Русская версияMichael Phelps has equalled fellow American Mark Spitz's record of
seven gold medals at one Olympics by taking the men's 100-meter
butterfly at the Beijing Games on Saturday.
Zimbabwean Kirsty
Coventry and Britain's Rebecca Adlington both won golds in world
record times in the women's 200-meter backstroke and 800-meter
freestyle respectively. Cesar Cielo took a first-ever swimming gold
medal for Brazil, winning the men's 50-meter freestyle. In other
Olympic news, Germany won the silver and bronze medals in the men's
25-meter rapid fire pistol competition. Gold went to Oleksandr
Petriv of Ukraine. And in Olympic rowing, Romania took gold in the
women's pairs, with silver going to China and bronze to Belarus. In
the men's pair's, Australia won gold, Canada took silver, for its
first medal of these games, while bronze went to New Zealand.
(Deutsche Welle)
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