Wednesday's Olympic Highlights

BEIJING, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Wednesday's Olympic highlights:

-- Michael Phelps became the all-time leader in Olympic victories, winning two gold medals in the space of an hour to run his career total to 11. He has five in these Games and has a realistic chance to break the single-Olympics gold medal record of seven, set by Mark Spitz in 1972.

-- China's gold medal total climbed to 17 with four added Wednesday. The Chinese have won six of the nine weightlifting golds and all four of the diving events. The United States and China both won seven medals overall Wednesday and the Americans clung to a 29-27 lead in total medals.

-- The highly anticipated showdown between the smallest competitors in the Olympics went the way of China. In the women's team gymnastics final, the Chinese held a 1-point lead going into the final rotation and outdueled their American counterparts.

-- The war-ravaged country of Georgia picked up gold medals in Greco-Roman wrestling and judo. The two gold medals in these Olympics doubles that nation's previous total.

-- American softball pitcher Cat Osterman threw a no-hitter in a victory over Australia, one of the teams that has an outside chance to challenge the United States for the gold medal. The American team has played 12 innings in two games thus far and the opposition has yet to pick up a hit.

-- In their first baseball game of the Olympics, the Americans rallied for three runs in the top of the ninth to take a one-run lead over South Korea. But the Koreans scored twice in the bottom half of the inning for the victory.