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Men's Pole Vault - FINAL
An Olympic record topped-out a golden day for Australia who already had three medals in Beijing, silver in the women’s sprint hurdles, and two, a bronze and silver in the men’s Race Walks.

Maurren Maggi takes gold knowing, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!

22 August 2008 – Beijing, China – Even John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with their greatest ballads for The Beatles, probably never tugged at Maurren Maggi’s heartstrings as much as her three-year-old daughter tugged at hers as she was leaving for the Olympics.



Hooker visualises his way to “what every kid dreams of”

23 August 2008 - It was sometime after 10 o’clock in Beijing’s National Stadium on Friday night (21) when Australian Steve Hooker took a moment to steady himself – perhaps the most important moment of his entire life.



Men's 4x100m Relay - FINAL

After bagging two gold medals and two world records Usain Bolt did not disappoint in his third and final event of this sensational Olympic Games which he has done so much to ignite.



Men's Decathlon - Javelin Throw
Bryan Clay (USA) made sure there was no mistake in the javelin this time by throwing a season’s best 70.97m result for a total 8269 points before the last event, 1500m. 2004 Athens Olympics silver medallist leads the competition by a huge margin of 479 points before Andrei Krauchanka (BLR) who is in second place.

Women's 5000m - FINAL
The eagerly-anticipated battle of the dueling D’s – defending champion Meseret Defar and 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba – in the 5000m came down, as expected, to the final lap. It just took the Ethiopian duo an excruciatingly long time to get there.

Powell cruises to 9.77 and 9.82 in Rieti – IAAF World Athletics Tour

7 September 2008 - Rieti, Italy - Asafa Powell clocked two more impressive times this afternoon (7) cruising to 9.77 in his heat of the 100m and then produced his second show of the day by winning the final in 9.82, on the Rieti track where he set his last World record in 2007 (9.74); all this just two days after his clash against Usain Bolt in Brussels (Fri 5).



Women's 4x400m Relay - Round 1
Three days after finishing a disappointing third in the individual 400m final, Sanya Richards stepped back on the track to anchor the US 4x400m to a comfortable 3:22.45 win in the 4x400m relay heats.

Already a great champion, Campbell-Brown comes of age as a personality

22 August 2008 - Beijing, China - Four years ago, a shy Jamaican sprinter made her slow, diffident way past the scrums of journalists deep in the bowels of the Olympic Stadium in Athens.



EVENT REPORTS - Day Eight, Fri 22 Aug - begin here...

Event Reports from the Athletics events of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad are written and published in Beijing by Laura Arcoleo, Steven Landells, Parker Morse, Bob Ramsak, Chris Turner.

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