DPA/London

Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte poses with her gold medal after the podium ceremony for the women’s 100m breaststroke swimming event yesterday

A Lithuanian teenager cause a sensation in the pool yesterday as Britain won its first Olympic gymnastics medal in 90 years and China continued to rake in gold at London 2012.
Ruta Meilutyte, 15, won the Baltic state’s first ever Olympic swimming gold, beating off a late challenge from Rebecca Soni of the US to clinch the women’s 100 metres breaststroke in 1:05.47 minutes.
The biggest upset in the Aquatics Centre was in the men’s 200 metres freestyle when Frenchman Yannick Agnel outclassed US favourite Ryan Lochte to win his second gold of the competition.
Lochte finished fourth, continuing a disappointing Olympics for him so far, but there was consolation for the US in the evening’s two other finals. American teenager Missy Franklin claimed her first Olympic gold when she won the 100m backstroke in 58.33 seconds, just 15 minutes after swimming in the semi-finals of the 200m freestyle, Matthew Grevers brought the overall US gold tally to four when he won the men’s 100m backstroke in Olympic record time, ahead of compatriot Nick Thoman and Japan’s Irie Ryosuke. China took team gold in the men’s artistic gymnastic team competition to become the first country since Japan in Montreal 1976 to win the event at successive Olympic Games.
Japan finished second after lodging a protest over the scoring, relegating original silver medallist Britain to third place for their first Olympic medal in the sport since 1912. There was no lasting sense of grievance amongst the British team or the partisan British crowd, including luminaries such as princes Harry and William, and once the dust had settled, the European champions were more than happy with their historic achievement.
China also won gold in the men’s 10 metres synchronised diving and the women’s 58-kilogramme weightlifting, bringing their overall gold tally to nine, four more than their nearest rivals the US.
There was a major controversy in women’s fencing when South Korea’s Shin A Lam broke down in tears and refused to leave the piste after her bout against Germany’s Britta Heidemann.
Lam though she had won and reached the final of the women’s epee, but the clock was reset from zero to 1 second, allowing Heidemann to score a vital hit that made her the winner.
The protest lasted for more than an hour, delaying the final in which  Ukraine’s Yana Shemyakana defeated Heidemann, gold medallist in Beijing four years ago.