(Saturday) 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 1: Cycling: Men's Road Race: Paolo Bettini, ITA Diving: Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard: Minxia Wu and Jingjing Guo, CHN Men's Synchronized 10 m Platform: Tian Liang and Jinghui Yang, CHN Fencing Men's Individual Sabre: Aldo Montano, ITA Judo Women's Under 48 kg: Ryoko Tani, JPN Men's Under 60 kg: Tadahiro Nomura, JPN Shooting: Women's 10 m Air Rifle: Li Du, CHN Men's 10 m Air Pistol: Wang Yifu, CHN Swimming Men's 400 m Individual Medley: Michael Phelps, USA Men's 400 m Freestyle: Ian Thorpe, AUS Women's 400 m Individual Medley: Yana Klochkova, UKR Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay: Australia (Alice Mills, Libby Lenton, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry) Weightlifting Women's 48 kg: Nurcan Taylan, TUR Rugby union: In the fifth match of the Tri Nations Series, held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Springboks (South Africa), behind a three-try effort by Marius Joubert, defeat the All Blacks (New Zealand) 40–26. This ends the All Blacks' chances of defending their Tri Nations crown, and sets up a winner-take-all showdown on 21 August between the Boks and the Wallabies (Australia) in Durban. (BBC) August 13, 2004 (Friday) The 2004 Olympic Games officially open in Athens(ESPN) Liverpool F.C. sell striker Michael Owen to Real Madrid for a fee of 12 million euros plus the midfielder Antonio Nunez. Sprinters Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou are suspended from the Greek Olympic team after missing a compulsory doping test, and face possible expulsion from the games. (BBC) August 12, 2004 (Thursday) French footballer Zinedine Zidane, one of the most celebrated players of all time, announces his international retirement. (BBC) UEFA Cup 2004–05 Second qualifying round first leg: FC Zeleznik 2 – 4 FC Steaua București FK Dukla Banská Bystrica 3 – 1 FC Wil 1900 NK Zeljeznicar Sarajevo 1 – 2 PFC Litex Lovech FC Nistru Otaci 1 – 2 SK Sigma Olomouc FC Artmedia Bratislava 0 – 3 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Tbilisi 0 – 1 Legia Warszawa FC Illichivets Mariupol 0 – 0 FK Austria Wien FC Metalurh Donetsk 3 – 0 FC Tiraspol Glentoran F.C. 0 – 1 IF Elfsborg Odd Grenland 3 – 1 FK Ekranas FK Ventspils 0 – 0 Brøndby IF Stabæk 3 – 1 FC Haka Östers IF 2 – 2 FK Liepājas Metalurgs Dinamo Zagreb 4 – 0 NK Primorje SK Slavia Praha 3 – 1 Dinamo Tbilisi