What to watch at the Rio Games on Sunday

Their audience extends further still in the comfort of our homes: If the upward trend in viewership continues, Rio could surpass London 2012 – which reached 4.8 billion viewers worldwide, according to the London 2012 Olympic Games Global Broadcast Report.

KOSOVO FIRST: Majlinda Kelmendi won Kosovo’s first Olympic medal, taking gold in the women’s 52-kilogram judo division.

Katie Ledecky almost broke her own world record in the preliminaries of the 400-meter freestyle, setting herself up as the overwhelming favorite to capture her first gold medal of these games in the final Sunday night.

The events overshadowed a busy opening day of action in which little-known American teenager Virginia Thrasher became the first gold-medalist, in the women’s 10m air rifle, the first of 306 medal events.

After already adding to their standout records, Americans Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky are back in the pool for even more.

A little bit later, at 11:29 p.m., the women’s 200 meter individual medley gets under way.

The U.S. women’s basketball team starts its run for a sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal against Senegal at noon. They will be tackling a slightly shorter version of the men’s course that caused all kinds of problems Saturday when numerous riders lost chains or had other mechanical problems on the cobblestones.

Going into Day 3 of the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Americans have earned the most medals – 12 in total – with China and Italy trailing behind with eight and seven respectively. The women’s team will go up against Spain at 11 a.m., while the men play Venezuela at 6 p.m.

The United States men face Canada at 5:05 p.m. and defending champion Russian Federation follows against Cuba at 8:30 p.m. before the Iranian men make their Olympic debut.

Medals will be awarded in the women’s and men’s 100 meter backstroke, at 10:30 p.m. and 10:38 p.m., respectively. Women in Iran complained they could not attend games in their country.

Australia’s Jason Whateley, left, fights Brazil’s Juan Nogueira during a men’s light heavy weight 81-kg preliminary boxing match Saturday. News stories displayed here appear in our category for Sports and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.