Calling London, Going For Gold! (NBC)
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UPDATED FOR RESULTS …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Team USA had a great day on the track winning 3 of 4 gold medals available today and 7 of the total 12 medals handed out (see details below). Elsewhere, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings defeated USA teammates April Ross and Jen Kessy, for their third consecutive gold medal in Women’s Beach Volleyball (and Treanor’s last, allegedly) and Men’s Basketball advanced through their quarterfinal with their win over Australia. Men’s Water Polo wasn’t as lucky, losing to Croatia 8-2 and being eliminated from the pool. The surprise USA medal of the day, at least to me anyway, came in the Women’s Wrestling, 48kg Freestyle with Clarissa Chun pulling in the second bronze! In the medal count, USA has opened up a 4 medal lead on China but is still behind 2 gold medals.
U-S-A! (Photo: Martin Melssner/Associated Press)
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Overall, it’ll be a quiet day at the Olympics although a highlight event today certainly has to be the USA v USA Women’s Beach Volleyball Gold medal Match when April Ross and Jen Kessy try to unseat Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. Aslo, we have the start of Tae Kwon Do with two medal rounds in the lighter fight classes and lots of good track & field action throughout the day. Certain sports are not being televised; in such a case, we have directed you to NBC’s live web streaming service.
Medal Events Results - TV Station (air time)
Beach Volleyball, Women’s Results
USA beats … USA?!? (Photo: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
Gold – Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh Jennings, USA (score of 2-0)
Silver – April Ross/Jen Kessy, USA
Bronze – Larissa Franca/Juliana Felisberta Silva, BRA (def. Xue Chen/ZhangXi (CHN) by a score of 2-1)
Canoe/Kayak, Flatwater: Men’s K-1 1000m Results
Gold – Eirik Veras Larsen, NOR (3:26.462)
Silver – Adam van Koeverden, CAN (3:27.170)
Bronze – Max Hoff, GER (3:27.759)
Canoe/Kayak, Flatwater: Men’s C-1 1000m Results
Gold – Sebastian Brendel, GER (3:47.176)
Silver – David Cal Figueroa, ESP (3:48.053)
Bronze – Mark Oldershaw, CAN (3:48.502)
Canoe/Kayak, Flatwater: Men’s K-2 1000m Results
Gold – Rudolf Dombi/Roland Kokeny, HUN (3:09.646)
Silver – Fernando Pimenta/Emanuel Silva, POR (3:09.699)
Bronze – Martin Hollstein/Andreas Ihle, GER (3:10.117)
Canoe/Kayak, Flatwater: Women’s K-4 500m Results
Gold – Hungary (1:30.827)
Silver – Germany (1:31.298)
Bronze – Belarus (1:31.400)
Equestrian, Individual Jumping Results
Gold – Steve Guerdat, SUI (Horse: Nino Des Buissonnets)
Silver – Gerco Schroder, NED (Horse: London)
Bronze – Cian O’Connor, IRL (Horse: Blue Loyd 12)
Sailing,Men’s 49er Results
Gold – Nico Delle Karth (Skipper)/Nikolaus Resch (Crew), AUT (29:05)
Silver – Peter Burling (Skipper)/Blair Tuke (Crew), NZL (+0:29)
Bronze – Allan Norregaard (Skipper)/Peter Lang (Crew), DEN (+0:57)
Table Tennis, Men’s Team Results
Gold – China (score of 3-0)
Silver – S. Korea
Bronze – Germany (def. Hong Kong 3-1)
Tae Kwon Do, Women’s 49kg Results
Gold – Wu Jingyu, CHN
Silver – Brigitte Yague Enrique, ESP
Bronze - Chanatip Sonkham, THA
Bronze – Lucija Zaninovic, CRO
Tae Kwon Do, Men’s 58kg Results
Gold – Joel Gonzalez Bonilla, ESP
Silver – Daehoon Lee, KOR
Bronze – Alexey Denisenko, RUS
Bronze – Oscar Munoz Oviedo, COL
Track & Field, Women’s Long Jump Results
Jumping to gold. (Photo: Matt Dunham/Associated Press)
Gold – Brittney Reese, USA (7.12m)
Silver – Elena Sokolova, RUS (7.07m)
Bronze – Janay DeLoach, USA(6.89m)
Track & Field, Women’s 400m Hurdles Results
Almost Lashinda, almost. (Photo: Matt Slocum/Associated Press)
Gold -Natalya Antyukh, RUS (52.70)
Silver – Lashinda Demus, USA (52.77)
Bronze – Zuzana Hejnova, CZE (53.38)
Track & Field, Women’s 200m Results
Is she actually flying? (Photo: Matt Dunham/Associated Press)
Gold – Allyson Felix, USA (21.88)
Silver – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, JAM (22.09)
Bronze – Carmelita Jeter, USA (22.14)
Track & Field, Men’s 110m Hurdles Results
Make that a gold and a silver, thank you! (Photo: David J. Phillip/Associated Press)
Gold – Aries Merritt, USA (12.92)
Silver – Jason Richardson, USA (13.04)
Bronze – Hansle Parchment, JAM (13.12)* National Record
Wrestling, Women’s Freestyle 48kg Results
Gold -Hitomi Obara, JPN
Silver – Mariya Stadnyk, AZE
Bronze – Carol Huynh, CAN
Bronze – Clarissa Chun, USA
Wrestling, Women’s Freestyle 63kg Results
Gold -Kaori Icho, JPN
Silver -Ruixue Jing, CHN
Bronze – Battsetseg Soronzonbold, MGL
Bronze – Lubov Volosova, RUS
Other Notable Events Today …
- Basketball, Men’s Quarterfinal Action with ARG def. BRA final score: 82-77 and then USA def. AUS final score: 119-86
- Track & Field, Women’s 1500m (Semifinals) – NBC (10:45am-11am; 1:15pm-2pm)
- Track & Field, Men’s 200m (Heats; Semifinals) – NBC (1:15pm-2pm; 8pm-midnight)
- Track & Field, Men’s Decathlon Rounds – NBC (1:15pm-2pm; 4:30pm-5pm)
- Water Polo, Men’s USA lost to CRO 8-2
Check your local listings for last minute variations and channel numbers.
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