Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said in a statement that interim President Michel Temer had declared a day of national mourning “in consideration for the high level of excellence and the importance of the work carried out by those dedicated to guaranteeing the security of the Olympic Games”.
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The only event left for Phelps to swim here is Saturday night’s medley relay.
Olympic track and field events are starting Friday, including preliminary heats in the women’s 100 meters.
Britain took the silver medal and Australia bronze.
Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, competing in her record seventh Olympics, will also try to reach the podium. While the American team is not yet set, he could be swimming in the men’s 4×100 meter medley relay final.
At age 31, he leaves Rio with five golds and a silver. He told AP that he’s not paying attention to what people are saying about him, and is not concerned with those who think he doesn’t belong here.
They were most common in gymnastics under the old 10-point judging system, which also produced the only four-way tie, for men’s vault silver in 1984.
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the two-time defending Olympic champion, had the fastest time in qualifiers Friday night.
The men’s 10,000 kicks off with Farrah the dominant athlete. He has not lost a major race since the 2011 worlds, but Ethiopia’s Yigrem Demelash is hoping to restore his nation’s ownership of the race.
The 19-year-old already has two golds during the games after leading the “Final Five” to the team title and becoming the fourth straight American woman to win the all-around last week. The draw was still coming together Saturday evening, but Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross were planning to be back out for a midnight match.
For those who run fast a tad longer, Sunday’s Olympic men’s 400 meter final is shaping up to be a titanic showdown between LaShawn Merritt of the United States, Kirani James of Grenada and Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa. The man to beat in the 800 meters is David Rudisha of Kenya, who holds the world and Olympic records.
She knew it would have to end sometime, unless she wanted to swim every event for the U.S.
On the tennis court, Germany’s Angelique Kerber faces Monica Puig, who is looking for Puerto Rico’s first gold in any Olympic sport.
The U.S. women are heading home without an Olympic medal for the first time.
Brazil’s fortunate to be in the field.
Wrestling might look like a brand new sport to the casual viewer when it makes its Olympic return Sunday when Greco-Roman grapplers take to the mat.
Murray is going to have to work extra hard, though, because del Potro is on a roll, having ousted both the top player in the world, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, and No. 5 Rafael Nadal of Spain at the Olympic tournament.
The comeback endured a huge setback with his second drunken-driving arrest in 2014, which led to Phelps being banned from the world championships the following year.
Swede Henrik Stenson, the British Open champ, is in the mix thanks to the longer put in his career: a 108-footer for par.
Women’s quarterfinals start at 4 p.m. Earlier in the games, she became the first American to compete while wearing a hajib. Combined, the Soviet Union and Russian Federation have 580 golds. Australia earned silver, while Denmark took bronze.
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After helping Britain win the team sprint Thursday, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner squeaked past their opponents in the opening round of the individual sprint competition Friday night.
