RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
3:35 p.m.
Simone Biles put the finishing touches on one of the greatest Olympics by a gymnast ever, capturing her fourth gold of the games with a showstopping performance in the floor exercise.
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
The 19-year-old American on Tuesday completed an extraordinary stretch that included a team gold for the “Final Five” as well as individual golds in the all-around and vault and bronze on balance beam.
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Her five medals tie the most for an American woman in a single Olympics and her four golds tie an Olympic record shared by three others.
Biles embraced longtime coach Aimee Boorman shortly after her routine, which includes a tumbling pass named in her honor and a Brazilian-themed segment intended to play to the crowd in Rio. She beamed when her score of 15.966 was posted.
Teammate Aly Raisman followed with a 15.500 silver-medal performance to give her a third medal during Rio and six overall in her Olympic career.
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3:10 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Simone Biles closes out her Olympics with 4th gold medal of Rio Games in floor exercise.
United States’ Simone Biles displays her gold medal for floor during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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3:15 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Russia continued its dominance of Olympic synchronized swimming in Tuesday’s duet final as Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina each won their fourth career gold medals.
Russia’s Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina compete during the synchronized swimming duet free routine final in the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Russia has won every available Olympic gold in synchronized swimming since 2000, and Ishchenko and Romashina are among the most decorated swimmers in the sport’s history.
They performed an elegant and up-tempo free routine to win gold with a total score of 194.991 out of a possible 200, after coming in with the lead from the technical routine, and embraced their coaches at poolside.
That made it almost impossible for China’s Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan to challenge, and they had to settle for their country’s first Olympic silver in synchro on 192.3688.
Japan edged out Ukraine for bronze on 188.0547.
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3 p.m.
The water is back to normal at the Olympic diving pool.
The water turned a murky green a week ago. But on Tuesday it was its usual blue color and resembled the color of the larger synchronized swimming pool next to it.
The diving pool’s water changed color a week ago, touching off an embarrassing sequence of events for games’ organizers. The green color spread to the pool used for early water polo play before officials drained it and filled it with clean water from a practice pool.
Diving events end Saturday.
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3 p.m.
Brazil and Sweden are in extra time in the semifinals of the women’s Olympic soccer tournament.
Sweden’s Kosovare Asllani, left, and Brazil’s Tamires fight for the ball during the extra time of a semi-final match of the women’s Olympic football tournament between Brazil and Sweden at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Brazil controlled possession from the start but couldn’t capitalize on its scoring chances at the packed Maracana Stadium. Sweden threatened a few times on counterattacks.
Brazil is trying to win the women’s soccer gold for the first time. It twice won the silver, in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. Marta and Brazil were eliminated by Japan in the quarterfinals of the London Olympics four years ago.
Sweden is trying to reach the Olympic final for the first time.
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2:40 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Oleg Verniaiev of the Ukraine picked up his second medal in men’s gymnastics, taking gold in the parallel bars final on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev performs on the horizontal bar during the artistic gymnastics men’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Verniaiev’s score of 16.041 was just a touch better than the 15.9 put up by American Danell Leyva. David Belyavskiy of Russia earned the bronze.
Verniaiev finished a close second to Japan’s Kohei Uchimura in the all-around final last week.
The silver by Leyva was the first Olympic medal by an American on parallel bars since 1996. A bronze medalist in the all-around four years ago, Leyva was originally an alternate on the 2016 team before stepping in after John Orozco was injured during training in the weeks leading up to the games.
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2:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Tom Burton of Australia has won the gold medal in the men’s Laser class at the Rio Olympics sailing regatta.
It’s the first sailing gold in the Rio Games for the Australians, who won three classes in the London Games in 2012.
Australia’s Tom Burton competes during the Laser men race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Burton finished third in Tuesday’s medal race to finish two points ahead of Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia, who came in already having been assured of at least the silver. He finished ninth in the medal race. His silver is the first Olympic sailing medal for Croatia.
Sam Meech of New Zealand won the bronze.
Robert Scheidt fell just short in his attempt to become the first sailor and first Brazilian to win six Olympic medals. Although he won the medal race, he finished fourth overall, four points behind Meech.
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2:25 p.m.
Kenyan sprinter Carvin Nkanata took a chance and jumped on a plane in Florida on Monday night, landed in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday morning, ran at the Olympics a couple of hours later.
Heat 8 of the 200 meters at the Olympic Stadium was the second race of the day for the U.S.-born Nkanata. The first was getting from the airport to the stadium, getting his accreditation, getting registered and getting a lane.
No surprise that Nkanata, who says he was only cleared to run for Kenya by the Court of Arbitration for Sport early Tuesday morning, didn’t run his best. He finished last in his heat in 21.43 seconds.
He says: “I just got on a plane last night. I just prayed. I just thought I’ve got to get here.”
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2:20 p.m.
Serbia shocked Australia, eliminating the three-time women’s basketball silver medalists 73-71 Tuesday and leaving the stunned Aussies standing on the court with their hands on their heads, crying in disbelief.
Serbia’s Jelena Milovanovic, left, tries to steal the ball from Australia’s Leilani Mitchell, right, during a quarterfinal round basketball game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Ana Dabovic hit a free throw with 10.2 seconds left to give Serbia a two-point lead and the Aussies had one last chance to force overtime or win it. But Australia guard Leilani Mitchell’s heave from near the three-point line was short and Marianna Tolo’s desperation put-back didn’t hit the rim — sending the jubilant Serbs racing to midcourt to celebrate.
Penny Taylor, who is retiring at the end of the WNBA season, stood with her hands on her head when the horn sounded. And emotional Liz Cambage, who has carried the Aussies in Rio and had 29 points and 11 rebounds, broke down in tears. Australia’s streak of medaling in every Olympics since 1996 came to an abrupt end.
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2:05 p.m.
China swept all five Olympic badminton golds in London, but its attempt to repeat was over even before Rio’s gold medal rounds were even set to begin.
China’s Fu Haifeng, left, and Zhang Nan return a shot to Great Britain Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge during the men’s double semi-finals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
In mixed doubles, Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying of Malaysia knocked out London silver medalists Xu Chen and Ma Jin of China. The Malaysians will play Wednesday for gold against Indonesia’s Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir, who beat Chinese Olympic champions Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei.
And in a women’s doubles semifinal, Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark defeated China’s Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang.
But China still has hopes for medals.
China’s Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan will play for gold Friday against Malaysia’s Tan Wee Kiong and Goh V. Shem.
In men’s singles, many are watching world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, of Malaysia, who has lost the last two Olympic finals to two-time champion Lin Dan, of China. If both continue winning, the rivals will play in the semifinals.
In women’s singles, the favorites are Spanish world No. 1 Carolina Marin and Li Xuerui, the Chinese defending Olympic champion.
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1:55 p.m.
World road race champion Peter Sagan says he is pursuing a dream by competing on the mountain bike at the Rio Games.
It’s a big change for Sagan, who won three stages in this year’s Tour de France and clinched the best sprinter’s green jersey for the fifth consecutive year.
Now he’s training on the mountain bike. The fan favorite won a small race in Wyoming a couple weeks ago as a tuneup.
Sagan said Tuesday that the competition will be much tougher in Rio, but he wants to give it a try. He’s says he’s excited to be in Rio after his hopes to compete on the mountain bike in 2012 in London were dashed.
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1:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands has won the gold medal in the women’s Laser Radial class in the Rio Olympics sailing regatta.
First placed Netherlands’ Marit Bouwmeester compete during the Laser Radial Women race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Bouwmeester, who won the silver in London four years ago, was seventh in the medal race Tuesday and finished six points ahead of silver medalist Annalise Murphy of Ireland. Murphy finished fourth in London after dominating early in that regatta.
The bronze medal went to Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark.
Defending bronze medalist Evi Van Acker of Belgium finished fourth. Van Acker fell ill earlier in the regatta and struggled. Her coach said she contracted a severe intestinal infection while training on polluted Guanabara Bay last month.
The race had been scheduled for Monday but was postponed due to high winds.
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1:35 p.m.
Argentina has reached its first Olympic final in men’s field hockey after thrashing defending two-time champion Germany 5-2.
Germany’s goalkeeper Nicolas Jacobi, right, and his teammate Germany’s Moritz Furste, left, tries to save a scored corner penalty goal during a men’s field hockey semifinal match at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Gonzalo Peillat scored three times from penalty corners in the first half, and Agustin Mazzilli and Lucas Vila added second-half goals for Argentina’s biggest win over Germany in a major event.
Captain Moritz Furste and Christopher Ruhr scored for Germany.
Netherlands and Belgium play the second semifinal late.
Germany was riding an incredible streak of luck from scoring in the last 8 seconds of three games, including a 4-4 draw with Argentina in pool play last Thursday. But Argentina wasn’t fazed, having lost to the Germans only once in seven previous major matches in two years.
Los Leones, the Lions, are guaranteed their first medal in 11 Olympics, out of the shadow of their great women’s side, who medaled in the last six games but lost to archrival the Netherlands in the quarterfinals Monday.
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1:30 p.m.
Cao Yuan of China was top qualifier in the semifinals of the men’s 3-meter springboard at the Rio Olympics.
Yuan blew away the field, finishing with a score of 489.10 points to advance to the evening final.
China’s Cao Yuan competes during a men’s 3-meter springboard diving preliminary in the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Rommel Pacheco of Mexico was next at 469.70, just ahead of Russia’s Evgenii Kuznetsov (468.35) and Mike Hixon of the United States (467.25).
The top 12 will compete for the gold at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center.
Cao will be trying to give China its fifth diving victory in six events at Rio. He’ll have to go it alone after his teammate, He Chao, stunningly failed to advance out of the preliminaries.
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1:20 p.m.
The busiest day at the Rio Olympics boat basin is underway with the women’s Laser Radial medal race on the Sugarloaf Course just off Flamengo Beach.
It’s the first of four medal races scheduled for Tuesday. The Laser Radial and men’s Laser medal races were postponed from Monday, when first there was too little wind, and then too much wind to sail.
The Laser Radials went off at 1:05 p.m. The Lasers were to follow at 1:50, followed by the Finn men and 2:35 p.m. and the Nacra 17 mixed catamaran crews at 3:20.
Britain’s Giles Scott has already clinched the gold medal. American Caleb Paine of San Diego has a chance at the bronze.
The 470 men and women are scheduled to sail their final three preliminary races. Their medal races are Wednesday.
The 49er men and 49erFX women are scheduled to sail their final three races as well. Their medal races are Thursday, wrapping up the regatta.
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1 p.m.
Usain Bolt’s bid for a triple-sprint double is on track after winning his preliminary heat in the 200 meters.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates with the gold medal after winning the men’s 100-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
After winning a gold medal in the 100 for a third consecutive Olympics, Bolt has turned his focus to lowering his world record mark of 19.19 mark in the 200-meters.
On Tuesday, he powered out of the blocks and ran hard out of the curve before slowing down to win heat 9 in 20.28 seconds.
Semifinals in the 200-meters are set for Wednesday the final for Thursday. Bolt is looking to win this eighth Olympic gold medal.
Two other Jamaicans were among the fastest times, with London 2012 silver medalist Yohan Blake running 20.13 and Nickel Ashmeade finishing in 20.15.
Justin Gatlin got some cheers from the crowd this time, a contrast to the booing that greeted his introductions for the semifinals and the final of the 100 on Sunday. The American won his heat in 20.42.
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12:50 p.m.
Sandra Perkovic stared early elimination in the face twice in as many days, and came through with her second Olympic gold to show for it.
Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic makes an attempt in the women’s discus throw final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Perkovic was in real trouble in Tuesday’s final after she threw the discus in the protective netting on her first two attempts, and she jumped up and down in the circle in frustration.
But she had the discus throw of the Rio Olympics with 69.21 meters on her third attempt. Her plight had been identical in Monday’s rainy qualifying, when she threw her only legal mark in her last attempt.
Melina Robert-Michon was just as happy Tuesday with her French record of 66.73 meters for the silver.
World champion Denia Caballero of Cuba took bronze with 65.34.
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12:45 p.m.
Cuba has chance to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling for the third day in a row Tuesday after Yasmany Daniel Lugo Cabrera qualified for the finals at 98 kilograms.
Sweden’s Carl Fredrik Stefan Schoen, blue, competes against Cuba’s Yasmany Daniel Lugo Cabrera, red, during the men’s wrestling Greco-Roman 98-kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
But Lugo Cabrera will face a tough challenge in Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia. Just 24, Alexsanyan is a two-time defending world champion.
Serbia’s Davor Stefanek also will wrestle for a Greco-Roman gold medal after upsetting top-seeded German Frank Staebler in the quarterfinals.
Stefanek’s opponent at 66 kilograms will be Armenia’s Migran Arutyunyan, a relative newcomer who has never finished higher than fifth in the world.
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12:40 p.m.
The International Cycling Union says the mountain bike course at the Rio Olympics was not damaged by a wildfire.
The UCI says it checked the course Tuesday, and that it has “not suffered any damage which will affect the competition or the integrity of the venue.”
National Olympic Committees also were being allowed to do their own inspections later Tuesday.
A wildfire Monday about 10 miles from the Olympic field hockey venue littered ash on the playing surface there. The mountain bike center is about 2 miles from that venue.
Practice on the mountain bike course is scheduled to begin Wednesday. The women’s race will be held Saturday, with the men’s race on Sunday.
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12:40 p.m.
Ousted without a medal, Michael Conlan at least stakes a claim as the undisputed champion of post-fight tirades.
The Irish boxer flipped out when he lost a unanimous decision in a bantamweight bout that cost him a shot at fighting for a medal. The 24-year-old Conlan stripped off his vest, stormed around the ring made an obscene gesture toward the judges. He gave two thumbs down in the ring and gestured toward booing fans.
Ireland’s Michael John Conlan gestures after losing a men’s bantamweight 56-kg quarterfinals boxing match by a decision against Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Conlan, a bronze medalist in the 2012 London Games, took his time leaving the ring and didn’t put his vest on when he talked to reporters.
He even grabbed a microphone at one point in the mixed zone to loudly state his case he was robbed of his Olympic dream.
Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin won the decision in a close bout.
Conlan used profanity in a tirade directed at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and said he would never fight in an amateur bout again.
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12:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Sandra Perkovic of Croatia won her second Olympic discus title.
After throwing her first two attempts into the protective netting, Perkovic threw 69.21 meters. Melina Robert-Michon won silver with a French record of 66.73.
World champion Denia Caballero of Cuba took bronze with 65.34.
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