This day in Olympic history: August 21

Beijing - This day in Olympic history: August 21 2004 - Yuliya Nesterenko wins the 100m sprint for women. The defending champion Marion Jones, who was later stripped of the gold medal she won after admitting to doping, was eliminated in the heats. In arguably the biggest story of the Games local favourite Ekaterina Thanou, who won silver in Sydney and was elevated to gold after Jones' disqualification, had earlier withdrawn from the Olympic Games after feigning a motorcycle accident following a missed doping test. As a result she was also prevented from participating in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. 1920 - Patrick Joseph McDonald was born in Ireland, but moved to the US and competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, where he won the shot put event. He also won a silver medal in the shot put (both hands), where the distance thrown with both hands is added. It was the only time the event was held. Eight years later, after the war, he won the 56 pound weight throw competition on August 21 - the second (and last time) this competition was held. He was 42 years and 23 days old, making him the oldest track and field athlete to win Olympic gold. 1920 - Norwegian Helge Lovland enters the final event of the decathlon trailing Brutus Hamilton. The American could give up six seconds on Lovland in the 1,500m and still win, but Lovland managed the impossible as he took gold with a total of 6,803 points after beating Hamilton by 9.4 seconds. After the Nazis occupied Norway during the World War II, Lovland tried to organize a competition boycott of Norwegian athletes. Fellow Norwegian Olympian Charles Hoff informed authorities of this and Lovland was forced to go underground. Hoff was charged with treason after the war and spent five years in jail.