Olympics Wrap Up & Highlights: Day 9

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Olympics - Day Nine



Day nine of Olympic competition gets off to a 7.30am start with the women's marathon



But as the race progresses, hope turns to agony for Britain's Paula Radcliffe, returning to competition after injury



Constantina Tomescu-Dita is exhausted but ecstatic after running away from the field to take gold



Meanwhile, Great Britain's men fight out a fiery 1-1 draw with Canada in the hockey tournament



Germany's Britta Steffan (r) is congratulated by Libby Trickett of Australia after Steffan won the women's 50m free



History is made in the Water Cube, as team USA win the 4x100m medley, and Michael Phelps (r) takes an eighth gold



Jia Tian of China serves against Austria in the quarter finals of the beach volleyball competition



Great Britain's Chris Hoy's feet are a blur as he breaks the Olympic record in the men's sprint cycling event



Xin Minhong of China is at bat while taking on Taiwan in the softball - a game China end up losing 1-2



Britain's three-woman Yngling crew successfully fend off the Dutch boat to claim gold in a windy Qingdao medal race



Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter become the first Britons to win a lightweight Olympic medal of any kind in the sculls



Despite the unpleasant conditions, Ben Ainslie triumphs in the Finn medal race to scoop another sailing gold for Team GB



A silver goes the way of GB's women's quad sculls team but their disappointment about missing gold is obvious



Elena Dementieva beats Dinara Safina 3-6 7-5 6-3 as Russia claim all three medals in the women's singles tennis



Rebecca Romero becomes the first British woman to medal in two sports as she beats Wendy Houvenaghel in the pursuit final



At the China Agricultural University Gymnasium, Japan's five-time world champion Kaori Icho retains her women's wrestling 63kg title



Back at Shunyi Olympic Park, Great Britain (bottom) hold off defending champions USA to take silver in the men's eight



Britain's men's cycling pursuit team, including Hoy, take more than a second off their own world record to reach the Olympic final



France's Julien Pillet is overjoyed at his nation's winning the team sabre fencing gold medal, beating the United States



Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal beats Fernando Gonzalez in three sets to win the Olympic men's tennis tournament