Bolt cruises to world record in 100-meters

Tennis
Venus and Serena Williams clinched at least a silver medal in doubles, beating Ukraine’s Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko to advance to the gold-medal match. The Williams sisters improved to 9-0 lifetime in Olympic doubles. They won the gold medal at Sydney in 2000 but didn’t play doubles in 2004 because Serena was hurt.

Give the women’s singles gold to Russia. Which Russian will be determined Sunday, when Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva square off. Dementieva beat another Russian, Vera Zvonareva, and Safina knocked out China’s Li Na.

American twins Bob and Mike Bryan, who have won all four Grand Slam championships, won the bronze in men’s doubles.

Novak Djokovic beat American James Blake for bronze in men’s singles. Blake lost consecutive matches after beating Roger Federer.

Baseball
It was another one-run game for the Americans, although this time they wound up on top — after erasing a four-run deficit.

Brian Barden homered and had a tying double, then Terry Tiffee doubled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh in a 5-4 victory over Canada.

Barden played in place of injured second baseman Jayson Nix a day after Nix fouled a ball off his left eye and needed micro surgery that will keep him out the remainder of the Olympics.

Shooting
Vincent Hancock, a 19-year-old member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, won a shoot-off to claim the gold in skeet.

American Keith Sanderson was in first place after qualifying in the men’s 25-meter rapid-fire pistol, but wound up fifth. Ukraine’s Oleksandr Petriv won it.

Boxing
Americans Shawn Estrada and Luis Yanez lost, leaving only two U.S. fighters in the tournament.

Yanez tied his match against Mongolia’s Serdamba Purevdorj after three rounds, but couldn’t pull it out.

Estrada lost to James Degale, the hard-punching Brit known as “Chunky.”

Russian Matvey Korobov lost his first fight in five years, going down in a middleweight bout against Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan, the welterweight winner in Athens.

Fencing
The U.S. trio of Emily Cross, Erinn Smart and Hannah Thompson settled for silver in team foil, losing the final match to Russia 28-11. It’s the first ever for Americans in women’s foil and the first for the U.S. in all of foil since 1960.

Beach volleyball
Two U.S. men’s teams remain on course for a showdown in the finals.

Reigning world champions and heavy gold-medal favorites Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers of the United States overcame mental mistakes, mis-hits and an 0-6 deficit in the first-to-15 final set to beat a Swiss pair.

Later, Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal had a much easier time getting past a Spain team.

Rowing
American Michelle Guerette took silver in women’s single sculls, finishing behind Bulgaria’s Rumyana Neykova. Norway’s Olaf Tufte won his second straight men’s single sculls title.

Australia’s Drew Ginn and Duncan Free won men’s pair. Ginn won in Athens, too, but with a different partner. The Romanio duo of Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu won the women’s pair, bringing their combined career Olympic gold medal haul to a whopping nine. Andrunache has five and Susanu four from the pair and other events with different partners.

Twin sisters Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell won women’s double sculls, defending their Athens triumph by 0.01. Australia’s David Crawshay and Scott Brennan of Australia won the men’s double sculls.

Britain continued its dominance in men’s four rowing, winning gold for a third straight time.

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