Behind the velodrome's timber-clad frame, cyclists will race for gold round a track made from sustainably-sourced Siberian pine, while Zaha Hadid's striking wave-shaped roof on the Aquatics Center has been temporarily adorned with "wings" providing seating for 15, 000 spectators.
Danilo Di Luca followed that up with third in the Amstel Gold Race, while Dario Pieri was second in the famously arduous Paris-Roubaix.
At the start of the race, Rose to Gold slammed into the Pletcher-trained Dreaming of Julia, severely hampering the race's 8-5 favorite's chances.
Going into 2010, McCoy had won every major horse race, including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Champion Chase, but the world's most famous race - the Grand National - had eluded him.
Russia, which is underperforming just as it did at the Winter Games in Vancouver, probably can't catch Britain in the gold medal race.
He said that after she also spurned his offer to take her to the Gold Cup race meeting at Cheltenham, Mr Fraser had felt "disgruntled".
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Willy Twiston-Davies, the 16-year-old son of Imperial Commander's trainer Nigel, rides the favourite Baby Run in the Foxhunter Chase, the race immediately following the Gold Cup.
China and the United States are in a close race for the most gold medals as the 2012 London Olympics begin to wind down, but the real story is the nation in third place: Great Britain.
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Bobby Kersee continues to coach Olympic-caliber athletes, including Dawn Harper, who today won silver in the 100 meter hurdles race, after winning gold in that event in Beijing in 2008, and Allyson Felix, who ran 5th in the 100-meter sprint in London and will compete in the finals of the 200-meter race, her best event, tomorrow.
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Swimmer Rebecca Adlington won a bronze instead of an expected gold in her first race.
The network also came under fire for spoiling the results of U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin's gold medal-winning race when it ran a "Today" show promo that revealed the outcome of the race before it was telecast that night.
He won gold in the K1 1000m race and claimed bronze in the men's K1 500m final.
Meyer, who had already won gold medals in the points race and team pursuit, admitted the Games were missing some of cycling's biggest stars.
But history on Saturday also favored the leaders, as the most decorated Olympian of all time tallied another win with his American teammates in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay, handing Michael Phelps his 18th gold medal in the last race of his storied swimming career.
In Monday's hurdles race, for example, the U.S. appeared to have a promising shot at gold, with three runners in the eight-man race.
Over time ladies were encouraged to save their best dresses for the Gold Cup, the prestigious endurance race run on the Thursday and won in 2015 by Trip to Paris.
Maze admitted it had been a difficult day, although she did take consolation from her second run as she added to her gold in the super-G race and silver in the super-combined.
O'Grady boasts an impressive CV, having won gold in the Commonwealth Games road race in 2002 and led the Tour de France in 1998 and 2001, winning a stage to Grenoble in 1998.
Hungary's Risztov, the gold medalist, said after the race that the roughness of the sport and the threat of being disqualified for excessive roughness, combined with knowing that the favorite, Britain's Keri-Anne Payne, likes to grab and keep an early lead, prompted her to make an aggressive run one that ultimately gave her a definitive lead over five of six laps.
Almost three million television viewers watched 17-year-old swimmer Ellie Simmonds break the world record as she won gold in a dramatic S6 400m freestyle race on Saturday.
In the men's 4-by-400-meter relay, the Bahamas' Ramon Miller passed American Angelo Taylor in the race's final 100 meters, taking the gold medal while the U.S. settled for silver.
He placed fourth in a heartbreaking finish after leading for the last four laps of the 5, 000 meters, a race that saw Finland's Lasse Viren win gold in a late surge.
Instead, he took part in the 400 metres race and, against the odds, still won a gold medal.
"It wasn't a great swim, I wanted to go seven seconds quicker, but it's a gold medal, " he said after the race.
The 2012 race got off to an inauspicious start after the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised was spooked on his way down to the start and unseated his jockey, AP McCoy.
"I will still race in the time trial on Wednesday but I have the gold medal I wanted and after that I will consider retiring, " said the Kazakh cyclist.
Armitstead, 23, from Otley near Leeds, was beaten to the gold at the end of the 140-kilometre race by Holland's Marianne Vos in a sprint finish on The Mall.
More importantly, in the sovereign race to devalue domestic currencies, the last man standing may be gold.
The U.S. had formidable firepower in the race: Richards-Ross had won the 400-meter individual gold here, and Felix had won the 200 meters.
There was the fibrillating heart, of course, treatment for which meant he couldn't race again until last month, when soundly defeated at Kempton by Gold Cup opponent Madison Du Berlais.
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