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USA Womens Gymnastics Wins 3 Medal for First Time Since 1996

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3 Olympic medals for USA Gymnastics Aly Raisman! The first ever U.S. Olympic gold medal in the women's floor exercise The U.S. women's gymnastics team was both fabulous and ferocious as it dominated the team finals at the 2012 London Olympics. The U.S. women captured the gold medal with an overall score of 183.596. Russia scored a 178.530 to take the silver and Romania won the bronze with a score of 176.414. The 2012 U.S. women's gymnastics team is composed of Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney. According to the Olympic format, each team selects three gymnasts for each of the four apparatuses in the final -- balance beam, uneven bars, vault and floor. The 16-year-old Douglas performed in each of the rotations while Wieber was called on for the floor, vault and uneven bars. Raisman worked the floor and the beam, with Ross performing on the beam and the uneven bars. Maroney was the only U.S. gymnast with just o...

Phelps Wins Record 19th Olympic medal - World Record

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 Famous Olympic website lon2012.com write The 27-year-old swimmer had equalled Larisa Latynina's record earlier this evening with silver in the 200m Butterfly. But the USA swimmer has now moved beyond the Russian, whose record had stood since 1964, to stand alone at the pinnacle with three more events to come. Phelps was just touched out for gold in the 200m Butterfly by Chad le Clos of South Africa, with Takeshi Matsuda claiming the bronze for Japan. Earlier, teenager Ye Shiwen added the 200m Individual Medley title to the gold she won in the 400m IM. The 16-year-old came from slightly down at third at the final turn to produce a storming freestyle leg to secure victory. Meanwhile, USA's Allison Schmitt won in Olympic record time in the 200m Freestyle final. Phelps wins record 19th Olympic medal Schmitt, who last month swam the event faster than anyone in textiles in history, led from start to finish and touched in a dominant 1:53.61. France's Camille Muffat wa...

USA Flags Still Standing on Moon

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New Nasa photographs show most of the flags placed by crews of the Apollo spacecraft are still standing on the Moon. Shadows cast by five of the six US flags put up in the 1960s and 1970s are visible on the surface of the Moon as it spins around the sun. The remaining flag - planted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the first moon landing in 1969 - was knocked over as the Apollo 11 craft began ascending from the surface. Mark Robinson, an investigator with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), said: "From the LROC it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11. "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct! "Personally I was a bit surprised that the flags survived the harsh ultraviolet light and temperatures of the lunar surface, but they did." The famous St...

Pakistani Shooter and Swimmer Crashed Out of Olympic

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           Israr Hussain and  Khurram Inam Pakistani swimmer Israr Hussain and shooter Khurram Inam crashed out of their events at the London Olympics. Israr Hussain who had earned a wild card entry finished last during his 100 m freestyle swimming meet. Meanwhile shooter Khurram Iman failed to qualify for medal contention in the skeet event with a total score of 112Most of people eye on Israr . Pakistan’s hopes of obtaining a gold medal now rest with the national hockey team who played a 1-1 draw against Spain on Monday.

Chinese Swimming Prodigy Ye Sets Record in Olympic

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Given China's murky past in women's swimming, it was little surprise that teenager Ye Shiwen's devastating performance at the London Olympics would raise as many eyebrows as applause.Ye won gold in the women's 400 metres individual medley on Saturday with an eye-popping swim that set tongues wagging around the pool deck and sent social media sites into a spin. Not only did the Chinese sensation blow away American world champion Elizabeth Beisel and set a new world record for the gruelling event, she completed her final lap almost as fast as men's champion Ryan Lochte of the U.S. did when he won the same title on Saturday. interwiew after the game she say"My results come from hard work and training and I would never use any banned drugs. The Chinese people have clean hands," 

Meilutyte Win a Gold Medal in London Olympic

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15 years old and already an Olympic gold medallist! What a performance tonight by Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania Video link http://bit.ly/Q8js8I

Online London Olympics Ceremony

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The opening ceremony of Olympics 2012 is being held in London on today.Top-Sports Channel i.e ten sports fox sports etc  will telecast the ceremony live stream link on www.liveolympic.tk UK time 9:00 PM KSA time 11:00 PM Pakistan time 1:00 AM India time   12:30 AM Live Stream http://watchliveolympic.blogspot.com/2012/07/watch-all-sports-channel-live-olympic.html