KI ARROWS SECOND GOLD: South Korea’s Ki Bo-Bae added the Olympic Games women’s individual archery gold to her team title victory but America’s Khatuna Lorig, who trained archers on hit movie “The Hunger Games”, missed out. Ki defeated Mexico’s Aida Roman in the final at Lord’s yesterday. Another Mexican, Mariana Avitia, claimed bronze defeating Lorig of the United States, who was taking part in her fifth successive Olympics under a third different national flag.

DJOKOVIC-MURRAY IN SEMIS: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic set up an Olympic semi-final showdown with Andy Murray after beating French fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 7-5. Djokovic is bidding to win his first Olympic gold medal after taking home a bronze from the 2008 Games in Beijing and he remains firmly in the hunt after seeing off the big-serving Tsonga on Wimbledon’s Centre Court. Following a hard-fought win over Lleyton Hewitt in the previous round, this was Djokovic at his dominant best and the world number two’s first grasscourt clash with the in-form Murray promises to be a titanic battle.

BOXING REF SENT HOME: Turkmen boxing referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov was sent home from the Olympics yesterday after his display in a controversial bout which Japanese bantamweight Satoshi Shimizu won on appeal. Meretnyyazov was criticised for not stopping Wednesday’s contest in the third round when Shimizu’s exhausted opponent, Magomed Abdulhamidov of Azerbaijan, went to the floor several times. He was also faulted for giving Abdul-hamidov too much time to recover. The Azeri was inexplicably awarded a 22-17 decision by the five judges, which was changed to a third-round stoppage win for Shimizu after an appeal.

GYMNAST Douglas Sizzles: Gabrielle Douglas boldly triumphed in the women’s individual gymnastics final on Thursday to give the United States their third consecutive Olympic female champion. The 16-year-old from Virginia finished ahead of Russia’s Viktoria Komova at the North Greenwich Arena, while Komova’s team-mate Aliya Mustafina took the bronze medal. Mustafina and America’s Alexandra Rais-man finished level on 59.566 points in third position, but Mustafina won the bronze on tie-breaking criteria.

YU QUITS BADMINTON: One of the star Chinese badminton players disqualified from the Olympics for throwing a match has announced she is quitting the sport, saying her dreams had been “heartlessly shattered”. Yu, who won a gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and her partner Wang Xiaoli were disqualified by the Badminton World Federation on Wednesday for “not using one’s best efforts to win a match”. “This is my last time competing. Goodbye my beloved badminton,” Yu Yang said on her microblog. “You have heartlessly shattered our dreams.”

FIRST JUDO GOLD FOR US: Kayla Harrison won the first ever Olympic gold medal in judo for the United States as she claimed the women’s under-78kg title yesterday. The 2010 world champion beat shock finalist Gemma Gibbons, of Great Britain, by a pair of minimum yuko scores. World champion Audrey Tcheumeo, of France, bounced back from losing her semi-final to Gibbons to snatch bronze in defeating Hungary’s Abigel Joo by ippon with an ura-nage (rear throw). Brazil’s Mayra Aguilar beat 2009 world champion Marhinde Verkerk, of the Netherlands, for the second bronze.