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As of 7pm Beijing time today, Finland has just two medals at the Olympics. Thirty-seven year old mother of two, Satu Makela-Nummela, won the gold in the women’s trap shooting on Monday (and her country’s 100th gold medal in the history of the games) whilst Henri Hakkinen owns a bronze after the men’s 10m air rifle battle.

However, looking at the recent no-limit shootout in Estonia, should poker ever be made an Olympic event, we can expect Finland to reach their second century of medals in less than hundred years.

In a vision of things to come, Finnish players filled the top three places of Friday’s main event of the Olympic Summer Festival in Tallinn.

So imposing was their presence at the Olympic …

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It’s football versus the Olympics - and football wins! Yes, despite a tagline of the ‘greatest show on earth’, the Olympics has proven to be no match at all for the powers-that-be in world football. Three top European clubs have won their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which means their players won’t play in the Olympic football tournament. FIFA, football’s governing body, had ordered that all players under the age of 23 should be released by their clubs, but the clubs thought otherwise and rebelled.

Barcelona, Werder Bremen and Schalke all flexed their muscle to prevent Lionel Messi, Diego and Rafinha from playing in Beijing. All three are major players for their clubs, but even so, it seems …

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Bodog Sport is right in the thick of what bears all the hallmarks of being the greatest 100 metre battle of all time between Tyson Gay, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell.

Until this week many believed it was strictly a two-man fight between Gay and world record holder Bolt but Powell´s triumph over Bolt in Stockholm has altered the form radically.

The current odds are Gay 5/4, Bolt 7/4 and Powell 11/4.

The win in Sweden must have been sweet revenge for Powell, who saw fellow Jamaican Bolt claim his world record in June. The 25-year-old scorched home in 9.88 seconds - a hundredth of a second ahead of Bolt to give him his third straight Stockholm win.

Bolt established the new world …

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Proof that Seb Coe isn’t wasting any time plotting British success at the 2012 Olympics in London. He’s already hard at work, top of the list sweet-talking Sir Alex Ferguson into managing the footy team in four years’ time.

Coe, organising committee chairman of London 2012, revealed: “I’d love to have him there because he’s a phenomenal coach and a great man manager. Who else would you want to have that mentoring role with under 23 players for a build-up to the games?”

And he has a point, of course. When it comes to dealing with young footballers, Fergie takes some beating: Beckham, Giggs, Scholes, Rooney, Ronaldo. The fiery Scot has coached them all, and the thought of him in charge of …

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