The U.S. team is now in second place. Sukanya Srisurat lifted an Olympic record 110 kilograms in the snatch section of the event, an eight-kilogram gap to her nearest challenger, to finish with an overall total of 240. The men’s team still has plenty of chances to medal in individual events.
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The Australian 4×100-meter team set a new world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle by winning in 3 minutes and 30.65 seconds, breaking the previous record set by the Aussies two years ago by just a third (1/3) of a second. Should she make it to the finals, it’ll be special, but either way, there’s no shortage of talent in women’s tennis in Rio and the finals will be worth a watch as will the quarter and semi finals, taking place on Wednesday and Thursday the 10th and 11th. World and Olympic record holder Katinka Hosszu of Hungary is in the field.
Great Britain was fourth, posting a team score of 269.752, followed by the USA with 268.560.
The dominant U.S. men’s basketball team takes on Venezuela at 7 p.m. after Saturday’s romp over China, 119-62. Tip is at 2:15 p.m.
The U.S. got off to a rough start with their first of six rotations and it only got slightly better from there on out.
Meanwhile, Josip Glasnovic secured Croatia’s first gold medal of the Games as he toppled Italy’s Giovanni Pellielo in a sudden-death shootout in the men’s trap shooting.
Immediately after Phelps exits the pool for what could be the final time in an Olympic individual competition, the woman who has already begun to fill his massive shoes, Katie Ledecky, will slide into the pool for her final individual race in Rio.
The truth is, when you have as many stars on one team as Team USA men’s basketball does, it’s practically must-see TV any time they take the floor. While Japan has been a favorite, the team looked shaky in preliminaries.
After a Rio midnight Saturday win over Australia that took only 35 minutes, Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross square off against China’s Yuan Yue and Fan Wang (11 p.m. EDT).
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Using medal counts helpfully assembled by Google, we’ve put together a running count of how many gold, silver, and bronze medals each country participating in the Olympics has won.
