Summer Olympics 2012, Day 4: Event Results And More

2012 Women's Olympic Gymnastics: Jordyn Wieber Gets Her Gold In Team Competition

American gymnast Jordyn Wieber was crushed when she didn't qualify for the Women's All-Around competition for the 2012 Summer Olympics, due to the rule allowing only two competitors from each country to move on. Weiber wound up finishing fourth in the individual all-around with a score of 60.032, behind two of her American counterparts.

Wieber missed on one of her goals in the individual all-around, but that disappointment was quickly washed away with the sound of "The Star Spangled Banner" and the feeling of a gold medal being placed around her neck.

"The feeling was incredible," Wieber said. "To have this gold medal around your neck, it's really an indescribable feeling. It just shows how much of a team we are."

The United States team was able to pull ahead of Russia early in the competition. A big reason for the lead was due to the outstanding vault by vault specialist McKayla Maroney, scoring a 16.233.

It had been 16 years since the women's team had won Olympic gold in the team event, but thanks to Maroney's amazing vault the Americans went on to dominate the competition. Wieber drilled her own vault, scoring a 15.933.

"I said to her, 'redemption is a heck of a motivator,' and today was redemption," Wieber's long-time coach John Geddert said.

Wieber's strong vault started off a four-rotation exercise that helped propel the Americans to a gold medal, including picking up a 14.666 on the bars, the event that was part of Wieber's downfall in the individual competition that left her in tears. After the uneven bars Wieber picked up a 15 in the floor routine as the United States cruised right along.

The "Fab Five" as they've been called, went on to crush Russian with a total score of 183.596, five points more than Russia's score of 178.530 and take home the gold medal.

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Olympics 2012 Swimming: Michael Phelps Sets Medal Record As Team USA Wins 4 More

Michael Phelps entered the day sitting on 17 total medals, just one shy of tying the record of 18 set by Larisa Latynina of the then Soviet Union. Phelps was able to tie the record with a silver medal in the Men's 200m fly, just narrowly missing out on gold, before breaking the record by anchoring Team USA's gold-medal performance in the Men's 4x200m relay.

"I would have liked a better outcome in the 200 fly. Obviously it was my last one and I would have liked to win but ... it wasn't a terrible time," Phelps told reporters after winning his record setting 19th Olympic Medal. "I thank those guys for helping me get to this moment ... I just wanted to hold on. I thank them for allowing me this moment."

Phelps didn't sound disappointed with his performance in the 2012 Games, which included a disappointing fourth-place finish in the 400m individual medley earlier in the week, despite failing to meet lofty expectations.

"The biggest thing I've always said is -- anything is possible," Phelps said. "I've put my mind on doing something nobody has ever done before and there is nothing that was going to stand in my way -- of being the first Michael Phelps."

It wasn't just Phelps for the Americans making a splash. His training partner, 22-year-old Allison Schmitt, took home her third medal of the 2012 Olympics thus far, picking up the gold in the Women's 200m Freestyle. In Beijing in 2008, Schmitt picked up a silver and a bronze medal and has now brought her Olympic total to five medals in just two Olympic appearances.

In the same 200m Freestyle in which Schmitt won gold, 17-year-old Missy Franklin just missed on winning bronze and her third medal of her very first Olympic appearance. Franklin finished just 0.01 seconds behind Australian swimmer Bronte Barratt.

American Caitlin Leverenz also medaled for the United States on Tuesday, winning the bronze medal in the Women's 200m Individual Medley. Leverenz took home her first career medal in her first Olympics, after just barely missing out in qualifying for the 2008 Beijing games by finishing third and twice in fourth place at the U.S. Trials.

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Team USA Vs. Tunisia, Olympics 2012: U.S. Picks Up 110-63 Win, Remains Undefeated

The United States men's basketball team was favored by 55 points heading into Tuesday's game against Tunisia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The second game for the U.S. in Group A pool play never got quite that out of hand, but Team USA once again put on a show, winning by a final score of 110-63.

Tunisia grabbed a brief four-point lead in the first quarter before the United States settled down, cranked up the defensive intensity and really began to pull away heading into the second quarter. By the second half, the game had already turned into a glorified dunkfest, with Andre Iguodala getting in on the action ...

... and Anthony Davis driving home a sweet alley-oop.

Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Love tied for the scoring lead for Team USA, pouring in 16 points each.

There were plenty of Team USA fans in attendance, both on and off the court. Tunisian players approached the United States team after the game for some autographs. Kobe Bryant happily obliged.

The U.S. is now the only undefeated team remaining in Group A. Argentina, Lithuania, France and Nigeria are all currently 1-1, and Tunisia drops to 0-2 with the loss.

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Men's 69kg Weightlifting: Lin Qingfeng Of China Wins Gold Medal

China's Lin Qingfeng won the men's 69 kg weightlifting gold medal after lifting a combined 344 kg between the snatch and the clean and jerk on Tuesday.

Women's 200m IM Final: Ye Shiwen Wins Gold Again For China

Ye Shiwen's massive Olympics in the pool got even better when she scored her second gold medal, in the women's 200m IM, on Tuesday.

Men's Fencing Foil Gold Medal Match: Sheng Lei Wins Yet Another Medal For China

China's Sheng Lei defeated Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt for the gold medal in the men's fencing individual foil Tuesday at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Michael Phelps Ties All-Time Olympic Medal Record With Silver In 200m Fly

Michael Phelps won his record-tying 18th career Olympic medal on Tuesday, claiming silver in the men's 200m butterfly, finishing just 0.05 seconds behind South Africa's Chad le Clos.

Women's 200m Freestyle Final: Allison Schmitt Dominates For Team USA Gold

Allison Schmitt stole the show in the 200m freestyle, blowing away the field to win gold in Olympic record time.

Women's 63kg Weightlifting: Maiya Maneza Of Kazakhstan Takes Gold Medal

Maiya Maneza set an Olympic record lifting a combined total of 245 kg in the snatch and clean and jerk to take home the gold medal in the women's 63 kg weightlifting final at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Tops Milos Raonic in Longest Olympic Match Ever

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Canadian Milos Raonic in the longest tennis match in Olympic history on Tuesday, 6-3, 3-6, 25-23 in a nearly four hour second-round match.

The previous longest set played in the Olympics was 38 games, set in women’s doubles during the 1988 Games when Carling Bassett-Seguso and Jill Hetherington of Canada topped Mercedes Paz and Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina 7-6, 5-7, 20-18.

Tsonga won the match on what may have been the most exciting point of the day in which he fell down, scrambled up and ended the point at the net. Just look where he was at one time during this point - which he won!

As with any match this length the numbers are staggering - 74 winners for Raonic and 60 for Tsonga. Tsonga will next meet the winner of Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Argentina’s Juan Monaco and one can only imagine, be very tired. Elsewhere in men’s tennis Lleyton Hewitt of Australia upset Maric Cilic of Croatia 6-4, 7-5 and will advance to take on Novak Djokovic who dismantled Andy Roddick earlier.

In the women’s bracket Russia’s Maria Sharapova beat Britain’s Laura Robson 7-6, 6-3. Sharapova didn’t look her best, but it was enough to get the job done. She will face German Sabrine Lisicki, who defeated Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in a tougher than expected match.

Also on Tuesday Germany’s Angelique Kerber breezed past Timea Babos of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 setting up a third-round match with Venus Williams. Williams and Kerber will face off in women’s doubles later on Tuesday, Williams with her sister Serena and Kerber with Lisicki.

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South Korea's Kim Wins Gold In Men's 81kg Judo

South Korea’s Kim Jae-Bum won the gold medal in men’s half-middleweight judo (81kg) defeating Ole Bischof of Germany in a rematch of the 2008 final which Bischof won.

Urska Zolnir Wins Gold Medal In Women's 63kg Judo Final

Urska Zolnir of Slovenia earned her country their first gold medal in women's judo following Tuesday's victory over Lili Xu in the 63-kilogram final.

Novak Djokovic Eliminates Andy Roddick, 6-2, 6-1

Remember when Andy Roddick was awesome? That was really cool. He hasn't been among the world's elite men's tennis players for a long time, and he was completely overmatched by Novak Djokovic on Tuesday at the London 2012 Olympics. Losing to Djokovic in straight sets is hardly embarrassing, but Roddick was far from his best in a 6-2, 6-1 Djokovic victory.

Roddick used to live on his very difficult to return serve, but he only managed five aces to Djokovic's 14. He appeared resigned to his fate after Djokovic's first break in the second set and allowed the Serbian to cruise to a 54-minute victory. Djokovic won 86 percent of points on his first serve and converted on all four of his break point opportunities during the match. The second-seeded Djokovic now awaits the winner of the second-round match between Australian Lleyton Hewitt and Serbian Marin Cilic.

Whitewater Men's C-1 Gold Medal Event: France Captures Gold

Frenchman Tony Estanguet captured the gold medal in men’s whitewater canoe slalom for the third time on Tuesday.

Women's Synchronized Diving 10m Platform: China Adds Another Gold Medal

The Chinese diving program remained dominant in women's synchronized 10m platform.

Equestrian Individual Eventing Final: Germans Win Gold And Bronze

Germany takes home the gold and bronze in the individual equestrian event.

Venus Williams, Andy Murray Advance In Rain-Hampered Olympics Tennis Tournament

The roof is closed and tennis is being played at Wimbledon as part of the Olympics tennis tourney. Well, some tennis, as most of it is being rained out, delayed and otherwise hurt by the fact that it rains in England.

Andy Murray didn't bring home a British victory at Wimbledon, but he's through to the third round after beating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen, 6-2, 6-4, not losing on his own serve. He'll play against Cyprus' Marcos Baghdatis, who upset the ranked Frenchman Richard Gasquet, 6-4, 6-4, earlier in the day. Later in the day, Andy Roddick will play against Novak Djokovic.

On the women's side, Venus Williams advanced to the third round with an easy victory over Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, never really struggling in a 6-1, 6-3 victory.

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Shooting, Men's Skeet: American Vincent Hancock Wins Second Career Gold

American Vincent Hancock became the first man to win two Olympic golds in skeet shooting at the age of just 23, setting an Olympic record in the process.

British Diver Tom Daley Got Twitter Pregnant Last Night

What To Watch, Day 4: Michael Phelps Swims For Olympic History

What To Watch on Day 4 of the Summer Olympics, from skeet shooting to Michael Phelps swimming for a record to Team USA going for gold in women's gymnastics.

Equestrian Team Eventing Final: Germany Wins Team Gold

Britain's royal family has its first medal of the 2012 Olympic Games, as Zara Phillips -- the granddaughter of the Queen -- was on the team that won silver, but the team celebrating at the end of the three-day eventing competition was Germany, who took home gold.

Germany has the most gold medals and medals overall in equestrian, and came through with a strong performance on the third day of the competition, not receiving a single penalty on the final jumping portion of the eventing competition. Great Britain didn't either, but it was already trailing, with Germany at 133.7 penalty points and Great Britain at 138.2 penalty points. (The goal is to have less penalties -- Canada, in last place, had 2071.2 penalty points, which isn't as good.)

Here's how the medals turned out:

Gold: Germany

Silver: Great Britain

Bronze: New Zealand

Germany led the entire way through the three-day event. The United States finished in seventh.

More importantly, these are the medals I have assigned to horses that participated in the event based on how much I like their name:

Gold: Gin & Juice, ridden by Hawley Bennett-Awad of Canada (Canada finished in 13th out of 13, but at least they had the best horse named after a mid-90's west coast rap thing)

Silver: Coolio, ridden by Mark Kyle of Ireland (the second-best horse named after a mid-90's west coast rap thing)

Bronze: Butts Abraxxas, ridden by Ingrid Klimke of Germany

Honorable mentions: Portersize Just a Jiff, ridden by Camilla Speirs of Ireland; Barbara, ridden by Serguel Barbaroff of Brazil (presumably a tribute to Barbaro, R.I.P.); Miners Frolic, ridden by Tina Cook of Great Britain; Mystery Whisper, ridden by Phillip Dutton of the United States; and Gazelle De La Brasserie, ridden by Karin Donckers of Belgium (rough French translation: Steakhouse Gazelle).

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Summer Olympics 2012: TV Coverage, Event Schedule For Tuesday

The fourth day of the 2012 Olympic Games happens Tuesday in London. The United States will open the day tied with China for the overall medal count lead and looking to close the gap in total gold medals.

Tuesday's marquee event will be the gold medal finals in women's team gymnastics, although there will of course be a full day of action, including plenty of gold medal swimming events. Swimming, gymnastics and diving will take up the lion's share of NBC's prime time coverage.

The USA men's basketball team will play against Tunisia at 5:15 p.m. ET and, like all events at the XXX Olympiad, will be available for live streaming at NBCOlympics.com. You can also catch the live telecast on NBC Sports Network.

Here is the full schedule of events for Wednesday. All times are Eastern, although all NBC coverage will air on tape delay at the same time in each time zone.

4 a.m. - 8 p.m. (NBCSN)

• Men's Basketball: China vs. Russia (4 a.m.), France vs. Argentina (3 p.m.) , USA vs. Tunisia (5:15 p.m.)
  
• Equestrian: Eventing Team Jumping Final (6 a.m.), Eventing Individual Jumping Finals (9:15 a.m.)
  
• Men's Water Polo: Hungary vs. Montenegro (8:15 a.m.)
  
• Women's Soccer: USA vs. North Korea (12:15 p.m.)
  
• Beach Volleyball: Qualifying (2 p.m.)
  
• Men's Shooting: Skeet Gold Medal Final (11:45 a.m.)

7 a.m. - 3 p.m. (Bravo)

• Tennis: Second Round Singles and Doubles Quarterfinals

9 a.m. - 6 p.m. (MSNBC)

• Women's Table Tennis: Quarterfinal (9 a.m.)
  
• Women's Soccer: Canada vs. Sweden (9:30 a.m.), France vs. Colombia (12:15 p.m.), Great Britain vs. Brazil (3:30 p.m.)
  
• Badminton: Qualifying (11:15 a.m.)
  
• Women's Field Hockey: USA vs. Argentina (2 p.m.)
  
• Women's Table Tennis: Semifinal (4:30 p.m.)
  
• Men's Archery: Individual Elimination Round (5 p.m.)
  
• Weightlifting: Men's 69 kg, Women's 63 kg Classes (5:30 p.m.)
  

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (NBC)

• Men's Canoeing: Whitewater, C-1 Gold Medal Final (12 p.m.)
  
• Swimming: Qualifying (9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m.)
  
• Rowing: Quarterfinals, semifinals, and repechages (10:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m.)
  
• Men's Volleyball: USA vs. Germany (10:45 a.m.)
• Men's Water Polo: USA vs. Romania (1:40 p.m.)
  
• Beach Volleyball: Qualifying (3 p.m.)
  

5 - 8 p.m. (CNBC)

• Boxing: Elimination Bouts (light flyweight and light welterweight classes)
  

8 p.m. - Midnight (NBC)

• Women's Gymnastics: Team Gold Medal Final
  
• Swimming: Gold Medal Finals (Men's 200m butterfly, 4x200m freestyle relay; Women's 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley)
  
• Women's Diving: Platform Synchronized Gold Medal Final
  

12:30 - 1:35 a.m. (NBC)

• Swimming: Semifinals (Women's 200m butterfly, Men's 200m breaststroke)
  
• Beach Volleyball: USA vs. TBD

You can find a complete medal tracker over at SI.com.

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