By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Imagine a soldier trapped behind enemy lines. He fights his way out with his sword, swims across a lake, grabs the nearest horse, gallops through the forest and makes a last dash for freedom on foot, occasionally firing a pistol to fend off his adversaries.
By Kylie MacLellan and Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - Lithuania's Laura Asadauskaite claimed the last medal of the Games on Sunday, taking gold in the women's modern pentathlon to complete the family set of Olympic medals.
LONDON (Reuters) - Lithuania's Laura Asadauskaite took gold in the women's modern pentathlon on Sunday, storming to a convincing win in the combined shoot and run finale of the one-day event to bag the final medal of the Games.
Britain's Samantha Murray, who was in fourth place after the first three events of fencing, shooting and riding, took the silver to a deafening roar from the home crowd.
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - Hungary's Sarolta Kovacs broke the Olympic record for the swimming leg of the women's modern pentathlon on Sunday while her compatriot Adrienn Toth took an overall lead in the race for the last gold medal of the London Games.
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - Four-time Olympian Elena Rublevska of Latvia took an early lead in the women's modern pentathlon on Sunday, winning the fencing competition as the battle for the last gold medal of the London Games began.
By Kylie MacLellan
LONDON (Reuters) - Czech David Svoboda banished his painful memories of Beijing to win modern pentathlon Olympic gold on Saturday, overtaking China's Cao Zhongrong on the final lap of a thrilling combined shoot and run finale.
LONDON (Reuters) - Czech military officer David Svoboda took gold in the Olympic men's modern pentathlon on Saturday, pipping China's Zhongrong Cao to the title in a thrilling combined run and shoot finale to the one-day event.
Svoboda, who stormed to an early lead after equalling the Olympic fencing points record, had slipped into second behind Cao after struggling in his swimming heat.
LONDON (Reuters) - Czech military officer David Svoboda reclaimed top spot on the leaderboard after the riding event of the modern pentathlon on Saturday, edging four points ahead of Cao Zhongrong of China as they enter the final combined shoot and run event.
Svoboda, who had topped the leaderboard after fencing but struggled in his swimming heat, managed a cleaner run of the 12 jumps in Greenwich Park than Cao, knocking down three rails to take his total score after the first three events to 3,460.
LONDON (Reuters) - China's Cao Zhongrong moved to the top of the leaderboard on Saturday after a closely fought swimming event in the modern pentathlon, which is celebrating its 100th birthday at the London Games.
Cao, whose favourite events are the fencing and riding, swam the 200 metres freestyle in one minute 58.93 seconds, the third fastest time in the Aquatics Pool and enough, after his second place in the earlier fencing event, to leapfrog David Svoboda into first with 2,376 points.
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Imagine a soldier trapped behind enemy lines. He fights his way out with his sword, swims across a lake, grabs the nearest horse, gallops through the forest and makes a last dash for freedom on foot, occasionally firing a pistol to fend off his adversaries.
By Kylie MacLellan
LONDON (Reuters) - Just three hours before the Olympic closing ceremony, one group of athletes will still be battling it out to be crowned women's modern pentathlon champion and bag the final gold medal of the Games.
By Karolos Grohmann
LONDON (Reuters) - French pentathlete Jean-Maxence Berrou will not compete at the London Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his appeal against the federation's selection procedure, CAS said.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected a bid by French athlete Nour-Eddine Gezzar to overturn his exclusion from the Olympics on Thursday, dismissing his argument that there had been errors in the testing process.
The steeplechaser tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) at the French championships in June and was withdrawn by the French Athletics Federation.
LONDON (Reuters) - French athlete Nour-Eddine Gezzar on Thursday asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn his exclusion from the Olympics, alleging errors in the positive doping test that saw him thrown off the national team.
The French steeplechaser tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) at the French championships in June and was withdrawn by the French Athletics Federation.
By Toby Davis
LONDON (Reuters) - The modern pentathlon has been the source of some of the Olympics' greatest tales and the sport will provide the platform for Andrey Moiseev to soar into a pantheon of sporting greats should he win a third successive gold medal in London.
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