-And Usain Bolt, the co-star of these games along with Michael Phelps, said that a tight schedule slowed down the sprinters in the 100 meters Sunday.
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“I think I could take her in a 400. When I went out, the track was soaking”, he said. Then again, the fastest man on the planet has never lacked for confidence.
The 110-meter hurdles heats were hard hit, prompting organizers to run a special race later in the night.
Keep an eye on Jamaican Omar McLeod and American Devon Allen, the University of OR football/track standout, in the 110-meter hurdles.
In addition, Christian Taylor will try to defend the gold medal that he won four years ago in the triple jump, and the undefeated USA women will try to keep their streak going in volleyball as they square off against China in their quarterfinal match.
Here are the five biggest events to watch Tuesday at the Rio Olympics.
Biles has already earned three golds and a bronze, though her chance to become the first female gymnast to capture five golds in a single Olympics ended when she wobbled during the balance beam final on Monday and ended up with bronze. Denia Caballero, the world champion from Cuba, also needed a qualifier on her final attempt after two fouls. Biles and Raisman went 1-2 in the all-around competition last week. She is running only in the 400 after missing a chance to defend her Olympic 200-meter title by failing to make the US team. American Haley Anderson won silver in London, narrowly missing out on the gold. He’ll be joined on high bar by teammate Sam Mikulak.
Medals also will be awarded in women’s discus (11:20 a.m.), the women’s 1500 meters (10:30 p.m.) and the men’s high jump (8:30 p.m.). It was a long fall from the 2008 Beijing Games when it dominated the sport as host and claimed both the men’s and women’s team titles.
In the United States, female national team soccer players have filed a wage discrimination complaint, saying the US men are paid much more even though the women have out-performed them. And when Rafaela Silva won gold in women’s judo – Brazil’s first gold medal of this Olympics – major newspapers splashed her photo on their front pages. The Americans play Brazil at 2:10 p.m.
This is only the second Olympics holding competition in open ocean waters.
Though she looked pleased with her performance, Wang Yan, 16, finished fifth in the women’s floor final that followed the parallel bars on Tuesday.
A thoroughly entertaining Olympic heavyweight tournament concludes with the gold-medal bout between Russian world champion Evgeny Tishchenko and Kazakhstan’s fearsome Vassilliy Levit.
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Australia huddles up during the quarter final hockey game against New Zealand on Day 10 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Hockey Centre on August 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
