Its a Silver Medal for Shawn Johnson and the US women's gymnastic
team. China took advantage of some US miscues in the floor exercise
round to out score the Americans...188.900 to 186.525
Johnson scored well ..16.0 in the vault...16.175 in balance beam...
15.350 in uneven bars..and 15.1 in floor exercise.
Johnson still has three more individual events in which she could claim
a gold medal.
The US has a two medal lead over host China, going into Wednesday final
events...28 to 26.
BEIJING (AP) - Michael Phelps has qualified sixth-fastest in the
200-meter individual medley at the Beijing Olympics.
The American ended a golden day at the pool by winning his
preliminary heat in 1 minute, 58.65 seconds Wednesday night, good
enough to move on to the semifinals.
Phelps' teammate Ryan Lochte led all qualifiers in 1:58.15.
Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, already a two-time silver medalist behind
Phelps in the 400 IM and 200 butterfly, was third in 1:58.79.
Earlier in the day, Phelps claimed two more gold medals, making
him 5-for-5 at these games, with world records in each victory.
Overall, his 11 career gold medals make him the winningest Olympian
in history.
BEIJING (AP) - Michael Phelps just keeps on rolling. The
American picked up two more gold medals today and now has five in
these games and eleven overall. His victories today came in the
200-meter butterfly and 800 freestyle relay and in each case he
racked up another world record.
BEIJING (AP) - The favored U.S. women's gymnastics team had to
settle for a silver medal today behind China. The American squad
came into the event as world champions but finished more than two
points behind the host nation.
BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. women's basketball team has its third
game of the tournament coming up. After wins over the Czech
Republic and China, the Americans are facing Mali.
BEIJING (AP) - The softball team for the U.S. is now 2-and-0
with two no-hitters. Following the combined no-hitter by Jennie
Finch and Monica Abbott yesterday, Cat Osterman tossed just the
second complete game no-hitter in Olympic history today as the
Americans blanked Australia 3-0.
BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. has picked up two medals in cycling. For
Kristin Armstrong of Idaho it's a gold in the women's road cycling
individual time trial while Levi Leipheimer of California won the
bronze medal in the road cycling individual time trial for men.
The Iowa Cubs literally exploded in the bottom of the 8th inning in their
15 to 6 win over New Orleans. They trailed 5 to 3 before scoring 12 runs,
with shortstop Andres Blanco getting 2 hits, 3 RBI's and 2 runs scored.
He finished 4-5 with 4 RBI's in the game.
Micah Hoffpauir was named as the PCL offensive player of the week..
a .422 batting average with 5 homers and 11 RBI's.
The Iowa Cubs have the best home record (43-22) in the Pacific Coast
League...and have a 6 game lead in the Northern Division.
