Day 11 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, track and field, boxing, wrestling and more.
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Brazil’s suffering sports fans got some good news when football star Neymar scored twice – including the fastest Olympic goal after 15 seconds – in a 6-0 win over Honduras in the Olympic semi-final. “They were ahead and it was hard to come back when I got sloppy and it took me out”, Ash said. The Jamaicans, with the second-fastest time in qualifiers, are always formidable. Hamblin advanced to the final, which starts at 9:40 p.m., but D’Agostino tore ligaments in her knee and is done for the season. But for most of the day, all anyone was talking about surrounding the Olympics was an encounter at a gas station restroom in Rio de Janeiro. She and the rest of her teammates have been ordered to return their medals.
It was his first gold medal following silvers at the last two world championships.
MEDAL ALERT: The United States has swept the medals in the 100-meter hurdles at the Olympics. Bolt cruised to gold in the 100 and will also be a part of Jamaica’s 4×100 relay. But the Americans were ousted by Sweden in the quarterfinals.
Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn became the first 18-hole leader in the history of women’s golf in the Olympics.
Conger and Bentz, along with star U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte and squad member James Feigen, said they were held up at gunpoint in the early hours of Sunday. But Sweden knocked off the Brazilians in the semifinals. They didn’t have to wait long, with Neymar scoring 15 seconds into the game.
The U.S. men’s basketball team expected to see Spain again, whether it was for the gold medal, as in the last two Olympics, or just for the chance to play for gold.
Well, here they are.
There was a slight blip in the champion’s preparations when he took to social media to defend himself from criticism after he was pictured wearing a Canada cap to support his wife, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who took bronze in the women’s heptathlon. Burroughs is seeking his fifth world title in just his sixth year of global competition.
Walsh Jennings is going for her fourth gold, and Ross is looking to improve on the silver she earned when she lost to her fellow Americans in the London final. Inbee Park of South Korea finished shot a 5-under 66 to lead by one.
Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin finished 1-2-3 in the 100-meter hurdles to give the United States its first sweep in the event, its seventh in the history of Olympic track and the 23rd for USA women, regardless of sport, over the history of the Olympics.
The fifth-ranked Americans topped second-ranked Poland on Wednesday, building momentum after dropping their initial two matches before stunning Brazil and finishing off France.
Gymnastics gala: Acrobatic team plays human jump rope: While acro gymnastics may not be an Olympic sport, the Chinese acrobatic team thrilled audiences at the Rio Olympic gymnastics gala.
In track cycling, which wrapped up competition Tuesday, Britain’s Jason Kenny took the gold medal in the keirin, his third in the Rio Olympics.
The British runner was tripped in the 10,000-meter race on Saturday but still recovered to win his second Olympic gold over that distance.
Maggie Steffens and the US are coming off a 14-10 victory over Hungary in the semifinals.
Italy is a flawless 5-0 in Rio, including a 12-9 victory against Russian Federation on Wednesday, and last won gold in Athens in 2004.
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Brazil’s dream of crowning a home Olympics with a gold medal in women’s beach volleyball was ended in the early hours of Thursday morning on a raucous Copacabana Beach.
