Monday, 30 July 2012

Live Updates of the London 2012 Olympics




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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