U.S. Men’s Basketball Team Beats Greece
The United States men’s basketball team is still undefeated after they easily defeated Greece 92-69. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for the ‘Olympics’ Category
Germany Defeats U.S. Women in Field Hockey
Germany defeated the United States women’s field hockey team 7-2 on Thursday morning. Read the rest of this entry »
Spain Beats Germany in Mens Basketball
Spain easily defeated Germany in men’s basketball 72-59 at the Olympics.
“They are a good team and they just made better offensive plays than us. We could have beaten them if we had played better,” said German center Christopher Kaman. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Phelps Wins 2 More Gold Medals
American swimmer Michael Phelps has won 2 more gold medals at the 2008 Olympics today. First he won the 200-meter butterfly in 1:52.03, winning the gold and breaking his own world record. Then he gave the United States a huge lead in the 4×200 freestyle relay, winning his 11th career olympic gold and becoming the winningest olympic athlete ever. Read the rest of this entry »
China Defeats USA in Women’s Gymnastics
China has upset the Americans to win the gold in women’s gymnastics with a score of 188.9 points. Read the rest of this entry »
Italy’s Pellegrini Wins 200-Meter Freestyle
Italy’s Federica Pellegrini has won the gold medal for the 200-meter freestyle the the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Men Take Gymnastics Bronze; China Takes the Gold
Even without the Hamm brothers the American men’s gymnastics team was still able to win the bronze medal with 275.850 points. China won the Gold medal with 278.875 points.
“They told me, ‘We succeeded. We are the world champions.’ I told them we reached our target,” China coach Huang Yubin said. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Phelps Breaks 200-Meter Freestyle
Michael Phelps won his 3rd gold medal so far at the 2008 Olympics after breaking the world record in the 200-Meter Freestyle with the time of 1 minute, 42.96 seconds.
“I hate to lose,” Phelps said. Read the rest of this entry »
Peirsol Sets New Record; Coughlin Becomes First Woman to Defend Title in Olympic 100-meter backstroke
Aaron Peirsol and Natalie Coughlin both defended their olympic titles by winning the gold for the Americans in the men’s and women’s 100-meter backstroke. Read the rest of this entry »
South Korea Beats North Korea for 50m pistol gold
South Korea’s Jin Jong-oh defeated North Korea’s Kim Jong Su to win the gold medal in men’s 50-meter pistol. Read the rest of this entry »
