Jamaica took the gold medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay at the London Games on Saturday, setting a new world record when anchor Usain Bolt stormed across the finish line, claiming his third gold of the Games.
Mexico snatched the gold medal in the men’s football final at the London Games on Saturday, defeating Brazil 2-1. Brazil claims more World Cup wins than any other country but has never won the Olympic title.
Julie Bresset stormed to victory in the women’s mountain bike cross-country event on Saturday, winning France its 10th gold medal at the London Games. Germany's Sabine Spitz and American Georgia Gould took silver and bronze, respectively.
French runner Hassan Hirt failed a drug test and was removed from the squad at the London Olympic Games, a source in the French team said Friday. Hirt will now face a disciplinary investigation. Hirt was eliminated in the heats of the 5,000m race.
World most famous football club Manchester United has slashed its share price ahead of Friday's IPO; fuelling speculation the club’s heavy debts could impede its profitability. It now expects to gain $233mn, much less that the hoped-for $300mn.
The Badminton World Federation on Wednesday charged eight women from China, South Korea and Indonesia with deliberately underperforming or ‘throwing’ matches at the Olympic Games in London.
US swimming superstar Michael Phelps clinched his 19th Olympic medal Tuesday at the London Games with a gold in the men’s 4 x 200-metre freestyle relay, making him the most decorated Olympian in history.
Frenchman Yannick Agnel won the gold medal for the 200-metre freestyle at the Olympic Games in London on Monday, with a time of 1 minute, 43.14 seconds, while world champion Ryan Lochte of the United States finished fourth.
International Olympic Committee and British Olympic Association officials defended 16 year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen against doping allegations on Tuesday, after a top US coach called her record-breaking victory “suspicious”.
Frenchman Yannick Agnel won the gold medal for the 200-metre freestyle at the Olympic Games in London on Monday, with a time of 1 minute, 43.14 seconds, while world champion Ryan Lochte of the United States finished fourth.
The 2012 London Olympics features some mega-rich sportsmen with the overwhelming majority being basketball and tennis players, with Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer topping the Forbes rich list with an annual salary of 53 million dollars.
The French took gold in the men’s swimming 4x100m freestyle relay final on Sunday, overwhelming a US team that consisted of Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. France, anchored by Yannick Agnel, finished with a time of three minutes and 9.93 seconds.
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton took first place at the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, claiming his second victory of the year. The British racer led from start to finish, beating runner-up Kimi Raikkonen for Lotus.
Marianne Vos of the Netherlands won gold in the women’s road race in London Sunday, and hosts Great Britain managed to bag its first medal of the Games with Lizzie Armitstead taking silver.
Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan finished first in the men’s Olympic road race at the London Games on Saturday, dashing British favourite Mark Cavendish’s hopes of snaring the host country its first gold medal.
Chinese air rifle champion Yi Siling won the first gold medal of the London Games in the women’s 10 metre on Saturday. Yi’s score of 502.9 was 0.7 points higher than that of silver medalist Sylwia Bogacka from Poland.
Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku has been expelled by the International Olympic Committee from the London Games after testing positive for a banned steroid. An IOC spokesman warned, “If you’re doping we’re going to catch you.”
Swimming champion Michael Phelps got off to an uncertain start at the Olympics on Saturday, just scraping into the 400m medley final. Phelps finished in 4min 13.33sec to grab the eighth and last spot in the final which takes place later Saturday.
Queen Elizabeth II declared the 2012 Summer Olympic Games officially open in London on Friday evening during an energetic, star-filled and humorous celebration of British culture and history put together by film director Danny Boyle.
As the Olympics kicked off in London on Wednesday, a women’s soccer match was delayed for nearly an hour after organisers introduced a North Korean player while displaying a South Korean flag - prompting her team to refuse to take the field.
