Track and field events get underway Friday at Rio 2016, which arguably will be an uncomfortable moment for Russia’s Olympic team. Olympic champion Britain and world champion USA are likely to meet for gold in the velodrome, provided both win semifinals starting at 11:17 a.m.as expected.
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Swimming wraps up its run at the Olympics this week while the men and women gymastists head to the individual event finals Sunday through Tuesday.
Sir Bradley Wiggins will be going for a fifth Olympic gold medal, and eighth Olympic medal in total (which would be the most from a Brit), at the age of 36, in Team GB’s blue riband event. With the 200-meter, 400-meter and 4×200-meter races behind her, she now sets her sights on 800-meter freestyle heats.
The match reunites the United States with former coach Pia Sundhage, who led the Americans to gold at both the Beijing and London Olympics.
Defending men’s gold medal champions Russian Federation take on 2014 world champions Poland at 3 p.m.
Twenty four gold medals will be up for grabs across 19 sports Friday, with Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, looking for yet more gold as he takes to the pool again.
“Right now, I’m taking it one race at a time”, said Franklin, who is struggling to understand her puzzling lack of form this year.
With team mate Anthony Ervin winning the 50 freestyle gold on Friday at the age of 35, 16 years after he first won it, there will always be those who wonder if the 31-year-old Phelps might do another tumble turn and turn up in Tokyo in 2020.
Solo was angered by Sweden’s defensive style and branded the team a “bunch of cowards”.
In a long-beloved ritual for U.S. Olympic champions, Kellogg’s said on Friday that the faces of Biles and her team mates would appear on boxes of Special K breakfast cereal. “I strongly and firmly believe that”. Stefan Henze, a canoe slalom silver medalist at the 2004 Games, underwent emergency surgery in a Rio de Janeiro hospital.
But he had looked unstoppable in Rio, at least until Asian champion Schooling floored him in the 100m fly, an event he had won at the past three Games.
On a day that began with another round of rain, South America’s first Olympics lingered under clouds of grief, doping and disrespect.
-And in a serious breach of judo etiquette with political overtones, an Egyptian judoka refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent after his loss.
It is first Olympic gold medal for Fiji and also the first ever Olympic medal for the island country known for its athletic rugby.
At 12:15 p.m. American Nico Hernandez fights for gold against Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov in a light flyweight semifinal.
On Wednesday night, Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura won the men’s individual all around gold medal, adding to an unbelievable record that includes three world championship titles and gold at the 2012 London Olympics. It was the first American medal in equestrian individual eventing since 2008.
The women’s gold medal singles match at 3 p.m. features Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig against Germany’s Angelique Kerber. Puig is ranked 34th and unseeded but is assured of no worse than a silver medal.
“I can guarantee that Rio de Janeiro is a lot safer now than it normally is”, the general told reporters.
AUTO ACCIDENT: A German Olympic canoe coach is fighting for his life after a vehicle accident left him with serious head injuries. He and a team official were heading to the athletes village when their taxi was in a wreck.
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As Brazil’s ambitions have swollen, so has its team with 465 members this time – nearly twice as many as London and Beijing.
