Diving Women's 3m Springboard Final - China Gold, WU Minxia - China Silver, HE Zi - Mexico Bronze, SANCHEZ SOTO Laura - Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 5 August 2012
Diving was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1904 Games in St Louis. The springboard and platform events have been included since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, women have taken part in the diving events. The diving programme has been relatively stable since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam: men and women take part in 10-metre high-dive and 3-metre springboard events. In 2000, the Sydney Games witnessed the entrance of synchronised diving on both the springboard and the platform..
Diving Women's 3m Springboard Final - China Gold, WU Minxia - China Silver, HE Zi - Mexico Bronze, SANCHEZ SOTO Laura - Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 5 August 2012
Diving was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1904 Games in St Louis. The springboard and platform events have been included since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, women have taken part in the diving events. The diving programme has been relatively stable since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam: men and women take part in 10-metre high-dive and 3-metre springboard events. In 2000, the Sydney Games witnessed the entrance of synchronised diving on both the springboard and the platform.
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Diving Men's 3m Springboard Final - Gold: Ilya Zakharov (Russian Fed.) - Silver: Kai Qin (China) - Bronze: Chong He (China). Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 7 August 2012
Diving was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1904 Games in St Louis. The springboard and platform events have been included since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, women have taken part in the diving events. The diving programme has been relatively stable since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam: men and women take part in 10-metre high-dive and 3-metre springboard events. In 2000, the Sydney Games witnessed the entrance of synchronised diving on both the springboard and the platform.
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Diving Men's 10m Platform Final - Gold: China (Yuan Cao & Yanquan Zhang) - Silver: Mexico - Bronze: United States Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 30 July 2012
Diving was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1904 Games in St Louis. The springboard and platform events have been included since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, women have taken part in the diving events. The diving programme has been relatively stable since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam: men and women take part in 10-metre high-dive and 3-metre springboard events. In 2000, the Sydney Games witnessed the entrance of synchronised diving on both the springboard and the platform.
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Diving Women's 10m Platform Final - Gold: Ruolin Chen (China) - Silver: Brittany Broben (Australia) - Bronze: Pandelela Rinong Pamg (Malaysia). Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 9 August 2012
Diving was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1904 Games in St Louis. The springboard and platform events have been included since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, women have taken part in the diving events. The diving programme has been relatively stable since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam: men and women take part in 10-metre high-dive and 3-metre springboard events. In 2000, the Sydney Games witnessed the entrance of synchronised diving on both the springboard and the platform.
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Badminton Mixed Doubles Final - China v China. Highlights from the Wembley Arena at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 3 August 2012
Badminton made its debut as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It was not until the 1992 Games in Barcelona that it was officially included on the Olympic programme, with men's and women's singles and doubles events. The mixed doubles event made its debut in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Since then, the number of events has remained unchanged.
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Gymnastics Artistic Men's Team Final - Gold: China - Silver: Japan - Bronze: Great Britain - Highlights from the North Greenwich Arena at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 30 July 2012
Artistic gymnastics was introduced at the very first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, and has been present at every edition of the Games since then. At the beginning, it comprised disciplines that are difficult to qualify as 'artistic', such as climbing and acrobatics.
The foundations of the Olympic gymnastics programme were laid at the 1924 Games in Paris, when the men's apparatus individual and team competitions appeared. In 1928, women were included in the Amsterdam Games. It was not until 1952 that the women's programme was developed, with seven events, and then stabilised at six events as from the 1960 Games in Rome.
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Gymnastics Artistic Men's Floor Exercise Final - China Gold, ZOU Kai - Japan Silver, UCHIMURA Kohei - Russian Fed. Bronze, ABLYAZIN Denis -Highlights from the North Greenwich Arena at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 5 August 2012
Artistic gymnastics was introduced at the very first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, and has been present at every edition of the Games since then. At the beginning, it comprised disciplines that are difficult to qualify as 'artistic', such as climbing and acrobatics.
The foundations of the Olympic gymnastics programme were laid at the 1924 Games in Paris, when the men's apparatus individual and team competitions appeared. In 1928, women were included in the Amsterdam Games. It was not until 1952 that the women's programme was developed, with seven events, and then stabilised at six events as from the 1960 Games in Rome.
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Taekwondo Men -80kg Gold Medal Final - Argentina Gold, Sebastian Eduardo Crismanich - Spain Silver, Nicolas Garcia Hemme - Great Britain Bronze, Lutalo Muhammad - Italy, Mauro Sarmiento - Highlights from the ExCeL - South Arena 1 at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 10 August 2012
Taekwondo is a traditional Korean martial art, which means 'the way of kicking and punching'. In taekwondo, hands and feet can be used to overcome an opponent, but the trademark of the sport is its combination of kick movements. Taekwondo is one of the two Asian martial arts included on the Olympic programme. Taekwondo made its debut as a demonstration Olympic sport at the 1988 Seoul Games, and became an official medal sport at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Olympic Cauldron is lit at the Olympic Stadium for the London 2012 Olympic Games. - 27 July 2012
Every two years, the world's finest athletes gather at the Olympic Games - a spectacular celebration of sporting excellence that captures the attention of billions of people around the world. However, the Games are about much more than just sport. They bring the Olympic values to life and provide a global arena for a unique combination of sport, culture, education and ceremonies.
At the Olympic Games in London 2012, about 10,500 athletes from 204 countries compete in 26 different sports, comprising 302 medal events. Whether athletes win a medal or not, they can forever call themselves Olympians. The sporting competitions are undoubtedly the central focus of the Olympic Games and participating in the Games is the ultimate goal for most athletes.
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Weightlifting Men's 69kg Group A - China Gold, LIN Q - Indonesia Silver, TRIYATNO T - Romania Bronze, MARTIN RC - Highlights from the ExCeL - South Arena 3 at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 31 July 2012
Although men's weightlifting has always been on the programme of the Olympic Games - except for at the 1900, 1908 and 1912 editions -- women started to participate only at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
The Olympic weightlifting programme has evolved greatly over time. Today, weightlifters compete in snatch and clean and jerk, and are placed according to their total combined result. From the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, men have competed in eight weight categories and women in seven. This total of 15 events remains unchanged.
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