Also take a look at the map below to see the hometown of every medal-winning athlete from Team U.S.A.at the Rio Summer Olympics.
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Though Rollins was unreachable, it came down to hundredths of seconds for the other two medals. Serbia’s Marko Tomicevic and Milenko Zoric took the silver and Ken Wallace and Lachlan Tame of Australia the bronze.
She added a bronze in the balance beam Monday in what marked the first day of a Summer Olympics since 2008 the United States didn’t win a gold medal. She became the first woman since Marion Jones in 2000 to win both Olympic sprints.
London 2012 champion American Ashton Eaton will also defend his title, as the men’s decathlon starts competition Wednesday morning with the 100 meter sprint.
Brazil has won more Olympic medals in the event than any other country. Brazil won the match 6-0 and qualified for the final.
Five teams have a chance at the silver and bronze, including Annie Haeger and Briana Provancha of the United States.
Lin easily won the first game, then lost big in the second to the world No. 11 before taking a close deciding game. It kept going with another Jamaican, Elaine Thompson, completing the first 100-200 women’s double since 1988.
One of the feel-good moments in Rio occurred in the 5,000 when American Abbey D’Agostino’s was involved in a chain-reaction tumble Tuesday with New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin and, instead of running off, D’Agostino helped her up.
The men race next on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
Schippers said she had a groin injury that pushed her back into fifth place in the 100.
Luis Scola scored 15 points and Manu Ginobili had 14 for Argentina in what’s expected to the final time the remaining core members of its Golden Generation play together. Christian Taylor won gold in the triple jump to start the day Tuesday, and teammate Will Claye came in second – a familiar result for the Americans.
Italy awaits the victor of Wednesday’s second semifinal between Hungary and the United States. Germany’s senior team trounced Brazil 7-1 in the semifinals of the World Cup in Rio two years ago.
They were released late at night “with the understanding that they would continue their discussions about the incident on Thursday”, said Patrick Sandusky, spokesman for the US Olympic Committee. “We are gathering further information”.
The incident comes after US gold medallist Ryan Lochte and three team mates said they were robbed by armed men carrying police badges while travelling to the Athletes’ Village in a taxi in the early hours of the morning after a party.
The reigning BMX world champions have earned the top Olympic seeds after finishing first in their respective qualifying runs on Wednesday in Rio.
Bolt set the world record of 19.19 at the 2009 world championships in Berlin.
FAILED TO QUALIFY: Justin Gatlin has failed to qualify for the final of the 200 meters after placing third in his semifinal heat the Olympics.
China’s defending Olympic taekwondo champion Jingyu Wu has advanced into the quarterfinals of the competition at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Wednesday morning after defeating Taiwan’s Huai-Hsuan Huang by a score of 10 to 1.
Rollins’s triumph left the United States with five gold medals in track and field, ahead of Kenya and Jamaica, two other powers in the sport. A victory in Brazil would give her a third-straight Olympic title.
Tyson Gay and Jarrion Lawson will run for Team USA in Round 1 of the Men’s 4x100m relay. China’s team consisted of the gold and silver medalists in Rio – Ma Long and Zhang Jike – and the world No. 3, Xu Xin.
China will face the upstart Netherlands women, who beat South Korea in four sets.
Gymnastics gala: Brazil’s Arthur Zanetti playful on rings: The Brazilian hero, a gold medalist in London and silver medalist in Rio on the still rings, showed his sense of humor during the non-judged gymnastics gala.
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The fans at the 78,000-seat Maracana – the biggest crowd ever for a women’s national team match in Brazil – roared whenever Marta touched the ball.
