The Canadians fell 4-3 in an overtime semifinal match to the eventual gold medal-winning US team, a game that featured a non-call on what appeared to be a missed handball by an American player in front of the USA goal.
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Silver medals are expected to go to track cycling sprinter Eddie Dawkins in the keirin (behind German Joachim Eilers), Linda Villumsen in the road time trial (behind Dutchwoman Anna van der Breggen), world No 1 golfer Lydia Ko (behind American Stacy Lewis), the men’s sevens team (behind Fiji) and rowers Chris Harris and Robbie Manson in the mens’ double scull behind Croatia.
Lloyd, who wowed fans with three goals in 16 minutes in the 5-2 win over Japan in July’s World Cup final, sprained her MCL in an April game with her club team, the Houston Dash.
THE RUNDOWN: Shooting at the Rio Olympics will include 15 events, nine men’s and six women’s. The youngest player in the current roster is 18-year-old Mallory Pugh.
Judoka An Chang-rim, the world’s No. 1 in the men’s under-73kg category, is one of the main candidates to win the gold.
The U.S.is trying to win its fifth gold medal since women’s soccer became an Olympic sport in 1996.
Every four years, economists at Goldman Sachs take a short break from their usual chores to take a stab at estimating the Olympic medal tallies.
Icho, a 10-time world champion, lost her first match in 13 years earlier this season – though largely because of an injured neck. In 2004 and 2008, she also finished on the podium in the individual events; but, in London, finally claimed individual gold.
Yet due to a 22 per cent fall in the price of gold in the last four years from $1622 per troy ounce in 2012 to $1320.75 today, the World Gold Council has valued the medals in Rio this year at approximately $600 each compared to the London Games’ record-high of $706.
An American squad of National Basketball Association stars and their Women’s National Basketball Association counterparts are expected to add more Olympic history to their awesome legacy at Rio.
The U.S. men have their first game on Saturday, when they’ll face China.
Twitter this morning announced a change to how its Moments feature will work for those who want to follow the Rio 2016 Olympic Games via its platform. Silvia Neid has been head coach of the German senior team since 2005. Together, Liu and Chen won the synchro platform World title in 2013 and 2015.
“We feel like we didn’t lose. That’s where we want to stay”, U.S. guard Jimmy Butler said. “It’s a shame in a game like that, which is so important, that the ref decided the result before the game started”.
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Meares is still among the world’s best, taking silver in the keirin at the world championships and teaming with Stephanie Morton to form a potent sprint combo. “I am going into my first Olympics but people I’m racing are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics – they’re the ones under pressure”. As a result, its global ranking jumped four spots to No. 5.
