Some Fun Videos; Facts and Strops that have happened at Olympics 2012 Tuesday 31 July Day 4

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Tennis: Murray's win was far more straightforward, full of sumptuous line drives and bolstered by
sound serving. And it put behind him the nightmare of Paris, when he dropped a set against Nieminen in the second round of the French Open while virtually immobilised by back spasms. After a great Wimbledon, he is back to full working order. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga eked out the longest Olympic win three minutes short of four hours over Milos Raonic in the gloaming to round out a dramatic day. The Frenchman won 6-3, 3-6, 25-23, the final set taking exactly three hours. The match broke the record for the longest ever match over three sets, in terms of the total number of games, 66 and the number of games in the final set, 48. The previous records (63 and 33 games, respectively) were both set in the 1988 first-round doubles match in Seoul when Canada's Carling Bassett-Seguso and Jill Hetherington beat the Argentinian pair Mercedes Paz and Gabriela Sabatini 76, 57, 20-18.

GymnastsBritain's female gymnasts did not match the men's bronze medal in Tuesday's team final.
But they still finished the day history makers, bringing to the North Greenwich Arena the same charisma, tenacity and sheer sense of joy that Louis Smith's men had delivered the previous day. The women ended the all-around final in sixth place, their best Olympic finish since 1928 and a feat unmatched in the post-war era their previous best was seventh, back in 1984 when Beth Tweddle's coach, Amanda Reddin, was still in the team. Tweddle, who secured the highest uneven bars score of the competition, admitted that the women had been motivated by the performances of theCroatia earned a disputed men's water polo win Tuesday after officials did not allow what would have been a Spanish equaliser on a last-gasp shot.

Water Polo: With his back to the goal, Spain's Ivn Prez Vargas whipped off a shot just before
the horn that appeared to cross the line and level the game at 8-8. The line judge called it a goal, but match referee Boris Margeta of Slovenia overruled him, giving Croatia the 8-7 victory. Spain have appealed against the decision to the technical committee of Fina, the sport's governing body.ir male team-mates.

Badminton: The women's doubles competition at London 2012 descended into farce and scandal
at Wembley Arena as two pairs appeared to deliberately start playing to lose. Chinese top seeds Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang and the South Koreans, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Hana, were booed off after an extraordinary match in which players regularly served into the net or hit wide apparently on purpose. Both pairs had already qualified for the last 16 and their actions appeared to be an attempt to manipulate the final standings in Group A. The farce continued later in the evening when another Korean pair, the third seeds Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung, appeared to start playing up against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii. Both pairs had also already qualified for the next stage from Group C, the connection with the earlier incident being that the pool winners would play Wang and Yu next. The Korean pairs would play each other in the quarter-finals if Ha and Kim lost. Berg returned to court and brandished the black card, which means disqualification, but after protests from the Indonesians it was rescinded and the match resumed.

Paisan Rangsikitpho, a member of the Badminton World Federation's technical committee, said the governing body was aware of what had happened. "We will have a real discussion tonight to see what has happened, but I have to get all the facts." Whatever the reasons for the bizarre spectacle, it is certain to spark debate about the decision to introduce a round-robin stage as opposed to holding a straight knockout tournament.

Swimming: Twenty years after he first began to swim in suburban Baltimore, as a seven-year-old
boy whose mother thought a pool might be the one place where he could conquer his chaotic excess of energy, Michael Phelps officially became the greatest Olympian in history. At exactly 9.04on Tuesday night, during a tumultuous session at the Aquatics Centre in Stratford, Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal, and his first gold of these Games, in the 4x200m relay. He had finally broken the record held by Larisa Latynina. The gymnast from the former Soviet Union was awarded the last of her 18 medals in 1964. But Phelps's extraordinary feat was layered with the ambivalence of earlier shock and disappointment as a much younger and uncelebrated rival stripped away his old invincibility.

Rowing: low Niger rower says he will inspire others into sport - video
Hammadou Djibo Issaka, only took up rowing three months ago, says he will encourage new talent to his sport, despite finishing nearly two minutes after Lithuanian winner Mindaugs Griskonis in the men's single sculls repechage. Issaka, who brought back memories of last-placed swimmer 'Eric the Eel' at the Sydney Olympics, is in London courtesy of a wild card from the IOC Tripartite Commission http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2012/jul/31/olympics-2012-niger-rower-issakavideo?intcmp=239

Fencing: highlights of the women's semi finl pe at Excel Arena, which South Korea's Shin A-lam
thought she had won until the clock was reset and Germany's Britta Heidemann triumphed with a do-or-die hit. When the result was announced, Shin, 25, burst into tears, and remained on the piste for over an hour in protest http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2012/jul/31/brick-womens-fencing-shin-lamvideo?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

Own opening Ceremony: Australia's Olympics rowing team dance in their trunks to Michael
Jackson's Thriller in front of a crowd of other athletes at London University's Royal Holloway campus. The London 2012 team were recreating their own opening ceremony after being unable to attend the official one due to a race the the next morning....successful judge for yourself! http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2012/jul/31/australia-olympic-rowers-dance-thriller-video Source: Guardian website/BBC Sport/ London 2012.com