Rio Olympics 2016 medal table: Team USA adds to lead

Gatlin took Saturday’s fastest time in the heats. Others in the mix include Andrew Fisher, a Jamaican who competes for Bahrain, Jamaican Yohan Blake, Americans Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell and Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre.

In the 400, we’ll get a first look at favorites American LaShawn Merritt, South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk and Grenada’s Kirani James.

Schwazer briefly returned to competition after serving a three-year, nine-month ban for using EPO before the 2012 Olympics.

Allyson Felix, who won’t get a chance to repeat for gold in the 200, takes to the track after winning the US trials over Phyllis Frances.

Devon Allen, the OR football player who is competing in Rio, will make his Olympic debut when he runs in the opening heats of the 110-meter hurdles. With a blistering 200 meters on Friday, the defending champion overtook early leader Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium to regain the momentum going into the final day of competition. It’s a potential grudge match following the 2014 World Cup quarters between the two in which Colombia’s Juan Camillo Zuniga kneed Neymar, fracturing his back.

Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, competing in her record seventh Olympics, will also try to reach the podium. The 41-year-old captured silver on the vault in Beijing in 2008.

The two other members of Vieira’s unit were also injured in the attack, although not seriously. The Ducks football team plans to take a break from practice to watch Allen, a receiver on the team, run in his heat, which is scheduled to start at 9:04 p.m.

Artistic gymnastics finals will also continue today. The women compete at 6:04 p.m.

On the men’s side, British teammates Louis Smith and Max Whitlock square off in the pommel horse final, along with American Alex Naddour and Ukrainian Oleg Verniaiev.

Americans Sam Mikulak and Jake Dalton posted the top scores during qualifying on men’s floor exercise.

Also, medals will be given after the men’s 20km race walk, which is at 2:30 p.m.

The women’s doubles gold will either go to Martina Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland or Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russian Federation. They play at 12 p.m.

The men’s long jump finals will begin at 8:53 p.m. Rutherford, American Jarrion Lawson and Australia’s Fabrice Lapierre are the ones to watch.

Rio Olympics – Men’s Field Hockey Sander de Wun #12 of Netherlands attempst to blocka a shot against India during a Men’s Preliminary Pool B match on Day 6 of the Rio 2016 Olympics at the Olympic Hockey Centre on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is already considered the greatest female distance runner in history with her five Olympic medals (three gold) and five world championship golds.

The U.S. goalie called the Swedish team “a bunch of cowards” after they beat the favored U.S. women’s soccer team 4-3 in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw Friday at the Rio Olympics.

HOW TO SEE IT:Vargas fights at 10:45 a.m. ET, Mayer fights at 4 p.m. ET, and the heavyweights fight for gold at 6:15 p.m. ET. On the women’s side, April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings defeated Switzerland and boisterously celebrated after the match. Individual gold medalist Sangyoung Park will start his day against Hungary at 10:30 a.m.

Phelps, competing Thursday evening in the 200-meter individual medley, is looking for his 22nd Olympic gold medal. The medals will give Britain four golds and five overall through the first six events of the 10-event program.

Felix also earned gold medals in the 4×100 and 4×400 relays in London to become the first female USA track athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympics since Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form.

Dozens of heavily armed commandos could be seen Thursday frisking residents and going house to house in the Mare complex of slums, one of Rio’s most crime-ridden areas that is dominated by drug-trafficking gangs.