Ruban squashes ROK hopes for Individual title

Viktor Ruban of Ukraine releases. (Photo credit: Gesang Dawa/Xinhua)

BEIJING, August 15) -- Viktor Ruban of Ukraine prevented Park Kyung-mo of the Republic of Korea from winning ROK's first Men's Individual Olympic title with the very last arrow of their gold medal match at the Olympic Green Archery Field on Friday.

In a tightly-contested gold medal match, the No. 3 seed Ruban defeated the No. 4 seed Park 113-112.

Ruban was lucky to have been in the gold medal match having barely made it through the semifinals. To shoot in the gold medal match, Ruban had to break a 112-112 tie with Bair Badenov of the Russian Federation in a two-arrow shoot off.

Ruban waves to spectators. (Photo credit: Vladimir Rys/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Park, the Individual silver medalist, was also lucky to have been in the gold medal match. He almost didn't make it into the top four, having tied Juan Carlos Stevens of Cuba in the quarterfinal match 108-108. On a two-arrow shoot off, Park launched a 10 to break the tie. Park then beat Juan Rene Serrano of Mexico in the semifinals, 115-112.

Ruban will add his Individual gold medal to his Team bronze won at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Park will add his Individual silver medal won in Beijing to his two Team Gold medals from the Athens Games and the Beijing Games.

In the bronze medal match, the No. 31 seed Badenov defeated the No. 1 seed Serrano, 110-105.

Stevens was fifth, Moriya Ryuichi of Japan sixth, Victor Wunderle for the United States seventh and Cheng Chu-sian of Malaysia eighth.

Australia sweeps group A in Women's Basketball

Rebekka Linn Hammon (left) breaks through. (Photo credit: Meng Yongmin/Xinhua)

Australia completed their Women's Basketball group A matches with five wins, after defeating Russia 75-55 on August 17.

Russia played fairly well in the first half, leading 37-25. However, the Opals regained their momentum in the second half and blew out their opponents 75-55.

Australian center Lauren Jackson achieved a double-double, netting 16 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

Suzy Batkovic lays up the ball. (Photo credit: Meng Yongmin/Xinhua)

Rebekka Linn Hammon (right) lays up the ball. (Photo credit: Meng Yongmin/Xinhua)

Players celebrate. (Photo credit: Meng Yongmin/Xinhua)

Britain wins Sailing Yngling gold

Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson(C) compete on their way. (Photo credit: Paul Gilham/Getty Images)

British Yngling trio Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson snatched the first gold medal at Olympic Sailing Regatta here on Sunday.

The Netherlands took the silver and Greece got the bronze.

(L-R) Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson celebrate. (Photo credit: Paul Gilham/Getty Images)

The British team competes during the Yngling medal race. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

medal hope for India again

Medal hope for India again by entering into quarter finalso of boxing.India's akil kumar,vijendar and Jithendar enter into quarter finals of mens 75,57,55 kg boxing.

Emmons misses again, lucky gold goes to China once more

Gold medalist Qiu Jian. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

(BEIJING, August 17) -- Matthew Emmons of the United States, who shot the wrong target in the final of the Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions at Athens 2004 and lost the gold medal, shot a terrible 4.4 on his last shot in the same event today and once again lost a gold that should have been his.

China's Qiu Jian picked up the gold medal with a total score of 1272.5. Jury Sukhorukov of Ukraine won the silver with a tenth of a point less, and the bronze medal went to Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia with 1271.7. Emmons finished fourth.

Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay: Australia smashes world record for gold

(L-R) Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Lisbeth Trickett and Jessicah Schipper of Australia (Photo by credit: Bello/Getty Images)

The final of the Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was held in the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, in Beijing, China, on August 17, 2008.

The Australian team won the gold medal in a new world record time, 3 minutes 52.69 seconds.

Australian swimmer competes. (Photo credit: Chen Kai/Xinhua)

Australian swimmers celebrate. (Photo credit: Fei Maohua/Xinhua)

German Britta Steffen sets Olympic record to win Women's 50m Freestyle

Britta Steffen stands on the podium with her medal. (Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

Britta Steffen of Germany won the Women's 50m Freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.

Steffen clocked in an Olympic record of 24.06 seconds to beat the previous mark of 24.13 set up by Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands on September 22, 2000.

American Dara Torres got the silver in 24.07 and Australian Cate Campbell finished third in 24.17.

(L-R) Dara Torres, Britta Steffen and Cate Campbell (Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

Britta Steffen smiles. (Photo credit: Ding Xu/Xinhua)

Britta Steffen waves. (Photo credit: Chen Kai/Xinhua)