Germany defends Olympic hockey gold - beat Holland 2-1

Germany successfully defended their Olympic hockey title when they beat Holland 2-1 in  a thrilling and exciting Olympic men's field hockey final Staurday night.

Both goals were scored by Jan Philipp Rabente, who thus denied the Dutch their dream of becoming the first nation to win both hockey golds at the same Games.

It may be added that Holland had a smooth sailing in the group matches and even beat Germany and they were hoping to snatch the gold from defending chmapions Germany this time.

The defeat thus equalises the Dutch's earlier edge over the Germans and let the Germans ge away with their second successive Olympic gold.

Evgeniya Kanaeva defends her Rhythmic gymnastics Olympic title

Evgeniya Kanaeva has become the first woman to win two Olympic rhythmic gymnastics all-around gold medals after she defended her title at London 2012.

Photo: BBC Sport Olympics

The Russian's score of 116.900 saw her finish ahead of silver medal winning compatriot Daria Dmitrieva and Liubou Charkashnya of Belarus who took bronze.

The 22-year-old performed several breathtaking routines in the Wembley Arena to finish clear of the field.

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Mexico humiliate Brazil to win Olympic Football Gold

Mexico humiliated hot favourites Brazil to win the men's Olympic football tournament for the first time at Wembley, London.

Mexico outscored champions of the champions Brazil 2-1, when the Brazilians were just thinking that they would just brush aside the Mexicans to win the gold. But they were really stunned to settle for the silver.

Although it was the first time for Brazil too to win the Olympic gold, but they were simply outclassed as the Mexicans edged over the Brazilians to win their first gold in Olympic football. Both goals were scored by Oribe Peralta.

Watch a slide show of the highlights of the match:

Slide show video courtesy: YouTube / Syamihere

Olympics Football: Brazil to play Mexico for a possible Gold Saturday

Brazil's dream of winning an elusive Olympic soccer gold came a step closer when they thrashed South Korea 3-0 in the semifinals at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

The victory sets up a title decider against Mexico at Wembley Stadium on Saturday after the Mexicans beat Japan 3-1 in the earlier last four clash.

Brazil, whose obsession with winning gold is matched by few other countries, won with second-half goals from forward Leandro Damiao, now tournament top scorer with six, after a 38th minute opener from Romulo in front of a 69,389 crowd.

Korea now face Japan in what is likely to be a lively battle for the bronze medal at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Friday while Brazil will hope to be crowned Olympic champions at last against Mexico on Saturday.

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Mustafina Wins Gold for Russia on Women’s Uneven Bars

Russia's Aliya Mustafina won the gold medal for her gold starved country when she clocked much better than China's Kexin He on the women's uneven bars Sunday evening at London Olympics. She had a marvelous show of aerobatics on the uneven bars and her landing was simply superb.

Mustafina on the uneven bars [Photo:  uk.reuters ]

China's He was also impressive but was overshadowed by the Russian and settled for a silver. Britain's Beth Tweddle, also performed well specially her last moments before landing - however he bad landing robbed her of a better medal and won won bronze.

U.S. teenage gymnast Gabby Douglas, who has emerged as a star of the Games, was competing for her third gold medal in the event, but she placed eighth.

Serena wins Olympics gold for America

In what seemed to be one of the extremely one sided final of all times, world no.4 and five times Wimbledon champion American Serena Williams outclassed her Russian opponent and world no.3 Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 to win the gold for America at the Centre Court of Wimbledon Saturday afternoon.

Right from the outset, it seemed that the Russian, who recently won the French Open but crashed out of Wimbledon in the very early stage, wasn't interested in winning the match and threw away the first set for naught. Even in the second set, she did not seem to be recovering from her first set defeat and coming back to game and lost the second set just too easily 6-1 and the gold too.

Serena was obviously overjoyed who jumped and danced like a little girl for winning the gold for her country. This was the 23rd gold that America won. 

In fact, right from the first round and specially from the quarters onward, Serena overpowered some of the world's best players. She beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-0, 6-3, followed by the world no.1 Victoria Azarenka, 6-1, 6-2.  And now world no.3 and French Open queen maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1. And just have a look at the scores of all these three matches - in no match she allowed her opponents to be of any threat to her on her way to win the gold.

Serena now eyes another gold of the ladies doubles along with her sister. Both sisters have won golds for America in ladies doubles in Olympics 2000 and 2008.

Team GB fail to pick up a medal on the opening day

It was just one of a number of disapointments suffered by Team GB on a day when none of their medal hopefuls were able to secure a place on the podium.

Mark Cavendish's girlfriend looked on with daughter Delilah as the cyclist suffered heartache on the roads [Photo: AFP/Getty Images]

As for tennis, it looked as if Murray brothers  were not playing for gold, but defeat still hurt for Andy and Jamie Murray as they lost on the grass of Wimbledon in the first round of the Olympic men's doubles.

In a very tight battle with Austria's Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya they went down 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 after two hours and 23 minutes.

And then, much touted Mark Cavendish failed to challenge in the men's cycling road race and - along with teammates Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, David Millar and Ian Stannard - finished way out of contention.

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Federer now eyes Olympic gold

World no.1 Swiss Roger Federer, after being crowned at Wimbledon for the seventh times, now eyes the gold medal at the forth coming Olympic Games at London 2012.

The tennis competitions of the Olympic commence with effect from 28 July on the same green grass of Wimbledon, which is being used by London Olympic for holding tennis matches.

Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka (R) of Switzerland show their gold medals at the awarding ceremony of the men's doubles gold medal match of Beijing Olympic Games tennis event in Beijing, China, Aug. 16, 2008. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

Although Federer has been to Olympic games thrice, he has only bagged a doubles event gold playing with  Stanislas Wawrinka in Beijing Olympic games. He now eyes a singles event gold at London:

"Obviously, the Olympics is the next goal," Federer said during a 15-minute session with a half-dozen reporters. "I was taking it in steps, really: All-out until Wimbledon. And then, after that, take a break, reassess, prepare well, then come back for the Olympics and hopefully play well."

Video of the Beijing Olympic Games - Final moments of the winning match by Federer / Stanislas [Video credit: olympic / Youtube]

At his first Olympic games in Sydney in 2000, then world No. 38 Federer lost to then No. 48 Tommy Haas of Germany in the singles semifinal and then lost the bronze medal match to No. 62 Arnaud di Pasquale of France.