“I think we’ll look back on these Games as a really, really good thing for the Olympic Movement”, added IOC spokesman.
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Italian Daniele Garozzo stunned top-ranked American Alexander Massialas to win the individual gold Sunday. The Dutch team was prepared coming to the Olympics and had brought their own bikes which they used to beat the traffic in Rio, Brazil. The Aussies and Brazilians met at the Women’s World Cup a year ago, and it was Australia that advanced by beating Marta and Co. An American woman has won the all-around at the last three Summer Games.
The world’s top four players – Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – skipped the Rio Games because of Zika fears and safety concerns.
Kuwaiti athletes are not competing under their national flag this year due to a suspension by the International Olympic Committee, which deemed certain provisions in the country’s sports legislation as government interference in Olympic autonomy.
A police source told Reuters it was the third time an Olympics bus had been targeted by youths throwing stones.
The truck they were traveling in was met by gunshots and one officer was shot in the head.
Is Tiger Woods playing?,’ asked one spectator at the entrance of the Olympic Course.
Other athletes even prompted to take alternative methods to go around Rio de Janeiro including the subway, which is according to Brazil natives is the safest means of transport in their country.
Alex Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic race walk gold medal victor, has been banned for eight years after his appeal against a provisional doping suspension was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She is already considered the greatest female distance runner in history with her five Olympic medals (three gold) and five world championship golds.
Phelps, competing Thursday evening in the 200-meter individual medley, is looking for his 22nd Olympic gold medal. Favorites Fiji will take on Japan and Britain play South Africa in the semi-finals.
Much of the competition had to be pushed back on Wednesday because of rain.
The 200 meter individual semis are at 11:29 p.m. Heats start earlier in the day, at 2:09 p.m. Lochte holds the world record, which he set in 2011, and Phelps has the Olympic record, set in 2008 (Beijing).
Medals also will be awarded in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, the women’s 100 meter freestyle and in the men’s 200 meter backstroke. She earned a gold medal as part of the 4×200 freestyle relay after swimming in the preliminaries but the games have been disappointing for her.
Skies and pools both darkened Wednesday as the sun-splashed Olympics in Rio de Janeiro gave way to gray clouds and murky green waters.
There was plenty for golf to celebrate in its return to the Olympics, from the opening tee shot by Adilson da Silva of Brazil to the first hole-in-one by Justin Rose, who wasn’t even sure his 7-iron from 189 yards on the fourth hole had gone in the cup until he heard the crowd.
The first official Olympic golf shot in 112 years was struck by Brazil’s Adilson da Silva to open the round, and plenty of his countrymen were on the course as fans.
The men’s tournament gets under way as Matt Kuchar, Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler represent the United States.
Keep an eye on Biles’ floor routine: It includes a move she created and which is named for her.
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American Gabby Douglas is the defending Olympic champion, but will be on the sidelines Thursday.
