Belarusian athlete Vladislav Goncharov won the Olympic trampolining tournament. In the final, he received a score of 61.745. The silver medal of the Olympics was won by the Chinese athlete Dong Dong, the bronze was also won by the Chinese Gao Li. Two representatives of Russia also made it to the final - Dmitry Ushakov and Andrey Yudin. Ushakov took fifth place in the overall standings, and Yudin eighth. He failed to complete his program, making a mistake and flying off the trampoline.

The Russian women's saber fencing team won the final of the team competition at the Olympics, defeating the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30. The following players played for the Russian national team: Sofia Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, Yulia Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko. This is Russia's sixth gold medal at the Rio Games. The USA team won bronze in this type of Olympic program. Materials for the table were provided by Sports.ru.

Due to age and illness, Baker was unable to play this role in the seventh part of the saga (The Force Awakens), but was brought on to work on the film as a consultant.

Daria Klishina, the only Russian athlete allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics, will be suspended from the Games. This is reported by "Soviet Sport", referring to the decision of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF). According to the publication, the IAAF, which initially decided to allow Klishina to compete, on August 10 revised its decision. The athlete was informed about the new decision on the 12th. Officially, the removal of Klishina was not announced.

A man armed with a knife attacked passengers on a train in eastern Switzerland. According to BBC News, the perpetrator set fire to the train. As a result of the attack, six people were hospitalized with stab wounds and burns. Initially, it was reported about seven victims, but later it turned out that one of the hospitalized was the attacker himself. According to media reports, this is a native of Switzerland, he is 27 years old.

Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez / Ap / Scanpix / Leta In recent months, the Telegram messenger has hacked several times in Russia - and each time with SMS. At the same time, Western experts warned that text messages will soon be used in principle in two -stage authentication. "Medusa" tells why the time has come to part with SMS messages. SMS as a master key At the end of April 2016, the Telegram accounts of Russian oppositionists Oleg Kozlovsky and Georgy Alburov were hacked.

The Russian women's saber fencing team won the semi-finals of the Olympic team tournament, beating the US team with a score of 45:42. Sofia Velikaya, Yana Egoryan and Ekaterina Dyachenko played for the Russian team. In the final, Russian fencers will meet with the Ukrainian team - Ukrainian athletes won in the second semi-final against the Italian team. The final will take place at 00:15 on August 14 Moscow time. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru.

Before the synchronized swimming competitions in the main Olympic pool will replace the water. This was stated by the director of communications for the 2016 Olympics, Mario Andrada. “The water will be changed in the main pool ahead of tomorrow's synchronized swimming competition,” Andrada said. - Today we will have a special press conference on this situation. We will explain what happened and answer questions.

Reigning English Premier League champions Leicester were defeated in the opening match of the new championship, losing to Hull City with a score of 1:2. Leicester became the first defending champions in the history of the tournament to be defeated in the first round. According to Sports.ru, the last time this happened was in 1989, when Arsenal lost to Manchester United (1:4) in the status of a champion. This was before the establishment of the Premier League.

Amazing biographies of athletes performing at the 2016 Games Behind every Olympic athlete there is a great story, but some fates are truly unique. Medusa studied the biographies of athletes who perform at the 2016 games, and talks about the most incredible of them.

Photo in the announcement: Alexandra Mudrats / TASS / Scanpix / Leta on August 12, 2016, Anton Weino was appointed head of the Presidential Administration. Quite a little is known about Vaino's merits. In 2012, his article “Capitalization of the Future” was published in the journal “Questions of Economics and Law”, in which the future head of the AP, in particular, reflects on space, time, life and protocol.

81,494 people were fired or suspended from work after the coup attempt in Turkey. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the country's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Among those suspended are judges, military and civil servants. Earlier, almost 26 thousand people were detained in the country in connection with the coup attempt. 74.5 thousand people had their passports cancelled. On the night of July 16, an attempted military coup was made in Turkey. The rebellion was put down.

Four Skydivers from Norway, Spain and Austria decided to participate in meteorite rain. On the brightest night of the starfall in the constellation Perseus - on August 13 - they jumped over the Canary Islands (at this point of the planet Perseids are best visible). Athletes dressed in costumes with LEDs - and they themselves turned into falling stars.

The main "star rain" of the year passed above the ground Every year in August, residents of the Northern Hemisphere observe Perseids - Star Rains in the constellation Perseus. The starfall can be observed with the naked eye for several days in a row, but the peak of brightness came at night from August 12 to 13. Medusa collected photographs of eyewitnesses who shot Perseids on the brightest night and the day before.

Unidentified people hacked the email of almost Yulia Stepanova, a Russian runner whose story about doping in domestic sports formed the basis of several documentaries and led to the removal of Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics. Representatives of a Swiss organization that supports Yulia and her family spoke about the hacking of Stepanova's mail. Yulia's husband Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, also told reporters about doping in Russian sports.