Then Mother Nature plugged the rain and the golfing stars shone in "one of the best days in Europe's history" as a "phenomenal" afternoon of golf washed away frustrations of moaning in the morning rain.

BBC: Europe reign after the storm

London (CNN) -- Young stars shone at the Olympic pool Monday as Yannick Agnel of France won his second gold medal of the London Games, American teen sensation Missy Franklin won her first and a 15-year-old Lithuanian stunned the women's 100-meter breaststroke field.

CNN: Olympics: Young stars winning swimming golds

There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.

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