Anchor leg: Bolt gets gold No. 9 with another runaway win

– P. V. Sindhu went down to Spain’s Carolina Marin after a tough battle to win a silver medal for India. The exhibit should include official documents (tweets, emails, handwritten notes); personal belongings (such as gear Bolt would’ve used during each Olympics, etc); and photos and other articles that trace his journey from schoolboy to legend.

Saul Craviotto of Spain and Ronald Rauhe of Germany shared the bronze after finishing the race in the same time.

The U.S. quartet of Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie led nearly the whole way and celebrated their win with the large contingent of Americans in the stands. Then they got the momentum going with a 16-3 run in the second quarter that blew the game open.

With the relay victory, Felix now has five golds – most ever by any woman in Olympic track and field history. She was recruited to try triathlon seven years ago and is now the top woman in the sport.

The 17-year-old Japanese athlete was named as the 2015 IAAF Rising Star of the Year after his 100m and 200m victories at the 2015 World Youth Championships.

There was better news for the U.S. women’s sprint relay team, who retained their title, in the process Allyson Felix becoming the first woman to win five Olympic gold medals in athletics. Ko made the first hole-in-one of her career as she raced into contention with a 65.

Serbian volleyball players face a young Chinese squad led by former US coach Jenny Lang Ping in the women’s finals. Shields hasn’t lost a fight since before the London Olympics, where she was the surprise gold medalist.

The fierce hopes of 200 million Brazilians are resting squarely on the shoulders of favorite son Neymar.

The soccer game will feature almost entirely different rosters from the 2014 World Cup that marked a low point for Brazilian soccer (known as futebol here). That loss has reverberated in the nation’s psyche. Brazil won 1-1 (5-4 shootout).

Honduras plays Nigeria for the bronze.

– Germany has won its first gold medal in women’s soccer by defeating Sweden 2-1.

Having dubbed himself “the greatest”, he told the BBC: “I’m just happy to have done what I came here to do”. De Jong did not say how much the fine will be. Nobody wanted to miss the men’s and women’s 400-meter relays, the fastest foursomes in the world competing in a nervewracking 40-second race that can come unglued with one bad baton handoff.

“The Caribbean-born athlete still trains alongside Bolt at the Racers Track Club in Jamaica and at 6’3” tall, he holds a similar physical appearance.

Britain’s Mo Farah is looking to produce a rare double-double – his fourth career gold – when the men’s 5,000 meters kicks off Saturday. Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016.

The U.S. women had a much better night.

Both sexes battle for gold in the 4×400 relays. 4×400 relay teams, led by Allyson Felix for the women and LaShawn Merritt for the men, won to give the country 31 track and field medals.

It was the ninth time since 1995 that the USA team has been disqualified from a relay at an Olympics or world championship.

No one is eager to find out. He has brought talent, joy, humor and unmatched showmanship to a sport struggling with the black cloud of doping.

Bolt, who said at the start of the week that he would be an “immortal” if he claimed the ‘triple triple, ‘ had no doubt that he deserves more acclaim.

“He’s a great sprinter”, Gay said.

Bolt, who celebrates his 30th birthday on Sunday, signed off in trademark fashion as he took the baton from Nickel Ashmeade and, knees high and arms pumping, stormed away from second-placed Japan to huge cheers.

“It’s going to be hard to motivate myself to come back, but I have one more year to do and I’m not going to let the fans down”, he said.

Even the full moon was peeking into Olympic Stadium on Friday night.

“The result won’t matter today, but this will be our greatest Olympic effort”.