News highlights from the Beijing Olympics 2008
Another silver for Poland
Poland's Piotr Małachowski won silver in men's discus with a final throw of 67.82 meters. Estonia's Gerd Kanter won the Olympic gold medal, while Virgilijius Alekna of Lithuania the bronze. This brings Poland's medal count to eight.
While, the medal dreams are over for Łukasz Maszczyka who was defeated in the men's light flyweigh quarter finals. He was beaten 11:5 by Ireland's Paddy Barnes.
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Blanik wins gold in men's vault
Leszek Blanik somersaulted to a gold medal beating second-placed Thomas Bouhail of France on the tiebreak rule. Blanik scored 16.537 points, the same as Bouhail but his first jump scored more points and he was awarded the gold. Blanik said this was going to his last major competition before he retires. "My vault was very high. My first landing was very good, the second not exactly, I had a little problem, but I'm happy," the 31-year-old said.
"It's been a great 11 months for me because I won the world championships, the European championships and now the Olympic Games. For me it's a very big souvenir for the last stage of my career."
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Rowing medals
Poland is no longer without any medals as this past weekend brought many golden moments. The men's quad scull team led from the start to the finish bringing in gold. The three-times world champions were favorites at this years games. Team: Adam Karol, Marek Kolbowicz, Michał Jelinski and Konrad Wasielewski.
While men's rowing lightweight four ended with silver. Team: Paweł Randa, Bartłomiej Pawelczak, Miłosz Bernatajtys and Łukasz Pawlowski.
Other winners during the weekend: Agnieszka Wieszczek won bronze in wrestling, Szymon Kołecki won silver in 94 kilogram weightlifting and the winning streak begin with Szymon Ziółkowski taking the gold in shot put.
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Matyjaszek loses a fight for the bronze
Poland's chance of obtaining its first medal was taken away during the men's 100-kg Judo final. Azerbaijan's Movlud Miraliyev beat Przemysław Matyjaszek to go on and win bronze. While, Tuvshinbayar Naidan clinched Mongolia's first Olympic gold.
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Volleyball wins and woes
Poland's men's volleyball team in the quarter finals after a 3:1 win over Serbia. No matter what the next results will bring, the team will find itself in the quarter finals.
However, the women's volleyball team has played three games and lost each one. Their hope of advancing to the quarter finals is slim as the team needs to win 3:0 in games against Venezuela and USA.
