On Wednesday, British athletics officials warned athletes in an email that they if they left the village they did so at their own risk, The Guardian reported.
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Concerns over the security of athletes competing in the Rio Olympics rose once again after it was revealed a member of the Great Britain team was robbed earlier this week.
The reigning king of track is back in his kingdom, lining up at Rio’s Olympic Stadium for what he hopes is his 8th gold medal. In men’s 400-meter hurdles, Kerron Clement will represent the USA team.
China’s dominance at the diving pool shows no signs of waning ahead of the 10-meter platform finals.
When the first Olympic Games held in a South American country commenced, China had proudly predicted a gold medal count of 30 to 36 from their 416 athletes who will be participating in 210 events in 26 different kinds of sports.
Si scored no lower than 76.50 in any of the five rounds and posted the top score of 397.45 points.
Tianna Bartoletta has dubbed it the “awesome hour”.
Brazil’s celebrated men’s soccer team rolled to a 6-0 win over Honduras in the semifinals Wednesday to earn a spot in the gold medal match.
No one else was even close. Tori Bowie of the United States took bronze in 22.15.
The top 18 divers tackle Thursday’s semifinals but reigning world champion Kim Kuk Hyang of North Korea won’t be one of them.
Beach volleyball is perhaps the sport most closely associated with the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Even though the U.S. finished group play without a loss, questions about their ability to claim a third straight gold swirled after three unimpressive narrow wins to close out preliminary play.
Team China is also barely keeping the second spot in the overall number of medals as Great Britain shows real grit and earns a total of 50 medals which is 1 medal short of what Chinese athletes now has, based on official medal tally from NBC Olympics.
Officials from the Great Britain track and field team sent an email to athletes on Wednesday, The Guardian said, including a warning that travel by taxi after dark was not safe and should be avoided.
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CCTV America’s Lucrecia Franco reports from Rio de Janeiro.
