Hrubesch Horst, the Germans head coach, said that nothing is more handsome than playing an Olympic final at Maracana against Brazil.
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BEACH BRONZE: Few bronze medal games featured a more intriguing matchup than the one on Copacabana Beach, where Walsh Jennings, who has won three gold medals, and Ross beat Brazil’s top-seeded team of Talita and Larissa, 17-21, 21-17, 15-9.
“It doesn’t matter how many gold medals we have, as long as all the athletes can come home safely”, posted an Olympics fan over China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform, Sina Weibo.
Neymar is the only player on either squad to have played in the 2014 World Cup and he missed the Germany game through injury. In total, 16 gold medals will be handed out Wednesday.
Jimmy Butler and the USA men’s basketball team takes on Argentina in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament today in Rio.
It’s a four-gold medal day at the Olympic track in Rio de Janeiro, and women are the featured performers.
Canada will instead be forced to defend the bronze medal they won four years ago when they face Brazil for a place on the podium in Sao Paulo earlier on Friday.
Biles was the favorite to win the floor exercises; teammate Aly Raisman, seen as Biles’ chief competition, took the silver medal.
The 24-year-old striker is vital for Brazil at the Rio Olympics and has regained the trust of the fans after a struggling start.
Neymar will have to keep the magic going to allow Brazil to finally hoist the only worldwide title that has so far eluded it. Once he and partner Bruno Schmidt had secured their victory, Alison fell face-first into the sand in celebration.
Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto stormed to victory in the men’s 3000m steeplechase. Jessica Parratto of the United States took third in the preliminaries at 346.80.
His lead narrowed in the shot put and the high jump.
Daniyar Yeleussinov defeated Uzbekistan’s Shakhram Giyasov and became the fourth consecutive boxer from Kazakhstan to win the Olympic boxing welterweight gold medal.
As the controversy and confusion surrounding Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers, who also said they were held up by robbers, continued to swirl, The Guardian reported that Britain’s competitors had been warned not to leave the Olympic Village. Authorities say the police were not called to the scene when the robbery occurred, and only began investigating when reports of the event appeared in local media.
The fans will be in Brazil’s corner this time.
On Wednesday night British track and field officials responded to the news by sending an email to athletes warning them that if they left the village they would do so at their own risk.
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As clearly stated in the article, China was hoping to replicate performances of their Olympians during the London and Beijing Olympics.
