Olympic Round-up:Belgium's Tia Hellebaut jumped to a surprise gold medal in the women's high jump today, beating the favourite Croatia's Blanka Vlasic on countback.
The pair both jumped 2.05 metres and missed at 2.07, but Hellebaut was awarded the gold because she cleared 2.05 at her first attempt while Vlasic needed two goes.
Anna Chicherova of Russia won the bronze medal, clearing 2.03, while Russia's defending champion Elena Slesarenko finished out of the medals in fourth place.
Vlasic was an overwhelming favourite to win the gold after winning last year's world championship and being unbeaten since June 2007.
Kenya's Bungei takes gold in 800m
800m:Wilfred Bungei of Kenya won the men's Olympic 800 metres gold medal with a dominant front-running performance this afternoon.
He hit the front soon after the bell and drove clear to win in one minute, 44.65 seconds, giving Kenya their first victory in the event since 1992.
Ismail Ahmed Ismail of Sudan took silver and another Kenyan, world champion Alfred Kirwa Yego, claimed the bronze.
The race was wide open after defending champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy of Russia, 2004 silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and fancied Sudanese teenager Abubaker Kaki failed to reach the final.
Taekwando:Sarah Stevenson was awarded victory in her +67kg Taekwando quarter-final after a successful protest by the Great Britain team.
Stevenson trailed 1-0 in the dying seconds of her fight with Zhong Chen when she landed a kick to head of her opponent - worth two points - but it was not scored by the judges.
Stevenson was enraged by the decision and Britain immediately launched a protest. After judges studying video of the kick the result of the fight was reversed.
The successful challenge ended Chen's bid for a record third Taekwondo gold medal.
When the announcement was made, boos and chants of "kangyi!", meaning "protest!", rang out around the arena.
Stevenson received an icy welcome when emerging for her semi-final and the home crowd rejoiced when she was beaten 4-1 by Mexican Maria Espinoza 4-1.
However, it was she who had the last laugh when securing the bronze medal with a win over Egypt's Noha Abd Rabo.
USA get baseball bronze
Baseball:The United States beat Japan 8-4 to exit the final Olympic baseball tournament with the bronze medal today.
After failing to qualify for the Athens Games, the bronze restored a bit of US pride before the sport is dropped from the Olympic programme following the gold medal game between Cuba and South Korea later today..
Matt Brown led the US assault with a third-inning three-run homer while Taylor Teagarden added a two-run shot and Matt LaPorta a solo blast.
Masahiro Araki and Norichika Aoki homered for Japan, who fail to return home with a medal for just the second time since the sport was introduced at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Kayaking: Australian Ken Wallace has won the Olympic 500m single kayak final.
World champion Adam van Koeverden was second and Britain's Tim Brabants won bronze after a thrilling sprint for the line.
Only four tenths of a second separated the three medallists as Wallace snatched gold with a powerful finish.
Brabants adds bronze to the Olympic title he won yesterday in the 1000m final.
Mountain Biking: Sabine Spitz of Germany took the gold in the women's mountain biking final but there was unanimous displeasure with the course.
Riders battled extreme obstacles, as well as the heat and the mud, on a steep, boulder-strewn course made tougher by the sport's officials this year.
Twelve of the 30 women finalists did not finish, many fell off their bikes and others said they barely completed their runs on the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course on a wooded hill in west Beijing.
"The course was much easier before than this year, and I was surprised on the first lap," said silver medallist Maja Wloszczowska of Poland. "They added one more downhill, which was dangerous. I also had brake trouble on the third lap."
"It was really hard, it was really steep, and it was really hot," said Austrian rider Elisabeth Osl.
Temperatures in Beijing were 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) by midday.
Thursday's rain, which delayed the women's cross-country final for a day, still mucked up parts of the course on Saturday, further frustrating riders.
"On this course you can't settle into a pace," said finalist Georgia Gould of the United States. "There's no going easy once you get tired."