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(BEIJING, August 12) -- Gold glistened as the sun shone in Beijing on a day which had Uncle Sam smiling as US swimmers ruled the pool, while China's five star flag fluttered over several awe-inspiring performances to cheer the host nation on Day 4 of Beijing 2008.

It was a different day, but the same routine in the Water Cube where rival competitors were left seeing stars (and stripes) as the United States took a trio of medals.

First, Michael Phelps kept on target for a sweep of eight gold medals by shattering another world record to win the Men's 200m Freestyle final. Phelps undercut his former record time of 1:43.86 by clocking 1:42.96 to notch his third world record of the Games – the others registered in the 400m Individual Medley and the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay.

Phelps also matched his Olympic record to qualify for Wednesday's (August 13) Men's 200m Butterfly final.

Then Natalie Coughlin successfully defended her Olympic Women's 100m Backstroke title in a new American record time of 58.96.

The third American to step on top of the podium was Aaron Peirsol, who broke his own world record to clinch gold in the Men's 100m Backstroke final.

Australian Leisel Jones broke the day's US medal monopoly – the world champion won the Women's 100m Breaststroke final in an Olympic record time of 1:05.17.

But not everyone at the National Aquatics Center will head home with the Star Spangled Banner ringing in their ears. Spectators at this week's Diving finals could find themselves instinctively whistling the Chinese anthem instead as China's divers match Phelps medal-by-medal in their quest to scoop all eight diving medals on offer.

Their record is now three golds from three finals - the latest Chinese winners being young duo Chen Ruolin, aged 15, and Wang Xin, (16 yesterday - nice birthday present eh, Xin?) in the Women's 10m Synchronized Platform.

Chinese divers Chen Ruolin and Wang Xin

But China didn't just do well in the pool. Their Men's Team seized the first Artistic Gymnastics medal of the Games, ahead of Japan who took silver and the United States who snagged bronze.

There were more Chinese cheers at the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium as 20-year-old Liao Hui lifted a total of 348 kilograms to win China's fourth gold Weightlifting medal of the Games, with Vencelas Ddabaya-Tientcheu of France taking silver with 338kg and Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan of Armenia, bronze.

History was made when Zhong Man won China's first-ever Fencing gold medal by thrusting his way to the Men's Individual Sabre crown by beating Nicholas Lopez of France in the final. Mihai Covaliu of Romania won the bronze medal.

Chinese fencer Zhong Man

China also beat Argentina 2-0 to secure their entry in the quarterfinals of the Women's Football tournament where they will play Japan. Norway, Sweden, Germany, USA, Canada and Brazil, for whom Cristiane scored the first hat-trick of the competition in their 3-1 win over Nigeria, are also through.

There weren't quite so many Chinese smiles at the Olympic Basketball Gymnasium though, where China's Men's team, having been roundly slam-dunked by the USA in their opening match, relinquished a 12-point final-quarter lead to lose after overtime to Spain. Greece defeated Germany by 23 points and the United States crushed Angola, 97-76 in the other group B games, while in group A, Lithuania beat Iran, Croatia defeated Russia and Argentina overcame Australia in a group A.

Back among the medals, Russia dominated the opening day of action in the Beijing 2008 Wrestling tournament by winning both gold medals at stake. Islam-Beka Albiev defeated Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan to win the Men's Greco-Roman 60 kilogram final, and Nazyr Mankiev beat another Azerbaijani, Rovshan Bayramov, to take the Men's Greco-Roman 55 kilogram gold. Pak Hyon-suk earned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's first gold medal of the Games by winning the Women's Weightlifting 63 kilogram final.

In Shooting, Jin Jong-oh of the Republic of Korea took the gold medal in the Men's 50m Pistol Final ahead of Kim Jong-su of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. China's Tan Zongliang threw away his chance to win with a relatively poor final shot of 9.2 and settled for bronze. A new Olympic record score of 145 points in the qualification round helped US shooter Walton Eller take the Men's Double Trap gold medal.

Old enough, good enough and now gold enough, Michal Martikán of Slovakia rolled back the years to recapture the Men's Slalom Canoe Singles crown 12 years after last winning in Atlanta in 1996. The Sydney and Athens silver medalist beat David Florence of Great Britain, who took the silver and Robin Bell of Australia, got bronze. Pre-race favorite, French paddler Tony Estanguet, failed in his quest for his third consecutive gold medal, and finished ninth.

Slalom canoeer Michal Martikán of Slovakia

German paddler Alexander Grimm captured the Men's Slalom Kayak Single gold, with Fabien Lefevre of France, taking silver, and early-leader Benjamin Boukpeti of Togo claimed bronze.

Germany took the first Equestrian Olympic gold medal by winning the three-day Eventing Team competition. Australia finished second while Great Britain won bronze.

The United States romped to an easy win over Venezuela and Canada and comfortably cruised to a 6-1 victory over Chinese Taipei on the opening day of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Softball tournament.

There were few shocks on the third day of play of the Tennis tournament too where all of the seeds progressed in the Men's and Women's Singles and Doubles, except Men's No. 4 seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, who was surprisingly ousted by Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in straight sets.

There was a minor shock in the Badminton Mixed Doubles when British duo Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms beat No. 2 seeds Zheng Bo and Gao Ling of China 21-16, 16-21, 21-19 in the round of 16. Getting pumped up for a difficult game against tough opponents backed by a vociferous home crowd, Emms said afterwards: "You wouldn't want to meet me on a dark night, would you." Not if you say so, Gail.

Among the other team sports, Montenegro thrashed Canada 12-0, Spain beat Australia 9-8, and Hungary hammered Greece 17 – 6 in the group A preliminary round of the Men's Water Polo competition at the Yingdong Natatorium. The United States beat Italy 12-11, Croatia took out 2008 World League champions Serbia 11-8, and Germany edged out China 6-5 in group B.

Those are just some of your highlights from another record-breaking, awe-inspiring day of action at Beijing 2008.

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(BEIJING, August 13) -- Michael Phelps became the all-time greatest athlete at the Olympics when he won his 10th career Olympic gold medal at the Men's 200m Butterfly, before adding another gold when the US clinched the 4 x 200m Freestyle, giving him an unprecedented 11 career Olympic gold medals.

Phelps has now won five gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, only two behind Mark Spitz (USA) who set the record of most gold medals at a single Olympics with seven in Munich 1972.

Phelps has gathered seven career Olympic Gold medals in Individual events, only one short of the record by Ray Ewry (USA) who won eight Olympic Gold medals in Athletics Individual events between 1900 and 1908.

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Patty Cardenas #7 of the United States sends a goal in past goalkeeper Elena Gigli #1 of Italy in the women's preliminary match the water polo event at the Olympic Sports Center Yingdong Natatorium during day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Victor Obinna #9 of Nigeria celebrates the winning goal against the United States during the Men's First Round Group B match at the Workers' Stadium on Day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

(L-R) Kanatbek Begaliev (silver) of Kyrgyzstan, Steeve Guenot (gold) of France and Armen Vardanyan (bronze) of the Ukraine pose with the medals won in the Men's Greco-Roman 66kg category at the China Agriculture University Gymnasium during Day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

(L-R) Germany's riders Peter Thomsen, Andreas Dibowski, Hinrich Romeike, Ingrid Klimke and Frank Ostholt celebrate after receiving their gold medals on the podium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games team eventing equestrian competition in Hong Kong on 12 August, 2008. Germany won the first two Olympic equestrian gold medals, winning both the team and individual three-day eventing competitions.

(M) Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland wins the gold medal as he poses with (L) Gustav Larsson of Sweden who won the silver and (R) Levi Leipheimer of the United States who took the bronze medal in the men's individual time trial final at the Road Cycling Course during Day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

(L-R) Silver medalists Yuriy Kunakov and Dmitry Sautin of Russiai, gold medalists Kai Qin and Feng Wang of China and bronze medalists Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov of Ukraine stand on the podium during the medal ceremony in the Men's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final held at the National Aquatics Center during day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Chris Colwill of the United States and Jevon Tarantino of the United States competes in the Men's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final held at the National Aquatics Center during day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Gold medalist Kristin Armstrong (C) of the United States celebrates with Silver medalist Emma Pooley (L) of Great Britain and Karin Thurig of Switzerland after the Women's Individual Time Trial at the Road Cycling Course during Day 5 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 in Beijing, China.

The women's team final of the artistic gymnastics event of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on August 13, 2008. China won the gold, while United States won the silver and Romania the bronze.

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Michael Phelps

(BEIJING August 13) -- Where else can we start with a review of day five of Beijing 2008 than with a living legend? The name Michael Fred Phelps was etched into Olympic record books today as the man with more gold medals to his name than any other person in sporting history.

Having drawn level with the four other folks who have won nine overall Olympic gold medals yesterday, Phelps didn't just nudge ahead by winning the Men's 200m Butterfly for his landmark 10th overall Olympic gold – and fourth of Beijing 2008 (it almost goes without saying that it was in a new world record of 1:52.03), but an hour later he then swam the lead-off leg as the United States Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay team of Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay, completely obliterating the world record to seize gold -- Phelps's 11th gold overall – in a breathtaking time of 6:58.56, to shave an unbelievable 4.68 seconds off the previous record.

Federica Pellegrini of Italy also set a new world record of 1:54.82 to take gold in the Women's 200m Freestyle, while the Women's 200m Individual Medley world record also fell to Stephanie Rice of Australia.

Kitajima Kosuke of Japan was an Olympic record breaker in the semifinal of the Men's 200m Breaststroke, and Frenchman Alain Bernard took back his 100m Freestyle world record that had been bettered by Eamon Sullivan of Australia earlier this week in a time of 47.20, only for Sullivan to bounce back and set another new world record of 47.05 seconds. Don't expect this record to survive tomorrow's final!

Host China had a golden day in many sports on day five -- none more spectacular than in Weightlifting, where defending champion Liu Chunhong heaved world records in the Women's 69 kilogram category by lifting 128kg in the Snatch, 158kg in the Clean and Jerk and 286kg in total weight. Liu's gold was China's sixth Weightlifting gold in the tournament. Sa Jae-hyouk of the Republic of Korea won the Men's 77 kilogram class.

Chinese weightlifter Liu Chunhong

Chinese divers are halfway through their Phelps-like quest of a perfect sweep of the eight Diving gold medals after world champions Qin Kai and Wang Feng won the Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard to make it a team total of four gold medals from four finals.

Divers Qin Kai and Wang Feng

Dmitry Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov of Russia earned silver, while Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov of Ukraine took bronze. The legendary Sautin, 34, is now a five-time Olympian who has won eight medals overall between 1992 and 2008.

There was host joy, too, as China's Women's gymnasts took the Team event gold medal for the first time with a total of 188.900 points. The United States won the silver medal with 186.525 points and Romania grabbed bronze with 181.525.

Hot-shot Chen Ying was another Chinese gold medalist, winning the Women's 25m Pistol with an Olympic record final score of 793.4 points.

Other countries had a golden day too. Germany clutched double Fencing gold with world champion Britta Heidemann taking the Women's Individual Epee and Benjamin Philip Kleibrink winning the Men's Individual Foil gold.

Ueno Masae of Japan took just six seconds to beat Cuba's Anaysi Hernandez with an ippon to claim her second consecutive Olympic gold in the Judo Women's -70kg class, while Irakli Tsirekidze of Georgia, gold medalist of the 2007 World Championships, won gold in his Olympic debut in the Men's -90kg class by beating Amar Benikhlef of Algeria with a shido.

It was a case of brothers in arms (well arm locks!) as Steeve Guénot of France and Georgia's Manuchar Kvirkelia won gold medals in the Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling 66 kilogram and 74 kilogram weight classes. Kvirkvelia won his country's first gold of the Beijing Olympics by defeating China's Chang Yongxiang in the Men's Greco-Roman 74 kilogram final, while Guénot became the first French Olympic Wrestling champion in 84 years by beating Kanatbek Begaliev of Kyrgyzstan in the 66kg category gold. Amazingly Guénot's older brother, Christophe, claimed a 74kg weight class bronze medal,

So to life on the open road…where Kristin Armstrong of the United States claimed the Women's Individual Time Trial gold medal after pegging back early leader Emma Pooley of Great Britain, who took silver. Karin Thurig of Switzerland took bronze ahead of 49-year-old cycling legend Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli of France who narrowly missed out on a fourth Olympic medal.

Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara powered home to take the Men's Individual Time Trial gold, fending off the challenge of silver medalist Gustav Larsson of Sweden. Levi Leipheimer of the United States won bronze.

Swiss road cyclist Fabian Cancellara

Away from the medals, in the semifinals of the Badminton Women's Doubles tournament two Chinese pairs met, with Du Jing and Yu Yang defeating Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen 21-19, 21-12. They now face Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Kyung-won of the Republic of Korea in the final.

First-seeds Kido Markis and Setiawan Hendra of Indonesia are safely through to the semifinals of Men's Doubles and will face Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen of Denmark. Hwang Ji-man and Lee Jae-jin of the Republic of Korea defeated Japanese shuttlers Tadashi Ohtsuka and Keita Masuda to set up a semifinal against World No. 3 pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China.

In Women's Singles, Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti progressed into the semifinals by beating India's Saina Nehwal. She will meet World No. 7 China's Zhang Ning, who advanced to the semifinals by defeating World No. 5 Pi Hongyan of France. The other semifinal was an all-China affair between Lu Lan China and Xie Xingfang.

In Rowing, the A-finalists were decided in six of the 14 Olympic boat classes. China's Zhang Xiuyun won her semifinal of the Women's Single Sculls, with Michelle Guerette of the United States and early race leader Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic also going through to the final. They are joined by second semifinal winner Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus, Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria and Julia Michalska of Poland.

Rafael Nadal of Spain and Serbia's Novak Djokovic moved into the quarterfinals of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Tennis tournament, and in Archery, No. 10 seed Lee Chang-hwan of the Republic of Korea shot a near perfect score of 117 out of 120 to set a 12-arrow Olympic record in the Men's Individual elimination rounds.

Lee and his teammate Im Dong-hyun, along with three of the top four seeded archers, Juan Rene Serrano of Mexico, Viktor Ruban of Ukraine and Park Kyung-mo (ROK), advanced as expected to the 1/8 elimination round.

Among team sports Brazil has yet to drop a set in the Women's Volleyball tournament and is guaranteed to reach the quarterfinals after defeating Serbia 25-15, 25-13, 25-23. Serbia's chances to reach the quarterfinals remain high as this was their first loss of the tournament. Italy remained undefeated by beating Algeria.

Russia beat Belarus 71-65 in a group A match in the preliminary round of the Olympic Women's Basketball tournament. Australia beat the Republic of Korea 90-62 and Latvia recorded their first Olympic tournament win by beating Brazil, who remains without a win from three games.

Spain beat the Czech Republic 74-55 in their group B game; China beat New Zealand 80-63; and the United States easily brushed aside Mali to keep their 100 percent record intact.

Those were just some of the highlights from a thrilling day five of Beijing 2008 – the greatest sporting show on Earth.

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Ara Abrahamian of Sweden (R) argues with referee Jean-Marc Petoud of Switzerland (L) as his coach Leo Myllar watches after Abrahamian's 84kg men's Greco-Roman wrestling semi-final match against Andrea Minguzzi of Italy at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 14, 2008.

Bronze medalist Sweden's Ara Abrahamian, right, reacts on the podium before he put his bronze medal, put it on the mat and left to protest against a decision in the semi-final at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. He won the medal in the 84 kilogram greco-roman wrestling bout against France's Melonin Noumonvi. Left on the podium is second bronze medalist, Nazmi Avluca from Turkey.

Ara Abrahamian of Sweden walks off the stage during the medal ceremony for the men's 84kg Greco-Roman wrestling competition after throwing his bronze medal on the floor at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 14, 2008.

The bronze medal of Sweden's Ara Abrahamian is seen on the ground after he put it on the mat and left to protest against a decision in the semi-final. He won it in the 84 kilogram greco-roman wrestling bout against France's Melonin Noumonvi at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008.

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French swimmer Alain Bernard

(BEIJING, August 14) -- Shocks, surprises and inspirational performances were the order of the day on a rain-soaked day six of Beijing 2008, which caused postponement of many outdoor sports.

The entire days' Sailing competition was cancelled and most of the Games' Baseball competition, while the finals of the Men's Slalom Canoe Doubles (C2) and Women's Slalom Kayak Singles (K1) have been held over until tomorrow (Friday, August 15).

Play was also suspended for most of the day in the Beijing 2008 Tennis tournament -- but not long enough to prevent arguably the shock of the entire Games so far as James Blake of the United States defeated World No. 1 Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6 in the Men's Singles quarterfinals to leave the Swiss player, despite his dominance of men's tennis over recent years, without a medal from three Olympics Games.

At the end of day six hosts China stand proudly aloft the Beijing 2008 medal stable with 22 gold medals and 35 in total…and not just because of big name favorites in traditionally strong sports.

With no Diving or Weightlifting medals at stake, for example – sports in which China has been dominant at the Games -- it was a day for the host country's underdogs to growl.

No doubt about performance of the day. There was no sign of Gene Kelly at the Olympic Green Archery Field, but Chinese fans were left singing and dancing in the rain as, against all odds, China's Zhang Juanjuan out-fired World No. 1, Park Sung-hyun of the all conquering Republic of Korea (ROK) archery team, to win an enthralling Women's Individual final. It was a major upset, as 27th seed Zhang edged past top-seeded Park with the final shot of the match to become the first non-Republic of Korea Olympic gold medalist in the event since 1980.

Zhang also defeated World No. 2 Yun Ok-hee (ROK), who took third, in an equally exciting semifinal clash. Yun defeated Kwon Un-sil of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the bronze medal match.

Less of a surprise was China's Yang Wei winning the Men's Individual All-Around Artistic Gymnastics final with a total of 94.575 points, well ahead Uchimura Kohei of Japan, who scored a total of 91.975. The bronze medal went to Frenchman Benoit Caranobe.

Yang Wei competes in the Parallel Bars.

There was host joy in Judo, too. Yang Xiuli won gold in the Women's -78kg by defeating Cuba's Yalennis Castillo with a hantei after overtime failed to decide a winner.

Tuvshinbayar Naidan from Mongolia claimed the Men's 100kg class, beating Askhat Zhitkeyev from Kazakhstan in the final. Bronze medals went to Movlud Miraliyev from Azerbaijan and Henk Grol from the Netherlands.

China also prospered in Shooting, with Du Li winning gold in the Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions with a new Olympic record score of 690.3 points. Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic became a Games' double medalist by following her opening-day gold in the Women's 10m Air Rifle with a silver medal. Cuba's Eglis Yaima Cruz won the bronze medal.

Chiara Cainero of Italy won the gold medal in Women's Skeet after a shoot-off with Kimberly Rhode of the United States and Germany's Christine Brinker, after all three shooters had tied on 93 hits after the completion of the final. Brinker and Rhode missed their second shoot-off target, so the gold medal went to Cainero, who successfully hit both targets.

With no Michael Phelps finals we all thought this might be a boring day in the pool, right? Wrong!!!

Two more world records and an Olympic best were shattered – with one of them going to China's Liu Zige, who lowered the Women's 200m Butterfly mark by 1.22 seconds to set a new best of 2:04.18. It was double celebration time for the home crowd as Jiao Liuyang finished behind her teammate to take the silver medal. Former world record holder Jessicah Schipper led early on but finished third.

The other world record came in the Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay final, as Australia sprang one of the upsets of the week by winning gold in a time of 7min 44.31sec. The team comprised of double Individual Medley gold medalist Stephanie Rice, and Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie, sliced a whopping 5.78 off the previous best time.

China claimed silver in an Asian record time of 7:45.93 and previous world record-holders the United States took bronze ahead of fourth-placed Italy. All of the first four teams beat the old world record of 7:50.09.

Yesterday we billed the Men's 100m Breaststroke final as a showdown between Frenchman Alain Bernard and Eamon Sullivan of Australia – and the boys didn't let us down. Frenchman Bernard won, coming from behind at the turn after Aussie Sullivan led. Surprisingly, the world record stayed intact despite the pair lowering it in the heats. Thirty-two-year-old Jason Lezak of the United States, who struck gold in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, won bronze.

Spare a thought then for poor old world and defending Olympic champion Kitajima Kosuke of Japan, who grabbed his second gold of the Games in the Men's 200m Breaststroke – but, alas, not the headlines.

The Men's 100m Breaststroke champion swam an Olympic record 2:07.64, with Australia's Brenton Rickard touching for the silver medal and Hugues Duboscq of France claiming his second bronze of the Games, in third.

If China dominated most medals, Europeans did the same in the day's three Wrestling finals, capturing 11 of 12 medals at stake.

Italy's Andrea Minguzzi beat Zoltan Fodor of Hungary to claim gold in the Men's Greco-Roman 84 kilogram category. Aslanbek Khushtov of Russia took gold, beating Mirko Englich in the Men's Greco-Roman 96kg class, while Cuba's Mijain Lopez beat Russia's Khasan Baroev to win the Men's Greco-Roman 120kg gold medal.

Italian wrestler Andrea Minguzzi

Ukraine won gold in the inaugural Women's Team Sabre event defeating China 45-44 with pre-tournament favorites the United States taking bronze.

Indoors, Badminton Men's Singles World No. 1 Lin Dan comfortably beat World No. 9 Peter Hoeeg Gade of Denmark in the quarterfinals. There were also wins for his compatriot Chen Jin, World No. 2 Lee Chong-wei of Malaysia and World No. 10 Lee Hyun-il of the Republic of Korea, who defeated No. 3 seed Bao Chunlai of China.

Zhang Juanjuan shoots in the match.

In Basketball, Team USA stand on top of group B with three straight wins after breezing past Greece 92-69. World champion Spain share the same points after defeating Germany 72-59, and China bounced back from losing its opening two games by beating Angola 85-68 to claim its first tournament victory.

Lithuania defeated Russia a tight 86-79 encounter to top group A with three wins from three games, Australia dominated Iran 106-68 to register their first win and Argentina cruised past previously unbeaten Croatia.

However, the Croats are the only unbeaten team in the Men's Water Polo competition, winning all three of their games so far after beating Germany 13-5. Hungary, who beat Spain 8-5, and Montenegro, victors over Greece 10-6, remain unbeaten after a draw on day one. Serbia beat the United States 4-2 in the lowest-scoring game in Men's Olympic Water Polo since 1980.

That was amazing day six at Beijing 2008 -- a day of dark horses and gloomy skies…but a golden horizon for Team China.

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