: Ahmet Mersinli Kirecci, Turkey


Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1944 - Not held


The 1944 Olympic Games Was Not Held

The 1944 Olympic Games were also not held because of World War II.

1940 - Not held


The 1940 Olympic Games Was Not Held

The 1940 Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan, but several countries planned to boycott the Games there because Japan was waging an aggressive war in Asia and then Japan itself decided the Games would be a distraction to their military goals. The Games were then rescheduled to be held in Helsinki, Finland, but the start of World War II in 1939 caused the Games to be cancelled.

1936 - Berlin

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany

August 1-16, 1936
Mascot - none
49 countries, 4069 athletes (328 women)
19 sports (basketball, handball, canoe/kayak, football, polo added)
129 events
Opening - Chancellor Adolf Hitler (GER)
Torch lit by - Fritz Schilgen
Candidates: Barcelona, Alexandria, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cologne, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Lausanne, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Rome

JESSE OWENS RISES ABOVE THE NAZI PROPAGANDA

Berlin was awarded the 1936 Olympics in 1931, two years before the Nazi party came to power. Adolf Hitler immediately seized on the games as an opportunity to showcase the efficiency and might of his regime. There were doubts in many quarters about the wisdom of attending the Berlin Olympics. An alternative, to be called the "People's Olympics," was actually scheduled for Barcelona, but that plan was destroyed by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
In the United States, a move to boycott the Olympics was led by Judge Jeremiah T. Murphy, president of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Murphy and his supporters were concerned chiefly about Nazi anti-Semitism, since Jewish sports clubs throughout Germany had been shut down. However, in 1935 the AAU voted by a narrow margin to sanction participation and Murphy resigned. He was replaced by Avery Brundage, who went to Germany on an inspection tour and reported that everything looked just fine. Despite the preliminary doubts and the growing international tensions that were to culminate in World War II, the leaders of the Third Reich were at pains to make these Games a resounding success and welcomed more athletes (4069) from more countries (49) than any previous Olympics to compete in events from August 1 - 16.
On the positive side, the Berlin Games were noted mainly for technological achievements. Events were televised on a closed-circuit system throughout the Olympic village and to public halls and theaters throughout the country. Zeppelins carried newsreel film to other European cities, while results were transmitted to news media by telex as soon as events were completed.
But many athletes and members of the press were alarmed by the nationalistic and militaristic atmosphere in Berlin. The ever-present swastika and icon-like portraits of Hitler and the martial music that blared endlessly through loudspeakers were deeply disturbing to many. Nor did it help that many journalists, suspected of anti-Nazi sentiments, discovered that their rooms had been searched by the secret police.
Following Pierre de Coubertin's message at his final Games - he would die one year later in 1937 - the grandiose opening ceremony began with the arrival of the Olympic flame, lit for the first time at Olympia and brought to Berlin by more than 3000 relay runners. The official boxes were full whilst Adolf Hitler appeared - 120,000 arms were raised towards the Fuehrer in the Nazi salute.
Hitler was sure that everything was in place for his propaganda machine to operate smoothly. But nothing could have prepared him for the one obstacle to his white-supremacist policies - the colored American, Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals. In Nazi Germany's pro-Aryan setting, Owens first took the 100m title (10.3), then beat the German Lutz Long with a long jump of 8.06m. Incidentally, both men became friends during their contest, a fact Hitler inherently found hard to accept. Owens would go on to win another two gold medals - in the 200m with a world record time of 20.7 secs and in the 4x100m relay, another new world record. All this in the Berlin stadium built to extol the virtues of Nazi propaganda left Hitler and his deputies speechless. 
Black athletes were certainly denigrated, though, by the semi-official newspaper, Der Angriff (The Attack), which referred to them as America's "black auxiliaries" and did not include them in its daily scoring chart. The publisher of the paper was Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
Owens' feats relegated every other achievement at the Games, a huge success (3 million viewers) which coincided with the birth of television, albeit restricted to 160,000 viewers in the Berlin area. In order to record the occasion for posterity, the Reich commissioned Leni Riefenstahl to film an official documentary. Named, "Gods of the stadium", to this day it offers an historic insight into the 1936 Berlin Games.
Besides Owens, the top individual athletes in 1936 were two German gymnasts, Konrad Frey and Alfred Schwarzmann; Dutch swimmer Hendrika "Rie" Mastenbroek; French cyclists Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapebie; and U. S. sprinter Helen Stephens.
Frey was the top medallist with three golds, one silver, and two bronze, while Schwarzmann collected three gold and two bronze medals. Mastenbroek won three golds and a silver. Charpentier won three gold medals, Lapebie two golds and a silver. Stephens won the women's 100-meter dash and also anchored the 400-meter relay team to victory.
In part because of a greatly expanded men's gymnastics program, Germany led all countries with 89 medals, including 33 gold, to 56 total and 24 gold for the United States.
To no one's surprise, one of the American gold medals came in basketball, which was added to the Olympic program in 1936. The games were played outdoors, often in rain, but that couldn't prevent the U. S. team from rolling through its opposition. The biggest threat to American victory actually came just after the games started, when the International Basketball Federation decided to ban any players 6-foot-3 or taller. The ban, which would have applied to only three players, all Americans, was quickly rescinded.
The Japanese dominated men's swimming, winning four of the six events, while Holland won four of the five women's events. Jack Medica and Adolph Kiefer were the only American gold medallists in swimming, although Medica added two silvers to finish among the top total medallists. Four different U. S. athletes won the diving events. Marjorie Gestring, the women's springboard champion, was only 13 years and 9 months. She is still the youngest gold medallist in Olympic history.
BERLIN 1936 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS 
105 Men, 15 Women, 9 Open Events
16 new events; 5 new sports - Basketball, Canoe/Kayak, Football, Handball, Polo
3 Gymnastics events removed; Women's Gymnastics introduced
ATHLETICS, Men
100m: Jesse Owens, USA
200m: Jesse Owens, USA
400m: Archie Williams, USA
800m: John Woodruff, USA
1500m: Jack Lovelock, New Zealand
5000m: Gunnar Hockert, Finland
10000m: Ilmari Salminen, Finland
4x100m: United States
4x400m: Great Britain
110m Hurdles: Forrest Towns, USA
400m Hurdles: Glenn Hardin, USA
50km Walk: Harold Whitlock, Great Britain
3000m Steeplechase: Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finland
Marathon: Kitei Son, Japan
Discus Throw: Ken Carpenter, USA
Hammer Throw: Karl Hein, Germany
High Jump: Cornelius Johnson, USA
Javelin Throw: Gerhard Stock, Germany
Long Jump: Jesse Owens, USA
Pole Vault: Earle Meadows, USA
Shot Put: Germany
Triple Jump: Naoto Tajima, Japan
Decathlon: Glenn Morris, USA
ATHLETICS, Women
100m: Helen Stephens, USA
4x100m: United States
80m Hurdles: Trebisonda Valla, Italy
Discus Throw: Gisela Mauermayer, Germany
High Jump: Ibolya Csak, Hungary
Javelin Throw: Tilly Fleischer, Germany
BASKETBALL (NEW) 
Team, men: United States
BOXING
50.8kg: Willie Kaiser, Germany
53.5kg: Ulderico Sergo, Italy
57.2kg: Oscar Casanovas, Argentina
61.2kg: Imre Harangi, Hungary
66.7kg: Sten Suvio, Finland
72.6kg: Jean Despeaux, France
79.4kg: Roger Michelot, France
79.4+kg: Herbert Runge, Germany
CANOE/KAYAK, Men (NEW)
C1 1000m: Francis Amyot, Canada
C2 1000m: Jan-Felix Brzak/Vladimir Syrovatka, TCH
C2 10000m: Vaclav Mottl/Zdenek Skrland, TCH
K1 1000m: Gregor Hradetzky, Austria
K1 10000m: Ernst Grebs, Germany
K2 1000m: Adolf Kainz/Alfons Dorfner, Austria
K2 10000m: Ludwig Landen/Paul Wevers, Germany
Folding K1 10000m: Gregor Hradetzky, Austria
Folding K2 10000m: Eric Bladstrom/Gunnar Johansson, SWE
CYCLING, Men
Road Race: Robert Charpentier, France
Team Road Race: France
1km Time Trial: Arie van Vliet, Netherlands
2000m Tandem Sprint: Charly Lorenz/Ernst Ihbe, Germany
Sprint: Toni Merkens, Germany
Team Pursuit: France
EQUESTRIAN, Open
Individual Dressage: Heinz Pollay, Germany
Individual Jumping: Kurt Hasse, Germany
Individual 3-Day Event: Ludwig Stubbendorff, Germany
Team Dressage: Germany
Team Jumping: Germany
Team 3-Day Event: Germany
FENCING
M\Individual Epee: Franco Riccardi, Italy
M\Individual Foil: Giulio Gaudini, Italy
M\Individual Sabre: Endre Kabos, Hungary
M\Team Epee: Italy
M\Team Foil: Italy
M\Team Sabre: Hungary
W\Individual Foil: Ilona Elek, Hungary
FOOTBALL (NEW)
Team, men: Italy
GYMNASTICS
M\Floor Exercise: Georges Miez, Switzerland
M\Horizontal Bar: Aleksanteri Saarvala, Finland
M\Parallel Bars: Konrad Frey, Germany
M\Pommel Horse: Konrad Frey, Germany
M\Rings: Alois Hudec, Czechoslovakia
M\Vault: Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany
M\Individual All-Around: Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany
M\Team: Germany
W\Team: Germany
HANDBALL (NEW)
Team, men: Germany
HOCKEY
Team, men: India
MODERN PENTATHLON 
Individual: Gotthardt Handrick, Germany
POLO (NEW)
Team, men: Argentina
ROWING, Men
Single Sculls: Gustav Schafer, Germany
Double Sculls: Jack Beresford Jr./Leslie Southwood, GBR
Coxless Pair: Hugo Strauss/Willi Eichhorn, Germany
Coxed Pair: Germany
Coxless Four: Germany
Coxed Four: Germany
Eight: United States
SAILING
X\6m Class: Great Britain
X\8m Class: Italy
X\Star: Germany
M\Finn: Daniel Kagchelland, Netherlands
SHOOTING, Men
25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Cornelius van Oyen, Germany
50m Free Pistol: Torsten Ullman, Sweden
50m Small-Bore Rifle prone: Willy Rogeberg, Norway
SWIMMING, Men
100 Freestyle: Ferenc Csik, Hungary
400m Freestyle: Jack Medica, USA
1500m Freestyle: Noboru Terada, Japan
100m Backstroke: Adolf Kiefer, USA
200m Breaststroke: Tetsuo Hamuro, Japan
4x200m Freestyle Relay: Japan
3m Springboard: Richard Degener, USA
10m Platform: Marshall Wayne, USA
WATER POLO: Hungary
SWIMMING, Women
100m Freestyle: Rie Mastenbroek, Netherlands
400m Freestyle: Rie Mastenbroek, Netherlands
100m Backstroke: Nida Senff, Netherlands
200m Breaststroke: Hideko Maehata, Japan
4x100m Freestyle Relay: Netherlands
3m Springboard: Marjorie Gestring, USA
10m Platform: Dorothy Poynton, USA
WEIGHTLIFTING
60kg: Anthony Terlazzo, USA
67.5kg: Mohammed Mesbah, EGY & Robert Fein, AUT
75kg: Khadr Sayed El Thouni, Egypt
82.5kg: Louis Hostin, France
82.5+kg: Josef Manger, Germany
WRESTLING FREESTYLE
56kg: Odon Zombori, Hungary
61kg: Kustaa Pihlajamaki, Finland
66kg: Karoly Karpati, Hungary
72kg: Frank Wyatt Lewis, USA
79kg: Emile Poilve, France
87kg: Knut Fridell, Sweden
87+kg: Kristjan Palusalu, Estonia
WRESTLING, GRECO-ROMAN
56kg: Marton Lorincz, Hungary
61kg: Yasar Erkan, Turkey
66kg: Lauri Koskela, Finland
72kg: Rudolf Svedberg, Sweden
79kg: Ivar Johansson, Sweden
87kg: Axel Cadier, Sweden
87+kg: Kristjan Palusalu, Estonia


1932 - Los Angeles

The 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, United States

July 30 - August 14, 1932
Mascot - none
37 countries, 1408 athletes (127 women)
14 sports (shooting added, football dropped), 116 events
Opening - Vice-president Charles Curtis (USA)
Torch lit by - none
Candidates: none

Los Angeles and the Coliseum witnessed renewed Olympic fervor, and the introduction of photo-finishes, podiums and electronic timing. The Olympic village was set in exquisite surroundings near Hollywood, and the Games were attended by many of the era's big movie stars.
Los Angeles - the American way
The financial crisis which prompted the stock exchange crash of 1929 did not truly affect the success of the 1932 Games, held in Los Angeles between July 30 and August 14. This 10th Olympiad was held a couple of paces from Hollywood, with Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, and Douglas Fairbanks taking their seats among the spectators.
In "their" 105,000-seater Coliseum stadium the American athletes, including Mildred "Babe" Didriksen, winner of the 80m hurdles, javelin and runner-up in the high jump, had plenty to cheer about. But in swimming it was the Japanese who dominated, winning five out of six titles. In total the United States annexed 103 medals, with 41 golds, ahead of Italy (36, 12 gold), France (19, 10 gold) and Sweden (23, 9 gold).
The Olympic village only welcomed 1,300 competitors (women were put up in a hotel) from 37 countries, including newcomers China. The number of sports was reduced to 14 and participation was restricted to three athletes per country in each discipline.
These Games witnessed the introduction of electronic timing and photo-finishes, as well as the appearance of the first three athletes on a podium with the playing of the winner's national anthem. Held in the middle of the prohibition era, an exception was made for the French and Italians who argued that wine formed an integral part of their training diet.
Two athletic greats - France's Jules Ladoumeque and Finland's Paavo Nurmi - were accused of professionalism and were banned from staying in California.

LOS ANGELES 1932 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
94 Men, 14 Women, 8 Open Events
11 new events; New sport - Shooting
4 events removed (1 Athletics, 1 Equestrian, 1 Football, 1 Gymnastics); Removed sport - Football
ATHLETICS, Men
100m: Eddie Tolan, USA
200m: Eddie Tolan, USA
400m: Bill Carr, USA
800m: Tom Hampson, Great Britain
1500m: Luigi Beccali, Italy
5000m: Lauri Lehtinen, Finland
10000m: Janusz Kusoczinski, Poland
4x100m: United States
4x400m: Untied States
110m Hurdles: George Saling, USA
400m Hurdles: Bob Tisdall, Ireland
50km Walk: Tommy Green, Great Britain
3000m Steeplechase: Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finland
Marathon: Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentina
Discus Throw: John Anderson, USA
Hammer Throw: Pat O'Callaghan, Ireland
High Jump: Duncan McNaughton, Canada
Javelin Throw: Matti Jarvinen, Finland
Long Jump: Ed Gordon, USA
Pole Vault: Bill Miller, USA
Shot Put: Leo Sexton, USA
Triple Jump: Chuhei Nambu, Japan
Decathlon: Jim Bausch, USA
ATHLETICS, Women
100m: Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Poland
4x100m: United States
80m Hurdles: Mildred Didrikson, USA
Discus Throw: Lillian Copeland, USA
High Jump: Jean Shiley, USA
Javelin Throw: Mildred Didrikson, USA
BOXING
50.8kg: Istvan Enekes, Hungary
53.5kg: Horace Gwynne, Canada
57.2kg: Carmelo Robledo, Argentina
61.2kg: Lawrence Stevens, South Africa
66.7kg: Edward Flynn, USA
72.6kg: Carmen Barth, USA
79.4kg: David Carstens, South Africa
79.4+kg: Santiago Lovell, Argentina
CYCLING, Men
Road Race: Attilio Pavesi, Italy
Team Road Race: Italy
1km Time Trial: Edgar Laurence Gray, Australia
2000m Tandem sprint: Louis Chaillot/Maurice Perrin, France
Sprint: Jacobus van Egmond, Netherlands
Team Pursuit: Italy
EQUESTRIAN, Open
Individual Dressage: Xavier Lesage, France
Individual Jumping: Takeichi Nishi, Japan
Individual 3-Day Event: Charles Pahud de Mortanges, NED
Team Dressage: France
Team 3-Day Event: United States
FENCING
M\Individual Epee: Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Italy
M\Individual Foil: Gustavo Marzi, Italy
M\Individual Sabre: Gyorgy Piller, Hungary
M\Team Epee: France
M\Team Foil: France
M\Team Sabre: Hungary
W\Individual Foil: Ellen Preis, Austria
GYMNASTICS, Men
Club Swinging: George Roth, USA
Floor Exercise: Istvan Pelle, Hungary
Horizontal Bar: Dallas Bixler, USA
Parallel Bars: Romeo Neri, Italy
Pommel Horse: Istvan Pelle, Hungary
Rings: George Gulack, USA
Rope Climbing: Raymond Bass, USA
Tumbling: Rowland Wolfe, USA
Vault: Savino Guglielmetti, Italy
Individual All-Around: Romeo Neri, Italy
Team: Italy
HOCKEY
Team, men: India
MODERN PENTATHLON
Individual: Johan Oxenstierna, Sweden
ROWING, Men
Single Sculls: Henry Pearce, Australia
Double Sculls: Kenneth Myers/William Gilmore, USA
Coxless Pair: Hugh Edwards/Lewis Clive, Great Britain
Coxed Pair: United States
Coxless Four: Great Britain
Coxed Four: Germany
Eight: United States
SAILING
X\6m Class: Sweden
X\8m Class: United States
X\Star: United States
M\Finn: Jacques Lebrun, France
SHOOTING, Men (NEW)
25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Renzo Morigi, Italy
50m Small-Bore Rifle prone: Bertil Ronnmark, Sweden
SWIMMING, Men 
100m Freestyle: Yasuji Miyazaki, Japan
400m Freestyle: Clarence Crabbe, USA
1500m Freestyle: Kusuo Kitamura, Japan
100m Backstroke: Masaji Kiyokawa, Japan
200m Breaststroke: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japan
4x200m Freestyle Relay: Japan
3m Springboard: Michael Galitzen, USA
10m Platform: Harold Smith, USA
WATER POLO: Hungary
SWIMMING, Women
100m Freestyle: Helene Madison, USA
400m Freestyle: Helene Madison, USA
100m Backstroke: Eleanor Holm, USA
200m Breaststroke: Clare Dennis, Australia
4x100m Freestyle Relay: United States
3m Springboard: Georgia Coleman, USA
10m Platform: Dorothy Poynton, USA
WEIGHTLIFTING
60kg: Raymond Suvigny, France
67.5kg: Rene Duverger, France
75kg: Rudolf Ismayr, Germany
82.5kg: Louis Hostin, France
82.5+kg: Jaroslav Skobla, Czechoslovakia
WRESTLING, FREESTYLE
56kg: Robert Edward Pearce, USA
61kg: Hermanni Pihlajamaki, Finland
66kg: Charles Pacome, France
72kg: Jack Francis van Bebber, USA
79kg: Ivar Johansson, Sweden
87kg: Peter Joseph Mehringer, USA
87+kg: Johan Cornelius Richthoff, Sweden
WRESTLING, GRECO-ROMAN
56kg: Jakob Brendel, Germany
61kg: Giovanni Gozzi, Italy
66kg: Erik Malmberg, Sweden
72kg: Ivar Johansson, Sweden
79kg: Valno Anselmi Kokkinen, Finland
87kg: Rudolf Svensson, Sweden
87+kg: Carl Oscar Westergren, Sweden


1928 - Amsterdam


The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands

May 17 - August 12, 1928
Mascot - none
46 countries, 3014 athletes (290 women)
14 sports (hockey added / tennis, polo, rugby & shooting dropped), 109 events
Opening - Prince Hendrik of Mecklenburg
Torch lit by - none
Candidates: Los Angeles
Amsterdam - burning brightly

Amsterdam hosted the Olympic Games from May 17 to August 12, made possible thanks to public support as the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmine was against the event, considering it a "demonstration of paganism".
For the first time the Olympic flame lit up the stadium night and day but Queen Wilhelmine refused to attend the opening ceremony. The 9th Olympiad in Amsterdam was noted not only for the appearance of the olympic flame, but for the appearance of women in athletics events (100m, 800m, 4x100m relay, the high jump and the discus) - despite recommendations to the contrary by Baron de Coubertin.
Germany, enforced absentees during the Games in 1920 and 1924, made up part of the 3,000 athletes from 46 countries. Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi harvested more medals, Canada's Percy Williams surprised in the 100 and 200m and the Franco-Algerian Boughera El Ouafi won the marathon. Despite the addition of two countries since the Games of 1924, Amsterdam failed to produce a true Olympic star.
They did, however, reconfirm the superiority of Paavo Nurmi, who won three medals, including a gold in the 10,000m. Nurmi failed to grab all gold - falling to compatriots Loukola in the 3000m steeple, and Ritola in the 5000m. American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller was another star of the Games - and added to his medal tally (five in total between 1924 and 1928) before heading for the bright lights of Hollywood and a career as Tarzan, Lord of the jungle in 1930.
Young Canadian athlete, Percy Williams, was among a number of competitors to make an impression in Amsterdam - with victories in the 100m and 200m. The Finn, Harri Larva, successfully completed an epic duel with France's Jules Ladoumegue in the 1500m, while the historic success of little Mohammed Boughera El Ouafi in the marathon left a memorable impression. Originally from Algeria, he gave France an unanticipated gold medal and was the only African at that time to have won a medal in athletics.
Pierre de Coubertin finally ended his connection with the Games. He played no part in the organization of the Amsterdam Olympiad.

AMSTERDAM 1928 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
87 Men, 14 Women, 8 Open Events
9 events added; 1 sport added - Hockey, Women's Athletics/Gymnastics introduced
4 sports removed (17) - Polo (1), Rugby (1), Shooting (10), Tennis (5)
9 more events removed (5 Athletics, 1 Cycling, 1 Diving, 2 Gymnastics)
ATHLETICS, Men
100m: Percy Williams, Canada
200m: Percy Williams, Canada
400m: Ray Barbuti, USA
800m: Douglas Lowe, Great Britain
1500m: Harri Larva, Finland
5000m: Ville Ritola, Finland
10000m: Paavo Nurmi, Finland
110m Hurdles: Sid Atkinson, South Africa
400m Hurdles: David Burghley, Great Britain
4x100m: United States
4x400m: United States
3000m Steeplechase: Toivo Loukola, Finland
Marathon: Boughera El Ouafi, France
Decathlon: Paavo Yrjola, Finland
Discus Throw: Bud Houser, USA
Hammer Throw: Pat O'Callaghan, Ireland
High Jump: Bob King, USA
Javelin Throw: Erik Lundqvist, Sweden
Long Jump: Ed Hamm, USA
Pole Vault: Sabin Carr, USA
Shot Put: John Kuck, USA
Triple Jump: Mikio Oda, Japan
ATHLETICS, Women (NEW)
100m: Betty Robinson, USA
800m: Lia Radke, Germany
4x100m: Canada
Discus Throw: Halina Konopacka, Poland
High Jump: Ethel Catherwood, Canada
BOXING
50.8kg: Antal Kocsis, Hungary
53.5kg: Vittorio Tamagnini, Italy
57.2kg: Bep Van Klaveren, Netherlands
61.2kg: Carlo Orandi, Italy
66.7kg: Edward Morgan, New Zealand
72.6kg: Piero Toscani, Italy
79.4kg: Victor Avendano, Argentina
79.4kg+: Arturo Rodriguez Jurado, Argentina
CYCLING, Men
Road Race: Henry Hansen, Denmark
Team Road Race: Denmark
1km Time Trial: Willy Falck Hansen, Denmark
2000m Tandem Sprint: Benard Leene/Daan van Dijk, NED
Sprint: Roger Beaufrand, France
Team Pursuit: Italy
EQUESTRIAN, Open
Ind. Dressage: Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Langen-Parow, GER
Ind. Jumping: Frantisek Ventura, Yugoslavia
Ind. 3-day Event: Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Netherlands
Team Dressage: Germany
Team Jumping: Spain
Team 3-day Event: Netherlands
FENCING
M\Ind. Foil: Lucien Gaudin, France
M\Ind. Epee: Lucien Gaudin, France
M\Ind. Sabre: Odon Terstyanszky, Hungary
M\Team Foil: Italy
M\Team Epee: Italy
M\Team Sabre: Hungary
W\Ind. Foil: Helene Mayer, Germany
FOOTBALL
Team, men: Uruguay
GYMNASTICS
M\Horizontal Bar: Georges Miez, Switzerland
M\Parallel Bars: Ladislav Vacha, Czechoslovakia
M\Pommel Horse: Hermann Hanggi, Switzerland
M\Rings: Leon Stukelj, Yugoslavia
M\Vault: Eugen Mack, Switzerland
M\Individual All-Around: Georges Miez, Switzerland
M\Team: Switzerland
W\Team: Netherlands
HOCKEY (NEW)
Team, men: India
MODERN PENTATHLON
Individual: Sven Thofelt, Sweden
ROWING, Men
Single Sculls: Henry Pearce, Australia
Double Sculls: Charles McIlvaine/Paul Costello, USA
Coxed Pair: Switzerland
Coxless Pair: Bruno Muller/Kurt Moschter, Germany
Coxed Four: Italy
Coxless Four: Great Britain
Eight: United States
SAILING
X\6m Class: Norway
X\8m Class: France
M\Finn: Sven Thorell, Sweden
SWIMMING 
M\100m Freestyle: Johnny Weissmuller, USA
M\400m Freestyle: Alberto Zorrilla, Argentina
M\1500m Freestyle: Arne Borg, Sweden
M\100m Backstroke: George Kojac, USA
M\200m Breaststroke: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japan
M\4x200m Freestyle Relay: United States
M\3m Springboard: Pete Desjardins, USA
M\10m Platform: Pete Desjardins, USA
M\WATER POLO: Germany
W\100m Freestyle: Albina Osipowich, USA
W\400m Freestyle: Martha Norelius, USA
W\100m Backstroke: Marie Braun, Netherlands
W\200m Breaststroke: Hidle Schrader, Germany
W\4x100m Freestyle Relay: United States
W\3m Springboard: Helen Meany, USA
W\10m Platform: Elizabeth Becker, USA
WEIGHTLIFTING
60kg: Franz Andrysek, Austria
67.5kg: Kurt Helbig, GER & Hans Haas, AUT (tie)
75kg: Roger Francois, France
82.5kg: Sayed Nosseir, Egypt
82.5kg+: Josef Strassberger, Germany
WRESTLING, FREESTYLE
56kg: Kaarlo Edvin Makinen, Finland
61kg: allie Roy Morrison, USA
66kg: Oswald Kapp, Estonia
72kg: Arvo Haavisto, Finland
79kg: Ernst Kyburz, Switzerland
87kg: Thure Sjoested, Sweden
87kg+: Johan Cornelis Richthoff, Sweden
WRESTLING, GRECO-ROMAN 
58kg: Kurt Leucht, Germany
62kg: Voldemar Vali, Estonia
67.5kg: Lajos Keresztes, Hungary
75kg: Valno Anselmi Kokkinen, Finland
82.5kg: Ibrahim Moustafa, Egypt
82.5kg+: Rudolf Svensson, Sweden

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Results - 28 July 2012


Tennis
    Women's singles First round
        CZE Petra Kvitova 2
        UKR Kateryna Bondarenko 1
Volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool A
        Italy 3
        Dominican Republic 1
Tennis
    Men's doubles First round
        Israel 2
        Spain 0
Fencing
    Women's foil Semi-finals
        ITA Elisa Di Francisca 11
        KOR Nam Hyun-hee 10
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool A
        Brazil 2
        Mauritius 0
Archery
    Men's team Finals
        ●1 Italy 219
        ●2 USA 218
Basketball
    Womenʼs Group A
        USA 81
        Croatia 56
Tennis
    Women's doubles First round
        China 2
        France 1
Tennis
    Women's singles First round
        ITA Francesca Schiavone 2
        CZE Klara Zakopalova 1
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        EGY El-Sayed Lashin 4
        SWE Par Gerell 3
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        BEL Jean-Michel Saive 4
        SRB Marko Jevtovic 1
Tennis
    Women's doubles First round
        Italy 2
        Czech Republic 0
Archery
    Men's team Finals
        ●3 South Korea 224
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        UKR Oleksandr Didukh 4
        PAR Marcelo Aguirre 3
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        GBR Paul Drinkhall 4
        KUW Ibrahem Alhasan 0
Handball
    Womenʼs Group B
        Denmark 21
        Sweden 18
Beach volleyball
    Menʼs Pool F
        Canada 2
        Great Britain 0
Tennis
    Men's singles First round
        FRA Gilles Simon 2
        KAZ Mikhail Kukushkin 0
Archery
    Men's team Semi-finals
        Italy 217
        Mexico 215
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        LAT Matiss Burgis 4
        CAN Pierre-Luc Hinse 3
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        IND Soumyajit Ghosh 4
        BRA Gustavo Tsuboi 2
Tennis
    Men's singles First round
        ITA Andreas Seppi 2
        USA Donald Young 0
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        AUS William Henzell 4
        HUN Adam Pattantyus 1
Archery
    Men's team Semi-finals
        USA 224
        South Korea 219
Tennis
    Men's singles First round
        SUI Roger Federer 2
        COL Alejandro Falla 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 75 kgs. Last 32
        AZE Soltan Migitinov 20
        EGY Mohamed Hikal 12
Table tennis
    Men's singles Round 1
        NGR Quadri Aruna 4
        ESP Carlos Machado 2
Cycling - road
    Men's road race Road race
        ●1 KAZ Alexandr Vinokurov 5:45:57s
        ●2 COL Rigoberto Uran Uran 5:45:57s
        ●3 NOR Alexander Kristoff 5:46:05s
Football
    Womenʼs Group F
        Canada 3
        South Africa 0
Tennis
    Men's singles First round
        TUN Malek Jaziri 2
        TPE Lu Yen-Hsun 1
Beach volleyball
    Womenʼs Pool C
        Czech Republic 2
        Austria 1
Boxing
    Menʼs 75 kgs. Last 32
        HUN Zoltan Harcsa 16
        VEN Jose Espinoza Mena 13
Archery
    Men's team Quarter-finals
        Mexico 220
Football
    Womenʼs Group E
        Brazil 1
        New Zealand 0
Judo
    Menʼs 60 kg Final
        ●1 RUS Arsen Galstyan 100
        ●2 JPN Hiroaki Hiraoka 000
Judo
    Womenʼs 48 kg Final
        ●1 BRA Sarah Menezes 011
        ●2 ROU Alina Dumitru 0001
Swimming
    Men's 400m freestyle Heats
        1 KOR Park Tae-hwan 3:46.68s
        2 HUN Gergo Kis 3:46.77s
        3 AUS Ryan Napoleon 3:47.01s
        4 GBR David Carry 3:47.25s
        5 AUS David McKeon 3:48.57s
Tennis
    Men's singles First round
        BUL Grigor Dimitrov 2
        POL Lukasz Kubot 0
Badminton
    Mixed doubles Group A
        Russia 2
        Great Britain 1
Tennis
    Women's singles First round
        ESP Carla Suarez Navarro 2
        AUS Samantha Stosur 1
Tennis
    Women's singles First round
        BEL Yanina Wickmayer 2
        ESP Anabel Medina Garrigues 1


2012 Olympic Games The best of the Opening Ceremony

 
 The Red Arrows fly over the Olympic Stadium
At 8.12pm exactly on 27 July the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over the Olympic Stadium.
 Maypole dancing during the Opening Ceremony pre-show
Children dance around the maypole during the pre-show ahead of the Opening Ceremony. There are four maypoles featured in the 'Green and Pleasant Land' section of the Ceremony.
 A view of the set during the Opening Ceremony
A view of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July.
 Rings raised to mark opening of the Games
The Olympic rings form during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July 2012
 The Olympic Rings assemble above the Stadium
The giant rings create a spectacular sight as they join together above the Olympic Stadium.
 Pandemonium' as the Industrial Revolution is celebrated
Performers act out the British age of Industry during 'Pandemonium', a section of the the Opening Ceremony.
 Pandemonium' as the Industrial Revolution is celebrated
Performers act out the British age of Industry during 'Pandemonium', a section of the the Opening Ceremony.
 Pearly Kings and Queens take in the atmosphere at the Opening Ceremony
Performers playing Pearly Kings and Queens at the Opening Ceremony take it all in as the Olympic Rings are lifted into place. Over 34,500 buttons were used on the costumes.
 Arriving at the Opening Cermony by parachute
Performers playing the roles of HRH The Queen and James Bond parachute spectacularly out of a helicopter hovering above the stadium during the Opening Ceremony
 
 Mary Poppins performers float inside the Olympic Stadium
Performers in the role of  Britain’s best loved nanny, Mary Poppins float inside the stadium to banish away the villains from some of Britain's best loved children’s literature from earlier on in the performance during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
 HRH The Queen and IOC President Jacques Rogge enjoy the performance
HRH The Queen and IOC President Jacques Rogge attend the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
 Dancers pay tribute to Great Ormond Street Hospital
Dancers display the initials GOSH - Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of its most-loved hospitals to which author JM Barrie bequeathed all the royalties from his masterpiece, Peter Pan. This section of the Opening Ceremony honours Britain’s greatest achievements including its amazing body of children’s literature.
 The Stadium comes to life
Olympic Rings representing both the Olympic Games and the Industrial Revolution are lifted during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
 
The Olympic Stadium is lit up during the Opening Ceremony
A view of the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July. An incredible 500 speakers and 50 tonnes of sound equipment were used in the million-watt PA system – double the amount of speakers on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival.

The Olympic Cauldron is lit
The Olympic Cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Dubbed There is Light that Never Goes Out it was the creation of one of Britain's most creative thinkers Thomas Heatherwick. The designer's recent work includes London's new red double-decker bus. The torch lighting was accompanied by 'Caliban's Dream' a new musical work by Underworld. 
 An aerial view of the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony
Things heat up inside the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony, as flames burn during a performance which celebrates four decades in British Music. There was a 1,427 volunteer cast – roughly 350 in each of four music sequences representing the 1960s, ’70s, ’90s and today.
 Emeli Sande sings 'Abide With Me'
British solo artist Emeli Sande sings 'Abide With Me' - the hymn was Mahatma Gandhi's favourite and was played by the band on the Titanic when it sank.
 Incredible atmosphere on Opening Ceremony night
Lighting and music come together to create an incredible atmosphere within the Olympic Stadium. The scene tells a love story as it unfolds through a series of clubs, brought to life with music of the 1960s, 70s, 90s and today.
 Australian athletes parade during the Opening Ceremony
Members of the Australia team parade into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 27 July. Australia has competed at every Olympic Games of the modern era, although in 1908 and 1912, they took part as Australasia alongside New Zealand. Each team is led into the Stadium by a placard bearer wearing a dress which includes a photograph of Londoners who auditioned for the Ceremony. The front of the dress shows their faces and the back their backs.
 Atmospheric performance brings together Olympic cultures
Shimmering dust creates a contemplative mood during a performance created by Akram Khan. The British choreographer's distinguished career has seen him work with a diverse range of people including Anish Kapoor and Kylie Minogue. 
 Volunteers dance the decades away in mass performance
Volunteer performers wow Opening Ceremony spectators dancing to the best of British music, including The Who, the Sex Pistols, Queen, Sugababes, Tinie Tempah and Dizzee Rascal. 
 The Olympic Rings are displayed in the Olympic Stadium
Rings representing both the Olympics and the Industrial Revolution are lit and lifted during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July 2012.
 Performers with jet packs take part in the Opening Ceremony
Performers with jet packs takes part in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July
 Fireworks light up Tower Bridge
Fireworks light up at Tower Bridge as the bridge is raised to allow David Beckham piloting a speedboat carrying the Olympic flame through to make its way to the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
 Sir Tim Berners-Lee applauds during the Opening Ceremony
British scientist and Londoner Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web applauds during the "frankie & june say... Thanks Tim" segment of the Opening Ceremony.
His innovative thinking has changed the way we communicate forever.
 A welcome message is displayed in the Olympic Stadium
A welcome message is displayed while artists perform during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July 2012.
 The family scene is played out during the Opening Ceremony
Performers depict a scene of an ordinary family arriving home on a Saturday night during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. This scene is part of a love story where a lost phone leads to budding romance at a nightclub for one of the sisters.
 HM The Queen standing for the national anthem
HM The Queen standing with spectators for the national anthem during the Opening Ceremony.
 Olympic Park during the Opening Ceremony
The Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre are lit up during the Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Park on 27 July.
 The Brazilian team enters the Olympic Stadium
The Brazilian team walks into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July. Brazil competed for the first time at the Antwerp 1920 Olympic Games, where Guillermo Paraense won gold in shooting (rapid fire pistol). They have taken part in every Olympic Games since 1932. 
 Performers Dance during the Opening Ceremony
Performers dance as British music spanning the decades is played during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 27 July.
 Fireworks are set off around the Olympic Stadium
Fireworks over the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on July 27 2012
 The Olympic Cauldron in all its glory
The Olympic Cauldron burns brightly at the end of Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Designer Thomas Heatherwick's work was a highlight of the ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, watched by 80,000 spectators.
Sir Steve Redgrave enters the stadium with the Olympic Flame
Torchbearer Sir Steve Redgrave stands with the Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. The rower won gold medals at five successive Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000. Sir Chris stands in front of Young Torchbearers, seven talented athletes nominated by former British Olympic legends. 

Team GB enters Olympic Stadium
Sir Chris Hoy of the Great Britain Olympic cycling team carries his country's flag as he leads Great Britain into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Sir Chris is Scotland's most successful Olympian having won three gold medal at Beijing 2008. Great Britain's entrance was accompanied by the David Bowie song 'Heroes'.


 The Olympic Bell is displayed on Opening Ceremony night
The Olympic Bell is rung at the end of the countdown to the Opening Ceremony.
The Union flag is raised in the stadium
The Union flag is raised by members of the armed forces during the Opening Ceremony.

Sky divers parachute into the stadium dressed as the Queen and James Bond
Sky divers dressed as the Queen and James Bond parachute from a helicopter over the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony on 27 July.

 Lord Voldemort features in the Opening Ceremony
A giant puppet of Lord Voldermort and the Queen of Hearts depict villainous characters from British literature during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July.
This segment honours two of Britains’s greatest achievements, one being its amazing body of children’s literature. Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Mary Poppins, Winnie-the-Pooh, Cruella de Vil, the Queen of Hearts and Harry Potter were all created by British writers.

The Olympic Cauldron is lit
The Olympic Cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July 2012
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