“To do it today, the Olympic Games, I don’t know what to say”.
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Americans David Boudia and Steele Johnson have qualified for the men’s 10-meter semifinals. There’s no worry about Allyson Felix, the reigning Olympic champ, because she didn’t qualify at Olympic trials. Darya Klishina reached the long jump final but was eliminated after three attempts.
The U.S. men’s volleyball team also lost, in their semifinal matchup against Italy.
And then, of course, there’s Usain Bolt as he takes another step toward another sweep in the sprints.
Athletes from all of the world have been going for gold in Rio, and some have made it – but what have they actually got their hands on?
The top 18 move to Saturday’s semifinals at 11 a.m., where scores don’t carry over.
The U.S. men’s basketball team expected to see Spain again, whether it was for the gold medal, as in the last two Olympics, or just for the chance to play for gold.
“When I won I cried with joy”, said Ren, who became China’s first Olympic medal victor born this millennium. “The bronze medal match is the gnarliest match I’ve ever played in in my career, because you either go home with a handsome medal or you get nothing”.
The base set has 75 cards, including Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 career medals – 23 gold.
Four years ago, Chinese swimmer Sun Yang took gold in the 1,500m and 400m freestyle events.
Soccer: Women’s bronze medal match 12 p.m. Lee avenged his losses to Lin in the previous two Olympic finals.
The United States now lead the table ahead of Britain in second, while China sit third. At the London Olympics gold medals were roughly 93% silver, 6% copper and 1% gold. He said he never seriously considered missing these Olympics because he wants to be here for his team. He has won gold in the 200 IM four straight times; only Tamas Darnyi (1988, 1992) had previously repeated in the event.
Germany and South Korea play for the bronze. “Chinese audiences are decreasingly seeing medals as the paramount goal, and underperforming athletes are calmer when they end up with unsatisfying results”.
Germany and Sweden meet at 4:30 p.m.in the first all-European Olympic women’s final. Gerina Piller, an American who has not won on the LPGA tour (but perhaps best known for a clutch putt in the 2015 Solheim Cup), is also two shots back. The Americans have three players, including newlywed Stacy Lewis. At this point in his career, he was no longer fighting to be above-average or even great – the teenager was chasing the ghosts of swimmers past to become the very best of all time.
Serbia will face a young Chinese squad led by former USA coach Jenny Lang Ping in the women’s finals at 10:15 p.m. Finding four at the same time to compete with the Americans is tougher.
Maroon doubted whether any U.S. Olympic medal-winner would complain about the tax, but he said the prize money should be tax-exempt as matter of national pride.
In Sunday’s dash final, Bolt came off the blocks, um, not slowly, but clearly behind American challenger Justin Gatlin. Farah won the 10,000 meters last week in Rio despite tumbling to the ground after being tripped, and won both those long-distance races at the 2012 London Olympics.
The paper hailed Fu Yuanhui, China’s new internet darling who only won a bronze in the pool, as a shining example of the public’s new-found enthusiasm for character and personality rather than robotic gold winning machines. And it isn’t because of the opening ceremony or the track and field or women’s soccer or even gymnastics.
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Daniyar Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan beat Uzbekistan’s Shakhram Giyasov 3-0 to win the gold medal in the men’s welterweight boxing final.
