China's Liu Yingzi prepares to shoot in the women's trap qualification round on day three at the Beijing Olympics Hanae Ito of Japan springs off the blocks in the women's 100m backstroke semis at the Water Cube aquatics centre Kosuke Kitajima celebrates after setting a new world record as he wins gold in the men's 100m breaststroke Team GB take their second gold, as Rebecca Adlington (left) wins the 400m freestyle final, with team-mate Jo Jackson claiming bronze US president George W Bush is in Beijing to cheer on the American swimmers and is keen to fly the flag Michael Phelps (right) is ecstatic as the US men's 4x100m relay team's victory keeps his eight-golds dream alive Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry breaks the world record for the women's 100m backstroke in her semi-final with a time of 58.77 sec Australian swimmer Libby Trickett wins 100m butterfly gold in a time of 56.73 seconds - just 0.12 off the world record Phelps is back in action in the men's 200m butterfly and smashes the Olympic record with a time of 1:53.70 in his heat Britain's double Commonwealth champion Charlotte Kerwood fails to make the final of the women's trap shooting event Finland's Satu Makela-Nummela scores 91 hits - including an Olympic record of 21 targets - in the women's trap shooting final to take gold Abhinav Bindra becomes India's first individual Olympic gold medallist when he claims the men's 10m air rifle shooting title Chen Yanqing wins the women's 58kg weightlifting to collect China's eighth gold medal of these Olympics Chen's compatriot Zhang Xiangxiang kisses the weights after securing gold in the men's 63kg weightlifting South Korea's men match the feat of their women archers by clinching team gold - their third successive Olympic success Giovanna Trillini of Italy and Nam Hyunhee of South Korea compete in the semi-finals of the women's individual foil fencing World number one and top seed Roger Federer meets his fans after his first round win over Russia's Dmitry Tursunov Spain's Rafael Nadal, who will soon replace Federer at the top of the rankings, is also into round two after beating Potito Starace of Italy Men's badminton top seed Lin Dan of China wins his second round match against Hong Kong's Wei Ng 21-16, 21-13 Slovakia's Michal Martikan is the quickest man through into the semi-finals of the canoe event at the Shunyi Rowing-Canoeing Park It takes Azerbaijan's Elnur Mammadli just 13 seconds - and an ippon score - against Wang Kichun to seal gold in the men's 73kg judo China's Lin Yue and Huo Liang take off on their way to the gold medal in the 10m synchronised diving
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