For all of the Olympic fanfare surrounding Bolt’s win, American swimmer Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates attracted attention for all the wrong reasons.
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Biles is the reigning world champion in the floor exercise.
Christophe Lemaitre of France secured his first major individual medal by taking bronze, edging out Adam Gemili of Britain in a photo finish after they were both awarded the same time of 20.12. Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands will try to defend his Olympic title on high bar.
Is Czech great Roman Sebrle’s Olympic record of 8893 points in sight for the American as he contests the final five disciplines? He’ll be joined on high bar by teammate Sam Mikulak.
The evening’s most entertaining theatre came, as usual, from Bolt, who will go for his eighth Olympic gold medal Thursday.
Bolt is running in the 200-meter final and going for his third straight sprint double after winning the 100 and 200 in the Beijing and London Games.
BEACH BRONZE: Few bronze medal games will feature a more intriguing matchup than the one on Copacabana Beach, where Walsh Jennings, who has won three gold medals, and Ross will face Brazil’s top-seeded top-seeded team of Talita and Larissa.
“When they scream ‘Brazil it gives me goosebumps”, said Cerutti, who won silver at London 2012.
Biles and four other athletes also have been on the front and back covers of various Kellogg Co. cereal boxes since mid-June, extending the decades-old tradition of Olympic athletes being featured on cereal boxes. OR football player Devon Allen finished fifth in 13.31. The Jamaican is heavily favored to pull off the feat again after already winning the 100, but will face competition from Andre de Grasse of Canada and American LaShawn Merritt, who actually has the year’s best time at 200 meters. Two-time world champion Kerron Clement stormed to victory in the men’s 400m hurdles while Ashton Eaton equalled the Olympic record when retaining his decathlon crown.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya has dominated the 800 meters this year and is a favorite to win the gold medal at 9:15 p.m. They cruised through pool play, winning the five games by an average of 40.8 points. She did not run in the 4×400 preliminaries – which were scheduled less than two hours before the 4×100 final – but would be an obvious contender for a spot in the USA team for the 4×400 final.
France faces Serbia in the bronze medal game at 11:30 a.m.
Serbia, which will get the country’s first volleyball medal, advanced to the finals by beating the US, which plays the Dutch for the bronze at 1 p.m.
It’s a win-or-go home game as the US men’s basketball team faces Argentina in the quarterfinals. They play the Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen at 5 p.m. They play at 1 p.m.
Brazil takes on Germany for the men’s gold at 5:30 p.m.in a rematch of nations that made it to the World Cup semifinals.
Canada, which won bronze four years ago, is the only team from the medal round at the London Games to return to the semifinals in Brazil. “To see how happy she was despite the fact she should have been competing here – that trumped the hurt from not making the team”.
Tianna Bartoletta shrugged off 100 meter disappointment to land the women’s long jump gold medal, edging out defending Olympic champion and United States team mate Brittney Reese with a personal best leap of 7.17m.
Nicola Adams, the British flyweight who won the first gold medal in Olympic women’s boxing history, opens the slate with her first bout of the tournament.
The top 18 move to Saturday’s semifinals at 11 a.m., where scores don’t carry over.
Shakur Stevenson and Gary Russell have fights early in the day for an American team trying to make up for an 0-2 effort on Monday.
When the Summer Olympics end Sunday, the clock starts ticking for medal winners hoping to cash in on their glory. That fight starts at 7:15 p.m. The final is Wednesday night.
Phelps reportedly has a net worth of $55 million, and Bolt’s reportedly tops $60 million, in good part because they’ve had long, superlative careers spanning more than one Olympics. The two were taken off their flight from.
The U.S.is 6-0 in the Olympic tournament and in search of its first Olympic gold medal since volleyball was added to the Olympic schedule in 1964.
Rollins and Castlin took first and second place, respectively, in the first round competition earlier this week.
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On the first day, former Olympic champion shooters Du Li and Yi Siling could claim only a silver and bronze, while swimmer Sun Yang came in second in the 400m freestyle event and then failed to qualify for the 1,500m freestyle final.
