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Rio Games bus hit by gunfire, no one seriously hurt
Grainger won a gold medal in London four years ago and silver medals in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. She is the only British woman with five Olympic medals.
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The three Olympic rookies on the American team have had an impressive start: Elena Delle Donne, Breanna Stewart and Brittney Griner have all had stretches when they have taken over games as the USA has won its first two contests in dominating fashion. After holding her down for 20 seconds, Harrison won with an automatic ippon victory. Aguiar threw her opponent, Australia’s Miranda Giambelli for a match-winning throw in just 39 seconds, to roars of “Mayra” from the mostly Brazilian crowd. At 11:30 a.m., South Africa takes on Australia. Italy’s pair placed third. Estonia got the bronze. Hernandez pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics’ first three days on Monday night with a unanimous decision over Russia’s Vasilii Egorov, the European champion and runner-up at last year’s world championships.
There’s also the element of athletes who have long breaks between events. The United States, world champion in the event past year, finished in fifth place.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Day 3 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, swimming, fencing, women’s rugby, judo and more.
“It doesn’t even feel real”, Biles said.
The truck they were traveling in was met by gunshots and one officer was shot in the head.
A Russian swimmer says he has been the victim of an armed robbery in Rio.
“I am very confident they will be looked back on as landmark Games”, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. He suggests he didn’t lose much in the way of valuables, adding that the robbery was “not costly, but worrying”.
Nick Lucena bumps the ball in a men’s beach volleyball match against Mexico at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Beach Volleyball Arena on August 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Everybody wants a medal of any color especially if golf is voted out of the Olympics after 2020.
Rio 2016 director of communications Mario Andrada.
Boats are stored in the team area during a weather postponement during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
Lochte turned 32 last week and is non-committal about whether Rio is his last Olympics. “Just to be at the Olympics is really special, but to come away with another medal is even more special”.
LIFE’S A BEACH: The American beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson has been eliminated from the Olympics on a tiebreaker. If there was any pressure on her to win gold, she never let it show. Japan swept the golds in the middleweight divisions on Wednesday.
The Japanese men topped Russian Federation in the team finals to take gold on Monday.
Phelps, competing Thursday evening in the 200-meter individual medley, is looking for his 22nd Olympic gold medal. The U.S., which took gold in the 4×100-meter free, holds the world and Olympic records in the 200. Fans shouldn’t be too anxious: Ledecky set the world record in the event in January.
Ledecky would go first, in the 200 meter freestyle, at 10:19 p.m. Phelps has his sights set on the 200 meter butterfly at 10:28 p.m.
The seemingly unstoppable American Katie Ledecky is also back in the pool, this time to qualify for the 800 meter freestyle.
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Soon after, Nadal is back on the court to team with Marc Lopez in a gold medal doubles match against Romania’s Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau. It’s a links-style layout stretching 7,128 yards and built in the hopes it can both challenge some of the world’s best in Rio and then grow the game in Brazil. Growing up in golf-starved Brazil with little equipment, Da Silva used to make golf clubs out of tree branches as a child.