Beijing 2008 Olympics Medal count, Leading nations, TV Programmes results of Tennis Baseball Softball Women’s water polo

Beijing 2008 Olympics Medal count. Today’s TV Programmes results of Track and field, Tennis Baseball Softball Women’s water polo

Beijing 2008 Olympics Leading nations

Country G S B Tot
U.S. 15 14 19 48
China 27 10 6 43
Australia 5 7 10 22
Russia 4 8 8 20
France 3 9 8 20
S. Korea 6 9 4 19

First, I give this great news: Phelps wins 7th gold 100-meter butterfly by 0.01 seconds, tying Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals

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*As of 11:40 p.m. Friday PDT. Full medal table on D10. For updated table, go to sfgate.com/olympics.

On TV
With featured events noted.

Today
11 p.m. Friday-11 a.m. today: Women’s tennis, singles final and bronze USA
2 a.m.-2 p.m.: Men’s soccer quarterfinals MSNBC
2 a.m.-2 p.m.: Men’s soccer quarterfinals TELEMUNDO
10 a.m.-6 p.m.: U.S.-Spain men’s basketball NBC
2-5 p.m.: Boxing CNBC
Tonight
6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.: Men’s volleyball TELEMUNDO
7:30 p.m.-Midnight: Swimming, men’s 4×100-meter medley relay, men’s 1,500-meter freestyle, women’s 50m freestyle, women’s 4×100-meter medley relay finals NBC
9-11 p.m.: Women’s beach volleyball quarterfinal CNBC
Overnight
11 p.m.-11 a.m. Sunday: Women’s beach volleyball USA
Midnight-1 a.m. Sunday: TBA TELEMUNDO
12:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday: U.S. in women’s beach volleyball NBC
2 a.m.-2 p.m.: U.S.-Netherlands softball (4:30 a.m.) MSNBC
4 a.m.-2 p.m.: Swimming finals TELEMUNDO
Selected results
Track and field
Men’s shot put - Gold: Tomasz Majewski, Poland, 70-63/4.

Women’s 10,000 - Gold: Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia, 29:54.66.

Tennis
Men’s quarters - Fernando Gonzalez, Chile, def. James Blake, U.S., 4-6, 7-5, 11-9. Rafael Nadal, Spain, def. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4.

Women’s quarters: Serena and Venus Williams , U.S., def. Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 6-4, 6-0.

Baseball
Cuba 5, U.S. 4, 11 innings

U.S. 5, Canada 4

Women’s soccer
Quarterfinals - Brazil 2, Norway 1. U.S. 2, Canada 1. Japan 2, China 0. Germany 2, Sweden 0.

Softball
U.S. 8, Canada 1

U.S. 7, Taiwan 0

Women’s water polo
U.S. 12, Russia 7

Italy 10, China 9

While you were sleeping
Selected events, with start times, that finished early this morning.

3 a.m.: Men’s soccer quarters - Brazil vs. Cameroon, Italy vs. Belgium

4:50 a.m.: Track and field finals, including men’s 100 (7:30 a.m.)

6 a.m.: Men’s soccer quarters - Argentina vs. Netherlands, Nigeria vs. Cote d’Ivoire

Go to iflove.com/olympics to find out who won the men’s 100-meter-dash final.
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