Rio Olympics 2016: United States women’s gymnastics team wins gold

Nine Olympic sports will be awarding 15 gold medals Tuesday at the Rio Olympics, and the competitions include four big battles in the pool and the ever-dazzling women’s team gymnastics title.

DO-OVER: NBC’s cameras found gymnast Simone Biles’ adoptive parents quickly on Tuesday, and Al Trautwig identified them as her parents.

Swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Ryan Held of the United States pose on the podium after the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay final.

It didn’t matter that the USA women’s Olympic gymnastics team already had sewn up the team gold by the time three-time world champion Simone Biles saluted the floor exercise judges during the final event Tuesday. China, Russia, Great Britain, Brazil, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands will be trying to stop them.

Rio de Janeiro: People from across the world have reached Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympics 2016 but the city is not being the a good host as the foreign nationals are becoming targets of petty thieves.

The Royal Netherlands Gymnastics Association says Van Gelder, a former world champion on the rings, left the athletes’ village on Saturday night and has admitted drinking alcohol before returning early Sunday.

Maurits Hendriks, head of the Dutch Olympic team in Rio, is quoted on the gymnastics association website as saying “it is very bad for Yuri, but this behavior is unacceptable”. No problem. They do that at the ranch all the time. That tournament was to have marked his comeback after a one-year ban for cocaine use. She did not live to see her grandson win his medal.

Yet Katie Ledecky won gold in that freestyle race, and thanks to the Olympic schedule-makers, Phelps’ butterfly competition followed so quickly there was no time to go overboard. No event was held in 2013. The gold medal bout is at 5:45 p.m. and comes a day after Russian Yana Egorian defeated countrywoman Sofya Velikaya for the gold in women’s sabre. So when Liam McHugh narrated a clip showing a goal by 18-year-old USA soccer player Mallory Pugh by saying, “just about three months ago she was planning for her prom”, he should have asked himself: would he make the same reference if it were an 18-year-old male player? Consider this: The margin between the US and the Chinese in qualifiers was greater than the margin between China and 12th-place Belgium.

The dominant U.S. men’s basketball team takes on Venezuela at 7 p.m. after Saturday’s romp over China, 119-62. Rafael Silva earned Brazil’s first gold medal of the games on Monday in the 57kg division.

In other soccer action, the defending champion USA women’s soccer team takes on Columbia.

US topped Tunisia 2-0 in their first match on Sunday. Despite the milestone, Solo was still peppered with jeers from the crowd, which was riled up about social media posts she made about the threat of the Zika virus.

“As our attitude matures, and we know how to better appreciate competition, we will be able to openly applaud our rivals to reflect our great country’s confidence and tolerance”, said a Sunday post by state broadcaster CCTV, titled “When we are no longer obsessed with gold medals”.

“As long as it’s not the gold medal it’s the same”.