14:45 GMT-SWIMMING: Arne
Ljungqvist, medical commission chief for the International Olympic Committee,
says it's "sad" that media are speculating about the sources of
Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen's amazing success.
"For me, it is very sad that
an unexpected performance is surrounded by suspicions," he told a
briefing.
"I mean to raise suspicion
immediately when you see an extraordinary performance -- to me it is against
the fascination of sport.
"To suspect someone for
having done something because he performed extraordinarily is a bit sad for
Olympic sport."
Britain's Times newspaper this
morning labelled Ye's Saturday 400m individual medley victory , in which the
split time for the final 50m beat Ryan Lochte's, "scarcely credible".
And the Daily Telegraph said:
"Chinese swimming has such a shameful history of doping that any
remarkable achievement by one of its athletes is inevitably met with
cynicism."
Ye Shiwen topped the 200m medley
qualifiers earlier today.
12:35 GMT: TENNIS: Australia's
Lleyton Hewitt has battled into the second round of the Olympics with a
hard-fought 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky over at
Wimbledon.
Hewitt's world ranking has sunk
to 158 after several years of injury problems and the 2002 Wimbledon champion
needed a wild card to make it into the Games.
12:25 GMT: Our BOXING reporter
Charles Irwin is at the ExCel arena today, and says the two sisters of Aussie
flyweight Jackson Woods are there to watch him fight.
They're very nervous, the pair
tell him -- "we flew in yesterday and saw him last night."
They won't have long to wait, as
the 19-year-old is up first against Algerian Samir Brahimi.
12:15 GMT: Some 3,000 Olympics
tickets from international sports federations were "put back in the
pot" on Sunday night and sold to the public, say organisers embarrassed by
rows of empty seats despite huge public demand.
But one of our reporters seeking
to apply for tickets (purely for research purposes of course) found that the
website simply crashed.
"We are currently
experiencing high demand and the page you have requested is temporarily
unavailable," it said.
Britons, who have truly caught
Olympic fever, seem unlikely to forget the issue until those seats are filled.
12:14 GMT: Back to SWIMMING, and
Michael Phelps tweets after easing through his heats in the 200m butterfly,
"Nap time..."
12:10 GMT: SHOOTING: Romanian
crack shot Alin Moldoveanu wins the men's 10m air rifle title.
World champion Niccolo Campriani
bags the silver, while India's Gagan Narang gets bronze.
Moldoveanu, who qualified for the
final with an Olympic-record-equalling score of 599, held his nerve to finish
strongly and deny Campriani, notching a total of 702.1 points to the Italian's
701.5.
12:08 GMT: Leaving the poolside
for a moment, in JUDO the top two seeds Wang Ki-Chun of South Korea and Japan's
Riki Nakaya have progressed safely through the early rounds of the Olympic judo
men's under-73kg category.
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