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Germany’s Jonas Reckermann serves during the men’s beach volleyball semifinal against Reinder Nummerdor and Rich Schuil from Netherlands on Tuesday, August 7. Check out Day 10 of competition from Monday, August 6. The Games run through August 12. See all the action as it unfolds here.
Rich Schuil of Netherlands looks dejected as Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann of Germany celebrate match point during the men’s beach volleyball semifinal match between Germany and the Netherlands.
Estonia’s Gerd Kanter competes in the men’s discus throw final.
Tobias Hauke of Germany and Phillip Burrows of New Zealand challenge for the ball during the men’s hockey match between Germany and New Zealand.
Lolo Jones of the United States competes in the women’s 100-meter hurdles semifinals.
Emilie Gomis, No.11 of France, puts up a shot over Ilona Burgrova, No. 8 of Czech Republic, in the women’s basketball quaterfinal.
Alexis Vastine of France looks dejected after defeat to Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine during the men’s welter boxing.
South Korea’s players celebrate their victory in the women’s quarterfinal volleyball match between Italy and South Korea.
Sally Pearson of Australia leads Nevin Yanit of Turkey and Kellie Wells of the United States during the women’s 100-meter hurdles final.
A referee fires the gun to start a race of the the London 2012 Olympic Games cycling event at the velodrome in the Olympic Park.
Robert Grabarz of Great Britain competes in the men’s high jump final.
Foluke Akinradewo, left, of the United States spikes during the women’s quarterfinal volleyball match between the USA and the Dominican Republic.
A cyclist prepares to take the start of a race of the London 2012 Olympic Games cycling event.
Jorge Enriquez of Mexico beats Kensuki Nagai, Maya Yoshida and Hiroki Sakai of Japan during the men’s football semifinal match between Mexico and Japan.
Brazil midfielder Oscar, left, and Brazil forward Neymar, right, congratulate goal scorer Brazil defender Romulo, second right, during the London 2012 Olympic men’s football semifinal match between Brazil and South Korea.
Daniel Corral Barron of Mexico competes in the men’s parallel bars final.
Andrew Osagie of Great Britain competes in the men’s 800-meter semifinals.
Xi Zhang of China dives for the ball during the women’s beach volleyball semifinal match between United States and China.
Iran’s Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei, left, celebrates with his coach, center, after defeating Russia’s Rustam Totrov, right, in their 96 kilogram Greco Roman wrestling final fight.
Ona Meseguer Flaque of Spain defends in the women’s water polo semifinal match between Spain and Hungary.
Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria wins the gold in the men’s 1500-meter final.
Nicholas Willis of New Zealand reacts after competing in the men’s 1500-meter final.
Robert Harting of Germany celebrates winning gold in the men’s discus throw final.
Dawn Harper of the United States leads Shermaine Williams of Jamaica in the women’s 100-meter hurdles semifinals.
Guo Yue, left, and Xiaoxia Li of China celebrate their 3-1 victory against Kasumi Ishikawa and Sayaka Hirano of Japan and winning the women’s team table tennis gold medal match on Tuesday.
Im Jeong Choi, No. 19 of Korea, shoots over Olga Chernoivanenko, No. 29 of Russia, during the women’s quarterfinal match between Russia and Korea on Tuesday.
Felix Denayer, left, of Belgium dribbles past Birendra Lakra of India during the field hockey preliminary round match between India and Belgium.
Matthias Steiner of Germany lies on the floor after failing to lift in the men’s +105 kilogram weightlifting final.
Hamilton Sabot of France competes on the parallel bars during the gymnastics men’s parallel bars final.
Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan competes against Ning Ding of China during the women’s team table tennis gold medal match.
Jordyn Wieber of the United States competes during the gymnastics women’s floor exercise final.
Misty May-Treanor of the United States celebrates after the women’s beach volleyball semifinal match between United States and China.
Song Gao, No.12 of China, shoots over Lauren Jackson, No. 15 of Australia, during the women’s basketball quaterfinal.
Silver medallist Nick Dempsey of Great Britain celebrates with his children Thomas-Flynn, left, and Oscar after the men’s RS:X sailing.
Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor of the United States collide during the women’s beach volleyball semifinal match between United States and China.
Sally Pearson of Australia leads Tiffany Porter of Great Britain and Jessica Zelinka of Canada in the women’s 100-meter hurdles semifinals.
Dawn Harper of the United States competes in the women’s 100-meter hurdles semifinals.
South Korea’s Kim Hyeon-woo bows to the mat after winning the men’s 66 kilogram Greco-Roman gold medal fight against Hungary’s Tamas Lorincz.
Georgia’s Manucher Tskhadaia, left, wrestles Hungary’s Tamas Lorincz during the 96-kilogram Greco-Roman semifinal on Tuesday.
Great Britain’s Alistair Brownlee, left, and Italy’s Alessandro Fabian compete in the men’s triathlon.
Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa returns the ball to China’s Ding Ning during the women’s team table tennis gold medal match.
Japan’s players celebrate their victory in the women’s quarterfinal volleyball match against China.
Alexandra Raisman of the United States competes in the women’s balance beam final.
Britain’s Alistair Brownlee runs over Olympic rings on his way to a win in the men’s triathlon.
Facundo Callioni of Argentina, right, scores a goal against South Africa during the field hockey preliminary round match.
Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva of the United States compete in the women’s duets synchronized swimming free routine final.
The men’s triathlon begins in London.
Netherlands’ Epke Zonderland catches air during the men’s horizontal bar final.
Belarus’ Yauheni Zharnasek lifts during the men’s +105-kilogram Group B weightlifting event.
United States water polo coach Adam Krikorian talks with his players during the women’s semifinal match against Australia.
Dancers perform during the women’s quarterfinal basketball match between Australia and China.
Australia’s Damon Kelly competes during the men’s +105-kilogram Group B weightlifting event.
Goalkeeper Jun Yang of China makes a save against Italy during the women’s water polo semifinal match.
American gymnast Gabrielle Douglas falls off the beam during the women’s beam final.
U.S. guard Angel McCoughtry, left, competes against Canadian forward Tamara Tatham during the women’s quarterfinal basketball game.
Chinese water polo player Sun Yujun prepares to shoot a goal against Italy during the women’s water polo classification match.
Chinese gymnast Zhe Feng competes on the parallel bars during the finals.
Croatian goalkeeper Ivana Jelcic attempts to block a goal during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Spain. Spain won 25-22.
Argentine hockey player Juan Martin Lopez, left, and Lloyd Norris-Jones of South Africa spar for the ball during a field hockey preliminary match.
Chinese gymnast Sui Lu performs on the balance beam during the women’s gymnastics event.
The Spanish handball team’s defenders attempt to block the ball during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Croatia.
Italian kayaker Josefa Idem races in the women’s kayak single 500-meter sprint semifinals.
Chinese volleyball player Wang Yimei reacts as the Japanese team celebrates after it won the third set women’s quarterfinal match. Japan won in five sets.
U.S. forward LeBron James, front, and guard Kobe Bryant attend the U.S. women’s quarterfinal basketball game against Canada.
U.S. coach Geno Auriemma talks to his players during the women’s quarterfinal basketball game against Canada. U.S. defeated Canada 91-48.
French gymnast Hamilton Sabot prepares to compete during the parallel bars final.
British sailor Nick Dempsey swims to the spectator area to greet friends and family after winning silver in the men’s RS:X.
Croatia’s right back Andrea Penezic reacts after a fall during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Spain.
Left to right: Selim Nurudeen of Nigeria, Gregory Sedoc of Netherlands and Andrew Turner of Great Britain compete in the men’s 110-meter hurdles round 1 heat on Tuesday, August 7.
Shafqat Easool of Pakistan, left, fouls Matthew Butturini of Australia during a men’s hockey preliminary match.
Felipe van de Wyngard of Chile, left, and Brendan Sexton of Australia swim in the men’s triathlon at Hyde Park in London.
Norway’s Goril Snorroeggen shoots during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Brazil. Norway won 21-19.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica waits in the starter block prior to the men’s 200-meter round 1 heats.
Tianwei Feng of Singapore competes in the women’s team table tennis bronze medal match.
Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore competes in the women’s omnium individual pursuit event of the cycling competition.
Franziska Weber, front, and Tina Dietze of Germany compete in the women’s kayak double 500-meter sprint semifinal in Windsor.
Yuki Ebihara of Japan competes in the women’s javelin qualification.
Singapore’s team members celebrate a point made by Feng Tianwei against South Korea’s Kim Kyungah during the women’s team table tennis bronze medal match.
The bell signaling a final lap is rung during the men’s keirin repechage cycling event at the velodrome in Olympic Park.
Maurice Mitchell of the United States looks on during the men’s 200-meter round 1 heats.
Jonathan Silva of Brazil competes in the men’s triple jump qualification.
Fernanda Silva, left, of Brazil shoots over Goril Snorroeggen of Norway during the women’s quarterfinal hand ball match.
Dorian van Rijsselberge of the Netherlands celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men’s RS-X class race in Weymouth, England.
Japan’s Saori Kimura, center, spikes as China’s Hui Ruoqi and Ma Yunwen attempt to block during the women’s quarterfinal volleyball match.
Shona Thorburn of Canada stands for the Canadian National Anthem before the women’s basketball quarterfinal against the United States.
Croatia’s centerback Miranda Tatari reacts after falling during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Spain.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica leads Noah Akwu of Nigeria and Isiah Young of the United States in the men’s 200-meter round qualifier on day 11 of the London 2012 Olympics at Olympic Stadium on Tuesday, August 7.
Hyo Sik You of South Korea falls on top of Marcel Balkestein of Netherlands during their men’s field hockey match at Riverbank Arena Hockey Center.
Goldie Sayers of Great Britain competes in the women’s javelin throw qualification.
Balazs Baji, center, of Hungary leads the pack as Xiang Liu of China falls over a hurdle in the men’s 110-meter hurdles round 1 heats.
Lee Nam-Yong of South Korea reacts after losing the men’s field hockey preliminary round match against Netherlands.
Brazilian left back Eduarda Amorim jumps to shoot during the women’s quarter-final handball match against Norway.
Kayoko Fukushi of Japan leads the pack in the women’s 5,000-meter round 1 heats.
France’s Matthieu Rosset competes in the men’s 3-meter springboard semifinals Tuesday.
Brazil’s goalkeeper Chana Masson tries to make a save during the women’s quarterfinal handball match against Norway.
Andrew Pozzi of Great Britain watches after pulling out of the men’s 110-meter hurdles round 1 heats.
Phillips Idowu of Great Britain competes in the men’s triple jump qualification.
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London (CNN) — U.S. hopes for gymnast Gabby Douglas to repeat her gold-winning form Tuesday were dashed as she took a tumble from the balance beam — but it was a day of joy for her teammate Aly Raisman, as Raisman claimed bronze in that event followed by a gold in the floor exercise.
Raisman, who just missed out on a medal in the women’s individual all-around, beat Catalina Ponor of Romania and Russia’s Aliya Mustafina to clinch victory.
“It was the best routine I’ve ever done,” she said. “My coach said it was the best routine he’d ever seen me do.”
She took the third spot in the beam after a U.S. challenge to the initial results saw Ponor pushed down to fourth. China’s Deng Linlin and Sui Lu took gold and silver, respectively, in that event.
The pint-sized Douglas swung back onto the beam to continue her routine, but the slip was too costly for her to place better than seventh.
Douglas, nicknamed the “Flying Squirrel” for her aerial agility on the uneven bars, has won a new legion of fans after her thrilling win in the women’s individual all-around early in the Games, but has seen medal chances slip through her fingers since.
The 16-year-old’s unfortunate mistake on the balance beam followed disappointment in the uneven bars Monday, when she came in eighth.
“It was an amazing finals with so many great competitors,” she said after Monday’s event. “Coming into bar finals was a big challenge for me, and I made a little mistake. Even if I would have hit a solid routine, I know I have a lower start value than the other competitors.”
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Victory in the men’s parallel bars went to China’s Feng Zhe, ahead of Germany’s Marcel Nguyen in silver position and France’s Hamilton Sabot..
Happy hosts crown new medals king
Great Britain celebrated eight medals Tuesday, giving it 48 for the Olympics, one more than for the 2008 Beijing Games. Team GB has won 22 golds, most since the 1908 Olympics, also held in London.
There was early disappointment for Team GB, though, as triple jumper Phillips Idowu failed to make it through the qualification round. The athlete, an east London native and Beijing silver medalist, had been the focus of much injury speculation in the run-up to the Games.
Joy and tears were in evidence in the velodrome, the scene of a moving end to two great British Olympic cycling careers.
Chris Hoy took the top spot in the men’s keirin cycle race, making him the first British Olympian to win six gold medals.
“I’m in shock,” Hoy told the BBC, official broadcaster for the Games. “This is just surreal, this is what I always wanted, I wanted to win gold in front of my home crowd.”
Hoy, now 36, said he was 99.9% sure he would not be competing in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. “This is the perfect end to my Olympic career,” he said.
But Britain’s Victoria Pendleton was denied a similar fairytale ending when Australia’s Anna Meares took gold in the women’s track cycling sprint after a dramatic finish, leaving her with silver.
An emotional Pendleton, who retires after these Games, said, “I can’t believe it’s all over.” But, she added, “I’m very glad to be saying it’s the last time I’m going to go through this.”
The silver medal capped a week of ups and downs for the 31-year-old, who was disqualified from the women’s team sprint alongside teammate Jess Varnish last week but then won gold in the women’s keirin.
Team GB’s Laura Trott won the women’s omnium, a cycling contest made up of six events. American rider Sarah Hammer had been well placed going into the final stage but slipped down the rankings.
British track cyclists have won seven golds in these Games, while those from other nations have won no more than one each.
There was also early exaltation for the home crowds Tuesday, as brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee of Team GB split gold and bronze between them in the triathlon, with Spain’s Javier Gomez winning silver.
Thousands of flag-waving spectators had flocked to watch the competitors in the men’s triathlon swim in the chilly Serpentine lake, cycle laps of the Hyde Park area and run a final grueling 10 kilometers.
Alistair Brownlee strolled over waving a Union flag as he claimed an emphatic win — Britain’s first ever gold in the event — while Jonny Brownlee made a brave recovery to take bronze after taking a 15-second time penalty for a bungled transition between phases.
In the equestrian sphere, Britain’s riders Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin took the home nation’s first dressage gold, after holding their German rivals to a silver and the Netherlands to bronze in the team grand prix special.
The victory, which was watched from the stands by Princess Anne, came a day after Team GB claimed gold in the team showjumping.
Golden girls of the sand look for three-peat
In women’s beach volleyball the U.S. is guaranteed gold and silver.
On Tuesday, the pairs of Kerri Walsh-Misty May-Treanor and Jennifer Kessy-April Ross each won their semifinal matches.
Walsh and May-Treanor are going for a third Olympic gold.
“They were playing awesome but we made it happen,” May-Treanor said of their Chinese opponents. “I’m speechless. I think we played as a unit, so I’m very happy. I had a picture in my head at the beginning of the season of how I wanted us to play, and we’re living that picture, but it’s not over yet.”
Kessy and Ross beat Brazilians Juliana and Larissa to reach the final.
“We were always trying to prove ourselves, but with that match we don’t need to do that anymore,” Kessy said.
Track star overcomes injury to win 1,500 meters
As the rain came down in the buzzing Olympic Stadium, the evening session was highlighted by the men’s 1,500-meter final. It turned into tactical race where the favored Kenyans faded down the final backstretch. Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria pulled away in the final 300 meters and won easily in 3:34.08, well off the world record.
In a bit of a surprise, Leonel Manzano of the United States took the silver. It was the first U.S. medal in the event since Jim Ryun won silver in 1968.
“I’ve been training to the best of my ability, it was an amazing time,” Manzano said. “It was the only time I’ve ever cried after a race.”
Abdalaati Iguider of Morocco edged Matt Centrowitz of the United States for the bronze.
The top finishing Kenyan was Silas Kiplagat, who was seventh.
Makhloufi was only in the race thanks to a doctor’s note that said he had an injured knee. He had been expelled from the Olympics by the governing body of track and field, which said he had not put in a real effort in 800-meter qualifying.
If one of his knees was injured, you never would have known it Tuesday.
“It was the will of God, yesterday I was out, today I was in,” he said. “I have a problem with my left leg and it may need surgery.”
Australia’s Sally Pearson, as predicted, won the 100-meter hurdles final, but only by .02 seconds. Despite poor conditions for hurdling, she beat the United States’ Dawn Harper to the line in an Olympic record time of 12.35.
“Relief was the first thing I felt and then shock,” Pearson said. “I’m just going through the emotions. I really wanted this. I’ve worked so hard for two years. To see my name on the scoreboard, I just can’t believe it.”
The medal success for the Americans continued in the high jump where Erik Kynard took silver. Russia’s Ivan Ukhov leapt to gold. In the other final of the night, Robert Harting of Germany won discus gold.
Tuesday morning, 100-meter champion Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake, nicknamed “the Beast,” eased through in their respective 200-meter heats.
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Team USA’s Maurice Mitchell clinched the third heat, while France’s Christophe Lemaitre clocked the fastest time of the morning to win his heat.
The women’s 200-meter final will feature three runners from the U.S. — Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter — and Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown.
Odds and ends
Team USA beat Canada 91-48 in the women’s basketball to reach the semifinal and will face Australia.
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In men’s football at Wembley, Mexico edged out Japan 3-1 in the semifinal to reach their first Olympic final. They’ll face formidable Brazil, which scored three goals for the fifth consecutive match in beating South Korea. Despite their many World Cup triumphs, Brazil has yet to win an Olympic gold.
Iran’s Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei won gold in the Greco-Roman wrestling 96-kilogram final, after defeating Russia’s Rustam Totrov, and Russia’s Ilya Zakharov won the men’s 3-meter springboard diving final.
Meanwhile, Cameroon’s head of mission confirmed that seven of the African nation’s athletes have gone missing while at the London Games.
The athletes, who include five boxers, a female footballer and a male swimmer, have the right to remain in the country until November. It’s not yet clear if they will seek to stay longer.
China topped the medals table as of Tuesday evening, with Team USA placed second and Team GB in third, after a series of outstanding performances that have delighted the home crowd.
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