Anna Korakaki held her nerve to win the 25 metres pistol shooting title today and claim Greece's first Olympic gold medal in any sport since they hosted the Games 12 years ago.

.Switzerland's Heidi Diethelm Gerber claimed the bronze medal  after beating Zhang Jingjing of China

World champions Chen Ruolin and Liu Huixia maintained China’s pursuit of all eight Olympic gold medals in the diving at Rio 2016 after winning the women’s synchronised 10 metreplatform event at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Rio de Janeiro today.

When taekwondo action gets under way at Rio 2016 on August 17, viewers and spectators may be pleasantly surprised by the number of female match officials.

also be the event at which the first-ever triple Olympic taekwondo champion is crowned.Wu Jingyu of China

Lilly King beat controversial Russian Yuliya Efimova in the Olympic 100 metres breaststroke final here to claim victory for United States, and, some would say, for clean sport on another night where the sport's problems with doping were never far from the surface. 

presentation.One athlete with a chequered doping past did finish top of the podium, however, as Sun Yang of China

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©Getty ImagesMichael Phelps was in semi-final action in the 200m butterfly ©Getty ImagesSun Yang of China

Japan banished the demons of two consecutive Olympic silver medals by clinching men's artistic gymnastics team gold as Kōhei Uchimura finally got his hands on the one title which had eluded him at the Rio Olympic Arena today.

The reigning world champions, second to China at Beijing 2008 and at London 2012, scored a total of 274.094

China’s Chen Aisen and Lin Yue added the Olympic gold medal to their world title with a dominant display in the men’s 10 metre synchronised platform event at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Rio de Janeiro today.

of strong dives ©Getty ImagesThere was no doubt about the gold and silver medallists, though, with China

Russia's Yuliya Efimova was greeted with boos and whistles, as well as sledging from her main rival, as she made her first appearance at an Olympic Games many believe she should have been banned from after failing two drugs tests. 

following Australian star Mack Horton's comment yesterday that his 400m freestyle triumph over Sun Yang of China

trimetazidine in 2014, although it was not disclosed until later.There has been a furious response in China

China's Zhang Mengxue fired her way to the gold medal in the women's 10 metres air pistol final at Rio 2016 with an Olympic record score at the Olympic Shooting Centre today.

It has been only two years since I joined the national team of China shooting," she said.

Chinese duo Wu Minxia and Shi Tingmao got their nation's pursuit of a clean sweep of the diving events at Rio 2016 off to the perfect start as they secured the Olympic three metres synchronised springboard gold medal with a formidable performance at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre today.

China are targeting all eight diving gold medals on offer at Rio 2016 but Shi, who earned her maiden

The world was in turmoil in 1968.

The cultural revolution had begun in China. Castro took control of Cuba. France had student riots.

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ImagesA view of the beach volleyball venue at Copacabana as the sun goes down ©Getty ImagesYu Xing of China

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu produced one of the great Olympic swimming performances to shatter a four-year-old world record by over two seconds in the 400 metres individual medley final here this evening.

second half of the race to claim a surprise 400m freestyle victory over defending champion Sun Yang of China

Sopita Tanasan earned Thailand its fourth Olympic medal in women’s weightlifting since it was introduced at the 2000 Sydney Games as she managed a combined total of 200 kilograms in the women’s 48kg final at the Riocentro – Pavilion 2 here.

over-75kg division instead of 48kg division, and Meng Suping is the best choice,” Wang told the South China

China has topped the weightlifting medal table at every Olympic Games since Sydney 2000.The 21-year-old

Kim Woojin, controversially left out of South Korea’s archery team for the 2012 Olympics in London, is making the most of Rio 2016 - having set a world record of 700 points in the men’s individual ranking round yesterday, he helped his team win the gold medal in the first final with successive 6-0 wins over the Netherlands, Australia and the United States.

in the semi-finals at London 2012.Australia won their first archery medal in 12 years by defeating China