Zou Shiming helped China to its first ever Olympic boxing gold with victory over Mongolia’s Serdamba Purevdorj who was forced to retire with an injury.
The Chinese light flyweight, 27, picked up a point in a cagey first round against an opponent who was choosing to keep his right glove low down.

It transpired there was a [...]

Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics.
The gold medal is India’s first since 1980, when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow.
Qinan Zhu of China scored 699.7 for second place while Finn Henri Hakkinen faltered on a final shot and [...]

China has claimed its second Olympic gold and its first shooting medal of the Games, as Pang Wei won the men’s 10m air pistol shooting event.
The 2006 world champion and pre-Games favourite won convincingly with a score of 688.2. Jin Jong-oh of South Korea took silver and Kim Jong-su of North Korea claimed bronze in [...]

China opened the Olympics on Friday with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that celebrated ancient Chinese history and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy.
An army of 2,008 drummers pounded out the countdown to the Games, which mark China’s emergence from impoverished isolation to economic might.
80 world leaders, including [...]

China’s target for the Beijing Olympics is to surpass the 32 gold medals they won in Athens four years ago. In Athens, China finished second in the medal table behind the United States, who claimed 36 goals.
Spokesman for the Chinese sports ministry Zhang Haifeng said: “We do have a target, that is to rank among [...]