{"id":2790,"date":"2012-08-14T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:41:50","slug":"the-bouras-bulletin-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-30\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bouras Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flame was extinguished on the Olympic Games for another four years on Sunday night, but not before Team GB took their gold medal haul to 29, the most since London hosted the Games in 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Mo Farah completed a long distance double on Saturday evening, winning the 5000m final to go with the 10000m gold he won at the end of the first week. Earlier, Ed McKeever won in the men\u2019s K1-200 metres canoeing final.<\/p>\n<p>The final two gold medals were won in the Excel Arena in Greenwich where the finals of the men\u2019s boxing were taking place. On Saturday night Luke Campbell beat Irishman John Joe Nevin in the bantamweight final and Anthony Joshua took gold in the super-heavyweight final yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>With Wembley having been used for the Olympic football tournaments, Sunday\u2019s Community Shield was played at Villa Park. League champions Manchester City triumphed in the traditional curtain-raiser to the new Premier League season, winning 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Torres opened the scoring for the FA Cup winners, but Branislav Ivanovic was shown a red card for a reckless challenge on Aleksandr Kolarov just before half time and in the second half City made the most of their one-man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>City scored three goals in the space of 12 minutes early in the second half to take control of the game and they held on despite Ryan Bertrand\u2019s late tap-in.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy won the USPGA Championship at Kiawah Island last night, finishing a huge eight strokes ahead of the field on thirteen under.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy won his second major ahead of Englishman David Lynn who finished a surprising second in his first major for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose and Ian Poulter finished equal third along with Keegan Bradley and Carl Pettersson on four under as two of the four Britons to finish in the top six.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford closed the gap between themselves and eighth-placed Hull KR, beating them 32-26 on Friday evening to trail by just points difference.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Langley scored twice to help his side to a hugely important win, which puts them close to making the playoffs despite a season fraught with crippling financial and a six-point penalty for entering administration.<\/p>\n<p>Second-placed Warrington registered an emphatic 30-10 win over league-leaders Wigan to emphasise their title-winning credentials in advance of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Lancashire continued their fine run of form in the ECB40, increasing their lead at the top of their group with a simple nine-wicket win over Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Surrey collapsed against Durham, losing by 142 runs to lose ground near the top of their group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-30\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flame was extinguished on the Olympic Games for another four years on Sunday night, but not before Team GB took their gold medal haul to 29, the most since London hosted the Games in 1908. 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British athletes enjoyed their share of the glory in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2706,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-28\/","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":1},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"30 July 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sir Steve Redgrave passed the Olympic flame on to a group of young athletes to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium and signal the start of the 2012 Olympic Games on Friday evening. Team GB have got off to a relatively slow start as far as medals are concerned,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2301,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":2},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"20 February 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Dereck Chisora lost his WBC world title fight against champion Vitali Klitschko in Munich on Saturday night, but the event will be remembered more for the antics before and after the matchup than the fight itself. First, at Friday\u2019s weigh-in, Chisora slapped Klitschko, then in Saturday\u2019s post-fight press conference, he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3518,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-48\/","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":3},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"17 December 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell both scored centuries as England drew the final test against Nagpur to win their first series in India for 27 years. India had declared after an hour of day three, still four runs behind the visitors\u2019 first innings total of 330, in the hope of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2840,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-34\/","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":4},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"10 September 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The curtain finally came down on a brilliant month of sport in London with the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. Paralympics GB finished third in the medals table behind China and Russia, smashing their medals target to finish on 34 golds and 120 medals in total. Ellie Simmonds came close\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2829,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-33\/","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":5},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"3 September 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Great Britain sit second in the Paralympics medals table with 15 gold medals after the first four days of competition. Britain\u2019s David Weir wrapped up the weekend\u2019s action, surging down the final straight to win the men\u2019s 5000m T54 final. 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