Team USA also leads the way with 35 gold.
Advertisement
Silver medalist Paul Chelimo of the USA, who was among the disqualified, had stepped out of bounds on the track.
When the Olympic title holder in the men’s 200 kayak sprint didn’t qualify for the Rio games another Briton stepped in.
Canoeist Isaquias Queiroz has become the first Brazilian Olympian to win three medals at the same games.
American Gwen Jorgensen is the gold medal favorite in the women’s Olympic triathlon at Copacabana Beach on Saturday.
Day 14 of the Rio Games features medal action in track and field, soccer, wrestling, boxing, platform diving and more. Inbee Park of South Korea finished shot a 5-under 66 to lead by one.
After Kim Hill’s ace on match point, the US women fell into an embrace and Kiraly hugged his coaches and brought his team together for a cheer.
It was also a red-letter day for golf as a women’s tournament teed-off for for the first time in 116 years.
The U.S. women’s basketball team is into the gold medal game following an 86-67 win over France.
The semifinal heats start at 1:30 p.m., with the medal race later in the afternoon. Brazilians are hungering for redemption after a different German squad crushed Brazil 7-1 at a 2014 World Cup semifinal that Brazil was hosting.
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the gymnastics exhibition gala at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016.
At Rio’s famed Maracana, Neymar scored after just 15 seconds for the fastest goal in Olympic history and added another in injury time as Brazil crushed Honduras to make the gold medal match. The two won silver in the synchronized 10-meter event last week. This relay gold goes with those he took in both the 4×4 relay and the 400 flat in 2008.
Well, if it wasn’t already obvious, this story of the alleged robbery involving four US swimmers isn’t going away.
The cheapest available ticket to track and field Thursday morning was about $31, the most expensive about $109 – and for the night session, with Bolt set to try for a third straight gold in the 200-meter dash, the top price was almost $300.
Medals will be awarded in the men’s draw, too.
OR native Ryan Crouser also enjoyed a Bolt-like night by dominating the shot put in breaking a 28-year old Olympic record with a toss of 22.52 meters, or 73-feet-10 3/4-inches.
At least 500,000 foreign visitors arrived in Brazil to attend the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the government said on Friday, citing recent immigration figures that met a forecast made well before the Games.
Lochte, along with fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen, stopped at the gas station in Barra da Tijuca, a suburb of Rio where many Olympic venues are located.
Australian Olympic spokesman Mike Tancred tells NBC that the International Olympic Committee should handle the matter, not Brazilian police.
Advertisement
Brazil avenged a loss to Russian Federation in the 2012 London Games gold-medal match with a straight-set victory Friday night. But that statistic hasn’t passed the eye test throughout the games, and an Associated Press review of the remaining 100 event sessions starting Thursday afternoon showed roughly half – including the closing ceremony, the women’s soccer gold-medal match and all remaining sessions in track and field – had tickets remaining.
