Germany’s Stephan Feck was consigned to the Olympic blooper reel after he landed flat on his back on a crazy night of diving mishaps in the first round of the men’s springboard at the Aquatics Centre.

Michael Phelps is not done with high-achieving even if his career as an Olympic athlete is over.

Michael Phelps tonight equalled the all-time record for the most Olympic medals when his silver in the 200 metres butterfly took him to 18.

A YOUNG boy, his face pressed firm against the plate glass, points in the direction of a towering, twisting hulk of clay-red metal in the middle distance asks “Is that a roller coaster, daddy?” His father, reading off an inscription on a nearby viewing panel replies: “No son, it says here it’s a piece of art.”

Fans will have the chance to gain a flavour of what next year’s Olympics will be like over the next 18 months in a number of test events that were announced today.

THE Olympic Park in London is to get a mini-Eiffel tower at the behest of Mayor Boris Johnson.

Three companies from the North have now won contracts to work on the London 2012 Olympics, Stormont’s Finance minister announced today.

The host nation is celebrating its first medal of the Olympics after the Greek pair of Thomas Bimis and Nikolaos Siranidis won gold in the synchronised diving.

IAN THORPE launched his bid for seven Commonwealth Games gold medals by smashing the world 400m freestyle record at the Aquatics Centre in Manchester last night.