Arab world's first Olympic medal


Al Attiyah claimed Qatar's first medal of the 2012 Olympics.
Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah wins Arab world's first medal of the Olympic Games at London 2012 Olympics. He wins Bronze Medal in the Men’s Skeet shooting competition at the Royal Artillery Barracks.  His bronze medal is just Qatar's third ever at the Olympics and first the tiny Gulf kingdom has won since the Sydney Games in 2000 when Said Saif Asaad also zone bronze in the weightlifting.

Highest olympic medals holder



Michael Phelps has reached the new landmark to win 19 medals in Olympic games on Day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic at the Aquatics .  Now he is the highest Olympic medals holder  in any sport at the Olympics. Phelps is now the owner of 15 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Larisa Semyonovna Latynina, Soviet gymnast,  is now second highest Olympic medals holder who holds 18 medals and still holds the record for most individual Olympic medals in Olympic history.

Women's Epee Individual Fencing Gold medalist

Yana Shemyakina of Ukraine wins gold medal on London 2012 Olympic on Day 3  in the women's Epee Individual Fencing final  defeating Britta Heidemann of Germany.

London 2012 - Day 3 Highlights (photo)

William Henzell of Australia returns the ball during his narrow loss against Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus in the men's Singles Table Tennis third round match

London 2012 - Day 2 Highlights (photo)

Zara Phillips
Zara Phillips of Great Britain and her horse High Kingdom during the Dressage stage of the Individual and Team Eventing competition on Day 2 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Greenwich Park

Om Yun Chol of DPR Korea breaks the Olympic record in the men's 56kg clean and jerk Weightlifting
Om Yun Chol of DPR Korea breaks the Olympic record in the men's 56kg clean and jerk Weightlifting

Dominique Pegg
Dominique Pegg of Canada during her routine on the beam in the Artistic Gymnastics women's team qualification

Pawel Zagrodnik
Pawel Zagrodnik of Poland (white) and Masashi Ebinuma of Japan lay on the mat after their match in the Men's -66 kg Judo

Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol #4 of Spain dunks the ball against China during the men's Basketball game

Aron Szilagyi
Aron Szilagyi (R) of Hungary against Diego Occhiuzzi of Italy in the gold medal match of the Men's Sabre Individual

Aron Szilagyi
Aron Szilagyi (R) of Hungary against Diego Occhiuzzi of Italy in the gold medal match of the Men's Sabre Individual

Ariel Hsing of the United States celebrates winning her Women's Singles
Ariel Hsing of the United States celebrates winning her Women's Singles second round match against Lian Xia Ni of Luxembourg

London 2012 - Day 1 (Photo)

Sun Yang of China
Sun Yang of China competes in the Final of the Men's 400m Freestyle on Day One of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre on July 28, 2012 in London

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Brittany Elmslie, Melanie Schlanger, Cate Campbell and Alicia Coutts of Australia celebrate after they won the Final of the Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay on Day One of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre on July 28, 2012 in London.

First Gold medal winner of London 2012

China's Yi Siling wins first gold medal of London 2012 in women's 10m air rifle at the Royal Artillery Barracks on Saturday. Poland's Sylwia Bogacka claimed the silver medal and Yu Dan of China finished in bronze-medal position. Yi Siling wins the gold medal scoring on a total of 502.9 point.