Olympic Updates

BEIJING - Four years later, Olympic softball remains lopsided.

BEIJING - Track and field's ruling body has scrapped the 1,600-meter relay world record set by the United States in 1998 because of Antonio Pettigrew's admission of doping.

BEIJING - Fresh off his stunning anchor leg in the victorious 400 freestyle relay, American Jason Lezak qualified in the 100 free preliminaries on a Michael Phelps-less night at the Water Cube on Tuesday.

BEIJING - Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin gave China its third straight victory in diving, easily winning the women's 10-meter synchronized competition on Tuesday.

BEIJING - China won the gold medal it has long craved in men's gymnastics Tuesday, while the Americans settled for bronze.

BEIJING - Natalie Coughlin of the United States has won the Olympic 100-meter backstroke, becoming the first woman to ever defend her title in the event.

BEIJING - Serena Williams raced into the third round at the Olympics, winning the final 10 games Tuesday to beat Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 6-0 in 44 minutes.

BEIJING - Islam-Beka Albiev has won Russia's second Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling gold medal in as many matches in Beijing, defeating Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan in the 60-kilogram final.

BEIXIAOYING TOWN, China - Michal Martikan of Slovakia has won the gold medal in single canoe slalom, his first since taking the top spot on the Olympic podium in Atlanta.

BEIJING - Reigning Olympic women's marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi has pulled out of the Beijing Games because of a left thigh injury.

BEIJING (AFP) - The Williams sisters and the Serbian duo of Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic all blitzed their second-round Olympic opponents here on Tuesday.

BEIJING - Germany's Ole Bischof won the men's 81-kilogram division Olympic judo gold on Tuesday, defeating Asian champion Kim Jae-bum in the final.

BEIJING (AFP) - US swimmer Michael Phelps joined an elite list of Olympic greats Tuesday becoming only the fifth competitor in history to win nine gold medals.

BEIJING - Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan threw Lucie Decosse of France to the mat Tuesday to defend her Athens title and give Japan its second judo gold in the women's 63-kilogram division.

BEIJING (AFP) - Three security officers were killed in China's remote northwest on Tuesday, state media reported, raising the death toll from over a week of unrest there that has flared during the Olympics to 31.

Michael Phelps won the 200-meter freestyle for his third gold medal, on pace for a record eight in a single Olympics. It was his ninth career gold, tied with Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina and Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi for most ever.

BEIXIAOYING TOWN, China - Alexander Grimm of Germany has won the gold medal in single kayak slalom, using a pair of clean, fast runs to take the top spot on the podium.

BEIJING - A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched "Ode to the Motherland," a ceremony official said — the latest example of the lengths Beijing took for a perfect start to the Summer Games.

BEIJING (AFP) - The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show's musical director has revealed.

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps carved his name among Olympic greats on Tuesday, winning a record-equaling ninth career gold on a dominant morning for Americans in the pool.

BEIJING (AFP) - Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe has confirmed that she will run in the Beijing Olympics despite problems with a stress fracture in her left thigh.