The Unofficial 2008 Beijing Olympics Blog

Since Day 1 to Day 7, the Chinese have re-emphasised the fact that they are more than determined to occupy the top spot at the Olympic games. They indeed are on the top with 26 Gold Medals, where Her next competitor is standing at 10 Golds only. Where as United States of America still trying its level best to hold with 46 Medals in total, 5 ahead of China’s total tally of 41 at the end of Day 7.

IF we take the Gold medals for example, Whopping 16 of those 26 Gold medals come from Women for China where as American women could only 5 Gold Medals to American Total Tally.

On the Men Side, the competition has been neck to neck where the Chinese Men managed 10 Golds and Americans managed a competitive 9 Golds.

The Other Striking Observation for the Americans is that they dont miss out on medals atleast. May not be Gold but they have a knack of finishing up in the final three more often than any . This can be seen by looking at the Bronze tally of USA.

So, Surely its the Women Power which is driving the Chinese Canoe out of the Rough waters

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The US Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle team, led by Michael Phelps, crearted a world record on the way to winning the gold medal on Wednesday.

This victory keeps alive Phelps’ dream of winning record eight gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The win also brings Phelps his 10th career Olympic gold to date.

The US team of Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay led for the entire race and stretched the world record margin throughout the race.

Lochte followed Phelps’ lead-off leg and established command under the world record time by 3.63 seconds. Berens slightly increased this, handing over to Vanderkaay to anchor the relay home and extend their lead on the world record, smash it by 4.68 seconds and break the seven-minute barrier at 6min 58.56sec

US and Russia fought out the first 200m, with Australia’s Grant Hackett edging the Russians out for second place at the 400m mark. Canada enjoyed a great third leg through Brent Hayden, to give them second place behind the US at the 600m mark.

Russia’s Alexander Sukhorukov swam a fast final 200m to move past Canada and grab the silver medal in 7:03.70 which was also under the old world record.

Australia, through Nick Ffrost, also overhauled the Canadians to take the Bronze medal in 7:04.98.

Today, the Water Cube witnessed one of the most spectacular competition, since the opening ceremony on the 8th, namely the Women’s 400m Freestyle.

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain took gold in the Women’s 400m Freestyle with a time of 4:03.22, beating the “Female Phelps,” Katie Hoff (4:03.29) of the United States, who came in second. Joanne Jackson, also from Great Britain, won bronze with a time of 4:03.52.