Bolt captures gold No. 9, bids adieu to Olympics

Fuksa had a faster time than Cheban, but the Ukrainian placed third in the third semifinal and should have advanced to the final Thursday.

Semenya was subsequently found to have unnaturally high levels of testosterone.

Golf Channel’s Wednesday afternoon coverage of the opening round was up 578% among average viewers and up 467% for US household rating vs. the same Wednesday in 2012 opposite the London Games. World champion Julius Yego of Kenya didn’t get a qualifying mark until his third throw in the preliminaries.

An “empty brain” contributed to China leaving Rio without any gymnastics gold medals, its worst showing since returning to the Games in 1984, after three competitors missed out on podium places on Tuesday. Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi and American Matt Centrowitz hope to crash the party.

Biles has already earned three golds and a bronze, though her chance to become the first female gymnast to capture five golds in a single Olympics ended when she wobbled during the balance beam final on Monday and ended up with bronze. Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch of Germany should also be in the mix. Brazilians are hungering for redemption after a different German squad crushed Brazil 7-1 at a 2014 World Cup semifinal that Brazil was hosting.

Germany’s Tabea Kemme controls the ball past Canada’s Diana Matheson during a semifinal match of the women’s Olympic football tournament between Germany and Canada at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.

In non-medal matches, Brazilian star Neymar is aiming to turn boos into cheers and cement a place in Rio’s gold medal soccer match as his team takes on Honduras in the semifinals.

Honduras plays Nigeria for the bronze at 1 p.m.

Jimmy Butler and the US men’s basketball team takes on Argentina in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament today in Rio. Spain, meanwhile, has assured itself of the first medal in women’s basketball in the country’s history.

The American women are eyeing a sweep in the 100 hurdles, the team is that deep. They did have a healthy Sue Bird for that game.

Warner outran Olympic and world champion Ashton Eaton to clock 10.30 seconds, compared to 10.46 for the American.

Nicola Adams, the British flyweight who won the first gold medal in Olympic women’s boxing history, opens the slate with her first bout of the tournament.

Though Rollins was unreachable, it came down to hundredths of seconds for the other two medals.

Lydia Ko of New Zealand, Brooke Henderson of Canada and the top nine women in the world tee up Wednesday at the Olympic Golf Course, the first time women are playing golf in the Olympics since 1900.

Additionally, Golf Channel’s coverage tied as the highest-rated round one of any women’s golf event in 2016 (Noon-3:54 pm ET; 0.17 US HH rating, 217,000 average viewers), matching the rating for coverage of the ANA Inspiration Major Championship, which aired in primetime (3/31/16, 7:12-9:12 pm ET).

And she says the glitches at venues and the muggings thus far – none of them violent, she noted – are pretty much as good as she could expect with 350,000 tourists descending on her picturesque yet chaotic country. Also two shots back in the final group is Gerina Piller.

The episode served as a distraction from several notable events in competition Thursday, including another haul of American medals in track and field, Jordan’s first Olympic championship – in men’s taekwondo – and the USA women’s basketball team advancing to the Summer Games final yet again. The Italians beat the U.S.in four sets during pool play — and the Americans haven’t lost since.

The U.S. will face top-seeded Brazilian women Talita and Larissa at 10 p.m.in the bronze medal match. They recovered with four straight victories.

Elaine Thompson can get a head start on Usain Bolt by becoming the first Jamaican to win a sprint double in Rio. He joined two others to successfully defend Olympic titles in the grueling two-day, 10-event competition made famous by Jim Thorpe, Bob Mathias and Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn.

NBC’s prime-time Olympics has been a consistent mix of live and plausibly live stories that flow in narrative style and focus on four or five main sports to the virtual exclusion of others. Qui Bo, followed by teammate Chen Aisen. Her training partner Kristi Castlin was second fastest.

The top 18 move to Saturday’s semifinals at 11 a.m., where scores don’t carry over.

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