Olympic digest

A round-up of today's other stories in brief

Ainslie adds to medal tally with fourth gold

SAILING:Britain's Ben Ainslie became the most successful Olympic sailor yesterday, adding a fourth gold to his medal collection, and is now set to change tack and concentrate on winning yachting's blue riband event, the America's Cup.

Ainslie won gold in the single-handed Finn class, and now has a four Olympic gold medals and one silver, breaking a record that has stood since 1960.

He then indicated he would not try for a sixth Olympic medal, saying it could not get any better than sealing the record on home waters and he would now concentrate on winning the America’s Cup.

“To have the opportunity to race in front of a home crowd, you’ll never get any better than that,” Ainslie said when he returned to rapturous applause at his sailing base.

“He is just an extraordinary competitor. He has the potential of emerging from this as arguably our most successful, maybe, in that handful of great, great British Olympians,” Seb Coe told reporters.

Britain out after losing penalty shoot-out

SOCCER:An otherwise golden day for Britain at the Olympic Games ended in an all too familiar disappointment for soccer fans when the men's team were knocked out after losing a penalty shoot-out in the quarter-finals on Saturday.

Britain's men, back in the Olympics for the first time in 52 years, suffered the agony that England have virtually perfected in World Cups and European Championships when they were beaten 5-4 on penalties by South Korea at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

At stake was a semi-final against Brazil and a chance of at least a bronze medal.

Ennis rules out 100m hurdles attempt

HEPTATHLON:Britain's Jessica Ennis will not run in the individual 100 metres hurdles despite her stunning success in taking gold in the Olympic heptathlon. Ennis, who had the London Olympic stadium in raptures on Saturday night, ran the fastest heptathlon 100 hurdles of all time on Friday but has decided against competing tomorrow.

Ennis's triumph on Saturday capped a remarkable day for hosts Britain, who took two other athletics golds and three elsewhere on their best Olympic day since the 1908 London Games.

Williams sisters double up for golds number four

TENNIS:Serena and Venus Williams retained their Olympic doubles gold with a 6-4 6-4 win over Czech duo Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka yesterday, becoming the first tennis players ever to win four golds each.

The sisters, who also won doubles gold in Beijing and Sydney, took an hour and a half to wrap up the win.

Serena also won the women's singles gold on Saturday when she demolished Russia's Maria Sharapova 6-0 6-1 in becoming the first player in the sport to win all four Grand Slams and an Olympic title in both singles and doubles.

Williams took just over an hour to wrap up her win over number three seed Sharapova, securing the victory with ease.

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus beat Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-4 to win the bronze.

Kenyan Kemboi wins back gold he got in 2004

3,000m STEEPLECHASE:Ezekiel Kemboi regained his Olympic men's 3,000 metres steeplechase title yesterday to extend Kenya's dominance in the race.

Kemboi, the 2004 champion, made the most of defending champion and compatriot Brimin Kipruto falling on the penultimate lap to sprint clear and win in eight minutes, 18.56 seconds.

Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad got silver and Kenya's Abel Mutai won bronze. Kipruto finished fifth.

Kenya, who swept the medals in 2008, have won men's steeplechase gold at every Games since 1984.

Richards-Ross keeps form and clinches title

WOMENS' 400m FINAL:Sanya Richards-Ross of the US won the women's 400 metres title at the third time of asking yesterday in 49.55 seconds.

Britain's defending champion, Christine Ohuruogu, came into the home straight in seventh but put on a late spurt to snatch the silver on the line by 0.02 seconds from American DeeDee Trotter in 49.70.

Richard-Ross (27) set off at a blistering pace but was behind Russian Antonina Krivoshapka and Trotter coming off the final bend. She kept her form to reel them in, smiling as she crossed the line.

Fraser-Pryce clocks 10.75 seconds

WOMEN'S 100m FINAL:Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser- Pryce proved to be the sprint queen of the track once again when she retained her Olympic 100 metres title on Saturday.

Fraser-Pryce (25) clocked 10.75 seconds to cap a frantic night of action in a packed Olympic stadium. American Carmelita Jeter grabbed silver in 10.78 and Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica claimed bronze in 10.81.

American Gail Devers was the last to retain the 100m title when following up Barcelona triumph with victory in Atlanta in 1996. Jamaica upstaged the US by sealing a clean sweep of the podium in 2008 but Jeter restored American pride by pushing Fraser-Pryce all the way.