South Africa's Natalie du Toit (centre) prepares to compete in the women's 10 km marathon swim at Shunyi as the first amputee to take part in the Olympics British duo Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten lead for most of the race, which took place in the rowing lake, but Russia's Larisa Ilchenko outsprints them both to win gold Todd Rogers of the US dives to return the ball during his country's semi-final win over Georgia in the beach volleyball Suemeyye Guelec of Germany (blue) fights 49kg rival Dalia Contreras Rivero of Venezuela (red) in a preliminary round of the taekwondo Great Britain's world champion Shanaze Reade competes in the women's BMX and goes through to the semi-finals despite crashing in her first race The unpredictable nature of the sport is emphasised by more spills as it makes an exciting debut at the Olympics Crystl Bustos of the US women's softball team hits a three-run homer to defeat Japan 4-1 and secure her team a chance at the gold medal Italy's Alberto Angelini prepares to shoot during the water polo quarter-final against Canada Bertrand Gille of France shoots against Russia's goalkeeper Oleg Grams during their handball quarter-final Bryony Shaw ups Britain's sailing medal tally to five with a bronze in the RS:X windsurfing behind China's Yin Jian, who took gold ahead of Italy's Alessandra Sensini Russian synchronised swimming duo Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova successfully defend their duet title after a perfect free routine, set to the Peer Gynt Suite China's basketball superstar Yao Ming scores a couple of points but cannot stop his team sliding to a 94-68 quarter-final defeat to Lithuania in the Wukesong Sports Centre Ramazan Sahin picks up Turkey's first gold medal of the Games after beating Ukraine's reigning world champion Andriy Stadnik 3-1 in the men's 66kg freestyle division Rohullan Nikpai wins Afghanistan's first-ever Olympic medal, beating Spanish world champion Juan Antonio Ramos in the play-off for taekwondo -58kg bronze Aksana Miankova wins the women's hammer for Belarus with a new Olympic record throw of 76.34m James DeGale becomes the third British boxer to be guaranteed at least a bronze medal when he beats defending champion Bakhiyar Artayev 8-3 - he meets Ireland's Darren Sutherland in the semi-final Cuban world record holder and title favourite Dayron Robles cruises through his 110m hurdles semi-final in 13.12 seconds Jamaica's Usain Bolt produces a truly phenomenal run as he adds the 200m gold to his 100m success - he stops the clock at 19.30 seconds to beat Michael Johnson's 12-year-old world record Melaine Walker ensures it's a double golden end to the day for Jamaica, winning the women's 400m hurdles in a new Olympic best of 52.64 seconds Britain also ends the day in the medals with an unexpected bronze in the 400m hurdles - 30-year-old mother Tasha Danvers recording a personal best of 53.84 seconds
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