Which State Has The Most Olympic Medals From Rio?
When an angry crowd of Brazilians jeered U.S. Olympic gold medal swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger, calling them “liars” and giving one of them a tug on the ear, the young Americans looked shocked by the ferocity of their reaction. It will be the last race of these Games for Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt, who will run in the 4×100 relay looking to add to his two gold medals won here.
USA Network presents coverage of several bronze medal matchups beginning with women’s basketball at 10:30 a.m., followed by men’s water polo and women’s handball at 12:15 p.m. Coverage continues on USA at 2:15 p.m. with the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around gold medal final and the men’s singles badminton gold medal match.
Brazil takes on Germany for the men’s gold at 5:30 p.m.in a rematch of nations that made it to the World Cup semifinals.
After surrendering the second set 25-23 with De Kruijf blocking Hui Ruoqi in the end, China were drawn into an even more fiercely contested third set, exchanging leads with the Dutch after a heroic comeback from 1-7 and only rounding things up till 29-27 with a spike from Zhu. Also, see if the US women burn up the track like they did in London in the 4x100m relay when they set the world record on their way to gold.
Defending javelin champion Keshorn Walcott set the tone for the 10:55 p.m. final by leading qualifying.
Germany and Sweden meet at 4:30 p.m.in the first all-European Olympic women’s final.
GOLF GOLD: At the Olympic Golf Course, Inbee Park will take a two-stroke lead into Saturday’s final round after keeping her composure in strong wind and making two late birdies to regain the lead and post a 1-under 70.
The U.S. men’s volleyball team has advanced to the semifinals of the tournament and will be facing Italy’s team at 12 p.m. ET. The Chinese upset defending Olympic champion Brazil in the quarterfinals and beat the Netherlands in four sets in the semis.
In the women’s pole vault, Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi captured the gold medal with a vault of 4.85 meters. Helen Maroulis came through qualifications and won five matches to get the 53kg freestyle gold.
Britain’s Tom Daley led the field in preliminaries, helped by the highest-scoring dive so far in eight events at the Rio Olympics. Qui Bo, followed by teammate Chen Aisen. Qui earned silver in London; Daley took bronze.
Golf Channel presents final round coverage of the women’s golf competition, beginning at 6 a.m., with the leaders concluding their final round around 2:30 p.m.in quest of a place on the medal stand.
The fifth-ranked Americans topped second-ranked Poland on Wednesday, building momentum after dropping their initial two matches before stunning Brazil and finishing off France. They play at 9:20 a.m.
Brazil’s Isaquias Queiroz chases his third medal in Rio in the men’s canoe doubles as the flatwater sprint competition wraps up.