Olympic Updates

BEIJING - It was a long wait for Allyson Felix. It felt every bit as long for Muna Lee. Felix, Lee and American teammate Marshevet Hooker easily made it through the first round of 200-meter Olympic qualifying Tuesday morning by winning their heats.

BEIJING - Henry Cejudo, the 21-year-old wrestling prodigy who had wrestled in only one world-level senior tournament before Beijing, has won the Olympic gold medal in men's freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling.

BEIJING - The smile returned to Kerri Walsh's face long before the match was officially over, and the player known as "Six Feet of Sunshine" was back to her usual, bubbly self.

BEIJING - Britain's Chris Hoy has taken his third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, beating teammate Jason Kenny in the men's track cycling sprint.

BEIJING - Li Xiaopeng has dominated the parallel bars — and the competition — winning the sixth gold medal in gymnastics for the Chinese men in the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING - Britain's Victoria Pendleton has beaten Australia's Anna Meares for the gold medal in the women's track cycling sprint.

QINGDAO, China - American Anna Tunnicliffe has won the Olympic gold medal in Laser Radial sailing after coming from behind in the final medal race to finish second and secure the top spot on overall points.

BEIJING - He Chong is ahead after the semifinal round of men's 3-meter springboard, putting China in position to win its sixth diving gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING - Argentina's Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez have won the gold medal in the men's madison, their nation's first track cycling medal of the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING - China's gymnastics gold run concluded with, what else, another Olympic championship as Zou Kai won the high bar Tuesday night.

SHANGHAI (AFP) - A goal in the first half and three in the second put African powerhouse Nigeria into the Olympic football final Tuesday as they thrashed minnows Belgium 4-1.

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese athletics hero Liu Xiang made an emotional apology Tuesday to his fans for pulling out of the Olympics with an "unbearable" foot injury, while vowing to rise again.

BEIJING - Usain Bolt served up a speedy reminder Monday night that despite losing one of the Beijing Games' biggest attractions, there's still plenty to look forward to in Olympic track and field.

BEIJING (AFP) - Britain's Chris Hoy won Olympic gold in the men's track cycling sprint final Tuesday after beating teammate Jason Kenny.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's seemingly unassailable medal haul and cleanest air in a decade helped dull the host nation's pain on Tuesday over the injury to track idol Liu Xiang.

BEIJING (AFP) - Victoria Pendleton of Britain grabbed her first Olympic gold after dominating Anna Meares of Australia over two legs of the women's sprint final here Tuesday.

BEIJING (AFP) - Lolo Jones leads a United States charge to build Olympic momentum Tuesday as China maintain their stranglehold on the medals table, poised to replace the United States as the global sports power.

BEIJING - Mavlet Batirov of Russia has won the Olympic 60-kilogram freestyle wrestling gold, defeating Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine at 60 kilograms.

BEIJING (AFP) - Britain's Paul Goodison won the Laser yachting gold medal at the Beijing Games on Tuesday.

BEIJING (AFP) - British-born Anna Tunnicliffe gave America an Olympic sailing title on Tuesday in a rare moment in the spotlight before the US team switches its attention to chasing track and field gold.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Henry Cejudo gave the United States its first wrestling gold medal of the Olympic Games on Tuesday with a clinical victory over Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga in the men's 55kg freestyle.

BEIJING (AFP) - Few rivalries in sport match Australia and Britain and the barbs have started flying here, where the Brits could beat their Aussie cousins on the Olympic medal table for the first time in 20 years.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's new Maoist prime minister will travel to Beijing to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics, a government official said on Tuesday, in what would be his first trip abroad as the country's leader.

BEIJING (AFP) - World cricket's leading administrator has said the "perilously close" start of next month's Champions Trophy in Pakistan made the ongoing uncertainty over the tournament a "concern".

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States battled its way into the final of the Olympic women's waterpolo on Tuesday with a 9-8 victory over arch-rival Australia.

BEIJING (AFP) - Britain are set for another track cycling gold medal later on Tuesday when teammates Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny meet in the final of the men's sprint.