LATEST MEDAL TALLY STANDINGS ON THE FINAL DAY OF THE BEIJING OLYMPIC 2008 ON AUGUST 24, 2008
London Mayor Boris Johnson waves the Olympic flag - London Mayor Boris Johnson waves the Olympic flag during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008Olympic Games at the National Stadium on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Thank you and credits to Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Jacques Rogge hands the Olympic flag to London Mayor - Jacques Rogge (R), President of the International Olympic Committee hands the Olympic flag to London Mayor Boris Johnson during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China.(Thank you and credits to Clive Rose/Getty Images)
The Greek national flag, the Olympic flag, the Chinese flag and the British national flag fly during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Thank you and credits to Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)
The national flag of China is hoisted at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony held at the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China, on August 24, 2008.(Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
PICTURES OF THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF BEIJING OLYMPIC 2008 FROM 8:00PM ON AUGUST 24, 2008:
Wang Lee Hom was one of the guest artiste too
Performance by some famous artistes from Hong Kong and Taiwanat the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony in the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) in Beijing.
NEXT OLYMPIC WILL BE HELD IN LONDON YEAR 2012
LATEST MEDAL TALLY STANDINGS AS AT 2:30PM ON AUGUST 24, 2008, DAY 16 - CLOSING CEREMONY AT 8:00 PM 
Amazing scenes from the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympic 2008 on August 24, 2008
Men's Basketball Day 8 Review: US 'Redeem Team' dream realized (Thank you and credits to Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
BEIJING, August 24, 2008 - The 2006 world champion Spanish squad brought its best effort to make sure the "Redeem Team" didn't coast through the gold medal match, but the United States still prevailed 118-107 to win back the gold medal on Sunday, August 24.
France takes first-ever Handball gold - The France team celebrates after winning the Men's Handball gold (Thank you and credits to Vladimir Rys/Getty Images)
BEIJING, August 24, 2008 - France crushed Iceland 28-23 to win their first Olympic gold medal in Men's Handball at the National Indoor Stadium on Sunday, August 24, 2008.
Hungary win ninth Men's Water Polo crown BEIJING, August 24, 2008 - Hungary beat the United States 14-10 to win gold and create its own slice of history at the Yingdong Natatorium on August 24.
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Cammarelle victory concludes Beijing boxing tournament - (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
BEIJING, August 24 - Roberto Cammarelle of Italy beat Zhang Zhilei of China in the last bout of the Olympic Boxing tournament, winning gold in the Super-Heavyweight (+91kg) class.
Zhang was no match for Cammarelle, the Athens 2004 bronze medalist and 2007 world champion. The first three rounds saw Cammarelle outscore Zhang 13-4, and the referee stopped the contest in the fourth round when Zhang fell to the floor after receiving several heavy blows to the head.
Zhang was the bronze medalist at the 2007 World Championships. Zhang advanced to the final after his semifinal opponent, Vyacheslav Glazkov of Ukraine, pulled out due to injury.
Enkhbat wins gold in bantamweight class -
BEIJING, August 23, 2008 - Mongolia's Badar-Uugan Enkhbat won the gold medal in the Olympic Boxing competition's bantamweight class by defeating Yankiel Leon Alarcon of Cuba 16-5.
US claims third Olympic Volleyball title -
BEIJING, August 24, 2008 - The United States claimed its third Olympic Men's Volleyball gold medal after defeating Athens Olympic champion Brazil 20-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-23 to complete the tournament with a perfect record. The United States was Olympic champion at Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988 and this year won the FIVB World League for the first time.
Zou wins China's first boxing goldBEIJING, August 24, 2008 - China's Zou Shiming won China's first boxing gold today by defeating Mongolia's Serdamba Purevdorj in the final of the light-flyweight class. Zou hit Purevdorj with a combo of punches in the first round, earning one point.
The bout ended abruptly in the second round with Purevdorj retiring due to an apparent shoulder injury.
Russia wins Rhythmic Gymnastics Team gold - The Russian team performs in the five ropes rotation. (Thank you and credits to Nick Laham/Getty Images)
Russia took the gold medal of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Team event with a total of 35.55 points at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.
China won the silver medal at 35.225, followed by Belarus in third place at 34.900.
Wansiru of Kenya wins Men's Marathon gold - (Thank you and credits to Xinhua)
The Men's Marathon final took place at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China on August 24, 2008. Samuel Kamau Wansiru of Kenya won the title and set a new Olympic record at 2:06:32
(Thank you and credits to Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
BEIJING, August 22, 2008 - Wow, what a busy last major day of competition we had here in Beijing with 32 gold medals handed out. Nine events bowed out with their last medals, six events doled out their first ones, and a few roll over to tomorrow.
There can be no more dramatic place to start than the National Aquatics Center – or Water Cube – where there was feverish expectation that China could complete its quest to collect all eight Beijing 2008 Diving medals.
All eyes were on Zhou Luxin and Huo Liang, the nailed-on host favorites who, true to form, had qualified for two of the top three places going into the final. Lurking in between was the ominous figure of Australian Matthew Mitcham.
On Saturday night, Zhou dived more consistently as Huo's challenge faltered. With one round left, China seemed on the cusp of clinching its eighth record breaking gold medal.
But Zhou then put in his worst dive of the night, worth just 74.80 points. World No. 3 Mitcham seized this moment by pulling out by far the best dive of the competition – a dive with a degree of difficulty of 3.8 to earn a whopping 112.10 points - enough to sweep Zhou off the top of the leader board and into the silver spot by some 4.80 points. Huo missed the medals completely as Gleb Galperin of Russia took bronze.
Russian Kanaeva wins Gymnastics Rhythmic Individual All-around gold - Evgeniya Kanaeva competes. (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
Russian Evgeniya Kanaeva won the Gymnastics Rhythmic Individual All-around gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Saturday.
Kanaeva scored 75.500 points, beating Belarus's Inna Zhukova, who earned silver with 71.925. Ukraine's Anna Bessonova got bronze with 71.875.
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