India’s Biggest Contingent Ever Makes Its Entrance At Rio

United States’ Michael Phelps kisses his gold medal after the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

CHINA GOLD: China’s bid for a gold in shooting seemed to take a hit when a two-time defending gold medalist failed to qualify.

The real drama will surround which of the three American women doing the all-around – Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman – will miss out on the final.

Thrasher entered the final with a 0.7-point lead and opened with a solid 10.5, which Li matched.

Brooks returned to the 2016 Olympics as team captain and will compete in all six all-around events.

Only one American, Angelica Delgado at 52kg, will be competing on Sunday. She will also compete in the three-position shooting on August 11.

The seeds for numerous medals the USA track team hopes to win in Rio de Janeiro were planted at a training center in California with the help of technology originally designed for golf. He cited the first-ever Olympic Refugee Team as an example of the idea that achieving success is possible no matter where you are from, saying the ten competitors personify endurance. The women’s 100m breaststroke finals are at 10:54 p.m. 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. An individual Gold medal was lacking in India’ medals tally, shooter Abhinav Bindra’s brilliance during the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men’s 10-metre air rifle category won him a Gold medal and ended India’s long wait. There have been far too many extraordinary performances to mention them all but, in recent years, US swimmer Michael Phelps (18 gold medals, 22 medals in all); speed-skater Eric Heiden (whose five gold medals were overshadowed in 1980 by the USA hockey team); track star Usain Bolt; and gymnasts Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug and Dominique Dawes certainly made their mark.

Men’s and women’s beach volleyball preliminaries run through the day after opening rounds Saturday. This event will be taped, you can watch live starting at 3:00 p.m. ET on NBCOlympics.com. The stands were almost full with cheering fans when the US women’s gymnastics team took the floor for preliminaries on Sunday.

No women’s sport has become more high profile than basketball since Title IX.

Women and men compete for medals in the lightweight divisions (57kg and 73kg, respectively), with bouts taking place through the day.

Speaking of athletes that have made Olympic history in the past, Obama pondered which of the 554 members of Team U.S.A. would once again make history, referencing, among others, the late and great Muhammad Ali.