Once again, the spotlight will inevitably fall on the Water Cube, where four more finals will be contested and records are likely to tumble.
The most vulnerable looks to be the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay record, which will surely fall in the final and was smashed by the United States yesterday without Michael Phelps. Well you know the rest….The French and the Australian teams could have a say…
Alexander Dale Oen of Norway will swim in lane 4 of the Men's 100m Breaststroke final with the Athens gold medalist Kitajima Kosuke beside him in lane 5 and the world record holder Brendan Hansen in lane 2.
In the two women's finals of the morning the Women's 100m Butterfly final could be a battle between Australians Lisbeth Trickett and Jessicah Schipper, while the Women's 400m Freestyle final features Olympic record-breaker Federica Pellegrini of Italy and her strong rival Katie Hoff next to her.
In the semifinals, Phelps will go in the Men's 200m Freestyle as he continues his historic quest for eight golds.
Another Olympic-record breaker, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, will race with Laure Manaudou of France in heat 2, while Natalie Coughlin of the United States will be in heat 1 of the Women's 100m Backstroke semifinal.
The day's Diving final is the Men's Synchronized 10m Platform, in which 2007 World Champions Lin Yue and Huo Liang will try to grab China's second Diving gold medal, following Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia's Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard victory on Sunday. Russian duo Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok, who were silver medalists at the 2007 World Championships, will be in contention, as will Robert Newbery and Mathew Helm of Australia.
One of the more interesting competitors is 14-year-old British prodigy Tom Daley, who is the youngest diver at the Games.
The Republic of Korea (ROK) Men's archers will attempt, partly at least, to emulate the achievements of their women's team, who claimed a sixth consecutive title yesterday. The men's team is chasing a mere third title on the trot by comparison – and look good, having finished the Ranking Round in first place. Their stiffest competition could come from the Russian and Ukraine teams.
The third day of the Olympic Fencing competition should see Italy dominate the Women's Individual Foil after capturing three consecutive Olympic victories in this event.
Italy's foil specialist Maria Valentina Vezzali is ranked World No. 1 with 16 World Championship medals under her belt and could become the first fencer to win three Individual Foil gold medals in consecutive Games.
World Nos. 2 and 3, Margherita Granbassi and Giovanna Trillini, also of Italy, could also challenge, alongside Sylwia Gruchala of Poland and Nam Hyun-hee from the Republic of Korea. Another interesting contender is Chinese fencer Luan Jujie, who is representing Canada and making a comeback at the age of 50. She last won gold at Los Angeles 1984.
The fifth and sixth gold medals of the Judo competitions will be contested in the Men's -73kg and Women's -57kg classes. Elnur Mammadli from Azerbaijan is the World No. 1 in the -73kg division. In the Women's -57kg contest, World No. 1 Sabrina Filzmoser from Austria will be challenged by World No. 2 Barbara Harel of France.
In Shooting, another two gold medals will be decided in the Men's 10m Air Rifle and the Women's Trap. China will have a chance to win its third shooting gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Rifle with World No. 1 and defending champion Zhu Qinan of China being the favorite. Zhu's main threat will be Romanian Alin George Moldoveanu.
In the Women's Trap, San Marino's Daniela Del Din, the current World No. 1, will strive to win a first ever Olympic medal for the tiny European country. China's Liu Yingzi will provide some tough competition, though.
The Weightlifting medals being contested are the Men's 62kg and Women's 58kg classes, where the defending Olympic champions Shi Zhiyong and Chen Yanqing, both of China, are highly fancied to retain their crowns on home soil.
In the non medal sports, there are remaining first-round matches of the Men's and Women's Singles Tennis tournament to be played after play was decimated due to bad weather on August 10, when only nine of the 46 scheduled matches were completed.
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