The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012, followed by the 2012 Paralympic Games from 29 August to 9 September.
This will be the third time London has hosted the games having also done so in 1908 and 1948.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada. The city of Vancouver was elected Host City of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 at the 115th IOC Session in Prague on 2 July 2003. Eight cities applied to host the Games: Andorra la Vella in Andorra, Bern in Switzerland, Harbin in China, Jaca in Spain, PyeongChang in Korea, Salzburg in Austria, Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vancouver in Canada.
The US took the gold medal in a hard fought match against the Brazilian Womens Soccer team. The final score was 1-0, with the single goal being made by Carli Lloyd.
Brazil holds the most titles for the World Cup out of any country in the world. To have triumphed over this tremendously talented and dedicated team is indeed a matter of great national pride.
The US Womens Water Polo team took second place today, after losing a close game to the Dutch 8-9. The tie-breaking point was made in the last 30 seconds of the game.
Earlier this week the US beat Australia 9-8, with Brenda Villa making the winning goal. It was during this game that one of the US polo players, Laura Wenger broke her hand and was unable to continue in any later games.
The US Softball team won the silver, losing to Japan in a startling upset.
The Japanese won 3-1, taking the gold. This was the first time the U.S. has lost in Olympic Softball to any nation since 2000. This ended their 22 win streak, since Softball became an olympic sport.
This years effort for track and field has played a much more minor note, with hopefuls like Tyson Gay turning out less than expected. The athletes injured hamstring has set him and his team back substantially, and it was Jamaica who rose to the occassion. Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell are now two of the fastest men in the world. Powell gave Jamaica the fastest time in the 100 mtr with 9.74 seconds, before it was broken by Bolt with 9.72.
The days of American dominance are now long gone in track in field; the days when Michael Johnson would leave other nations eating track dust.
This Wednesday marked a sad turn of events for Hungary in the weightlifitng competitions. Janos Baranyai was lifting a 148 Kg barbell when his elbow gave way and dislocated, causing him to drop the weight and further injure himself. He expecting to recover in a months time, and remains the olympic hope for Hungary in London 2012.
Yesterday China beat Angola in Basketball 85-68 for its first win in this year's Olympics Mens Basketball. Yao Ming, who also plays for the Houston Rockets, scored 30 points for China, 10 of which were field goals.
