It's a very wet start to the day in Beijing and several events are affected, including the men's and women's BMX semi-finals But the women's 20km walk starts on time, with Russia's Olga Kaniskina establishing an early lead over the rest of the field The weather has little impact on conditions for the men's inaugural 10km swim at the Shunyi rowing lake Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh of the United States celebrate defending their beach volleyball title as they take gold The rain eases off for competitors in the track and field events. Here, Blanka Vlasic of Croatia competes in the women's high jump Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands eventually takes gold in the 10km swim, edging out Great Britain's David Davies at Shunyi Davies led for much of the race and needs treatment immediately after finishing but soon recovers Czech Republic's Roman Sebrle competes in the long jump as he attempts to defend his Olympic decathlon crown But after three events America's silver medallist from Athens, Bryan Clay, leads the field on 2862 points Britain's Tonia Couch qualifies for the women's 10m platform final alonside team-mate Stacie Powell in 12th and 11th respectively The men's modern pentathlon sees each competitor fence each other in the second of five events with the first touch winning each bout Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson win Britain's 17th gold medal after they beat Sweden in a tense finish in the Star class in Qingdao Danielle Scott-Arruda spikes as America beat Cuba to reach the final of the women's volleyball Turkey's Azize Tanrikulu, blue, beats eventual bronze medallist Croatian Martina Zubcic in the women's 57kg Taekwondo semi-final Russian Olga Kapranova performs in the hoop discipline of the gymnastics rhythmic individual all-around qualification While with the rope Ukraine's Anna Bessonova, bronze medallist in Athens, is the most likely to take a medal from the dominant Russians Britain's Lisa Dobriskey qualifies in her 1500m heat with Nataliya Tobias, Ukraine, and Nancy Jebet Langat, Kenya Veronica Campbell-Brown takes gold in the women's 200m, Jamaica winning all four sprint titles in Beijing; Allyson Felix, US, takes silver George Gogchelidze of Georgia pins Michel Batista, and beats the Cuban 5-0 to take bronze in the men's 96kg freestyle wrestling Defending champions Great Britain are disqualified from the men's 4x100m sprint after a bad handover, Jamaica winning the heat And a favourite for the women's 4x100m goes as Torri Edwards and Lauryn Williams drop the baton in the USA's heat
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