A total of 10,500 athletes took part in the most expensive, most security-conscious Olympic Games in history.

Sheffield United 2 Leeds 0

Everton 2 West Brom 1

Middlesbrough 2 Crystal Palace 1

American Shawn Crawford won the men’s 200metres gold medal amid astonishingly hostile scenes in the Olympic Stadium as the Greek public vented their spleen against the Games organisers.

Azerbaijan 0 Northern Ireland 0

England 2 Wales 0

Scotland 0 Norway 1

Arsenal managed to find a breakthrough against a resilient Charlton as Arsene Wenger’s side aim to continue setting the pace in the Barclays Premiership.

Celtic 3 Dunfermline 0

Ireland's Cerebral Palsy seven-a-side footballers showed some of the form which saw them to fifth in the World last year as they blitzed the United States 4-0 in this morning's 7th-8th place play-off in Athens.

Darren Clarke now needs one of the rounds of his life to become Ireland’s first winner of a major title since Fred Daly in 1947.

European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer insists he has not yet made up his mind on either of his wild cards – bad news for Colin Montgomerie on a day when he ran up a nine on one hole.

Rangers 4 Livingston 0

Colin Montgomerie, out to impress Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer, failed to do that on the 598-yard fifth hole at Whistling Straits as he ran up a quadruple-bogey nine.

Whatever happens to Darren Clarke in the rest of the United States PGA Championship one thing seems certain – there will be no repeat of what can only go down as an amazing blunder.

Darren Clarke overcame an almost comical error to stay right in the thick of things at the United States PGA Championship at Whistling Straits – as Tiger Woods summoned up a brilliant finish just to survive the halfway cut.

Darren Clarke overcame an almost comical error to stay right in the thick of things at the United States PGA Championship at Whistling Straits – as Tiger Woods summoned up a brilliant finish just to survive the halfway cut.

Nick Faldo charged into contention for the United States PGA championship amid the towering sand dunes of Whistling Straits today – and then gave himself a mountain to climb again.

What had threatened to be the worst major season of Nick Faldo’s long career took on a different complexion at Whistling Straits today.