RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Martin Kaymer is exhausted of talking about the golfers who aren’t at the Olympics.
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Gold is on his mind as Michael Phelps looks for his 22nd Olympic medal of that color in the 200-meter individual medley at the Rio Olympics.
United States’ Ryan Lochte swims his leg in a men’ 4×200-meter freestyle relay heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He holds the world and Olympic records in the event.
Medals also will be awarded in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, the women’s 100 meter freestyle and in the men’s 200 meter backstroke. American Caeleb Dressel was nipping at his heels in the preliminaries, and he takes to the water with a gold already in hand, also from the 4×100.
He opened defense of his Olympic title in the 100-meter butterfly by qualifying fourth fastest in 51.60 seconds on Thursday. Dutton won bronze in the individual event.
In the women’s 100m freestyle semifinal, Americans Simone Manuel and Abbey Weitzeil placed third and eighth respectively to qualify for Thursday’s final.
The incident was the bloodiest of several that have marred the start of South America’s first Olympic Games. Events start at 4 p.m. and all eyes will be on Japan’s Kohei Uchimura.
This has been an Olympics of redemption for Hosszu, a long-time star at the world championships who always seemed to come up short on the biggest stage. While the U.S.is still the team to beat, they were tested in their last contest against Australia.
The third day of the men’s water polo tournament began in green-tinged water, though not almost as dark as the neighboring diving pool at the aquatics center. He has three matches scheduled, though rain in the forecast could change that.
On the tennis court, Rafael Nadal of Spain will team up with Marc Lopez to face Romania in a gold medal doubles match, while in boxing, American Nico Hernandez will be fighting for gold against Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov.
Better yet? He set an Olympic record Thursday, though that was hardly a surprise considering golf had not been part of the Olympics since 1904.
After routing Senegal and setting Olympic records in points, margin of victory and assists, the US women’s team next faces Spain at 12 p.m. LeBron James has 273 points.
The semi-aquatic capybara which, according to the San Diego Zoo, can be between 3 to 4 feet long, stand 2 feet tall, and weigh between 60 to 174 pounds, have been roaming the golf course.
At 3:30 p.m., the US women play Serbia. Anthony hit a flurry of 3s after the Americans, who barely broke a sweat in their first two games, trailed early in the fourth quarter.
The dominant US men’s basketball team takes on Venezuela at 7 p.m. after Saturday’s romp over China, 119-62.
BRAZIL’S HERO: While Neymar has been a disappointment for the wildly popular Brazilian men’s soccer team, Marta has been a revelation.
Two-time gold medalist Kristin Armstrong is last off in the women’s race for the USA, while reigning bronze medalist Chris Froome of Britain is last off in the men’s race. That was certainly safe four years ago. It was Russia’s second consecutive silver, while China was missed the podium in London but won team gold at their home Olympics in Beijing.
The men play Serbia at 7 p.m.
I have no doubt Fowler is having a good time. He held off Japan’s Masato Sakai by four-hundredths of a second, with Hungary’s Tamas Kenderesi taking the bronze.
Athletes from the United States have won 27 medals overall so far in Rio.
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Individual road race time trials for both the men and the women will take place on Rio’s challenging Grumari circuit.
