The Chinese should collect three medals from the shooting range this weekend to go along with Yang's medal in swimming, a near-automatic gold in women's three-meter synchronized diving, as well as two of the three gold medals that will be awarded in weightlifting.
With all due respect to Phelps, the most dominant performance in the pool should come from China's Sun Yang, the hands-down favorite in the men's 400-meter freestyle.
Trying to conserve her energy, she barely qualified for the final ("Definitely a little bit of a scare, " she said.) She didn't have enough time for a proper cool-down, so as her U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte swam to a fourth-place finish in the men's 200-meter freestyle, Franklin swam slow, lonely laps by herself in the adjacent diving well, trying to lower her heart rate and ready for her main event.
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Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
London (CNN) -- Young stars shone at the Olympic pool Monday as Yannick Agnel of France won his second gold medal of the London Games, American teen sensation Missy Franklin won her first and a 15-year-old Lithuanian stunned the women's 100-meter breaststroke field.
Two of eight diving events remain, with the women's 10-meter platform final on Thursday and the men's on Saturday.
The four-time Paralympic Games gold medalist won a silver medal as part of South Africa's 4x400-meter relay at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last year.
Less than an hour later, Grenada's Kirani James nabbed gold in the men's 400-meter contest.
Pistorius did not advance to the men's 400-meter final, but he is still an inspiration.
Sun Yang also added to China's growing gold tally with a win in the men's 1500-meter freestyle.
In the women's 100-meter freestyle, Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands won the gold.
But four days into the race and despite good weather conditions, disaster stuck Gavignet's 32-meter yacht earlier this month.
Russia's Mariya Savinova surged past the 2008 Olympic champion on the last 100 meters and won the women's 800-meter run Saturday.
The Otsuka is the only place in the world to see all six panels of El Greco's 12-meter- tall "High Altar" together.
They offered a choice between a runoff or a coin toss for the third and final slot on the women's 100-meter team.
Then yesterday another Jamaican, Shelley Ann Fraser, won the women's 100-meter race.
Russia's Natalia Paderina and Georgia's Nino Salukvadze hugged after winning Olympic silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 10-meter air pistol competition.
Adding to the night's Caribbean theme, the Olympics' biggest celebrity, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, collected his gold medal for winning Sunday night's 100-meter race.
The first U.S. medal Saturday came when the women's 4x100-meter medley relay team broke the world record en route to easily winning gold.
The women's 100-meter hurdles went according to form, as favorites Dawn Harper (12.73), Kellie Wells (12.77) and Lolo Jones (12.86) won spots in London.
Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian ever, setting a record with his 19th medal after anchoring the U.S. men's 4x200-meter freestyle team to gold.
Steve Furniss, bronze medalist in the men's 200-meter individual medley swimming event in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, went on to make swimsuits for champions.
Within a few minutes' walk of Meyer's home is Liulichang, Beijing's 750-meter (half-mile) antiques street which has flourished since the Yuan dynasty 800 years ago.
The Dominican Republic's Felix Sanchez won the men's 400-meter hurdles race.
The U.S. quartet included Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter, who took gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's 200-meter run, and Tianna Madison and Bianca Knight.
While he failed to win a medal there, he smashed a record to win the men's 400-meter race in the Paralympic Games a few weeks later.
James, who was 11 years old at the time, said he can still remember watching Francique's 400-meter final on television with his family and being totally transfixed.
Last night's 100-meter final looked like a dual meet between the Jamaicans and the Americans with three guests thrown into the mix for the sake of diversity.
Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte won her country's first swimming medal ever as an independent nation, winning gold in the final medal event of the night, the women's 100-meter breaststroke.
Over the course of six exchanges, the men's 3-meter synchronized springboard diving team of Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen traded one fist pound, one hug and one high five between dives.
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