The Williams sisters put Spain's Anabel Medina And Virginia Pascual to the grindstone in a scintillating gold-medalperformace.
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And the Finns get their first medal of these games with Sanna Sten and MInna Nieminen getting silver in the Women's Double Sculls.
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I can't bloody believe it. China brought home yet another gold...this time in the women's quadruple sculls. And the USA finished fifth. We're just gonna be keeping pace with the Chinese unless something happens against France in fencing and hell breaks loose in the remaining medal events, especially diving and gymnastics.
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The Russian 1-2-3 finish in the women's singles tournament has been confirmed: Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina, Vera Zvoraneva. And the Williams sisters-Venus and Serena-took out Medina and Ruano, 6-2, 6-0.
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It's a 3:29:34 for the states in that race of legend. Uh-huh.
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What the hell is up with our quadruple sculls crew? The men finish in the same position and the women: fifth. These guys have a knack for consistency, the wrong type of consistency, and an uncanny ability to maintain that type of consistency.
It's just uncanny. My Beach Crew side could have some fun against them.
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At last, we finally get a gold in women's rowing. The USA outlasts the Netherlands to win the gold medal in the women's eights. About time we did something right for once.
Meanwhile, the guys finish behind Canada and Great Britain for the bronze, and thus the entire team got the collection.
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IT seems that there is one country that has an uncanny ability to sweep one single event at the Games. For us, it's the women's individual sabre. For Russia, it's the women's individual tennis singles. For Jamaica...it's the women's 100 meters, with Shelly-Ann Fraser getting gold. Sherrone Simpson gets the silver and Kerron Stewart the bronze.
Mind you, this is at the expense of the USA, who fail to give their country it's 20th gold, let along 66th medal.
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Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh are going to be facing a Chinese team in the final. Who that team will be, I won't know until their semifinal match against Brazil.
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Guo Jingjing's diving career finishes with a bang. She takes the women's 3-meter springboard final, with Wu Minxia taking the bronze.
Now she can go back to her modeling career.
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France defeated the USA in the men's team sabre with a 45-37 victory. Bloody hell.
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Some more business as usuals: in softball, the Netherlands is downed by submission, 8-0 in 5 iniings. In women's basketball, New Zealand didn't stand a chance against Lisa Leslie and company, as they were thumped 96-60. And Rafale Nadal proved that he'd lost none of his poise from Wimbledown, downing Chile's Fernando Gonzalez for the gold.
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I don't know if we're gonna be able to catch the Chinese in the gold medal department with a few days left to go. Lin Dan defeats Lin Chong Wei of Malaysia to take the men's singles gold in badminton, while the women's table tennis team defeated Singapore 3-0 to take that gold. And the duo of Zou Kai and Xiao Qin gave China even more gold in the floor and pommel horse, respectively
They are now at 35 golds. We are only at 19.
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Deontay Wilder is the USA"s only hope to medal at these games. He takes out Morocco's Mohammed Arjaoui by decision. Demitrius Andrade was unable to catch Korea's Kim JUng-Joo, 11 to 9 on points.
We're counting on you, Deontay.
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I have a suspicion that North Korea's Hong Un Jong doped in the Women's vault, just like Kim Jong-Su in his shooting events. It will be a surprise if she didn't.
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Looks like Greece's Fani Halkia is the fourth sheep gone astray. The 400-meter hurdles champion dope in Japan. I say the IOC goes one step further and strips her of her medal.
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