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Olympic Games

24 hours ago

London Olympics LogoBudgets for the London 2012 Olympics have been announced with sporting bodies being allocated funds.

Synchronised swimming, basketball, taekwondo, boxing, archery and hockey are the big winners in UK Sport's Olympic 2012 funding programme.

All six have received sizeable increases in their budgets ahead of London, with basketball getting a huge 136% increase, up from £3.7m to £8.7m.

But athletics has suffered a cut in its funding of over 5% following Beijing.

The other big losers from Wednesday's announcement include shooting, table tennis, handball and fencing.

Along with volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling - plus four Paralympic sports - they have yet to have their individual funding allocations confirmed.

But, as it stands, they will share £12.5m between them, although UK Sport says it will work with each sport to help identify further funding, both from private investment and from other potential sources of income.

For those not into Sport, don't like the logo or are participants in volleyball, water polo, weightlifting or wrestling ... perhaps this alternate London 2012 logo may amuse?

 

London 2012 Shit logo

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103 days ago

Water polo

Men's gold medal match:

Hungary 14-10 United States

Men's bronze medal match:

Serbia 6-4 Montenegro

Men's classification 5/6th:

Spain 11-9 Croatia

Men's classification 7/8th:

Greece 9-8 Australia

Men's classification 9/10th:

Italy 10-8 Germany
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103 days ago

Volleyball

Indoor - men's gold medal match:

United States 3-1 Brazil

Indoor - men's bronze medal match:

Russia 3-0 Italy

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103 days ago

Handball

Men's gold medal match:

France 28-23 Iceland

Men's bronze medal match:

Spain 35-29 Croatia

Men's placement 5-6 match:

Russia 28-29 Poland

Men's placement 7-8 match:

Denmark 37-26 South Korea

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103 days ago

Gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics - Group all-around final:

1 Russia 35.550 pts Gold

2 China 35.225 Silver

3 Belarus 34.900 Bronze

4 Italy 34.425

5 Bulgaria 33.550

6 Israel 32.100

7 Azerbaijan 31.575

8 Ukraine 31.100

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Olympic Games

103 days ago

Boxing

Men's super heavyweight (+91kg) final:

Roberto Cammarelle (Ita) bt Zhilei Zhang (Chn) RSF 4th round

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Boxing

Men's light heavyweight (81kg) final:

Xiaoping Zhang (Chn) bt Kenny Egan (Ire) 11-7

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103 days ago

Boxing

Men's welterweight (69kg) final:

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (Kaz) bt Carlos Banteaux Suarez (Cub) 18-9

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Boxing

Men's bantamweight (54kg) final:

 

Badar-Uugan Enkhbat (Mon) bt Yankiel Leon Alarcon (Cub) 16-5

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Boxing

Men's light flyweight (48kg) final:

Shiming Zou (Chn) bt Serdamba Purevdorj (Mon) ret

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Basketball

Men's gold medal match:

United States 118-107 Spain

Men's bronze medal match:

Argentina 87-75 Lithuania

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Athletics

Men's marathon:

1 Samuel Wanjiru (Ken) 2 hours 6 minutes 32 seconds Gold

2 Jaouad Gharib (Mor) 2:07:16 Silver

3 Tsegay Kebede (Eth) 2:10:00 Bronze

4 Deriba Merga (Eth) 2:10:21

5 Martin Lel (Ken) 2:10:24

6 Viktor Rothlin (Swi) 2:10:35

7 Gashaw Asfaw (Eth) 2:10:52

8 Yared Asmerom (Eri) 2:11:11

9 Dathan Ritzenhein (US) 2:11:59

10 Ryan Hall (US) 2:12:33

Selected other: Dan Robinson (GB) 2:16:14

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103 days ago

Volleyball

Indoor - women's final:

Brazil 3-1 United States

Indoor - women's bronze medal match:

China 3-1 Cuba

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103 days ago

Taikwondo

Women's 67kg final:

Maria del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) Gold

Nina Solheim (Nor) Silver

Sarah Stevenson (GB) Bronze

Maria del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) bt Nina Solheim (Nor) 3-1

Women's 67kg bronze medal matches:

Sarah Stevenson (GB) bt Noha Abd Rabo (Egy) 5-1

Natalia Falavigna (Brz) bt Karolina Kedzierska (Swe) 5-2

Women's 67kg repechage:

 

Noha Abd Rabo (Egy) bt Chew Chan Che (Mas)5-1

Karolina Kedzierska (Swe) bt Khaoula Ben Hamza (Tun) 5-4

 

Women's 67kg semi-finals:

Nina Solheim (Nor) bt Natalia Falavigna (Brz) By superiority 2-2

Maria del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) bt Sarah Stevenson (GB) 4-1

Women 67kg quarter-finals:

 

Maria del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) bt Karolina Kedzierska (Swe) 4-2

Nina Solheim (Nor) bt Chew Chan Che (Mas) 3-1

Natalia Falavigna (Brz) bt Carmen Marton (Aus) 5-2

Sarah Stevenson (GB) bt Chen Zhong (Chn) 2-1 awarded victory following an official protest

Women's 67kg last 16 results:

Nina Solheim (Nor) bt Noha Abd Rabo (Egy) 9-3

Chew Chan Che (Chn) bt Evgeniya Karimova (Uzb) 5-4

Carmen Marton (Aus) bt Lorena Benites (Ecu) 2-0

Natalia Falavigna (Brz) bt Kyriaki Kouvari (Gre) 3-1

Maria del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) bt Khaoula Ben Hamza (Tun) 4-0

Karolina Kedzierska (Swe) bt Rosana Simon (Spn) 5-4

Zhong Chen (Chn) bt Adriana Carmona Gutierrez (Ven) 3-1

Sarah Stevenson (GB) bt Nadin Dawani (Jor) 3-2

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Taekwondo

Men's 80kg final:

Dongmin Cha (Kor) bt Alexandros Nikolaidis (Gre) 5-4

Men's 80kg bronze medal matches:

Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije (Nga) bt Akmal Irgashev (Uzb) 4-3

Arman Chilmanov (Kaz) bt Angel Valodia Matos (Cub) 2-3 DSQ

Men's 80kg semi-finals:

Alexandros Nikolaidis (Gre) bt Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije (Nga) 3-2

Dong-ming Cha (Kor) bt Angel Valodia Matos (Cub) 1-0


Men's 80kg repechage:

Arman Chilmanov (Kaz) bt Abdelkader Zrouri (Mar) Opponent withdrew

Akmal Irgashev (Uzb) bt Kristopher Moitland (Mar) 6-5

Men's 80kg quarter-finals:

 

Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije (Nga) bt Daba Modibo Keita (Mli) 3-2

Alexandros Nikolaidis (Gre) bt Abdelkader Zrouri (Mar) 5-4

Angel Valodia Matos (Cub) bt Liu Xiaobo (Chn) 2-1

Dongmin Cha (Kor) bt Akmal Irgashev (Uzb) 2-0

Men's 80kg last 16 results:

 

Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije (Nga) bt Van Hung Nguyen (Vie) 3-1

Daba Modibo Keita (Mli) bt Mickael Justin Borot (Fra) 6-5

Alexandros Nikolaidis (Gre) bt Arman Chilmanov (Kaz) 4-3

Abdelkader Zrouri (Mar) bt Juan Carlos Diaz Falcon (Ven) KO

Xiaobo Liu (Chn) bt Matt Beach (Nzl) 4:1

Angel Valodia Matos (Cub) bt Leonardo Basile (Ita) 3-1

Akmal Irgashev (Uzb) bt Jon Garcia (Spn) 11-10

Dongmin Cha (Kor) bt Kristopher Moitland (Crc) 1--2

 

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Table Tennis

Men's singles final:

Ma Lin (Chn) Gold

Wang Hao (Chn) Silver

Wang Liqin (Chn) Bronze

Ma Lin (Chn) beat Wang Hao (Chn) 4-1

Men's bronze medal match:

Wang Liqin (Chn) bt Jorgen Persson (Swe) 4-0

Men's singles semi finals:

Wang Hao (Chn) bt Jorgen Persson (Swe) 4-1

Ma Lin (Chn) bt Wang Ligin (Chn) 4-2

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Synchronised Swimming

Team free final:

1 Russia, 99.500 pts Gold

2 Spain, 98.251 Silver

3 China, 97.334 Bronze

4 Japan, 96.334

5 Canada, 95.668

6 United States, 95.334

7 Australia, 82.161

8 Egypt, 80.833

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Rhythmic gymnastics

Individual all around final:

1 Evgeniya Kanaeva (Rus) 75.500 pts Gold

2 Inna Zhukova (Blr) 71.925 Silver

3 Anna Bessonova (Ukr) 71.875 Bronze

4 Olga Kapranova (Rus) 71.700

5 Aliya Yussupova (Kaz) 69.800

6 Aliya Garayeva (Aze) 69.675

7 Natalia Godunko (Ukr) 68.850

8 Almudena Cid (Spa) 68.100

9 Irina Risenzon (Isr) 66.775

10 Simona Peycheva (Bul) 65.475

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Hockey

Men's final:

Germany 1-0 Spain

Men's bronze medal match:

Australia 6-2 Netherlands

Men's 5/6th place classification match:

South Korea 2-5 Great Britain

Men's 11/12th place classification match:

China 4-3 South Africa (AET)

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Handball

Women's final:

Norway 34-27 Russia

Women's bronze medal match:

South Korea 33-28 Hungary

Women's placement 5-6 match:

France 31-23 China

Women's placement 7-8 match:

Sweden 30-34 Romania

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103 days ago

Football

Men's gold medal match:

Nigeria 0-1 Argentina

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Diving

Men's 10m platform final:

1 Matthew Mitcham (Aus) 537.95 pts Gold

2 Luxin Zhou (Chn) 533.15 pts Silver

3 Gleb Galperin (Rus) 525.80 pts Bronze

4 Liang Huo (Chn) 508.40 pts

5 Jose Antonio Guerra Oliva (Cub) 507.15 pts

6 Mathew Helm (Aus) 467.70 pts

7 Thomas Daley (GB) 463.55 pts

8 Rommel Pacheco (Mex) 460.20 pts

9 Patrick Hausding (Ger) 448.30 pts

10 David Boudia (US) 441.45 pts

11 Juan Guillermo Uran (Col) 414.80 pts

12 Thomas Finchum (US) 412.65 pts

Men's 10m platform semi-final:

1 Liang Huo (Chn) 549.95 pts Q

2 Matthew Mitcham (Aus) 532.20 pts Q

3 Luxin Zhou (Chn) 526.20 pts Q

4 Gleb Galperin (Rus) 508.95 pts Q

5 David Boudia (US) 491.55 pts Q

6 Mathew Helm (Aus) 485.20 pts Q

7 Thomas Finchum (US) 474.95 pts Q

8 Thomas Daley (GB) 458.60 pts Q

9 Rommel Pacheco (Mex) 453.80 pts Q

10 Patrick Hausding (Ger) 453.30 pts Q

11 Jose Antonio Guerra Oliva (Cub) 438.80 pts Q

12 Juan Guillermo Uran (Col) 436.10 pts Q

13 Peter Waterfield (GB) 430.95 pts

14 Vadim Kaptur (Bel) 420.55 pts

15 Jeinkler Aguirre (Cub) 414.20 pts

16 Riley McCormick (Can) 391.35 pts

17 Reuben Ross (Can) 390.75 pts

18 Sasha Klein (Ger) 382.85 pts

 

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Cycling

Women's mountain bike final:

1 Sabine Spitz (Ger) 1 hour 45 minutes 11 seconds Gold

2 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) 1:45:52 Silver

3 Irina Kalentyeva (Rus) 1:46:28 Bronze

4 Catherine Pendrel (Can) 1:46:37

5 Ren Chengyuan (Chn) 1:47:40

6 Petra Henzi (Swi) 1:48:41

7 Mary McConneloug (US) 1:50:34

8 Georgia Gould (US) 1:50:51

9 Rosara Joseph (NZ) 1:51:07

10 Aleksandra Dawidowicz (Pol) 1:51:21

 

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Cycling

Men's mountain bike final:

1 Julien Absalon (Fra) 1 hour 55 minutes 59 seconds Gold

2 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) 1:57:06 Silver

3 Nino Schurter (Swi) 1:57:52 Bronze

4 Christoph Sauser (Swi) 1:57:54

5 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) 1:59:59

6 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 2:00:11

7 Liam Killeen (GB) 2:00:14

8 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) 2:00:21

9 Sven Nys (Bel) 2:01:00

10 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) 2:01:01

 

12 Oliver Beckingsale (GB) 2:01:25

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Canoeing

Women's kayak double K2 500m final:

1 Katalin Kovacs/Natasa Janic (Hun) 1:41.308 Gold

2 Beata Mikolajczyk/Aneta Konieczna (Pol) 1:42.092 Silver

3 Marie Delattre/Anne-Laure Viard (Fra) 1:42.128 Bronze

4 Fanny Fischer/Nicole Reinhardt (Ger) 1:42.899

5 Shinobu Kitamoto/Mikiko Takeya (Jpn) 1:43.291

6 Hannah Davis/Lyndsie Fogarty (Aus) 1:43.969

7 Anne Rikala/Jenni Mikkonen (Fin) 1:44.176

8 Michala Mruzkova/Jana Blahova (Cze) 1:44.870

9 Yvonne Schuring/Viktoria Schwarz (Aut) 1:44.965

 

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Canoeing

Men's kayak double K2 500m final:

1 Saul Craviotto/Carlos Perez (Spa) 1:28.736 Gold

2 Ronald Rauhe/Tim Wieskotter (Ger) 1:28.827 Silver

3 Raman Piatrushenka/Vadzim Makhneu (Bel) 1:30.005 Bronze

4 Zoltan Kammerer/Gabor Kucsera (Hun) 1:30.285

5 Kim Wraee Knudsen/Rene Holton Poulsen (Den) 1:30.569

6 Richard Jr Dober/Andrew Willows (Can) 1:30.857

7 Vincent Lecrubier/Sebastien Jouve (Fra) 1:31.312

8 Marek Twardowski/Adam Wysocki (Pol) 1:31.869

9 Andrea Facchin/Antonio M. Scudato (Ita) 1:31.934

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Canoeing

Women's kayak single K1 500m final:

1 Inna Osypenko-Radomska (Ukr) 1:50.673 Gold

2 Josefa Idem (Ita) 1:50.677 Silver

3 Katrin Wagner-Augustin (Ger) 1:51.122 Bronze

4 Katalin Kovacs (Hun) 1:51.139

5 Hongyan Zhong (Chn) 1:52.220

6 Spela Ponomarenko (Slo) 1:52.363

7 Lucy Wainwright (GB) 1:53.102

8 Jennifer Hodson (SA) 1:53.353

9 Yuliana Salakhova (Rus) 1:53.973

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Canoeing

Men's canoe single C1 500m final:

1 Maxim Opalev (Rus) 1:47.140 Gold

2 David Cal (Spa) 1:48.397 Silver

3 Iurii Cheban (Ukr) 1:48.766 Bronze

4 Mathieu Goubel (Fra) 1:49.056

5 Aliaksandr Zhukovski (Rus) 1:49.092

6 Qiang Li (Chn) 1:49.287

7 Florin Georgian Mironcic (Rom) 1:49.861

8 Pawel Baraskiewicz (Pol) 1:50.048

9 Attila Sandor Vajda (Hun) 1:50.156

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Canoeing

Men's kayak single K1 500m final:

1 Ken Wallace (Aus) 1:37.252 Gold

2 Adam van Koeverden (Can) 1:37.630 Silver

3 Tim Brabants (GB) 1:37.671 Bronze

4 Eirik Veraas Larsen (Nor) 1:37.949

5 Anton Ryakhov (Rus) 1:38.187

6 Akos Vereckei (Hun) 1:38.318

7 Anders Gustafsson (Swe) 1:38.447

8 Steven Ferguson (NZ) 1:38.512

9 Stjepan Janic (Cro) 1:38.729

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Boxing

Men's heavyweight (91kg) finals:

Rakhim Chakhkiev (Rus) bt Clemente Russo (Ita) 4-2

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Boxing

Men's middleweight (75kg) final:

James Degale (GB) bt Emilio Correa Bayeaux (Cub) 16-14