What did you say?

Who is saying what at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"Everyone is saying it's unfair. I got ripped. Everyone is saying I got ripped. I could crawl up and cry like a baby but I am trying to be strong... I guess this wasn't meant to be, I guess God has other ideas for me."

Ivett Gonda aims some kicks at the judges after the Canadian lost
in the preliminary round of the women's -49kg taekwondo to Sweden's
Hanna Zajc.


"It was a bit rough in the pack, there was a bit of dunking going on, it's always dangerous, but you just have to make sure you don't panic."

South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, the first amputee swimmer
to compete against able-bodied athletes at an Olympics, on how she got
no favours in the women's 10 kilometre marathon event where she
finished 16th.


"I might not get the best start or be the fastest but if you want to bea! t me you have to fight me. I will fight to the line and I do not give up."
Britain's Christine Ohuruogu explains how she won gold in the
women's 400 metres.


"It would be no more than a daydream to make archery as popular as table tennis and volleyball, but with a gold medal in Beijing, it is within reach."

Olympic individual women's archery champion Zhang Juanjuan puts the rest of the world on notice. And given China's rise in other events, who would argue with her?

"It sucks. Renato struggled with Dalhasusser's block and that made him change his strategy and make a lot of mistakes. It was a bad performance."

Georgia's Jorge Terceiro on why he and fellow Brazilian-born
colleague Renato Gomes lost their beach volleyball semi-final against
the American duo of Todd Rogers and Philip Dalhausser.


"What determines the success of an athlete's ca! reer is the kind of high level overall results he achieves dur! ing the career. You have to forget this race. The road is long, keep going."

Basketball star Yao Ming does his best to console fellow Chinese
sporting icon Liu Xiang after the reigning 110 metre hurdling
champion's injury-enforced first round withdrawal.


"Losing the game to Argentina in this way is really shameful."

Brazil's footballers get rather less than a 'well-done' from
President Inacio Lula de Silva after their 3-0 Olympic semi-final
defeat against arch-rivals Argentina.