American Kristin Armstrong won the race, conquering the brutal course to edge Russian Olga Zabelinskaya by 5.55 seconds.
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The biggest problem for rowers is not so much the rain as the wind.
US women win relay: Katie Ledecky led the United States to a gold medal in the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay, her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics. She also won in Beijing and London.
Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk slid off the course, likely costing her a medal.
This marked the first time men and women have been on the same crews in Olympic sailing.
USA Cycling chief executive Derek Bouchard-Hall called the conditions “rather bleak”.
After routing Senegal and setting Olympic records in points, margin of victory and assists, the US women’s team next faces Spain at 12 p.m. She earned a gold medal as part of the 4×200 freestyle relay after swimming in the preliminaries but the games have been disappointing for her.
She sustained a concussion and three spinal fractures in the crash.
“There is no way that could have been a rock”, she said.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Two windows were shattered Tuesday when an Olympic bus carrying journalists was hit by an unknown projectile. Davies said the bus eventually picked up a police escort. He continued to drive for a few metres until he saw a police auto and stopped.
The top-seeded player in the women’s tennis tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics got upset on Tuesday by Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, deprived of a chance to defend the gold medal she won four years ago in London.
Two windows were smashed and at least two people, were injured, according to local media reports.
The state-run Kuwait News Agency Thursday quoted officials saying al-Deihani’s win in double-trap demonstrates the capabilities of Kuwaiti athletes in the face of “hardships”.
In announcing his resignation, Kolecki said a second weightlifter, Krzysztof Szramiak, had tested positive for an above-normal level of growth hormone.
Press Association photographer David Davies said of the incident: “We were travelling from the hockey venue to the main press centre”. ‘Get down! Get down!
The three military police agents, drafted from outside Rio to help during the Games, were using a cellphone app to navigate and took a wrong turn into the Complexo de Mare slum and traffickers opened fire on their vehicle.
“I know what a gun sounds like”, she said.
Rio 2016 organisers have released a statement after an incident involving a media bus on Tuesday night. The driver slowed down and pulled over, which she says is “precisely the opposite of what he should have done, which was to put the gas on and floor it”.
Host Brazil plays the US men at 8:35 p.m. The team has had two disappointing draws and fans are booing them – and superstar Neymar – when they take the field. Brazil plays Colombia in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Spokesman Mark Adams said the International Olympic Committee was taking the incident “very seriously”.
Both Phelps and Ledecky have already won gold in Rio, but they’re hoping to add to their respective treasure trove as the world watches.
Medals also will be awarded in the women’s 200 breaststroke finals, which starts at 8:17 p.m., and in the men’s 200 backstroke final, which starts at 8:26 p.m.
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Day 4 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, swimming, fencing, judo and more. The men start at 10 a.m. and British cyclist Chris Froome, coming off his third victory in Paris in four years, goes last at 11:40 p.m.
