Beijing Games: Day 14

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Aug 25, 2008

Beijing Games: Day 14

With his giant strides, Usain Bolt of Jamaica set anchor Asafa Powell on the way to a record 37.10 seconds in the 4x100 relay, chopping a massive .30 off the world mark the United States had held for 16 years.

The gold medal was the third of the Beijing Games for Bolt and the first for Powell.

Argentina gave LeBron James and the U.S. its toughest game of these Olympics, but the Redeem Team will play for the gold medal after a 101-81 victory.

Franca Idoko of Nigeria celebrates with teammates Oludamola Osayomi (2512), Halimat Ismaila (2523) and Gloria Kemasuode (2514) after the 4 x 100 relay.

Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers of the U.S. defeated Marcio Araujo and Fabio Luiz Magalhaes of Brazil in the beach volleyball final on Friday.

The Americans won 23-21, 17-21 and 15-4, allowing the U.S. to leave Beijing with gold in both the men's and women's beach volleyball competition.

Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser actually lost their first match of these Games before getting white-hot.

The start-ramp of the women's semifinals in BMX. In the finals, France's Anne-Caroline Chausson out-pedaled, out-jumped and out-maneuvered the world's best riders to win the inaugural Olympic BMX race at the Laoshan cycling venue.

Maris Strombergs (1) won Latvia's first gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.

Strombergs rounded the corner ahead of the pack and completed the distance in 36.192 seconds.

Mike Day of the U.S. (far right) took home silver in BMX.

Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia, the silver medallist at the Athens Games and world record holder, took bronze in the race walk.

American Bryan Clay inched closer to the Olympic decathlon gold on Friday by leaping five meters in the pole vault to go into the evening's last two events 316 points clear of the field.