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Beating out Italy by .004 of a second, Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine has won the women's K-1 500m. Italy's Josefa Idem won silver and Germany's Katrin Wagner-Augustin secured the bronze.

With Canada's Adam van Koeverden and Great Britain's Tim Brabants on his tail, Australian paddler Ken Wallace has won the gold medal in the men's K-1 500m.

Belarus wins another gold in paddling, this time in the men's K-4 1000m.  Slovakia gets the silver and Germany takes home the bronze.

Brothers Andrei and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich of Belarus win gold medal in the men's C-2 1000m. Germany won the silver and Hungary takes home the bronze.

Adding a gold medal to the bronze he won four years ago in Athens, Attila Sandor Vajda of Hungary came in first in the C-1 1000m.

Paddlers from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand continue to dominate flatwater canoe/kayak. Americans Carrie Johnson and Rami Zur did not make it into the finals after competing in the K-1 500m.

On Day 12 of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, strong finishes in the men's 1000m canoe/kayak events came from Russia, Poland, Australia and Latvia. In the women's K-4 500m, Spain came out on top.

Events continue LIVE on television this morning (3:30a-6:10a ET on USA), or check back here this afternoon to watch all of the heats on video. The day's heats include men's and women's K-1 500m, men's and women's K-2 500m, men's C-1 500m, and men's C-2 500m.

When U.S. kayaker starts his Olympic quest at the Shunyi Canoeing Park on Monday, he will be taking some unique life experiences down the thundering whitewater channel.