France
Number of Athletes: 323
Sports: Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Swimming, Taekwondo
Medal Prospects: Amelie Caze (Modern Pentathlon), Laure Manaudou (swimming), Alain Bernard (men’s 100m freestyle)
Athens Medals: Gold 11, Silver 9, Bronze 13, Total 33
Alexey Tishchenko of Russia wins gold in boxing
Alexey Tishchenko of Russia has beat Daouda Sow of France 11-9, to win the gold medal in the boxing lightweight division (60kg).
Yordenis Ugas from Cuba and Hrachik Javakhyan of Armenia won bronze medals.
Gold and silver to France in men’s mountain bike
Julien Absalon won the gold and Jean-Christophe Peraud won the silver medal in the men’s mountain bike, cross country event.
The bronze was won by Nino Schurter of Switzerland.
Defending champions Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janic of Hungary have won the gold medal in the women’s K2 500 meters at the Beijing Olympics.
Beata Mikolajczyk and Aneta Konieczna from Poland won the silver medal and Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard of France won the bronze.
Kyungseon Hwang from South Korea has won the gold medal in the women’s 67kg taekwondo.
Karine Sergerie from Canada won the silver medal. Sandra Saric from Croatia won the bronze medal together with Gwladys Patience Epangue from France.
Anne-Caroline Chausson of France has won the gold medal in women’s BMX racing.
Laetitia le Corguille also from France won the silver medal and Jill Kintner from the United States won the bronze medal.
The 2008 world champion Tom Ashley from New Zealand has won the gold medal in the men’s windsurfing, with 52 points. Julien Bontemps of France finished second, just one point behind.
Bontemps dropped his sail as he rounded the first buoy. He was in tears after the finish, hurling his sunglasses into [...]
Chris Hoy from Great Britain has won another gold medal for his country. Jason Kenny also from Great Britain helped to add to the medal count by winning the silver medal.
France’s Mickael Bourgain won the bronze.
- Brimin Kiprop Kipruto wins gold medal in men’s 3000 steeplechase
- Leszek Blanik from Poland wins gold in men’s vault
- Australia wins gold medal in men’s 470 sailing
- Ben Ainslie of Great Britain has won gold int the Finn (Heavyweight Dinghy)
- France defeats US to win gold in men’s team sabre - fencing
- Poland wins gold in men’s quad fours - rowing
- Great Britain wins men’s four rowing
- Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in the men’s skeet - shooting
