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Rochus found the top 100JeuxOlympiques2008, Racquet Sports 21:34 Beijing Belgium has hoped for a very long time its first medal in the Beijing Games, but it was worth the wait. After the money for the women's relay of 4 times 100 meters, yesterday was marked by the consecration Supreme Tia Hellebaut the high jump. A gold medal was possible, but the gold medal, that's a real surprise ... Hello everyone. The night was short, the night was memorable; Tia Hellebaut made off Belgium. The return on earth is soon. This morning at the embassy, Tia had large eyes clamped. The night was complicated by adrenaline. It was sabré Champagne in the village where messages have déboulé everywhere, starting with the Palais, 44 years was expected gold in athletics since Gaston Roelands and steeplechase Tokyo: GR: I am, mainly, I'm happy for her and we must not forget is the 8 th gold medal for Belgium is great! We must not forget is quite different than in my time because in our time, it was amateur now are professionals and they now earn 2 medals, it is extraordinary for life that will follow ! EL: Behind the glory, there is unfortunately fear of emptiness, the success of Tia does not divert us from thinking. Philippe Rogge, the head of delegations, launched the appeal: PR: Let us unite and prepare us all, let us be ambitious, reject mediocrity, reject the compromise, reject the internal political competition, it is here, it is external and we must make plans now, we should be making strategies, we have a Olympic champion in athletics, it was 4 girls Olympic champion in athletics. It was a superb team, there are plenty of athletes in Belgium, now requires that all leaders are united, we put the means, that tightens the elbows and we have a great future ahead of us! EL: Back to the news this morning, the marathon has completed the athletics page of these Games. Kenyan wins and this paradox, an Olympic record despite the heat and pollution, Thierry Luthers: TL: Samuel Wanjiru, 21, resides in Japan where he studied. It is the world record of semi-marathon. He attacked at 6 km from the finish to prevail alone in front of the Moroccan Gharib, double world champion of the speciality. Despite the heat, the Kenyan sets new Olympic record and offers his country a 3 second gold medal in the space of a few hours. Venu the marathon last year alone, Wansiru seek the world record, next month in Berlin. A world record that still holds Haile Gebreselassie but who had renounced the test Beijing because of the heat and pollution. Beijing, Thierry Luthers, RTBF. And we loop with other results this morning, the gold medal team from Russia to contest general GRS and the bronze medal for Russia, always, but in volleyball. On the agenda today, we loop sports team with USA - Spain in basketball; USA still face in Brazil but in volleyball and France-Iceland in handball. Afterwards, Beijing will pass the baton to London. This is of course the closing ceremony, Manuel Jous. MJ: Steeped in the excitement associated with the announcement of three strokes, the opening ceremony is a pre-generic trépigne where the crowd before the lions are released. When it's time to extinguish the flame, impatience gives way to a form of nostalgia. The closing ceremony embodies the generic "end"; credit, thanks and noticeable difference with the theater, spectators who remain seated until the visa number of operations. Artistic director of the ceremony, the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, without red sorghum or flying dagger, promises a new visual spectacle and magical interspersed with speeches, hymns, raising flags and parade of medals. The fear of rain was swept both literally and figuratively by a violent thunderstorm night sky pledge calm tonight. However, the sessions of athletics have prevented the holding of a dress rehearsal in situ, the Chinese do we had not accustomed to such nonchalance. Finally, just before extinguishing of the flame, scheduled for 15:15 hours Belgian, the other highlight of the ceremony will witness the passage in London which will have 8 minutes of teasing; Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page and David Beckham will be the guest stars. Beijing, Manuel Jous, RTBF.