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Welcome to Day 2 of the XXX Olympiad (which doesn't mean what you think it means) in London.
The Day That Was: Day 1
Medalists
Sport |
Event |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Cycling |
Men's Road Race |
Alexandr Vinokurov, Kazakhstan |
Rigoberto Uran Uran, Colombia |
Alexander Kristoff, Norway |
Shooting |
Women's 10M Air Rifle (40 Shots) |
Siling Yi, China |
Sylwia Bogacka, Poland |
Dan Yu, China |
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Men's 10M Air Pistol (60 Shots) |
Jongoh Jin, South Korea |
Luca Tesconi, Italy |
Andrija Zlatic, Serbia |
Judo |
Men's Extra Lightweight |
Arsen Galstyan, Russia |
Hiroaki Hiraoka, Japan |
Felipe Kitadai, Brazil
Rishod Sobirov, Uzbekistan |
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Women's under 48kg |
Sarah Menezes, Brazil |
Alina Dumitru, Romania |
Charline van Snick, Belgium
Eva Csernoviczi, Hungary |
Weightlifting |
Women's under 48kg |
Mingjuan Wang, China |
Hiromi Miyake, Japan |
Chun Hwa Ryang, North Korea |
Archery |
Men's Team |
Italy |
USA |
South Korea |
Fencing |
Women's Individual Foil |
Elisa di Francisca, Italy |
Arianna Errigo, Italy |
Valentina Vezzali, Italy |
Swimming |
Men's 400m Freestyle |
Yang Sun, China |
Taehwan Park, South Korea |
Peter Vanderkaay, USA |
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Men's 400m Individual Medley |
Ryan Lochte, USA |
Thiago Pereira, Brazil |
Kosuke Hagino, Japan |
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Women's 400m Individual Medley |
Shiwen Ye, China |
Elizabeth Beisel, USA |
Xuanxu Li, China |
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Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay |
Australia |
Netherlands |
USA |
Current Medal Count
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G |
S |
B |
Total |
1 |
China |
4 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
2 |
Italy |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
USA |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
Brazil |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
South Korea |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
Japan |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
Australia |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
Kazakhstan |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
Russia |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
The Schedule
Medal Events
Sport |
Event |
Time (EDT) |
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Shooting |
Women's 10m Air Pistol (40 Shots) |
6:45AM |
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Women's Skeet (75 Targets) |
9:00AM |
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Women's 10m Air Pistol (40 Shots) |
6:45AM EDT |
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Women's 10m Air Pistol (40 Shots) |
6:45AM EDT |
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Cycling |
Women's Road Race |
7:00AM |
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Judo |
Women's Half Lightweight |
9:04AM (Bronze) |
11:00AM (Final) |
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Men's Half Lightweight |
9:05AM (Bronze) |
11:10AM (Final) |
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Weightlifting |
Women's 48-53kg (Group A) |
10:30AM |
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Diving |
Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard |
10:00AM |
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Archery |
Women's Team |
12:33PM (Bronze) |
1:01PM (Final) |
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Fencing |
Men's Individual Sabre |
1:50PM (Bronze) |
2:10PM (Final) |
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Swimming |
Women's 100m Butterfly |
2:30PM |
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Men's 100m Breaststroke |
3:11PM |
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Women's 400m Freestyle |
3:18PM |
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Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay |
4:00PM |
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Other Highlights
The USA men's basketball team begins their run for the gold playing France at 9:30AM EDT. Anyone who thinks they could beat the Dream Team is probably smoking whatever Danny Boyle was smoking when he was designing the Opening Ceremonies.
How to Watch
If you're a US cable subscriber, you can stream the whole Olympics for free at NBCOlympics.com.
The top-tier events will also, of course, be on NBC TV.... and other NBC channels (NBC Sports, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo) will be showing various Olympic doings interspersed among their regular programming throughout the day as well. Check local listings.
Inspiring Olympic Thought of the Day
Here's Jerry Seinfeld on the Olympics:
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