Spain’s Joel Gonzalez thrashed South Korea’s Lee Daehoon for Olympic gold in the final of the men’s flyweight taekwondo tournament Wednesday.
Gonzalez, a flyweight world champion, downed Lee 17-8 in a one-sided contest that saw the Korean beaten in every round.
Lee is a 2011 world champion in the bantamweight division.
Bronze medals in the tournament’s two repechage bouts went to Oscar Munoz Oveido of Colombia and Russia’s Alexei Denisenko.
World No.3 Roger Federer moved one step closer to his first title this season when he beat Jerzy Janowicz 6-4, 7-6 (2) to advance to the semifinals of the Italian Open tennis.
The alleged CIA operative who was attempting to recruit a Russian security services officer was detained by that officer himself, a Federal Security Service (FSB) representative said.
Top seed Novak Djokovic and second seed Roger Federer shook off their shock defeats in Madrid to ease past their opponents into the third round of Rome Masters.
US officials were tight-lipped over the arrest of US diplomat Ryan Fogle in Moscow who has been accused of trying to recruit an agent for the CIA.
